Notable Birthdays for October 27
Juan Seguín (1806-1890) - Texas colonel and politician who helped establish the Independence of Texas.
Stevens T. Mason (1811-1843) -First person to be elected Governor of Michigan.
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Isaac Singer (1811-1875) - Founder of the Singer Corporation.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) - The 26th President of the U.S.
Walt Kuhn (1877-1949) - Painter who is said to have introduced Modernism in the U.S.
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Margaret Hutchinson Rousseau (1910-2000) - Chemical engineer who designed the first penicillin production plant.
Leif Erickson (1911-Still Living) - Actor best known for his role in The High Chaparral.
Joe Medicine Crow (1913-2016) - Anthropologist, historian, and author.
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Teresa Wright (1918-2005) - Actress known for her role in The Little Foxes.
Warren Allen Smith (1921-2017) - American journalist, author, and activist.
Ruby Dee (1922-2014) - Actress known for her roles in A Raisin in the Sun (1959) and The Jackie Robinson Story (1950).
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Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997) - Pop artist most known for his creative works Whaam! and Look Mickey.
Ned Wertimer (1923-2013) - Actor best recognized for his role as the doorman in The Jeffersons.
Mary Joan Okum (1924-2015) - The first female rock singer who went by the stage name Bonnie Lou.
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H. R. Haldeman (1926-1993) - White House Chief of Staff to Richard Nixon who was charged with perjury, conspiracy, and obstruction for covering up his involvement in Watergate.
Bill George (1929-1982) - NFL Hall of Famer football player.
Dolores "Dee" Moore (1932-2000) - Player for the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
Neil Sheehan (1936-2021) - NY Times journalist who was able to obtain the classified Pentagon Papers.
Suzy Covey (1939-2007) - Scholar who studied comics, technology, and sound, including XML for encoding the images, text, and sound effects on the Internet.
John Gotti (1940-2002) - Notorious mob boss of the Gambino family.
Maxine Hong Kingston (1940-Still Living) - Author and feminist who wrote The Woman Warrior.
Lee Greenwood (1942-Still Living) - Country singer best known for his signature song God Bless the U.S.A.
Carmen Argenziano (1943-2019) - Actor best known for his role as Jacob Carter on Stargate SG-1.
Steven R. Nagel (1946-2014) - NASA engineer and astronaut.
Garry Tallent (1949-Still Living) - Founding member of the E Street Band.
Robert Picardo (1953-Still Living) - Actor known for his role as the Doctor on Star Trek: Voyager.
Jan Duursema (1954-Still Living) - DC Comic illustrator, specifically Star Wars.
Patty Sheehan (1956-Still Living) - LPGA professional golfer.
Marla Maples (1963-Still Living) - Former model and ex-wife to Donald Trump.
Scott Weiland (1967-2015) - Lead singer of the rock band Stone Temple Pilots.
Aron Ralston (1975-Still Living) - Mountaineer who is known for cutting of his right arm after an accident while on a canyon hike.
Memorable Events for October 27
1682- Philadelphia, PA, is founded by Englishman William Penn.
1775 - The Continental Navy is formed by the U.S. Navy.
1795 - The Treaty of Madrid is signed by the U.S. and Spain to establish boundaries.
1787 - Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay publish the Publius (aka, the Federalist Papers) in NY newspapers.
1780 - Samuel Williams takes the first astronomical expedition to record an eclipse of the sun.
1838 - Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order warning Mormons to leave the state or be killed.
1884 - The first and oldest apartment complex in NY City is opened by Architect Henry Hardenbergh Dakota.
1904 - The first section of NY subway from Manhattan to Harlem is opened.
1917 - Nearly 20,000 women march in a suffrage parade in NY.
1919 - The unknown Axeman of New Orleans claimed its last victim but was never identified or arrested.
1922 - Navy Day celebrates its first commemoration.
1938 - DuPont announces their new nylon stockings product.
1947 - Groucho Marx's You Bet Your Life premieres on the radio.
1954 - Disneyland premieres on ABC.
1954 - Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. becomes the first Black General in the U.S. Air Force.
1962 - Major Rudolf Anderson (Air Force) becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
1967 - A priest, a writer, and artist and a pastor pour blood on selective service records in Baltimore as a protest against the Vietnam War.
1983 - Larry Flynt pays a hitman $1 million to kill Hugh Hefner, Bob Guccione, Walter Annenberg, and Frank Sinatra.
1988 - Ronald Reagan suspends construction of the new U.S. Embassy in Moscow after inspectors found listening devices.
1997 - Microsoft argues against the U.S. government (253 F.3d 34 (D.C. Cir. 2001) that the Internet should be free from government interference.
1997 - US releases a redesigned $50 bill to combat counterfeit measures.
2018 - A gunman opens fire on a Pittsburgh synagogue killing 11 people and injuring 6 others in an anti-semitic attack.
2022 - Elon Musk takes buys Twitter.
