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( #JCKaelin here: At our home, every day
is National Black Cat Day for our menagerie of adopted rescue
cats, of which there is always at least one black cat among them
[as of 2025, we have two] :) ) October 27: National Black Cat Day:
-- An annual celebration of black cats day that seeks to raise
awareness about the low adoption rates for black cats. Black cats
need a little positive PR as their reputation as an omen of bad
luck is well-known (and unearned, frankly). In the lead-up to
Halloween, National Black Cat Day provides the chance for feline
fans to show off their love for the oft-maligned, but always
iconic animal. The black cat carries a unique status among the
wide batch of different cat breeds. In some locales, notably
Scotland, Britain, and Japan, the presence or appearance of a
black cat is indicative of imminent good fortune and prosperity.
Beyond these regions, though, public favor of the black cat runs
sharply southward. In much of the Western world, black cats are
considered to be harbingers of misfortune and wickedness. This
unfortunate association stems from an image that will be familiar
to many readers, which is that of the black cat serving as a
companion to potion-brewing, spell-casting witches everywhere.
This relationship would prove to hold severe consequences for
owners of black cats in America in the early 17th century. As the
Pilgrims established their occupancy on the east coast of the
country, they maintained a strict suspicion of anything remotely
tied to the perils of witchcraft. The black cat served a symbol of
the supposed evils and Satanic sympathies of witches, and as a
result, those found harboring black cats would receive harsh
punishments; some would even be sentenced to death. While, in
general, the fears surrounding the demonic potential of witches
has subsided significantly, the black cat will be left wondering
why it still must suffer the consequences of a damaged collective
reputation. According to several animal-advocacy groups and
adoption agencies, black cats experience lower rates of adoption
and higher rates of euthanization relative to other cat breeds.
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October 27: National Civics Day: -- An
annual celebration of the importance of civics education all
across America. The observance also commemorates the date the
Federalist Papers were first published on October 27, 1787. These
documents served as a foundation for the United States
Constitution. Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison
wrote 85 essays under the pen name "Publius." The essays
were published in newspapers across New York State. The first
essay was published on October 27, 1787. The Federalist Papers
(also known as The Federalist) supported the passing of the United
States Constitution and urged citizens to ratify the legislation.
Hamilton, Jay, and Madison's essays outlined the Constitution
providing thorough explanations for citizens. Civic education
prepares students for their roles as citizens. Governments at
every level are not self-sufficient organisms. They require the
action of civic-minded individuals to continue a constitutional
democracy. A civic-minded society understands and accepts these
responsibilities and rights. Civic education is a social science
that studies the rights and obligations of citizens in society.
Students benefit from a strong civics education in many ways:
Improved critical thinking; Communication skills; Community
service; and Civic engagement. They are also more likely to vote,
volunteer, engage in political discussions at home, work on
community projects, speak publicly, and communicate with elected
officials. To observe National Civics day, encourage your schools
and community to celebrate the day with events and programs. You
can also: Promote - Spread the word about Civic Education through
social media, educational events, local media, or sharing across
your networks. Use #NationalCivicsDay when you do; Advocate -
Contact local policymakers, hold an educational event for them, or
ask them to write a proclamation in support of Civic Education;
Support - Organize a Civic Education Day activity in your school,
organization, or community, or donate to a Civic Education
organization; Volunteer - Make a difference in your community and
beyond. The day is also an occasion to showcase civics in action.
Highlight the civic opportunities in your community and
demonstrate the results of civic projects. Show civics in action
in your community, local governments, schools, and organizations.
Celebrate National Civics Day when you use #NationalCivicsDay on
social media. The Long Island University's Roosevelt School and
The Society of Presidential Descendents founded National Civics
Day in 2021 to celebrate the importance of civic education as a
foundation for a strong democracy. National Civics Day is an
opportunity for Americans to answer the call by President John F.
Kennedy that "democracy is never a final achievement_It is a
call to an untiring effort." National Civics Day is an
opportunity for Americans to celebrate civics for all through
school, business, and community projects that include showcasing,
promoting, and supporting civic education and community service.
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(#JCKaelin here: Every day is World Day
For Audiovisual Heritage for me and for EarthStation1 MediaOutlet!
:D ) ========= October 27: World Day For Audiovisual Heritage: --
Reminds us of the importance of archiving and preserving
audiovisual sources. Also known as AV in short, audiovisual items
can be anything from a short clip or a documentary to speeches or
music. These types of material provide us with an insight into the
social, political, economical, and linguistic realities of a given
environment. Audiovisual archives are also a way of learning about
those parts of history that are no longer accessible for whatever
reason. October 27 is, thus, a way to remind everyone about the
importance of preserving audiovisual records before it becomes too
late. Many such sources have already been lost due to negligence
and lack of preservation efforts. The first World Day for
Audiovisual Heritage was celebrated in 2005. The United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
collaborated with the Coordinating Council of Audiovisual Archives
Associations (CCAAA) to bring the day into existence on October
27. The CCAAA is a worldwide organization that has many
audiovisual organizations as members. There are no special staff
positions in the CCAAA as the registered associations each have a
president and vice president elected to the board, which changes
according to people willing to volunteer for the positions. The
CCAAA came into being after UNESCO's 1980 "Recommendation for
the Safeguarding and Preservation of Moving Images". The
Recommendation initiative urged institutions and associations to
work together to preserve archives on an urgent basis. The result
was the Roundtable of Audiovisual Records. Several organizations
like the International Federation of Library Associations and
Institutions (IFLA) and the International Council on Archives
(ICA) came together for the Roundtable meeting. It was decided
that a Joint Technical Symposium (JTS) would be held every few
years. However, within a few years, the involved archive
associations realized that more needed to be done, and thus the
CCAAA was born. It is estimated that it only takes 10 to 15 years
for audiovisual sources to deteriorate if not preserved and
maintained correctly, due to the nature of the materials they are
recorded on. If this happens, we will lose important linguistic,
social, and cultural histories around us. UNESCO views the
following benefits of the day as "Raising public awareness of
the need for preservation; providing opportunities to celebrate
specific local, national or international aspects of the heritage;
highlighting the accessibility of archives; attracting media
attention to heritage issues; raising the cultural status of
audiovisual heritage; highlighting audiovisual heritage in danger,
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Today, October 27, 2025
October 27: Navy Day (US) (Unofficial):
-- Though it may be "unofficial" at headquarters, Navy
Day on October 27 remains relevant to loyal Navy supporters who
enthusiastically celebrate the day year after year. Navy Day
appears on the calendar exactly two weeks after the United States
Navy celebrates its officially observed birthday on October 13.
With two days hailing the men and women of the U.S. Navy, the
month of October is a big deal for members of the armed forces who
serve in the naval warfare branch of the U.S. military. Navy Day
was first celebrated in 1922 by the Navy League of the United
States, a civilian nonprofit organization, as a day to pay tribute
to the men and women we call sailors. At the time, October 27 was
considered by many to be the birthday of the United States Navy,
based on a document presented to the Continent Congress on this
date in 1775 that supported the purchase of a fleet of merchant
ships to form an American colonial navy. October 27 also happens
to be the birthday of one of the Navy's most ardent supporters,
President Theodore Roosevelt, who once served as Assistant
Secretary of the Navy and had supported a Navy Day. Navy Day was
traditionally celebrated with pomp and circumstance between 1922
and 1949. The U.S. Navy participated each year by dispatching
ships to various U.S. ports where public celebrations were held.
The 1945 celebration was particularly grand and memorable when
sitting President Harry S. Truman arrived to review the fleet in
New York Harbor. Navy Day was last officially observed in 1949
when the first Secretary of Defense, Louis A. Johnson, announced
that Armed Forces Day would officially replace Navy Day commencing
the following year. Johnson designated the third Saturday in May
as Armed Forces Day, a joint celebration recognizing all six
traditional branches of the U.S. military: Air Force, Army, Coast
Guard, Marine Corps, Navy, and now the newly created Space Force.
As a civilian organization, the Navy League was not affected by
Johnson's directive. They continued to organize events celebrating
the original Navy Day on October 27, well attended by both
civilians and Navy personnel. Naval historians conducting research
in 1970 determined the authentic birth date of the United States
Navy was October 13, 1775. Consequently, the Navy's birthday was
officially changed that year from October 27 to October 13.
Despite the official change, Navy Day continues to be widely
celebrated on October 27, after being deeply entrenched into Navy
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October 27, 312: Rome: Ancient Rome:
Roman Civil Wars And Revolts: The Roman Empire: Civil Wars Of The
Roman Empire: Fourth Century Roman Civil Wars And Revolts: The
Civil Wars Of The Tetrarchy: The Battles Of Constantine I: The
Battle Of The Milvian Bridge: -- Constantine The Great is said to
have received his famous "Vision Of The Cross". It is
commonly understood that on that evening before the Battle Of The
Milvian Bridge, with the armies preparing for battle, Constantine
had a vision which led him to fight under the protection of the
Christian God. Some details of that vision, however, differ
between the sources reporting it. The Battle of the Milvian Bridge
took place between the Roman Emperors Constantine I and Maxentius,
and takes its name from the Milvian Bridge, an important route
over the Tiber. Constantine won the battle and started on the path
that led him to end the Tetrarchy and become the sole ruler of the
Roman Empire. Lactantius states that, in the night before the
battle, Constantine was commanded in a dream to "delineate
the heavenly sign on the shields of his soldiers". He
followed the commands of his dream and marked the shields with a
sign "denoting Christ". Lactantius describes that sign
as a "staurogram", or a Latin cross with its upper end
rounded in a P-like fashion. There is no certain evidence that
Constantine ever used that sign, opposed to the better known
Chi-Rho sign described by Eusebius. From Eusebius, two accounts of
the battle survive. The first, shorter one in the Ecclesiastical
History promotes the belief that the Christian God helped
Constantine but does not mention any vision. In his later Life of
Constantine, Eusebius gives a detailed account of a vision and
stresses that he had heard the story from the Emperor himself.
