What Day of the Week

October 27, 2019 is the 300^th day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 65 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Sunday.

If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Nichiyōbi.

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Scorpio is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Opal is the modern birthstone for this month. Jasper is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

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• 312

  Constantine the Great is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross.
• 710

  Saracen invasion of Sardinia.
• 939

  Edmund I succeeds Athelstan as King of England.
• 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.
• 1916

  Battle of Segale: Negus Mikael, marching on the Ethiopian capital in support of his son Emperor Iyasus V, is defeated by Fitawrari abte Giyorgis, securing the throne for Empress Zauditu.
• 1948

  Léopold Sédar Senghor founds the Senegalese Democratic Bloc.
• 1962

  Major Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane is shot down in Cuba by a Soviet-supplied SA-2 Guideline surface-to-air missile.
• 1971

  The Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire.
• 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.
• 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.

• 1811

  Stevens Thomson Mason, 1st Governor of Michigan (d. 1843)
• 1877

  George Thompson, English cricketer (d. 1943)
• 1894

  Oliver Leese, British general (d. 1978)
• 1906

  Kazuo Ohno, Japanese dancer (d. 2010)
• 1908

  Lee Krasner, American painter (d. 1984)
• 1914

  Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet (d. 1953)
• 1925

  Warren Christopher, American diplomat and 63rd United States Secretary of State (d. 2011)
• 1971

  Jorge Soto, Peruvian footballer
• 1972

  Maria de Lurdes Mutola, Mozambican athlete
• 1987

  Thelma Aoyama, Japanese singer

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