WHAT HAPPENED ON 27. OCTOBER
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Ratifications exchanged in London for the first London Naval Treaty, signed in April modifying the 1925 Washington Naval Treaty and the arms limitation treaty's modified provisions, go into effect immediately, further limiting the expensive naval arms race among its five signatories. (27. October 1930)

Mrs Wallis Simpson files for divorce which would eventually allow her to marry King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, thus forcing his abdication from the throne. (27. October 1936)

World War II: German forces capture Banská Bystrica during Slovak National Uprising thus bringing it to an end. (27. October 1944)

Léopold Sédar Senghor founds the Senegalese Democratic Bloc. (27. October 1948)

British nuclear test Totem 2 is carried out at Emu Field, South Australia. (27. October 1953)

Benjamin O. Davis Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force. (27. October 1954)

Iskander Mirza, the first President of Pakistan, is deposed in a bloodless coup d'état by General Ayub Khan, who had been appointed the enforcer of martial law by Mirza 20 days earlier. (27. October 1958)

NASA tests the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1. (27. October 1961)

Mauritania and Mongolia join the United Nations. (27. October 1961)

Major Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane is shot down in Cuba by a Soviet-supplied SA-2 Guideline surface-to-air missile. (27. October 1962)

A plane carrying Enrico Mattei, post-war Italian administrator, crashes in mysterious circumstances. (27. October 1962)

Ronald Reagan delivers a speech on behalf of Republican candidate for president, Barry Goldwater. The speech launched his political career and came to be known as "A Time for Choosing". (27. October 1964)

Catholic priest Philip Berrigan and others of the Baltimore Four protest the Vietnam War by pouring blood on Selective Service records. (27. October 1967)

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire. (27. October 1971)

The Cañon City meteorite, a 1.4 kg chondrite type meteorite, strikes in Fremont County, Colorado. (27. October 1973)

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines gains its independence from the United Kingdom. (27. October 1979)

The Soviet submarine U 137 runs aground on the east coast of Sweden. (27. October 1981)

The British government suddenly deregulates financial markets, leading to a total restructuring of the way in which they operate in the country, in an event now referred to as the Big Bang. (27. October 1986)

Ronald Reagan decides to tear down the new U.S. Embassy in Moscow because of Soviet listening devices in the building structure. (27. October 1988)

Turkmenistan achieves independence from the Soviet Union. (27. October 1991)