According to this version, Constantine with his army was marching
(Eusebius does not specify the actual location of the event, but
it clearly is not in the camp at Rome), when he looked up to the
sun and saw a cross of light above it, and with it the Greek words
"En touto nika", usually translated into Latin as "in
hoc signo vinces". The literal meaning of the phrase in Greek
is "in this (sign), conquer" while in Latin it's "in
this sign, you shall conquer"; a more free translation would
be "Through this sign [you shall] conquer". At first he
was unsure of the meaning of the apparition, but in the following
night he had a dream in which Christ explained to him that he
should use the sign against his enemies. Eusebius then continues
to describe the labarum, the military standard used by Constantine
in his later wars against Licinius, showing the Chi-Rho sign. The
accounts of the two contemporary authors, though not entirely
consistent, have been merged into a popular notion of Constantine
seeing the Chi-Rho sign on the evening before the battle. Some
have considered the vision in a solar context (e.g. as a solar
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October 27, 1492: The Age Of Discovery
(The Age Of Exploration): The Voyages Of Christopher Columbus: The
First Voyage Of Christopher Columbus: -- Christopher Columbus,
commanding his three ships La Pinta, La Nina and the Santa Maria,
discovers Cuba, landing on its northeast coast the following day
near what is now Bariay, Holguin Province, and exploring the area,
which he believed to be part of China. Columbus claimed the island
for the new Kingdom of Spain and named it Isla Juana after John,
Prince of Asturias. Writers who believe that Christopher Columbus
was Portuguese, rather than Italian as is the well-grounded
consensus, state that Cuba was named by Columbus for the town of
Cuba in the district of Beja in Portugal. Before the arrival of
the Spanish, Cuba was inhabited by two distinct tribes of
indigenous peoples of the Americas: 1) the Taino (including the
Ciboney people), a historic Indigenous people of the Caribbean,
whose culture has been continued today by Taino descendant
communities and Taino revivalist communities, and 2) the
Guanahatabey (also spelled Guanajatabey), an indigenous people of
whom archaeological and historical studies suggest were archaic
hunter-gatherers with a distinct language and culture from their
neighbors, the Taino. When Columbus arrived, the Taino were the
dominant culture in Cuba, having an estimated population of
150,000. The Taino were farmers, as well as fishers and
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October 27, 1782: #BOTD: #HBD! Niccolo
Paganini, Italian violinist, violist, mandolinist, guitarist and
composer, the most celebrated violin virtuoso of his time who left
his mark as one of the pillars of modern violin technique (d. May
27, 1840) is #born in Genoa, then capital of the Republic of
Genoa, the third of the six children of Antonio and Teresa (nee
Bocciardo) Paganini. Paganini's father was an unsuccessful trader,
but he managed to supplement his income by playing music on the
mandolin. At the age of five, Paganini started learning the
mandolin from his father and moved to the violin by the age of
seven. His musical talents were quickly recognized, earning him
numerous scholarships for violin lessons. The young Paganini
studied under various local violinists, including Giovanni
Servetto and Giacomo Costa, but his progress quickly outpaced
their abilities. Paganini and his father then traveled to Parma to
seek further guidance from Alessandro Rolla. But upon listening to
Paganini's playing, Rolla immediately referred him to his own
teacher, Ferdinando Paer and, later, Paer's own teacher, Gasparo
Ghiretti. Paganini's 24 Caprices for Solo Violin Op. 1 are among
the best known of his compositions, and have served as an
inspiration for many prominent composers. He was diagnosed with
syphilis as early as 1822, and his remedy, which included mercury
and opium, came with serious physical and psychological side
effects. In 1834, while still in Paris, he was treated for
tuberculosis. Paganini died on May 27, 1840 before a priest could
be summoned from internal hemorrhaging caused by a complex of
syphilis, mercury poisoning and tuberculosis; In May 1840, the
Bishop of Nice had sent Paganini a local parish priest to perform
the last rites, but Paganini assumed the sacrament was premature,
and refused. Because of this refusal, and his widely rumored
association with the devil due to rumors that he was diabolically
gifted with his virtuosity, the Church denied his body a Catholic
burial in Genoa. It took four years and an appeal to the Pope
before the Church let his body be transported to Genoa, but it was
still not buried. His body was finally buried in 1876, in a
cemetery in Parma. In 1893, the Czech violinist Frantisek Ondricek
persuaded Paganini's grandson, Attila, to allow a viewing of the
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October 27, 1787: The Age Of
Enlightenment (The Enlightenment, The Age Of Reason): The Age Of
Revolution: The Atlantic Revolutions: The American Enlightenment:
The American Revolution: First Publications: The Federalist
Papers: -- A collection of 85 articles and essays written by
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay under the
collective pseudonym "Publius" to promote the
ratification of the Constitution of the United States -- written
and published with haste, a collection commonly known as The
Federalist, ultimately to become greatly honored and known as The
Federalist Papers -- first appears in three New York newspapers:
The Independent Journal, the New-York Packet, and the Daily
Advertiser. This was the first of 77 essays published serially by
these same newspapers between October 1787 and April 1788. A
compilation of all 77 essays and eight others were published in
two volumes as "The Federalist: A Collection of Essays,
Written in Favour of the New Constitution, as Agreed upon by the
Federal Convention, September 17, 1787", by publishing firm
J. & A. McLean in March and May 1788. The last eight papers
(Nos. 78-85) were republished in the New York newspapers between
June 14 and August 16, 1788. The authors of The Federalist
intended to influence the voters to ratify the Constitution. In
Federalist No. 1, they explicitly set that debate in broad
political terms: "It has been frequently remarked, that it
seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by
their conduct and example, to decide the important question,
whether societies of men are really capable or not, of
establishing good government from reflection and choice, or
whether they are forever destined to depend, for their political
constitutions, on accident and force." In Federalist No. 10,
Madison discusses the means of preventing rule by majority faction
and advocates a large, commercial republic. This is complemented
by Federalist No. 14, in which Madison takes the measure of the
United States, declares it appropriate for an extended republic,
and concludes with a memorable defense of the constitutional and
political creativity of the Federal Convention. In Federalist No.
84, Hamilton makes the case that there is no need to amend the
Constitution by adding a Bill Of Rights, insisting that the
various provisions in the proposed Constitution protecting liberty
amount to a "Bill Of Rights." Federalist No. 78, also
written by Hamilton, lays the groundwork for the doctrine of
judicial review by federal courts of federal legislation or
executive acts. Federalist No. 70 presents Hamilton's case for a
one-man chief executive. In Federalist No. 39, Madison presents
the clearest exposition of what has come to be called
"Federalism". In Federalist No. 51, Madison distills
arguments for checks and balances in an essay often quoted for its
justification of government as "the greatest of all
reflections on human nature." According to historian Richard
B. Morris, the essays that make up The Federalist Papers are an
"incomparable exposition of the Constitution, a classic in
political science unsurpassed in both breadth and depth by the
product of any later American writer." On June 21, 1788, the
proposed Constitution was ratified by the minimum of nine states
required under Article VII. Towards the end of July 1788, with
eleven states having ratified the new Constitution, the process of
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October 27, 1858: #BOTD: #HBD! Theodore
Roosevelt, often referred to as Teddy Roosevelt or his initials T.
R., American colonel, statesman, politician, conservationist,
naturalist, historian, writer, Freemason and Nobel Peace Prize
recipient, 26th President of the United States from September 14,
1901 to March 3, 1909 (d. January 6, 1919) is #born in New York
City. He previously served as 33rd governor of New York from 1899
to 1900 and the 25th vice president of the United States from
March to September 1901. Roosevelt emerged as a leader of the
Republican Party and became a driving force for the anti-trust
policy while supporting Progressive Era policies in the early 20th
century. He succeeded to the presidency following the
assassination of President William McKinley. His face is depicted
on Mount Rushmore alongside George Washington, Thomas Jefferson,
and Abraham Lincoln. He is best remembered for stating, "Speak
softly and carry a big stick." Roosevelt was a sickly child
with debilitating asthma, but he overcame his health problems by
embracing a strenuous lifestyle, as well as growing out of his
asthma naturally in his young adult years. He integrated his
exuberant personality, a vast range of interests and world-famous
achievements into a "cowboy" persona defined by robust
masculinity. He was home-schooled and began a lifelong naturalist
avocation before attending Harvard College. His book The Naval War
Of 1812 (1882) established his reputation as a learned historian
and as a popular writer. Upon entering politics, he became the
leader of the reform faction of Republicans in New York's state
legislature. His wife and his mother both died in rapid
succession, and he began to frequent a cattle ranch in the
Dakotas. He served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy under
President William McKinley, but he resigned from that post to lead
the Rough Riders during the Spanish-American War, returning a war
hero. He was elected governor of New York in 1898. After Vice
President Garret Hobart died in 1899, the New York state party
leadership convinced McKinley to accept Roosevelt as his running
mate in the 1900 election. Roosevelt campaigned vigorously, and
the McKinley-Roosevelt ticket won a landslide victory based on a
platform of peace, prosperity, and conservation. Roosevelt took
office as vice president in March 1901 and assumed the presidency
at age 42 after McKinley was assassinated the following September.
