TOP TEN LISTS
Today in History
Monday, 27 October 2025
2005
Riots begin in Paris after the deaths of two Muslim teenagers.
The SSETI Express micro-satellite is successfully launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome.
2004
The Boston Red Sox win the World Series for the first time in 86 years.
1999
Gunmen open fire in the Armenian Parliament, killing Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan, Parliament Chairman Karen Demirchyan, and 6 other members.
1997
October 27, 1997 mini-crash: 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 activates its "circuit breakers" twice during the day eventually making the controversial move of closing the Exchange early.
1995
Latvia applies for membership in the European Union.
Former Prime Minister of Italy Bettino Craxi is convicted ''in absentia'' of corruption.
1994
The U.S. prison population tops 1 million for the first time in American history.
Gliese 229B is the first Substellar Mass Object to be unquestionably identified.
1992
United States Navy radioman Allen R. Schindler, Jr. is brutally murdered by shipmate Terry M. Helvey for being gay, precipitating first military, then national, debate about gays in the military that resulted in the United States "Don't ask, don't tell" military policy.
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