Historical Events  - October 27

1958 : In Pakistan, General Ayub Khan staged a military coup and ousted President Iskander Mirza.

1961 : Mauritania and Mongolia joined the United Nations.

1961 : NASA tested the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.

1971 : The Democratic Republic of the Congo was renamed Zaire.

1986 : The United Kingdom lifted all restrictions on financial markets.

1991 : Turkmenistan gained independence from Russia.

2003 : Earthquake in China affected more than 50,000 people.

2019 : The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant founder and leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi killed himself and three children by detonating a suicide vest during the U.S. military Barisha raid in north-western Syria. 

 

Famous Birthdays   – October 27  

1670: Banda Singh Bahadur, a Sikh warrior and a commander of the Khalsa army.

1858: Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States and winner of the Nobel Prize.

1904: Jatin Das, Indian freedom fighters, and revolutionaries.

1920: KR Narayanan, the 10th President of India.

1923: Arvind Mafatlal, Indian industrialist.

1932: Sylvia Plath, an American poet, novelist, and short-story writer.

1947: Dr. Vikas Amte, Indian Social worker.

1954: Anuradha Poudwal, Indian playback singer.

1976: Maneet Chauhan, an Indian-American chef, and writer.

1977: Kumar Sangakkara, Sri Lankan cricketer.

1984: Irfan Pathan, Indian cricketer.

 

Death Anniversaries   – October 27

1605: Akbar the Great, the third Mughal emperor.

1937: Ustad Abdul Karim Khan, founder of Kirana Gharana and Guru of Sawai Gandharva.

1941: Ernest Everett Just, a pioneering African-American biologist, academic and science writer.

1964: Vaikuntha Mehta, the promoter of the (Sahakari) co-operative movement.

1968: Lise Meitner, an Austrian-Swedish physicist.

1974: Chakravarti Ramanujam, Mathematical.

1974: Rudolf Dassler, German founder of the sportswear company Puma and the older brother of Adidas founder, Adolf Dassler.

1987: Vijay Merchant, Indian cricketer, cricket critic, businessman and social activist.

1992: David Joseph Bohm, an American scientist.

2001: Pradeep Kumar, Indian-Hindi, and Bengali films.

2001: Bhaskar Ramchandra Bhagwat, a children’s writer and science fiction writer from India.

2013: Lewis Allan Reed, an American musician, singer, songwriter, and poet.

2015: Ranjit Roy Chaudhary, Indian pharmacologist and academic.