October 27

Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.

– Psalm 25:5

October is:

Clergy Appreciation Month National AIDS Awareness Month National Breast Cancer Awareness Month National Car Care Month National Caramel Month National Communicate With Your Kid Month National Cookie Month National Crime Prevention Month

Celebrate Today:

Navy Day - Celebrated since 1922.

Theodore Roosevelt's Birthday - The 26th U.S. President was born on this day in 1858, in New York City.

Born on this Day

• 1401: Catherine, wife of Henry V, King of England
  

• 1728: Explorer Captain James Cook, discovered the Sandwich Islands.
  

• 1782: Perhaps the world's most celebrated violinist, Niccolò Paganini. He gave his first concert when he was nine.
  

• 1811: Issac Merrit Singer, invented 1st practical home sewing machine
  

• 1858: The 26th president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, New York City. Today's History Focus
  

• 1910: Former "Tonight Show" executive producer Frederick DeCordova
  

• 1911: Actor Leif Erickson (William Anderson) (The High Chaparral, Force Five, On the Waterfront, Rocky 3, Tea and Sympathy, Waikiki Wedding)
  

• 1914: Author-poet Dylan Thomas in Swansea, Wales. (The Three Weird Sisters, Under Milkwood; poet: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog, Adventures in the Skin Trade)
  

• 1918: Actress Teresa Wright
  

• 1920: Actress Nanette Fabray
  

• 1922: Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder, baseball Hall-of-Famer and sportscaster Ralph Kiner
  

• 1923: Sculptor artist Roy Lichenstein
  

• 1924: Actress Ruby Dee (Ruth Wallace) (Peyton Place, Zora is My Name, Do the Right Thing, A Raisin in the Sun, The Jackie Robinson Story, All God's Children, Gore Vidal's Lincoln, Roots: The Next Generation)
  

• 1925: Former Secretary of State Warren M. Christopher .
  

• 1928: College Football Hall of Famer Kyle Rote
  

• 1930: Pro Football of Famer Bill George (Chicago Bears middle linebacker)
  

• 1932: Golf champion Kathy Cornelius (McKinnon) (U.S. Open [1956])
  

• 1933: Pianist Floyd Cramer (Last Date, On the Rebound, San Antonio Rose)
  

• 1939: Actor-comedian John Cleese (A Fish Called Wanda, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Splitting Heirs, Life of Brian, Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, Silverado, The Big Picture)
  

• 1941: Football player Dave Costa
  

• 1942: Country singer Lee (Melvin) Greenwood (CMA Male Vocalist of the Year [1983, 1984]: Dixie Road, Hearts Aren't Made to Break , Going, Going, Gone, Mornin' Ride, I Don't Mind the Thorns, God Bless the U.S.A.)
  

• 1942: Actress Lara Parker (Foxfire Light, The Solitary Man, Race with the Devil, Night of Dark Shadows)
  

• 1945: Football player John Williams
  

• 1946: Actress Carrie Snodgress (Diary of a Mad Housewife, 8 Seconds, The Solitary Man, Woman with a Past, Pale Rider, Chill Factor)
  

• 1947: News corespondent Terry Anderson (kidnapped by Lebanese terrorists in Beirut [1985], released [1991])
  

• 1949: Rock musician Garry Tallent (Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band)
  

• 1950: Social satirist Fran Lebowitz.
  

• 1951: Actress and TV personality Jayne Kennedy (NFL Today; Speak Up America)
  

• 1952: Actor-director Roberto Benigni
  

• 1953: Actor Peter Firth
  

• 1953: Actor Robert Picardo ("Star Trek: Voyager")
  

• 1958: Singer Simon Le Bon (Group: Duran Duran)
  

• 1967: Rock singer Scott Weiland (Stone Temple Pilots) 

Events in History on this day
  

• 1428: Thomas Montacute, Earl of Salisbury, becomes the first English Gentleman to be killed by gunfire.
  

• 1439: Death of Albert II, King of Germany
  

• 1441: Margery Jourdemain burnt for witchcraft
  

• 1492: Columbus discovers Cuba
  

• 1553: Michael Servetus, who discovered the pulmonary circulation of the blood, is burnt for heresy in Switzerland.
  

• 1590: Death of Pope Urban VII
  

• 1627: Richelieu lays siege to La Rochelle
  

• 1650: Death of William II of Orange
  

• 1787: The first of the "Federalist Papers," a series of essays calling for ratification of the United States Constitution, was published in a New York newspaper.
  

• 1795: The United States and Spain signed the Treaty of San Lorenzo (also known as "Pinckney's Treaty"), which provided for free navigation of the Mississippi River.
  

• 1858: RH Macy & Co. opens 1st store, on 6th Avenue, New York City.
  

• 1873: Farmer Joseph F. Glidden applies for a patent on barbed wire. Glidden eventually received five patents and is generally considered the inventor of barbed wire.
  

• 1880: Theodore Roosevelt married Alice Lee.
  

• 1891: D. B. Downing, inventor, is awarded a patent for the street letter (mail) box.
  