He remains the youngest person to become President of the United
States. Roosevelt was a leader of the progressive movement, and he
championed his "Square Deal" domestic policies,
promising the average citizen fairness, breaking of trusts,
regulation of railroads, and pure food and drugs. He made
conservation a top priority and established many new national
parks, forests, and monuments intended to preserve the nation's
natural resources. In foreign policy, he focused on Central
America where he began construction of the Panama Canal. He
expanded the Navy and sent the Great White Fleet on a world tour
to project the United States' naval power around the globe. His
successful efforts to broker the end of the Russo-Japanese War won
him the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize. He avoided controversial tariff
and money issues. Roosevelt was elected to a full term in 1904 and
continued to promote progressive policies, many of which were
passed in Congress. He groomed his close friend William Howard
Taft to successfully succeed him in the 1908 presidential
election. Roosevelt grew frustrated with Taft's brand of
conservatism and belatedly tried to win the 1912 Republican
nomination for president. He failed, walked out, and founded the
so-called "Bull Moose" Party which called for
wide-ranging progressive reforms. He ran in the 1912 election and
the split allowed the Democratic nominee Woodrow Wilson to win the
election. Following the defeat, Roosevelt led a two-year
expedition to the Amazon basin where he nearly died of tropical
disease. During World War I, he criticized Wilson for keeping the
country out of the war with Germany, and his offer to lead
volunteers to France was rejected. He considered running for
president again in 1920, but his health continued to deteriorate.
He died between 4:00 and 4:15 in the morning at the age of 60 in
his sleep at Sagamore Hill, after a blood clot had detached from a
vein and traveled to his lungs. During the night of January 5,
1919, Roosevelt suffered breathing problems. After receiving
treatment from his physician, Dr. George W. Faller, he felt better
and went to bed. Roosevelt's last words were "Please put out
that light, James" to his family servant James E. Amos. Upon
receiving word of his death, his son Archibald telegraphed his
siblings: "The old lion is dead." Woodrow Wilson's vice
president, Thomas R. Marshall, said that "Death had to take
Roosevelt sleeping, for if he had been awake, there would have
been a fight." Following a private farewell service in the
North Room at Sagamore Hill, a simple funeral was held at Christ
Episcopal Church in Oyster Bay.Vice President Thomas R. Marshall,
Charles Evans Hughes, Warren G. Harding, Henry Cabot Lodge, and
William Howard Taft were among the mourners. The snow-covered
procession route to Youngs Memorial Cemetery was lined with
spectators and a squad of mounted policemen who had ridden from
New York City. Roosevelt was buried on a hillside overlooking
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October 27, 1904: Grand Openings: New
York City: The History Of Rail Transport (The History Of
Railways): Rapid Transit (Mass Rapid Transit [MRT], Heavy Rail,
Metro): History Of The Subway (Tube, Underground): The New York
City Subway: -- The first underground and underwater rail system
in the world opens when The New York City Subway begins its
service on a line running from City Hall to West 145th Street.
Later designated as the IRT Broadway-Seventh Avenue Line (also
known as the IRT Seventh Avenue Line or the IRT West Side Line),
the line was constructed in two main portions by the Interborough
Rapid Transit Company (IRT), a private operator. The first
portion, north of 42nd Street, was opened between 1904 and 1908,
and is part of the first subway line in the city. The line ran
from City Hall, up the Lexington Avenue Line, across 42nd Street,
and up Seventh Avenue and Broadway, before splitting into the
Broadway Branch and the Lenox Avenue Line. The second portion of
the line, that south of 42nd Street, was constructed as part of
the Dual Contracts, which were signed between the IRT, the New
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October 27, 1914: The European Civil War:
World War I: The First European War (The European Theater Of World
War I): The Western Front Of World War I: Naval Warfare Of World
War I: The Sinking Of The HMS Audacious: -- The British lose their
first battleship of World War I, the super-dreadnought battleship
HMS Audacious (23,400 tons) is sunk off Tory Island, north-west of
Ireland, by a minefield laid by the armed German merchant-cruiser
Berlin, becoming thereby the largest warship ever sunk by naval
mines.. Audacious slowly flooded and finally sank after the
British were unable to tow her to shore, which allowed all of her
crew to be rescued without the loss of a single man; however, a
petty officer on the nearby light cruiser HMS Liverpool was killed
by shrapnel when Audacious subsequently exploded. Even though
American tourists aboard one of the rescuing ships photographed
and filmed the sinking battleship, and was witnessed and
photographed by passengers on RMS Olympic, sister ship of RMS
Titanic, the Admiralty kept the loss an official secret in Britain
until November 14, 1918 (three days after the end of the war) to
prevent the Germans from taking advantage of the weakened Grand
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Today, October 27, 2025
October 27, 1918: The European Civil War:
World War I: The First European War (The European Theater Of World
War I): The Western Front Of World War I: Naval Warfare Of World
War I: The Naval Order Of 24 October 1918: -- Chief Of The German
Imperial Admiralty Staff Admiral Reinhard Scheer approves and
thereby sets into motion the German Admiralty's plot, formulated
on October 24, 1918 as the new German government tried mediate a
peaceful end of World War I, and promulgated under Scheer's orders
by Imperial German Navy Commander Of The High Seas Fleet Admiral
Franz Von Hipper, to provoke a decisive battle between the German
High Seas Fleet and the British Grand Fleet in the southern North
Sea in order to prevent the new German govenment from negotiating
and end to the war. The fleet then began to concentrate at
Schillig Roads off Wilhelmshaven to prepare for the battle. The
order to prepare for the sortie was issued two days later on
October 29, causing a general mutiny to break out aboard the
German ships and ultimately bringing the war to an end. Despite
the operation being cancelled, this mutiny led to the far more
more serious Kiel mutiny, which was the starting point of the
November Revolution, the German capitulation to the Allied forces
bringing an ending to the war, the signing of The Armistice Of 11
November 1918 and the proclamation of the Weimar Republic. This
operation resulted from the exchange of diplomatic notes,
beginning on October 5, 1918, between the new German government
under Prince Max of Baden and President Woodrow Wilson, in which
Germany asked the President to mediate an armistice. One of
Wilson's preconditions was the cessation of Germany's submarine
war. Despite the objections of Admiral Scheer, the Chief of the
German Admiralty Staff, the German government made this concession
on October 20. The U-boats at sea were recalled on October 21. In
response, on October 22, Scheer ordered Admiral Hipper, commander
of the High Seas Fleet, to prepare for an attack on the British
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Today, October 27, 2025
October 27, 1939: #BOTD: #HBD! John
Cleese, English actor, comedian, voice actor, screenwriter and
producer, is #born John Marwood Cleese in Weston-super-Mare,
Somerset in South West England. He achieved success at the
Edinburgh Festival Fringe and as a scriptwriter and performer on
The Frost Report. In the late 1960s, he co-founded Monty Python,
the comedy troupe responsible for the sketch show Monty Python's
Flying Circus and the four Monty Python films: And Now for
Something Completely Different, Monty Python and the Holy Grail,
Life of Brian and The Meaning of Life. In the mid-1970s, Cleese
and his first wife, Connie Booth, co-wrote and starred in the
British sitcom Fawlty Towers, with Cleese receiving the 1980 BAFTA
for Best Entertainment Performance. Later, he co-starred with
Kevin Kline, Jamie Lee Curtis, and former Python colleague Michael
Palin in A Fish Called Wanda and Fierce Creatures, both of which
he also wrote. He also starred in Clockwise and has appeared in
many other films, including two James Bond films as R and Q, two
Harry Potter films, and the last three Shrek films. With Yes
Minister writer Antony Jay, he co-founded Video Arts, a production
company making entertaining training films. In 1976, Cleese
co-founded The Secret Policeman's Ball benefit shows to raise
funds for the human rights organisation Amnesty International.
Melvyn Bragg, English broadcaster best known for his work with ITV
as editor and presenter of The South Bank Show (1978-2010), and
for the Radio 4 discussion series In Our Time, claimed that John
Cleese was the most nervous interviewee in his career. Fawlty
Towers has the unique distinction of having been officially cited
as the reason for the adjournment of sessions of the British
Parliament, so that members would have an opportunity not to miss
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Today, October 27, 2025
October 27, 1940: Grand Finales: World's
Fair Finales: The 1939-40 New York World's Fair: -- Closing day
for The 1939-40 New York World's Fair, which covered the 1,216
acres of Flushing Meadows-Corona Park (also the location of the
1964-1965 New York World's Fair), first opened on April 30, 1939,
and was the second most expensive American world's fair of all
time, exceeded only by St. Louis's Louisiana Purchase Exposition
of 1904. Many countries around the world participated in it, and
over 44 million people attended its exhibits in two seasons. It
was the first exposition to be based on the future, with an
opening slogan of "Dawn of a New Day", and it allowed
all visitors to take a look at "the world of tomorrow".
On the occasion of the fair's 1939 opening, NBC inaugurated its
regularly scheduled television service in New York City,
broadcasting President Franklin D. Roosevelt's N.Y. World's Fair
opening day ceremonial address. Within six months of the Fair's
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Today, October 27, 2025
October 27, 1960: Elections: Elections In
The United States: The 1960 United States Presidential Election:
Civil Rights Movements: The American Civil Rights Movement
(1954-1968): Anti-Black Racism In The United States:
Discrimination: The Sit-In Movement (The Sit-In Campaign, The
Student Sit-In Movement): The Atlanta Student Movement: The
Release Of Martin Luther King From Georgia State Prison: -- In a
daring political move that may well have tipped the 1960
presidential election in his favor, United States Presidential
candidate John F. Kennedy, having the day prior called Coretta
Scott King regarding her husband Martin Luther King's arrest for
participating in a sit-in at Rich's Department Store to protest
segregation, and then having his brother Robert Kennedy arrange
with the judge in the case for his release from jail, succeeds in
having Martin Luther King Jr. released on bond from the Georgia
State Prison in Reidsville. Political observers cite this event as
having increased the number of Blacks voters who voted for him,
and thereby insured his election. The Atlanta Student Movement,
formed in February 1960 in Atlanta, Georgia by students of the
campuses of Atlanta University Center (AUC), a collaboration
between four historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs)
in southwest Atlanta, had been acting to desegregate businesses
and public spaces, organizing the Atlanta sit-ins from March 1960
onwards. In August the movement asked King to participate in a
mass October sit-in, timed to highlight how 1960's Presidential
election campaigns had ignored civil rights. The coordinated day
of action took place on October 19. King participated in a sit-in
at the restaurant inside Rich's, Atlanta's largest department
store, and was among the many arrested that day. The authorities
released everyone over the next few days, except for King.
