October 27

Today in History
• 1275 - Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam
• 1553 - Condemned as a heretic, Michael Servetus is burned at the stake
• 1682 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is founded by Englishman William Penn
• 1702 - British troops plunder St Augustine, Florida
• 1775 - US Navy forms as the Continental Navy
• 1810 - United States annexes West Florida from Spain
• 1913 - President Woodrow Wilson says US will never attack another country
• 1917 - 20,000 women march in a suffrage parade in New York, US


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• Frankenstein Friday
• National Black Cat Day
• National Breadstick Day
• National Henry C. Ramos Day
• Navy Day
• Nevada Day
• Turkmenistan Independence Day
• World Lemur Day

Birthdays
• 1335 - Taejo of Joseon [Yi Seong-gye], King of Joseon (1392-98)
• 1401 - Catherine of Valois, Queen of Henry V of England
• 1763 - William Maclure, Scottish-American Geologist (first geological map)
• 1800 - Benjamin Franklin Wade, American politician, US Senator from Ohio (1851-69)
• 1811 - Isaac Singer, American inventor (1st practical home sewing machine)
• 1842 - Giovanni Giolitti, 5x Prime Minister of Italy
• 1858 - Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US President (R: 1901-09; Nobel 1906)
• 1896 - Edith Haisman, the oldest survivor of Titanic