• 1901 During a robbery of a jewelry store in Paris, the first getaway car was used.
  

• 1904: The first rapid transit subway, the IRT, opened in New York City.
  

• 1909: The wife of Capt. Ralph Van Deman made a four-minute flight, making her the first woman airplane passenger.
  

• 1917: 20,000 women march in a suffrage parade in New York. As the largest state and the first on the East Coast to do so.
  

• 1917: Jascha Heifetz made his debut at Carnegie Hall in New York City this day. Heifetz was a 16-year-old sensation who had played the violin since age 5.
  

• 1925: Fred Waller received a license of sorts from the U.S. Patent Office for water skis.
  

• 1927: Fox Movie-tone news, the first sound news film, is released.
  

• 1938: Du Pont announced a name for its new synthetic yarn: "nylon."
  

• 1947: The radio program, "This is Nora Drake" premiered on NBC. "Nora" solved domestic, social and child-raising problems until January 2, 1959.
  

• 1947: You Bet Your Life," starring Groucho Marx, premiered on ABC Radio. It later became a television show on NBC. George Fenneman was Groucho's eternal straight man. Fenneman stayed with Marx during the program's run on radio (1947 - 1959) and TV (1950 - 1961).
  

• 1954: Walt Disney's first television program, titled "Disneyland" after his yet-to-be completed theme park, premiered on ABC..
  

• 1967: "Expo `67" closed in Montreal, Canada.
  

• 1975: Bruce Springsteen appeared on the cover of both "TIME" and "Newsweek".
  

• 1978: Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin were named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize for their progress toward achieving a Middle East accord.
  

• 1978: San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk, a gay-rights advocate, were assassinated inside City Hall by former supervisor Dan White.
  

• 1978: The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded jointly, this day, to Israel's Menachem Begin and Egypt's Anwar Sadat.
  

• 1986: The 'Mighty' New York Mets once again became world champs of baseball, as they beat Boston's Red Sox in game seven, 8-5.
  

• 1987: South Korean voters overwhelmingly approved a new constitution, establishing direct presidential elections and other democratic reforms.
  

• 1987: Associated Press correspondent Terry Anderson, a hostage in Lebanon, spent his 40th birthday in captivity.
  

• 1988: The government of the Soviet Union unveiled an $804 billion budget containing a deficit of $58 billion that officials said was the result of past mistakes.
  

• 1989: The third game of the World Series, delayed by the Northern California earthquake, was played at Candlestick Park. The Oakland A's defeated the San Francisco Giants, 13-to-7.
  

• 1990: The Senate gave final legislative approval to a record package of taxes and spending cuts, hours after the House approved the plan. 
  

• Death claimed bandleader Xavier Cugat at age 90
  

• 1990:  Author Elliott Roosevelt died at age 80. 
  

• 1992: The government reported that the US gross domestic product grew at an inflation-adjusted annual rate of two-point-seven percent in the third quarter of 1992. Friends of Queen Elizabeth the Second staged an elaborate celebration for the 40th anniversary of her ascension to the British throne.
  

• 1993: Brush fires raged across Southern California, destroying several hundred homes.
  

• 1993: President Clinton presented a revised version of his health care reform plan to Congress, urging its passage within a year.
  

• 1994: In the first trip to Syria by an American president in 20 years, President Clinton met with Syrian President Hafez Assad before heading to Jerusalem to meet with Israeli officials.
  

• 1995: A sniper killed one soldier and wounded 18 others at Fort Bragg, N.C. (Paratrooper William J. Kreutzer was later convicted in the shootings, and condemned to death.) 
  

• 1995: Thousands rallied in Montreal for national unity three days before a referendum on whether Quebec should secede. 
  

• 1996: US envoy Dennis Ross shuttled between Jerusalem and the Palestinians' Gaza Strip headquarters, trying to finesse a deal to start an overdue Israeli withdrawal from Hebron.
  

• 1997: The Dow Jones industrial average tumbled 554.26 points, forcing the stock market to shut down for the first time since the 1981 assassination attempt on President Reagan.
  

• 1997: Authorities in Chautauqua County, New York, said Nushawn Williams, an HIV-positive man who would trade drugs for sex with young women and teens, had infected a number of them with the AIDS virus. 
  

• 1998: Serb forces drew back from former Kosovo battlefronts, holding off the immediate threat of NATO airstrikes.
  

• 1998: Hurricane Mitch cut through the western Caribbean, pummeling coastal Honduras and Belize; the storm caused several thousand deaths in Central America in the days that followed.
  

• 1999: In the first debate of the Democratic presidential race, Al Gore sought to stem his decline in the polls by attacking rival Bill Bradley's health care and spending plans. 
  

• 1999: The U.S. federal budget surplus was put at $123 billion in 1998, marking the first back-to-back surpluses since the 1950s. 
  

• 1999: The New York Yankees won their second straight World Series sweep, defeating the Atlanta Braves in game four, 4-1.    
  

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