Invoking his probationary plea deal, judge J. Oscar Mitchell
sentenced King on October 25 to four months of hard labor. Before
dawn the next day, King was transported to Georgia State Prison.
The arrest and harsh sentence drew nationwide attention. Many
feared for King's safety, as he started a prison sentence with
people convicted of violent crimes, many of them White and hostile
to his activism. Both Presidential candidates were asked to weigh
in, at a time when both parties were courting the support of
Southern Whites and their political leadership including Governor
Vandiver. Nixon, with whom King had a closer relationship before,
declined to make a statement despite a personal visit from Jackie
Robinson requesting his intervention. Nixon's opponent John F.
Kennedy called the governor (a Democrat) directly, enlisted his
brother Robert to exert more pressure on state authorities, and,
at the personal request of Sargent Shriver, called King's wife to
offer his help. The pressure from Kennedy and others proved
effective, and King was released two days later. King's father
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Today, October 27, 2025
October 27, 1961: Rocket Launches: The
History Of Rocketry: The History Of Spaceflight: The Aftermath Of
World War II: The Cold War: The Space Age: The Space Race: Space
Programs Of The United States: Human Spaceflight Programs: Project
Apollo: The Saturn Rocket Family: The Saturn I SA-1 (SA-1): --
NASA tests the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1
when it is launched at 15:06:04 UTC from Cape Canaveral Launch
Complex 34 (LC-34). The Saturn I booster was a huge increase in
size and power over anything previously launched. It was three
times taller, required six times more fuel and produced ten times
more thrust than the Juno I rocket that had launched the first
American satellite, Explorer 1, into orbit in 1958. The flight
itself was nearly perfect. The rocket reached a height of 136.5 km
and impacted 345.7 km down range from the launch site in the
Atlantic Ocean. The only real problem was the rocket cut off 1.6
seconds ahead of schedule. This was traced to the fact that there
was 400 kg too much liquid oxygen and 410 kg too little RP-1. For
the test flight, SA-1 only carried a propellant load that was 83
percent full. The Saturn I was the United States' first heavy-lift
dedicated space launcher, a rocket designed specifically to launch
large payloads into low Earth orbit. Most of the rocket's power
came from a clustered lower stage consisting of tanks taken from
older rocket designs strapped together to make a single large
booster, leading critics to jokingly refer to it as "Cluster's
Last Stand". However, its design proved sound and very
flexible. Its major successes were launching the Pegasus
satellites and flight verification of the Apollo Command and
Service Module aerodynamics in the launch phase. Originally
intended as a near-universal military booster during the 1960s, it
served only for a brief period and only with NASA; ten Saturn I
rockets were flown before it was replaced by the derivative Saturn
IB, which featured a more powerful upper stage and improved
instrumentation. President John F. Kennedy identified the Saturn
I, and the SA-5 launch in particular, as being the point where US
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Today, October 27, 2025
October 27, 1962: Cuba: The History Of
Cuba: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Cold War
(1962-1979): The Cuban Cold War: The Cuban Missile Crisis: --
#DOTD: #RIP: Major Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force
(b. September 15, 1927) 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. The Kennedy administration, wishing to
prevent the crisis from escalating further, declared Anderson's
loss was due to hypoxia, a pathological condition in which the
body or a region of the body is deprived of an adequate oxygen
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Today, October 27, 2025
October 27: National American Beer Day:
-- A day that raises a glass to the rich American beermaking
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favorite pint with millions who enjoy the storied brews across the
nation. Brewing beer in America begins long before Europeans
arrived since Native Americans brewed beer from a variety of
ingredients. They used corn, birch sap, and water to ferment their
beverage. Then when the first colonists arrived in Virginia, they
began combining their brewing traditions with the supplies at hand
- that included corn, too. Since then, brewing and brewers became
a principal occupation in the colonies. Interestingly, the first
white child born in Manhattan grew up to be the first brewer born
in America. Today, the brewery established by David G. Yuengling
is the oldest producing brewery in the United States. He
established the Eagle Brewery in 1829. Amazingly, the brewery
still remains in the family to this day. Unlike most other
breweries of the time, the Eagle Brewery survived Prohibition. In
fact, very few survived. Those that did survive tried various
legal and illegal tactics. In the Eagle Brewery's case, they
reduced their alcohol content to within the legal limit. They also
branched out. Ice cream anyone? Yes, the Yuengling's started a
dairy. Others turned their beermaking supplies into other
products. When prohibition lifted, they returned to full-fledged
beermaking. Despite these efforts, nearly every brewer existing
before prohibition dissolved. Out of just over 1,300 brewers, only
about 100 remained after prohibition. Today, we recognize the
names of many of those surviving breweries. The skill of a brewer
requires years of practice in the trade. It's revered even. In
Milwaukee, their professional baseball team is named after the
brewer. In St. Louis and Denver, the stadiums are named after
prominent brewers. More than 2,100 breweries are manufacturing
beer in the United States. They range in size from industry giants
to brewpubs and microbreweries. To observe National American Beer
Day, enjoy your favorite American Beer! Invite a friend or two to
join you. While you're at it, try something different. American
beers offer a variety of options to choose from. Do you have a
favorite brewery? Give them a shout-out, too! The brewmaster
deserves to be recognized. Tour a brewery to learn more. While
you're there, try a sample or two! Remember, always drink
responsibly and never drink and drive!
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Today, October 27, 2025October 27, 1964: Elections: Elections In
The United States: The 1964 United States Presidential Election:
Rendezvous With Destiny: A Time For Choosing (The Speech): -- As
part of a pre-recorded television program, Rendezvous With
Destiny, Ronald Reagan delivers a speech on behalf of the
Republican candidate for president, Barry Goldwater. The title of
the program was used by Franklin D. Roosevelt in his June 27, 1936
speech to the 1936 Democratic National Convention. The speech
launches Reagan's political career and comes to be known as "A
Time for Choosing". In his autobiography, An American Life,
Reagan recalled going to bed that night "hoping I hadn't let
Barry down". Many versions of the speech exist, since it was
altered over many weeks. Contrary to popular belief, however, the
speech was not given at the 1964 Republican National Convention in
San Francisco, California as a nomination speech for presidential
candidate Senator Barry Goldwater; Everett Dirksen gave that
nomination speech, while Richard Nixon introduced Goldwater prior
to his acceptance speech. Reagan, though he campaigned for
Goldwater, did not use "A Time for Choosing" until
October 27, 1964, when it was part of a pre-recorded television
program, Rendezvous with Destiny. (The title of the program was
used by Franklin D. Roosevelt in his June 27, 1936 speech to the
1936 Democratic National Convention.) In his autobiography, An
American Life, Reagan recalled going to bed that night "hoping
I hadn't let Barry down." Speaking for Goldwater, Reagan
stressed his belief in the importance of smaller government. In
the speech, he revealed his ideological motivation: "The
Founding Fathers knew a government can't control the economy
without controlling people. And they knew when a government sets
out to do that, it must use force and coercion to achieve its
purpose. So we have come to a time for choosing." He also
said, "You and I are told we must choose between a left or
right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right.
There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream - the
maximum of individual freedom consistent with law and order - or
down to the ant heap of totalitarianism." The speech raised
1M USD for Goldwater's campaign, and is considered the event that
launched Reagan's political career. To this day, "The Speech"
is considered one of the most effective ever made on behalf of a
candidate. Nevertheless, Barry Goldwater lost the election by one
of the largest margins in history. Soon afterwards, Reagan was
asked to run for Governor of California; he ran for office and won
election in 1966. Reagan was later dubbed the "Great
Communicator" in recognition of his effective oratory skills.
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Today, October 27, 2025October 27, 1936: The United Kingdom: The
History Of The United Kingdom: Governments Of The United Kingdom:
The Monarchy Of The United Kingdom (The British Monarchy): Royal
Accessions: Royal Abdications: The Abdication Of Edward VIII: --
Mrs Wallis Simpson obtains her divorce "decree nisi"
(divorced unless cause be shown to the court why it should not
occur within a specified period of time), which would eventually
allow her to marry King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, thus
forcing his abdication from the throne. In 1936, a constitutional
crisis in the British Empire arose when King-Emperor Edward VIII
proposed to marry Wallis Simpson, an American socialite who was
divorced from her first husband and was pursuing the divorce of
her second. The marriage was opposed by the governments of the
United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth.
Religious, legal, political, and moral objections were raised. As
the British monarch, Edward was the nominal head of the Church of
England, which did not allow divorced people to remarry in church
if their ex-spouses were still alive. For this reason, it was
widely believed that Edward could not marry Simpson and remain on
the throne. Simpson was perceived to be politically and socially
unsuitable as a prospective queen consort because of her two
failed marriages. It was widely assumed by the Establishment that
she was driven by love of money or position rather than love for
the King. Despite the opposition, Edward declared that he loved
Simpson and intended to marry her as soon as her second divorce
was finalised. The widespread unwillingness to accept Simpson as
the King's consort and Edward's refusal to give her up led to his
abdication in December 1936. He was succeeded by his brother
Albert, who became George VI. Edward was given the title of Duke
of Windsor, and styled Royal Highness, following his abdication,
and he married Simpson the following year. They remained married
until his death 35 years later.
