On October 27, 2006, the last Ford Taurus rolls off the assembly line in Hapeville, Georgia.

On October 27, 2004, the Boston Red Sox win the World Series for the first time since 1918, finally vanquishing the so-called “Curse of the Bambino” that had plagued them for 86 years.

Many people think John F. Kennedy saved the world with his handling of the Cuban missile crisis. But an unknown Russian sailor also played a dramatic role.

On October 27, 1961, a U.

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On October 27, 1932, poet Sylvia Plath is born in Boston.

On October 27, 1873, a DeKalb, Illinois, farmer named Joseph Glidden submits an application to the U.

On October 27, 1858, future President Theodore Roosevelt is born in New York City to a wealthy family.

William Robinson and Marmaduke Stevenson, two Quakers who came from England in 1656 to escape religious persecution, are executed in the Massachusetts Bay Colony for their religious beliefs.