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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• 1553

  Condemned as a heretic, Michael Servetus is burned at the stake just outside Geneva.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1924

  The Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union.
• 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.
• 1964

  Ronald Reagan delivers a speech on behalf of Republican candidate for president, Barry Goldwater. The speech launched his political career and came to be known as “A Time for Choosing”.
• 1988

  Ronald Reagan decides to tear down the new U.S. Embassy in Moscow because of Soviet listening devices in the building structure.
• 1994

  The U.S. prison population tops 1 million for the first time in American history.
• 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.
• 2011

  The Royal Australian Navy announces that they discovered the wreck of a World War II submarine in Simpson Harbour, Papua New Guinea during Operation RENDER SAFE - it is likely to be Japanese.

• 1156

  Count Raymond VI of Toulouse (d. 1222)
• 1811

  Stevens Thomson Mason, 1st Governor of Michigan (d. 1843)
• 1904

  Erno Schwarz, Hungarian American soccer player (d. 1974)
• 1906

  Kazuo Ohno, Japanese dancer (d. 2010)
• 1933

  Floyd Cramer, American popular pianist (d. 1997)
• 1951

  Jayne Kennedy, American actress, model and sportscaster
• 1952

  Hameed Haroon, Pakistani publisher
• 1957

  Jeff East, American actor
• 1973

  Jason Johnson, American baseball pitcher
• 1990

  Dimitrios Gkourtsas, Greek footballer

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