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Today, October 27, 2025October 27, 1942: Naval History: The
History Of The United States Navy: The New United States Navy (The
New Navy, The United States Navy 1885-Present): Naval Launches:
Submarines (Subs): The USS Balao (SS/AGSS-285): -- USS Balao, the
lead ship of the United States Navy's Balao-class submarines which
were the greatest long-range submarines of World War II, whose
keel was laid down on June 26, 1942 at the Portsmouth Navy Yard in
Kittery, Maine, is launched sponsored by Mrs. Jane Aylward, wife
of Lieutenant Commander Theodore C. Aylward. Named for the balao,
a small schooling marine fish, USS Balao was commissioned on
February 4, 1943, and then reported to the United States Pacific
Fleet. After a six-week training period in New London,
Connecticuit., the submarine sailed for the Pacific Theater of
Operations and joined the 7th Fleet at Brisbane, Australia, on
July 10, 1943. The Balao Class Submarines were a design of United
States Navy submarine used during World War II, and with 120 boats
completed, the largest class of submarines in the United States
Navy. An improvement on the earlier Gato class, the boats had
slight internal differences. The most significant improvement was
the use of thicker, higher yield strength steel in the pressure
hull skins and frames, which increased their test depth to 400
feet (120 m). Tang actually achieved a depth of 612 ft (187 m)
during a test dive, and exceeded that test depth when taking on
water in the forward torpedo room while evading a destroyer.
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Today, October 27, 2025October 27, 1605: #DOTD: #RIP: Akbar
(Persian: "Great"), popularly known as Akbar I and later
Akbar The Great (literally "Great The Great"), third
Mughal emperor who reigned from 1556 to 1605 (b. October 15, 1542)
#dies of dysentery in Fatehpur Sikri, Agra, Mughal Empire
(present-day Uttar Pradesh, India), aged 63. He is buried at his
mausoleum in Sikandra, Agra, which lies a kilometre next to the
tomb of Mariam-uz-Zamani, his favourite and chief consort, a
remarkable woman, extremely beautiful, widely known for her grace,
intellect and liberalism, responsible for Akbar's shift in
religious and social policies towards tolerance of religious
differences and inclusive policies cultural policies within an
expanding multi-ethnic and multi-religious empire. Akbar was born
Abu'l-Fath Jalal-ud-din Muhammad Akbar in Amarkot, Rajputana
(present-day Umerkot, Sindh, Pakistan). Akbar succeeded his
father, Humayun, under a regent, Bairam Khan, who helped the young
emperor expand and consolidate Mughal domains in India. A strong
personality and a successful general, Akbar gradually enlarged the
Mughal Empire to include nearly all of the Indian Subcontinent
north of the Godavari river. His power and influence, however,
extended over the entire country because of Mughal military,
political, cultural, and economic dominance. To unify the vast
Mughal state, Akbar established a centralised system of
administration throughout his empire and adopted a policy of
conciliating conquered rulers through marriage and diplomacy. To
preserve peace and order in a religiously and culturally diverse
empire, he adopted policies that won him the support of his
non-Muslim subjects. Eschewing tribal bonds and Islamic state
identity, Akbar strove to unite far-flung lands of his realm
through loyalty, expressed through an Indo-Persian culture, to
himself as an emperor who had near-divine status.
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Today, October 27, 2025October 27, 2019: #DOTD: #RIP: John
Conyers, African American liberal politician of the Democratic
Party who served as a U.S. representative from Michigan from 1965
to 2017, one of thirteen co-founders of the Congressional Black
Caucus (CBC) (b. May 16, 1929) #dies of natural causes at his home
in Detroit, Michigan at the age of 90. His funeral was held at
Detroit's Greater Grace Temple. He is buried at Detroit Memorial
Park East in Warren, Michigan. John Conyers, Jr. was born and
raised John James Conyers Jr in Detroit, Michigan at the beginning
of the Great Depression in the American city hardest hit by its
effects, the son of Lucille Janice (Simpson) and John James
Conyers, a labor leader. The districts he represented always
included part of western Detroit. During his final three terms,
his district included many of Detroit's western suburbs, as well
as a large portion of the Downriver area. Conyers served more than
fifty years in Congress, becoming the sixth-longest serving member
of Congress in U.S. history; he was the longest-serving African
American member of Congress. Conyers was the Dean of the House of
Representatives from 2015 to 2017, by virtue of him being the
longest-serving member of Congress at the time. By the end of his
last term, he was the last remaining member of Congress who had
served since the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson. After serving in
the Korean War, Conyers became active in the civil rights
movement. He also served as an aide to Congressman John Dingell
before winning election to the House in 1964. He co-founded the
Congressional Black Caucus in 1969 and established a reputation as
one of the most liberal members of Congress. Conyers joined the
Congressional Progressive Caucus after it was founded in 1991.
Conyers supported creation of a single-payer healthcare system and
sponsored the United States National Health Care Act. He also
sponsored a bill to establish Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a
federal holiday, and was the first congressperson to introduce
legislation in support of reparations for the descendants of
African American slavery. Conyers ran for Mayor of Detroit in 1989
and 1993, but he was defeated in the primary each time. Conyers
served as the ranking Democratic member on the House Committee on
the Judiciary from 1995 to 2007 and again from 2011 to 2017. He
served as chairman of that committee from 2007 to 2011 and as
Chairman of the House Oversight Committee from 1989 to 1995. In
the wake of allegations that he had sexually harassed female staff
members and secretly used taxpayer money to settle a harassment
claim, Conyers announced his resignation from Congress on December
5, 2017.
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Today, October 27, 2025October 27, 1914: #BOTD: #HBD! Dylan
Thomas, Welsh poet, novelist, playwright and radio broadcaster
whose works include the poems "Do not go gentle into that
good night" and "And death shall have no dominion";
the "play for voices" Under Milk Wood; and stories and
radio broadcasts such as "A Child's Christmas in Wales"
and "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog" (d. November
9, 1953) is #born Dylan Marlais Thomas in Swansea, Wales. He
became widely popular in his lifetime and remained so after his
premature death at the age of 39 in New York City. By then he had
acquired a reputation, which he had encouraged, as a "roistering,
drunken and doomed poet". An undistinguished pupil, he left
school at 16 to become a journalist for a short time. Many of his
works appeared in print while he was still a teenager. In 1934,
the publication of "Light breaks where no sun shines"
caught the attention of the literary world. While living in
London, Thomas met author Caitlin Macnamara. They married in 1937.
In 1938, they settled in Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, Wales, and
brought up their three children. Thomas came to be appreciated as
a popular poet during his lifetime, though he found earning a
living as a writer difficult. He began augmenting his income with
reading tours and radio broadcasts. His radio recordings for the
BBC during the late 1940s brought him to the public's attention,
and he was frequently used by the BBC as an accessible voice of
the literary scene. Thomas first travelled to the United States in
the 1950s. His readings there brought him a degree of fame, while
his erratic behaviour and drinking worsened. His time in the
United States cemented his legend, however, and he went on to
record to vinyl such works as A Child's Christmas in Wales. Dylan
Thomas died aged 39 during his fourth trip to New York, where
became gravely ill of a combination of acute alcohol abuse and a
complex of respiratory illnesses, fell into a coma, and never
recovered. His body was returned to Wales, where he was interred
at the churchyard of St Martin's in Laugharne on November 25,
1953. Although Thomas wrote exclusively in the English language,
he has been acknowledged as one of the most important Welsh poets
of the 20th century. He is noted for his original, rhythmic and
ingenious use of words and imagery. His position as one of the
great modern poets has been much discussed, and he remains popular
with the public.
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Today, October 27, 2025October 27, 1967: The Aftermath Of World
War II: The Cold War: The Cold War In Asia: The Indochina Wars:
The Vietnam War (The Second Indochina War, The Vietnam Conflict,
The Resistance War Against America): The United States In The
Vietnam War: Opposition To United States Involvement In The
Vietnam War: The Baltimore Four-- Catholic priest Philip Berrigan,
artist Tom Lewis, writer David Eberhardt, and United Church of
Christ pastor Rev. James L. Mengel III - protest the Vietnam War
by occupying the Selective Service Board in the Customs House,
Baltimore and performing a sacrificial, blood-pouring protest by
using their own blood and that from poultry and pouring it over
Selective Service records. Rev. Mengel was a United States Air
Force veteran, and during their trial, Mengel stated that U.S.
military forces had killed and maimed not only humans, but also
animals and vegetation. Mengel agreed to the action and donated
blood, but decided not to actually pour blood; instead he
distributed the paperback book version of the New Testament to
draft board workers, newsmen, and police. Berrigan, in a written
statement, noted that his sacrificial and constructive act was
meant to protest "the pitiful waste of American and
Vietnamese blood in Indochina". The trial of the four
defendants was postponed due to the assassination of Martin Luther
King, Jr. and the subsequent riots in Baltimore and other U.S.
cities. Eberhardt and Lewis served jail time and Berrigan was
sentenced to six years in federal prisons.
