What Day of the Week

October 27, 2021 is the 300^th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 65 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is mercredi.

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Here’s the October calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

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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• 1275

  Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam.
• 1806

  The French Army enters Berlin.
• 1838

  Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, which orders all Mormons to leave the state or be exterminated.
• 1914

  World War I: The British super-dreadnought battleship HMS Audacious (23,400 tons), is sunk off Tory Island, north-west of Ireland, by a minefield laid by the armed German merchant-cruiser Berlin.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1958

  Iskander Mirza, the first President of Pakistan, is deposed in a bloodless coup d'état by General Ayub Khan, who had been appointed the enforcer of martial law by Mirza 20 days earlier.
• 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.
• 1994

  The U.S. prison population tops 1 million for the first time in American history.
• 2005

  The SSETI Express micro-satellite is successfully launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome.

• 1922

  Ralph Kiner, American baseball player
• 1943

  Jerry Rook, American basketball player
• 1951

  Carlos Frenk, Mexican/British cosmologist
• 1957

  Jeff East, American actor
• 1958

  Felix Wurman, American cellist and composer (d. 2009)
• 1967

  Scott Weiland, American singer (Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver)
• 1972

  Evan Coyne Maloney, American filmmaker
• 1973

  Jason Johnson, American baseball pitcher
• 1980

  Tanel Padar, Estonian singer
• 1988

  Evan Turner, American basketball player

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