October 27th (1962) was a Saturday. It's the 300th day of the year (301st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 65 days left to the end of the year.
Historical Events for 27th October, 1962
» Major Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his Lockheed U-2 known as U-2 reconnaissance airplane is shot down in Cuba by a Soviet-supplied SA-2 Guideline surface-to-air miss
» A plane carrying Enrico Mattei, post-war Italian administrator, crashes in mysterious circumstances.
October 27th Famous Deaths for 1962
» Rudolf Anderson, American pilot (b. 1927)
» Enrico Mattei, Italian politician (b. 1906)
October 27th Holidays in History
» Remembrance days in Slovakia e.g Černová Tragedy Day (Slovakia)
» Christian Feast Day:
» Abbán
» Kaleb of Axum named Elesbaan
» Frumentius (Roman Catholic Church)
» October 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
» Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines from United Kingdom in 1979.
» Independence Day (Turkmenistan) known as Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Turkmenistan from USSR in 1991.
» Navy Day, first organized to be on this day. (United States)