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Today, October 27, 2025October 27, 1999: #DOTD: #RIP: Frank De
Vol, American composer, arranger, actor, comedian and record
producer (b. September 20, 1911) #dies of congestive heart failure
in Lafayette, California. He is interred at the Forest Lawn
Memorial Park Cemetery in Hollywood Hills. He was born Frank Denny
De Vol in Moundsville in Marshall County in northern West
Virginia. As a composer and aranger, he used the name De Vol. As a
composer he was nominated for four Academy Awards. De Vol began
composing music when he was 12. When he was 14, he became a member
of the Musicians' Union. After playing violin in his father's
orchestra and appearances in a Chinese restaurant, he joined the
Horace Heidt Orchestra in the 1930s, being responsible for the
arrangements. Later, he toured with the Alvino Rey Orchestra,
before embarking on his recording career. By the time De Vol was
16, he was doing arrangements with professional skill. From the
1940s, De Vol wrote arrangements for the studio recordings of many
top singers, including Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah
Vaughan, Tony Bennett, Dinah Shore, Doris Day, Vic Damone and Jaye
P. Morgan. His single most famous arrangement is probably the
haunting string and piano accompaniment to Cole's "Nature
Boy", which was a United States Number One in 1948. That same
year, he released a version of "The Teddy Bears' Picnic"
(Capitol Records 15420), that he arranged and sang lead vocals on.
In 1966-1967, he arranged the soundtrack for the 1967 Columbia
Pictures comedy film The Happening starring Anthony Quinn and
co-produced The Supremes recording of the theme from the film with
Motown producers Holland-Dozier-Holland which became a #1 American
pop hit later that year. The success of "Nature Boy",
recorded for Capitol Records, led to an executive position for De
Vol at the rival Columbia Records. There, he recorded a series of
orchestral mood music albums under the studio name "Music by
De Vol" (which he also used for some of his film and TV
work). The 1959 album Bacchanal! (The Passions and Pageantry of
Gods and Goddesses of Mythology) is an acclaimed example of De
Vol's mood music; each track is by English composer Albert Harris
and is named after a god or goddess of Greek mythology. In the
1950s, De Vol's orchestra played frequently at the Hollywood
Palladium under the concert name "Music of the Century".
De Vol wrote the scores for many Hollywood movies, receiving
Academy Award nominations for four of them: Pillow Talk (1959),
Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964), Cat Ballou (1965) and Guess
Who's Coming to Dinner (1967). De Vol's numerous scores included
Kiss Me Deadly (1955), What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962),
McLintock! (1963), The Flight of the Phoenix (1965), The Glass
Bottom Boat (1966), The Dirty Dozen (1967), Hustle (1975), Herbie
Goes to Monte Carlo (1977) and Herbie Goes Bananas (1980). He also
scored many Doris Day comedies and films for director Robert
Aldrich. De Vol also composed the jingle for the Screen Gems'
"Dancing Sticks" logo (1963-1965), which appeared on all
television series produced by the television division of Columbia
Pictures. De Vol was musical director (and occasionally seen) on
Edgar Bergen's CBS Television prime-time game show Do You Trust
Your Wife? (1956-1957). "Frank De Vol's orchestra" was
featured on the NBC Television prime-time musical variety series
The Lux Show Starring Rosemary Clooney (1957-1958). During this
time, he appeared on The Betty White Show (1954) and Rod Cameron's
syndicated State Trooper. In 1964 he was seen in an episode during
the first season of, My Favorite Martian and several guest spots
on different television shows throughout the 1960s. In the 1970s,
he appeared as the ironically named dour bandleader Happy Kyne on
the talk show satire/parody Fernwood 2 Night (1977) and America
2-Night (1978). De Vol is best recognized for his television theme
tunes, like Family Affair, The Brady Bunch and My Three Sons. The
My Three Sons theme was musically complex, with a marimba playing
a triplet obligato (the famous tune "Chopsticks") over
the melody in 4/4 time, and was a hit single in 1961. He composed
scores for episodes of McCloud and The Love Boat, amongst other
work for television. Beginning in 1969, "The Fuzz"
became the theme song of Brazilian television newscast Jornal
Nacional. De Vol was also an actor specializing in deadpan comic
characters, especially as the dour bandleader Happy Kyne on the
talk show parodies Fernwood 2 Night and America 2-Night, in
1977-78. He also had a recurring role in I'm Dickens, He's
Fenster, as Myron Bannister, Dickens & Fenster's boss; as well
as appearances on The Cara Williams Show, I Dream of Jeannie,
Gidget, Bonanza, Petticoat Junction - (1967 episode: "That
Was the Night That Was" & 1969 episode: "The Organ
Fund" - as Reverend Barton), Mickey starring Mickey Rooney,
The Brady Bunch, Get Smart (at least 2 appearances as Professor
Carleton) and The Jeffersons. De Vol had also comic roles as Chief
Eaglewood, the head of the Thundercloud Boys' Camp in 1961's The
Parent Trap, and as the onscreen narrator in Jerry Lewis's 1967
comedy film The Big Mouth. De Vol also appeared as a bandleader in
the last season of My Three Sons, in addition to writing the theme
music and serving as in-house composer for most of the show's
twelve seasons. He also scored most episodes of Family Affair,
including many of the same incidental music cues as My Three Sons.
In 1980, he appeared in the second season of Diff'rent Strokes,
episode 22 called, "The Slumber Party". De Vol preferred
to be credited as "Frank De Vol" for his acting
appearances, and as "De Vol" for his musical work. De
Vol was initiated as an honorary member of the Gamma Omega chapter
of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, the national fraternity for men in
music, in 1962. In the mid 1990s, when well into his eighties, De
Vol was active in the Big Band Academy of America. De Vol was
married twice. His first marriage was to Grayce Agnes McGinty in
1935. This 54-year marriage produced two daughters, Linda
Morehouse and Donna Copeland, and ended with Grayce's death in
1989. His second marriage was to television actress and big band
singer Helen O'Connell from 1991 until her death in 1993.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: WPIX at
40! (1988) New York City's TV Channel 11 DVD, Download, USB
Today, October 27, 2025October 27, 2016: #DOTD: #RIP: John
Zacherle, sometimes credited as John Zacherley, nicknamed "The
Cool Ghoul" by Dick Clark, American television host, radio
personality, singer, and voice actor (b. September 26, 1918) #dies
at his home in Manhattan, New York City at the age of 98. His
remains were cremated; the final disposition of his ashes are not
publicly disclosed other than that they were given to family or
friend(s). John Zacherle was #born John Karsten Zacherle in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was best known for his long career
as a television horror host, often broadcasting horror movies in
Philadelphia and New York City in the 1950s and 1960s. Best known
for his character of "Roland/Zacherley," he also did
voice work for movies, and recorded the top ten novelty rock and
roll song "Dinner With Drac" in 1958. He also edited two
collections of horror stories, Zacherley's Vulture Stew and
Zacherley's Midnight Snacks. As a horror host, he also doubled as
a children's show host when in his "Zacherley" persona
he hosted The Mighty Hercules cartoons for WPIX (Channel 11) in
New York City in 1963. He is in large part the inspiration for the
SCTV character Count Floyd played by Joe Flaherty. Zacherle grew
up in Philadelphia's Germantown neighborhood, where he went to
high school. He received a bachelor's degree in English literature
from an Ivy League school, the University of Pennsylvania. In
World War II he enlisted in the United States Army and served in
North Africa and Europe. After the war, he returned to
Philadelphia and joined a local repertory theatre company. In 1954
he gained his first television role at WCAU-TV in Philadelphia,
where he was hired as an actor playing several roles (one was an
undertaker) in Action in the Afternoon, a Western produced by the
station and aired in the New York City market. Three years later,
he was hired as the host of WCAU's Shock Theater, which debuted on
October 7, 1957. As the host, Zacherle appeared wearing a long
black undertaker's coat as the character "Roland,"
pronounced "Ro-land", who lived in a crypt with his wife
"My Dear" (unseen, lying in her coffin) and his lab
assistant, Igor. The hosting of the black-and-white show involved
interrupting the film to do numerous stylized horror-comedy gags
parodying the film, an influential change which pioneered a
now-standard television genre. In the opening sequence, Zacherle
as Roland would descend a long round staircase to the crypt. The
producers erred on the side of goriness, showing fake severed
heads with blood simulated with Hershey's chocolate syrup. During
the comedy "cut-ins" during the movie, the soundtrack
continued to play on the air, while the visual feed switched
briefly to a shot of Zacherle as Roland in the middle of a related
humorous stunt, such as riding a tombstone, or singing "My
Funny Valentine" to his wife in her coffin. The show ran for
92 broadcasts through 1958. He was a close colleague of
Philadelphia broadcaster Dick Clark, and sometimes filled in for
Clark on road touring shows of Clark's American Bandstand in the
1960s. Clark reportedly gave Zacherle his nickname of "The
Cool Ghoul." In 1958, partly with the assistance and backing
of Clark, Zacherle cut "Dinner with Drac" for Cameo
Records, backed by Dave Appell. At first, Clark thought the
recording - in which Zacherle recites humorously grisly limericks
to rock and roll accompaniment - was too gory to play on
Bandstand, and made Zacherle return to the studio to cut a second
tamer version. Eventually both versions were released
simultaneously as backsides on the same 45, and the record broke
the top ten nationally. Zacherle later released several LPs mixing
horror sound effects with novelty songs. The purchase of WCAU by
CBS in 1958 prompted Zacherle to leave Philadelphia for WABC-TV in
New York, where the station added a "y" to the end of
his name in the credits. He continued the format of the Shock
Theater, after March 1959 titled Zacherley at Large, with "Roland"
becoming "Zacherley" and his wife "My Dear"
becoming "Isobel." He also began appearing in motion
pictures, including Key to Murder alongside several of his former
Action in the Afternoon colleagues. A regular feature of his shows
continued to be his parodic interjection of himself into old
horror films. He would run the movie and have "conversations"
with the monster characters. He kept his "wife" in a
coffin on stage. His co-star was in a burlap sack hanging from a
rope. The on-air conversation consisted of Zacherle repeating the
words he heard from the sack. In a 1960 promotional stunt for his
move to WOR-TV, Zacherley-- by then, a Baby Boomer idol-- staged a
presidential campaign. His "platform" recording can be
