Sunday, October 27, 2013

October 27th in History


312 - Constantine the Great is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross.

939 - Edmund I succeeds Athelstan as King of England.

1682 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is founded.

1870 - Marshal François Achille Bazaine surrenders to Prussian forces at the conclusion of the Siege of Metz along with 140,000 French soldiers in one of the biggest French defeats of the Franco-Prussian War.

1936 - Mrs Wallis Simpson files for divorce which would eventually allow her to marry King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, thus forcing his abdication from the throne.

1961 - Mauritania and Mongolia join the United Nations

1971 - The Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire.

1979 - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines gains its independence from the United Kingdom.

1991 - Turkmenistan achieves independence from the Soviet Union.

Famous Birthdays:

1401 - Catherine of Valois, Queen of Henry V of England

1728 - James Cook, naval captain and explorer

1858 - Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States

1920 - K. R. Narayanan, 10th President of India

1924 - Ruby Dee, actress

1939 - John Cleese, actor and writer

1945 - Luis Inácio Lula da Silva, 35th President of Brazil

1984 - Kelly Osbourne, television personality

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