OCTOBER 27 | Birthdays and Events

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) - The first Governor of Michigan.

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.

Margaret Hutchinson Rousseau (1910-2000) - Chemical engineer who designed the first penicillin production plant.

Leif Erickson (1911-1986) - Actor best known for his role in The High Chaparral.

Joe Medicine Crow (1913-2016) - Anthropologist, historian, and author.

Ruby Dee (1922-2014) - Actress known for her roles in A Raisin in the Sun (1959) and The Jackie Robinson Story (1950).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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, Pennsylvania, is founded by William Penn.

1775 - The Continental Navy is formed by the U.S. Navy.

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 New York.

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 first and only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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 - The U.S. 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.