found on the album Spook Along with Zacherley, which originally
included a Zacherley for President book and poster set which is
highly collectible today. Also, in 1960, he was a guest on CBS
TV's "What's My Line", on the October, 30th broadcast,
as the final guest. Two of the panelists had to disqualify
themselves, as they knew his identity. In 1963 he hosted animated
cartoons on WPIX-TV in New York. He also hosted the TV show
Chiller Theatre in New York on WPIX. In 1964 he hosted a teenage
dance show for three years at WNJU-TV in Newark called
Disc-O-Teen, hosting the show in full costume and using the
teenage show participants in his skits. In 1967, he became a
morning radio host for WNEW-FM. Two years later in 1969, he became
the station night broadcaster (10 PM-2 AM) for a progressive rock
format. In 1971 he switched his show to WPLJ-FM, where he stayed
for ten years. On February 14, 1970 he appeared at Fillmore East
music hall in New York City to introduce rock act the Grateful
Dead. His introduction of the band can be heard on the Grateful
Dead album Dick's Picks Volume 4. In the early 1980s he played a
wizard on Captain Kangaroo, appearing without his Roland/Zacherley
costume and make-up. He continued to perform in character at
Halloween broadcasts in New York and Philadelphia in the 1980s and
1990s, once narrating Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven while backed up
by the Philadelphia Orchestra. In 1986, he hosted a
direct-to-video program called Horrible Horror, where he performed
Zacherley monologues in between clips from public domain sci-fi
and horror films. In 1988 he struck up a friendship with B movie
horror director Frank Henenlotter, voicing the puppet "Aylmer,"
a slug-like drug-dealing and brain-eating parasite, one of the
lead characters in Henenlotter's 1988 horror-comedy film Brain
Damage, and cameos in his 1990 comedy Frankenhooker, appropriately
playing a TV weatherman who specializes in forecasts for mad
scientists. In late 1992, Zacherle joined the staff of "K-Rock,"
WXRK, at a time when the roster included other free-form radio
luminaries such as Vin Scelsa (with whom he'd worked at WPLJ) and
Meg Griffin. He departed in January 1996 when the station switched
to an alternative rock format and hired all new jocks. In 2010
Zacherly starred in the documentary, The Aurora Monsters: The
Model Craze That Gripped the World. The film was written and
produced by Dennis Vincent and Cortlandt Hull, owner of the
Witch's Dungeon Classic Movie Museum in Bristol, Connecticut. The
documentary includes a number of short pieces featuring Zacherly
and his puppet co-host Gorgo, of Bill Diamond Productions. The
film went on to win a Rondo award. Zacherle continued to make
appearances at conventions through 2015, and to this day, Zacherle
collectibles are still selling, including model kits, T-shirts,
and posters. The book Goodnight, Whatever You Are by Richard
Scrivani, chronicling the life and times of The Cool Ghoul,
debuted at the Chiller Theatre Expo in Secaucus, New Jersey, in
October 2006. Scrivani and Tom Weaver followed it up with the
scrapbook-style "The Z Files: Treasures from Zacherley's
Archives" in 2012. The comic book anthology, Zacherley's
Midnite Terrors (created by Joseph M. Monks, and featuring top
artists like Basil Gogos, Ken Kelly, William S. Stout and Mike
Koneful), was created solely as a tribute to "Zach".
Three issues were published, and Zacherley acted in a commercial
to promote them. He made a special guest appearance in Harry
Chaskin's award-winning animated short film, Bygone Behemoth and
recent on-air appearances include a two-hour show at WCBS-FM with
Ron Parker on Halloween, 2007. A picture of Zacherley alongside
fellow horror host Dr. Gangrene appeared in the October 30, 2007
issue of USA Today in an article about Horror Host entitled
Halloween horror hosts rise again on radio, TV, film written by
David Colton. Zacherley and Chiller Theatre returned to the WPIX
airwaves on October 25, 2008 for a special showing of the 1955
Universal Pictures science fiction classic Tarantula!. The
Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia inducted Zacherle into their
Hall of Fame in 2010. He was the uncle of My Little Pony creator
Bonnie Zacherle.
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Today, October 27, 2025October 27, 2013: #DOTD: #RIP: Lou Reed,
American singer, songwriter, composer, guitarist, record producer,
poet, photographer and actor (b. March 2, 1942) #dies of liver
disease at his home in East Hampton, New York, at the age of 71.
On the day of his death, Pearl Jam dedicated their song "Man
Of The Hour" to him at their show in Baltimore and then
played "I'm Waiting For The Man"; also on that day, The
Killers dedicated their rendition of "Pale Blue Eyes" to
Reed at the Life Is Beautiful festival in Las Vegas, My Morning
Jacket performed a cover of "Oh! Sweet Nuthin'" in
California, Arctic Monkeys performed "Walk on the Wild Side"
in Liverpool, and Phish opened their show in Hartford, CT with the
Velvet Underground's "Rock & Roll". Reed was
cremated and the ashes were given to his widow Laurie Anderson.
Born Lewis Allan Reed, he was the co-founder, guitarist, singer
and principal songwriter for the rock band the Velvet Underground
and had a solo career that spanned five decades. A band named
after the Michael Leigh mass market paperback about the secret
sexual subculture of the early 1960s, The Velvet Underground was
not a commercial success during its existence, but became regarded
as one of the most influential bands in the history of underground
and alternative rock music. Reed's distinctive deadpan voice,
poetic and transgressive lyrics, and experimental guitar playing
were trademarks throughout his long career. After leaving the band
in 1970, Reed released twenty solo studio albums. His second,
Transformer (1972), was produced by David Bowie and arranged by
Mick Ronson, and brought him mainstream recognition. The album is
considered an influential landmark of the glam rock genre,
anchored by Reed's most successful single, "Walk on the Wild
Side". After Transformer, the less commercial but critically
acclaimed Berlin peaked at No. 7 on the UK Albums Chart. Rock 'n'
Roll Animal (a live album released in 1974) sold strongly, and
Sally Can't Dance (1974) peaked at No. 10 on the Billboard 200;
but for a long period after, Reed's work did not translate into
sales, leading him deeper into drug addiction and alcoholism. Reed
cleaned up in the early 1980s, and gradually returned to
prominence with New Sensations (1984), reaching a critical and
commercial career peak with his 1989 album New York. Reed
participated in the reformation of the Velvet Underground in the
1990s, and made several more albums, including a collaboration
album with John Cale titled Songs for Drella which was a tribute
to their former mentor Andy Warhol. Magic and Loss (1992) would
become Reed's highest-charting album on the UK Albums Chart,
peaking at No. 6. He contributed music to two theatrical
interpretations of 19th century writers, one of which he developed
into an album titled The Raven. He married his third wife Laurie
Anderson in 2008, and recorded the collaboration album Lulu with
Metallica. He died in 2013 of liver disease. Reed has been
inducted into The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame twice; as a member of
the Velvet Underground in 1996 and as a solo act in 2015.
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Today, October 27, 2025October 27, 1940: #BOTD: John Gotti,
American gangster who became boss of the Gambino Crime Family in
New York City (d. June 10, 2002) is #born John Joseph Gotti Jr. in
the Bronx, New York, the fifth of the 13 children (two had died at
birth) of John Joseph Gotti Sr. and Philomena "Fannie"
DeCarlo. His parents were born in New York, but is presumed that
their parents were from San Giuseppe Vesuviano, in the province of
Naples, Italy, where his parents were married and lived for some
time. Gotti was one of five brothers who became made men in the
Gambino crime family. Gotti and his brothers grew up in poverty
and turned to a life of crime at an early age. Gotti quickly
became one of the crime family's biggest earners and a protege of
Gambino family underboss Aniello Dellacroce, operating out of the
Ozone Park neighborhood of Queens. Early in his criminal career
and following the FBI's indictment of members of Gotti's crew for
selling narcotics, Gotti began to fear that he and his brother
would be killed by Gambino boss Paul Castellano for selling drugs.
As this fear continued to grow, and amidst growing dissent over
the leadership of the crime family, Gotti organized the murder of
Castellano in December 1985 and took over the family shortly
thereafter, leaving Gotti as the boss of what has been described
as America's most powerful crime syndicate, and one that made
hundreds of millions of dollars a year from racketeering,
hijacking, loan sharking, drug trafficking, bookmaking,
prostitution, extortion, pornography, illegal gambling and other
criminal activities. At his peak, Gotti was one of the most
powerful and dangerous crime bosses in the United States. During
his era he became widely known for his outspoken personality and
flamboyant style, which gained him favor with some of the general
public. While his peers avoided attracting attention, especially
from the media, Gotti became known as "The Dapper Don",
for his expensive clothes and personality in front of news
cameras. He was later given the nickname "The Teflon Don"
after three high-profile trials in the 1980s resulted in his
acquittal, though it was later revealed that the trials had been
tainted by jury tampering, juror misconduct, and witness
intimidation. Law enforcement authorities continued gathering
evidence against Gotti that helped lead to his downfall. According
to Sammy Gravano, Gotti earned between 5-20 M USD per year during
his tenure as Gambino boss. Gotti's underboss Salvatore "Sammy
the Bull" Gravano aided the FBI in finally convicting Gotti.
In 1991, Gravano agreed to turn state's evidence and testify for
the prosecution against Gotti after hearing the boss making
several disparaging remarks about Gravano on a wiretap that
implicated them both in several murders. In 1992, Gotti was
convicted of five murders, conspiracy to commit murder,
racketeering, obstruction of justice, tax evasion, illegal
gambling, extortion, and loansharking. He was sentenced to life in
prison without parole and was transferred to United States
Penitentiary, Marion in southern Illinois. According to former
Lucchese crime family boss Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso,
"What John Gotti did was the beginning of the end of Cosa
Nostra". While in prison, Gotti died of throat cancer on June
10, 2002, at the United States Medical Center for Federal
Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri, aged 61. The Catholic Diocese
of Brooklyn announced that Gotti's family would not be permitted
to have a Requiem Mass, but allowed a memorial Mass after the
burial. Gotti's funeral was held in a non-church facility. After
the funeral, an estimated 300 onlookers followed the procession,
which passed Gotti's Bergin Hunt and Fish Club, to the gravesite.
