Year 312
Constantine the Great is said to have received the Vision of the Cross.
OCTOBER 27
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27 October: What Happened On This Day in History
Curated historical timeline of momentous political pacts, freedom struggle uprisings, constitutional developments, scientific breakthroughs, and prominent birthdays recorded on 27 October.
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Year 1920
Kocheril Raman Narayanan was born in the village of Uzhavoor in Kottayam district, Kerala.
Year 1923
Arvind Navinchandra Mafatlal, famous industrialist, was born.
Year 1926
Padmanabh Govind Joshi alias "Nana" Joshi, cricket wicketkeeper during 1950's was born in Baroda.
Year 1928
Dattaji Krishnarao Gaekwad, father of Anshuman and batted in 11 Tests 1950's, was born in Baroda.
Year 1937
Abdul Karim Khan, famous singer of 'Kirana Gharana', died.
Year 1947
Indian Governments accepts King of Jammu and Kashmir Maharaja Harisingh's accession merging Jammu and Kashmir in India and sends its troops. Accession of Jammu and Kashmir was then officially announced. No. 12 Sqn was to initiate the remarkable feat of air-lifting the first Sikhs from Palam onto the rough and dusty Srinagar airstrip without planning or reconnaissance as the initial Indian response to the sizeable insurgent forces that were pouring across the border into Jammu and Kashmir.
Year 1958
In Pakistan, General Ayub Khan staged a military coup and ousted President Iskander Mirza.
Year 1961
Mauritania and Mongolia joined the United Nations.
Year 1961
NASA tested the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.
Year 1969
Darshansingh Pheruman died in Amritsar during the 74th day of his fast, which he had undertaken for the merger of Chandigarh in Punjab.
Year 1971
The Democratic Republic of the Congo was renamed Zaire.
Year 1973
The first Ladies Police Station started functioning at Calicut in Kerala.
Year 1982
Gandhiji's personal secretary Pyare Lal died.
Year 1986
The United Kingdom lifted all restrictions on financial markets.
Year 1987
Vijay Merchant, cricketer (Test average 47.72, 1st-class avg 71), died.
Year 1989
The XIV-World Congress of Neurology was held in New Delhi under the auspices of the World Federation of Neurology and Neurology Society of India. (21-10-89).
Year 1991
Turkmenistan gained independence from Russia.
Year 2003
Earthquake in China affected more than 50,000 people.
Year 2019
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant founder and leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi killed himself and three children by detonating a suicide vest during the U.S. military Barisha raid in north-western Syria.
Born 1670
Banda Singh Bahadur, a Sikh warrior and a commander of the Khalsa army.
Born 1858
Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States and winner of the Nobel Prize.
Born 1904
Jatin Das, Indian freedom fighters, and revolutionaries.
Born 1907
Sardar Bhagat Singh, the great martyr, was born in village Banga, Lyallpur (now in Pakistsan) in a reputed Sikh freedom fighter's family.
Born 1920
K. R. Narayanan, Indian lawyer and politician, 10th President of India (d. 2005)
Born 1923
Arvind Mafatlal, Indian industrialist.
Born 1932
Sylvia Plath, an American poet, novelist, and short-story writer.
Born 1947
Dr. Vikas Amte, Indian Social worker.
Born 1954
Anuradha Poudwal, Indian playback singer.
Born 1965
Mohan Kapoor, Indian television and film actor
Born 1968
Dileep, Indian actor and producer
Born 1976
Maneet Chauhan, Indian-American chef and author
Born 1977
Kumar Sangakkara, Sri Lankan cricketer.
Born 1984
Irfan Pathan, Indian cricketer.
Died 1605
Akbar (Abul-Fath Djalal-ud-Din), Mughal emperor of India (1556-1605), passed away of diarrhea or dysentery at the age of 63 years. After his death his body was buried at a mausoleum in Sikandra, Agra.
Died 1907
Brahma Bandhav Upadhyay died.
Died 1937
Ustad Abdul Karim Khan, founder of Kirana Gharana and Guru of Sawai Gandharva.
Died 1941
Ernest Everett Just, a pioneering African-American biologist, academic and science writer.
Died 1964
Vaikuntha Mehta, the promoter of the (Sahakari) co-operative movement.
Died 1968
Lise Meitner, an Austrian-Swedish physicist.
Died 1969
Darshansingh Pheruman died in Amritsar during the 74th day of his fast, which he had undertaken for the merger of Chandigarh in Punjab.
Died 1974
C. P. Ramanujam, Indian mathematician and academic (b. 1938)
Died 1974
Rudolf Dassler, German founder of the sportswear company Puma and the older brother of Adidas founder, Adolf Dassler.
Died 1987
Vijay Merchant, Indian cricketer, cricket critic, businessman and social activist.
Died 1992
David Joseph Bohm, an American scientist.
Died 2001
Pradeep Kumar, Indian actor, director, and producer (b. 1925)
Died 2013
Lewis Allan Reed, an American musician, singer, songwriter, and poet.
Died 2015
Ranjit Roy Chaudhury, Indian pharmacologist and academic (b. 1930)