Today in History
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1999 Shooting in the Armenian Parliament
8 people, including the country’s prime minister, Vazgen Sargsyan and Speaker Karen Demirchyan, were
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1991 Turkmenistan Declares Independence from the Soviet Union
The Central Asian country had been a separate republic of the USSR since 1925. Saparmurat Niyazov, t
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1904 New York City Subway Begins Operations
The oldest underground subway system in the United States, construction of the transit system began
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1838 State of Missouri Passes the Extermination Order
Governor Lilburn Boggs signed Missouri Executive Order 44 as a result of the Battle of Crooked River
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1682 City of Philadelphia Founded
The historical city in the State of Pennsylvania was founded by English entrepreneur, William Penn.
Births On This Day,
October, 27
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1984 Irfan Pathan
Indian cricketer
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1952 Francis Fukuyama
American philosopher
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1932 Sylvia Plath
American poet
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1920 K. R. Narayanan
Indian politician, 10th President of India
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1858 Theodore Roosevelt
American politician, 26th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths On This Day,
October, 27
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2013 Lou Reed
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer
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1975 Rex Stout
American author
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1605 Akbar
Mughal Emperor
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1553 Michael Servetus
Spanish theologian, physician, cartographer
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939 Æthelstan
English king