Gotti's body was interred in a crypt next to his son, Frank.
Gotti's brother, Peter, was unable to attend because of his
incarceration. In an apparent repudiation of Gotti's leadership
and legacy, the other New York City families sent no
representatives to the funeral. Numerous prosecutions triggered by
Gotti's tactics left the Gambinos devastated such that by the turn
of the century, half of the family's made men were in prison.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The
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Today, October 27, 2025October 27, 1979: #DOTD: Father Charles
Coughlin, controversial Canadian-American Roman Catholic priest
and radio host (b. October 25, 1891) #dies in Bloomfield Hills,
Michigan in 1979 at the age of 88. He was buried in Holy Sepulchre
Cemetery in Southfield, Michigan. Charles Coughlin was born
Charles Edward Coughlin in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. His ministry
was based in the United States near Detroit at Royal Oak,
Michigan's National Shrine of the Little Flower church. Commonly
known as Father Coughlin, he was one of the first political
leaders to use radio to reach a mass audience, as up to thirty
million listeners tuned to his weekly broadcasts during the 1930s.
He was forced off the air in 1939. Early in his radio career,
Coughlin was a vocal supporter of Franklin D. Roosevelt and his
New Deal. By 1934 he had become a harsh critic of Roosevelt,
accusing him of being too friendly to bankers. In 1934 he
established a new political organization called the National Union
for Social Justice. He issued a platform calling for monetary
reforms, the nationalization of major industries and railroads,
and protection of the rights of labor. The membership ran into the
millions. After hinting at attacks on Jewish bankers, Coughlin
began to use his radio program to issue antisemitic commentary. In
the late 1930s he approvingly supported some of the fascist
policies of Adolf Hitler and of Benito Mussolini, and of Emperor
Hirohito of Japan. His chief topics were political and economic
rather than religious, with his slogan being "Social
Justice", initially in support of, and later opposing, the
New Deal. Many American bishops as well as the Vatican wanted him
silenced. After the outbreak of World War II in Europe in 1939,
the Roosevelt administration finally forced the cancellation of
his radio program. Coughlin reasoned that although the government
had assumed the right to regulate any on-air broadcasts, the First
Amendment still guaranteed and protected freedom of the written
press. He could still print his editorials without censorship in
his own newspaper, Social Justice. After the attack on Pearl
Harbor, and the US declaration of war in December 1941, the
anti-interventionist movements (such as the America First
Committee) rapidly lost support, and isolationists like Coughlin
acquired the reputation of sympathy with the enemy. The Roosevelt
Administration stepped in again. On April 14, 1942, U.S. Attorney
General Francis Biddle wrote a letter to the Postmaster General,
Frank Walker, and suggested the possibility of revoking the
second-class mailing privilege of Social Justice, which would make
it impossible for Coughlin to deliver the papers to his readers.
Biddle was also exploring the possibility of bringing an
indictment against Coughlin for sedition as a possible "last
resort". Biddles relayed a message to Bishop Mooney,
Coughlin's immediate superior in the Roman Catholic church, that
the government was willing to "deal with Coughlin in a
restrained manner if he [Mooney] would order Coughlin to cease his
public activities". Consequently, on May 1, Bishop Mooney
ordered Coughlin to stop his political activities and to confine
himself to his duties as a parish priest, warning of potentially
removing his priestly faculties if he refused. Coughlin complied
and remained the pastor of the Shrine of the Little Flower. The
pending hearing before the Postmaster, which had been scheduled to
take place four days later, was cancelled now that it was no
longer necessary. Despite the end of his public career, Coughlin
remained in his position as parish pastor until retiring in 1966.
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Today, October 27, 2025October 27, 1872: #BOTD: Emily Post,
American author and educator, founded The Emily Post Institute (d.
September 25, 1960) is #born Emily Price in Baltimore, Maryland;
the precise date is unknown. She was famous for writing about
etiquette. She produced newspaper articles on architecture and
interior design, as well as stories and serials for magazines
including Harper's, Scribner's, and The Century. She wrote five
novels: Flight of a Moth (1904), Purple and Fine Linen (1905),
Woven in the Tapestry (1908), The Title Market (1909), and The
Eagle's Feather (1910). In 1916, she published By Motor to the
Golden Gate: a recount of a road trip she made from New York to
San Francisco with her son Edwin and another companion. Post wrote
in various styles, including humorous travel books, early in her
career. She published her first etiquette book "Etiquette in
Society, in Business, in Politics, and at Home" (1922,
frequently referenced as "Etiquette") when she was 50;
it became a best-seller, with updated versions continued to be
popular for decades, and it made her career. After 1931, Post
spoke on radio programs and wrote a column on good taste for the
Bell Syndicate; it appeared daily in some 200 newspapers after
1932. Emily Post died in her New York City apartment at the age of
87. She is buried in the cemetery at St. Mary's-in-Tuxedo
Episcopal Church in Tuxedo Park, New York.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Way
To The Stars (Uncut) {Johnny in the Clouds (Cut)} MP4 DVD USB
Today, October 27, 2025October 27, 1998: #DOTD: #RIP: Rosamund
John, English film and stage actress and beauty (b. October 19,
1913) #dies at a nursing home in Clapham, London, England, aged
85. Her burial details are not publicly disclosed. Rosamund John
was born and raised Nora Rosamund Jones in Tottenham in north
London, the daughter of Frederick Henry Jones, a wine merchant's
clerk, and his wife, Edith Elizabeth (nee Elliott).She was
educated at Tottenham high school before studying for the theatre
at the Embassy School of Acting. At the age of nineteen, John was
introduced to actor-director Milton Rosmer, who cast her in
several minor stage roles before casting her in his film The
Secret of the Loch (1934). Following several more years of stage
work she was cast opposite Leslie Howard in The First of the Few
(1942). This led to her being cast in Howard's next film as a
director, The Gentle Sex (1943). Howard cast John in her next film
The Lamp Still Burns (1943), which he produced, but he was killed
during the film's production when his plane was shot down
returning from Lisbon. John became one of Britain's most popular
screen stars, second only to Margaret Lockwood as Britain's
favourite female star in 1944, and credited her career ascendance
to Howard. She next starred in the rural wartime comedy Tawny
Pipit (1944), made by Two Cities Films, which, according to John,
went on to be popular with American audiences as "it was
everything the Americans thought of as being English." John
co-starred in Anthony Asquith's wartime drama The Way to the Stars
(1945), following which she appeared in the medical wartime
thriller Green for Danger (1946). 1947 saw her star with James
Mason in The Upturned Glass (1947), with Michael Redgrave in the
Boulting Brothers' political drama Fame is the Spur (1947) and
with Patricia Roc in the drama When the Bough Breaks (1947). John
was twice married, first to film editor Russell Lloyd, from 1943
to 1949, with whom she had a son named John, and then to
politician John Silkin from 1950 to 1987, with whom she had her
second son, Rory.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Lady
Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday DVD, Download, Flash Drive
Today, October 27, 2025October 27, 1922: #BOTD: #HBD! Ruby Dee,
African American actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter,
journalist, and civil rights activist (d. June 11, 2014) is #born
Ruby Ann Wallace in Cleveland, Ohio, the daughter of Gladys (nee
Hightower) and Marshall Edward Nathaniel Wallace, a cook, waiter
and porter. After her mother left the family, Dee's father
remarried, to Emma Amelia Benson, a schoolteacher. Dee was raised
in Harlem, New York. Prior to attending Hunter College High
School, she studied at Public Schools 119 and 136. She went on to
graduate from Hunter College with a degree in Romance languages in
1945. She was a member of Delta Sigma Theta. Dee joined the
American Negro Theater as an apprentice, working with Sidney
Poitier, Harry Belafonte, and Hilda Simms. She made several
appearances on Broadway, such as her first role in ANT's 1946
production of Anna Lucasta. Her first onscreen role was in That
Man of Mine in 1946. She received national recognition for her
role in the 1950 film The Jackie Robinson Story. She is perhaps
best known for originating the role of "Ruth Younger" in
the stage and film versions of A Raisin in the Sun (1961). Another
notable film role was and Do the Right Thing (1989). Dee was
married to Ossie Davis, with whom she frequently performed until
his death in 2005. For her performance as Mahalee Lucas in
American Gangster (2007), Dee was nominated for the Academy Award
for Best Supporting Actress and won the Screen Actors Guild Award
for Female Actor in a Supporting Role. Dee was a Grammy, Emmy,
Obie and Drama Desk winner. She was also a National Medal of Arts,
Kennedy Center Honors and Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement
Award recipient. Ruby Dee died at her home in New Rochelle, New
York, from natural causes at the age of 91. "She very
peacefully surrendered", said her daughter Nora Day. "We
hugged her, we kissed her, we gave her our permission to go. She
opened her eyes. She looked at us. She closed her eyes, and she
set sail." Following her death, the marquee on the Apollo
Theater read: "A TRUE APOLLO LEGEND RUBY DEE 1922-2014".
Dee's remains were cremated, and her ashes are held in the same
urn as that of her beloved husband Ozzie Davis, with the
inscription "In this thing together". A public memorial
celebration honoring Dee was held on September 20, 2014, at the
Riverside Church in Upper Manhattan. Their shared urn is buried at
Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York.
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