October 27
Today in America's Present Past
1682 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was founded by William Penn.
1787 | Federalist Paper No. 1 is published under “Publius.”
1795 | The Treaty of San Lorenzo was signed by Spain and the US, establishing the southern boundary of the US and giving Americans the right to navigate the Mississippi River.
1810 | The US annexes West Florida from Spain.
1811 | Inventor Issaic Singer was born.
1811 | Politician Stevens T. Mason was born.
1838 | Civil Rights: Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, which orders all Mormons to leave the state or be exterminated.
1858 | POTUS: President Theodore Roosevelt was born.
1864 | Civil War: The Confederate ship CSS Albemarle torpedoed and sunk by a spar torpedo.
1871 | Democratic leader of Tammany Hall New York, Boss Tweed was arrested after the New York Times exposed his corruption.
1872 | Author Emily Post was born.
1880 | POTUS: President Theodore Roosevelt wed Alice Lee.
1913 | Historian Joseph Medicine Crow was born.
1917 | Civil Rights: 20,000 women march in a suffrage parade in New York.
1921 | Activist Warren Allen Smith was born.
1925 | Water skis are patented by Fred Waller.
1932 | Novelist Sylvia Plath was born.
1942 | Musician Lee Greenwood was born.
1947 | Radio: “You Bet Your Life” debuted.
1947 | Journalist Terry Anderson was born.
1951 | CIA agent turned Soviet spy Edward Lee Howard was born.
1954 | TV: “Disneyland” debuted.
1955 | Film: “Rebel Without a Cause” debuted.
1962 | USAF U-2 pilot Rudolph Anderson was shot down and killed over Cuba.
1963 | Marla Maples, first wife to Donald Trump, was born.
1975 | Mountaineer Aron Ralston was born.
1992 | Physicist David Bohm died.
2008 | General Bernard W. Rogers died.
2022 | Poet Gerald Stern died.