📜 This Day in History

October 27

• 1674Franco-Dutch War: French forces surrender the fortress town of Grave to the Dutch army after a three month siege.
• 1775King George III expanded on his Proclamation of Rebellion in the Thirteen Colonies in his speech from the throne at the opening of Parliament.
• 1942The Empire of Japan achieved a pyrrhic victory against the United States at the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands.
• 1967American Catholic priest Philip Berrigan led a protest against the Vietnam War by pouring blood over Selective Service records in Baltimore, Maryland.
• 1999Armed men led by Nairi Hunanyan carried out a mass shooting at the Armenian parliament, killing Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan, National Assembly speaker Karen Demirchyan, and six others.
• 2019The Mocking of Christ by Cimabue sold at auction in France for €19.5 million, a record for a pre-1500 artwork.

Born on this day

• 1782Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (died 1840)
• 1858Theodore Roosevelt, American colonel and politician, 26th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1919)
• 1932Sylvia Plath, American poet, novelist, and short story writer (died 1963)
• 1945Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazilian union leader and politician, 35 and 39th President of Brazil