October 27

Wednesday 27, 2004:

Matti Nykänen, once a very successful Finnish ski-jumper, is found guilty of attempt of manslaughter and sentenced to a two year and two month jail term for stabbing a family friend.

Sunday 27, 2002:

Running back Emmitt Smith becomes the current leader in career rushing yards in the National Football League, breaking the record then held by Walter Payton.

Wednesday 27, 1999:

Armenian Prime Minister Vasgen Sarkissian and 6 other members killed in an attack on the Armenian parliament.

Tuesday 27, 1998:

Gerhard Schröder becomes Chancellor of Germany for the first time.

Friday 27, 1995:

Stock markets around the world crash because of fears of a global economic meltdown. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummets 554.26 points to 7,161.15. For the first time, the New York Stock Exchange activated their "circuit breakers" twice during the day eventually making the controversial move of closing the Exchange early (see October 27, 1997 mini-crash).

Wednesday 27, 1993:

Fires in five counties in southern California destroy more than 500 homes and cause an estimate $1 billion of damage within a week.

Sunday 27, 1991:

Turkmenistan achieved independence from the Soviet Union.

Saturday 27, 1990:

Supreme Soviet of Kirghiz SSR chooses Askar Akayev as republic's first president.

Monday 27, 1986:

The London Stock Exchange is deregulated and computerisation is introduced for the first time.

Tuesday 27, 1981:

The Soviet submarine U 137 runs aground on the east coast of Sweden.

Saturday 27, 1973:

The Canyon City meteorite, a 1.4 kg chondrite type meteorite strikes in Fremont County, Colorado.

Saturday 27, 1962:

The Cuban Missile Crisis ends peacefully.

Monday 27, 1958:

Iskander Mirza, the first President of Pakistan, is deposed in a bloodless coup d'état by General Ayub Khan, who was appointed the enforcer of martial law by Mirza 20 days earlier.

Wednesday 27, 1954:

Benjamin O. Davis Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force.

Tuesday 27, 1953:

British nuclear test Totem 2 is detonated at Emu Field, South Australia.

Thursday 27, 1949:

An airliner flying from Paris to New York crashes near the Azores. Among the victims are violinist Ginette Neveu and boxer Marcel Cerdan.

Wednesday 27, 1948:

Léopold Sédar Senghor founds the Senegalese Democratic Bloc (BDS).

Sunday 27, 1946:

First commercially-sponsored television program airs (Geographically Speaking, sponsored by Bristol-Myers).

Thursday 27, 1904:

First New York City Subway line opens; the system becomes biggest in United States of America, and one of biggest in world.

Thursday 27, 1870:

Marshal François Achille Bazaine surrenders to Prussian forces at Metz along with 140,000 French soldiers in one of the biggest French defeats of the Franco-Prussian War.

Saturday 27, 1838:

Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, which orders all Mormons to leave the state.

Saturday 27, 1810:

United States annexes the former Spanish colony of West Florida.

Friday 27, 1797:

Treaty of Campo Formio is signed between France and Austria.

Tuesday 27, 1795:

The United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Madrid, which establishes the boundaries between Spanish colonies and the U.S.

Thursday 27, 1644:

Second Battle of Newbury in the English Civil War.

Thursday 27, 625:

Honorius I becomes Pope.

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