Friday 27 October is the 300th day of the Gregorian calendar, with 65 days left until the end of the year.
Saint of the day: Blessed Salvatore Mollar Ventura
October Proverb
October is beautiful, but have your umbrella ready
It happened today
1904 – Inauguration of the first subway line in New York City. The system will become the largest in the US, and one of the largest in the world
1922 – the March on Rome takes place in Italy, led by Benito Mussolini
1938 – The tenor Ferruccio Tagliavini makes his debut at the Comunale in Florence as Rodolfo in La bohème
1953 – The British Totem 2 atomic bomb is detonated at Emu Field in South Australia
1961 – NASA launches the first Saturn I rocket of the Apollo Program
1962 – The plane on which Enrico Mattei, president of ENI, was flying crashes in the countryside around Bascapè (PV).
1986– The main representatives of the world’s religions gather in Assisi, at the invitation of Pope John Paul II, for a prayer meeting in the name of Saint Francis, prophet of peace.
1991 – In Bari on the night between the 26th and 27th the Petruzzelli Theater burns
1999 – Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan and 6 other members of parliament are killed during an attack on the Armenian Parliament
2002 – Trade unionist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is elected president of Brazil
2004 – The Boston Red Sox baseball team returns to win the World Series after 86 years (the period of the so-called Curse of the Bambino).
2017 – The Catalan Parliament, following the referendum of 1 October 2017, declares independence from Spain with 70 votes in favor and 10 against
2019 – Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, one of the 2 founders of ISIS, died during a raid.
Birthdays
Roberto Remigio Benigni – Italian actor, screenwriter, comedian and director. Among the numerous awards for his work, he boasts the receipt of two Oscar awards for best actor and for best film Life is Beautiful and the nomination for the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature (27 October 1952)
Federica Panicucci – Italian television presenter and radio presenter (27 October 1967)
Giorgia Cardaci – Italian actress (27 October 1977)
Patrizia Mirigliani – Italian television personality, daughter of the historic patron of Miss Italia Enzo Mirigliani (27 October 1952)
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2023-10-26 16:35:10
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