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27 October 2022 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 27 October 2022 was a Thursday.
- UK Number One
- The UK Number One single was “Unholy” by Sam Smith & Kim Petras.
- Top Film of 2022
- The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2022 was Avatar: The Way of Water.
- Star sign
- The star sign for 27 October is Scorpio.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 27 October 2022 fell in the Year of the Tiger.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for October is Opal.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 27 October 2022 was Waxing Crescent.
On this day: 27 October
- 1988 Cold War: Ronald Reagan suspends construction of the new U.S. Embassy in Moscow due to Soviet listening devices in the building structure.
- 1991 Turkmenistan achieves independence from the Soviet Union.
- 1994 Gliese 229B is the first Substellar Mass Object to be unquestionably identified.
- 2014 Britain withdraws from Afghanistan at the end of Operation Herrick, after 12 years four months and seven days.
- 2017 Catalonia declares independence from Spain.
Famous people born on 27 October
- Theodore Roosevelt, American colonel and politician, 26th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate (1858–1919)
- Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazilian union leader and politician, 35 and 39th President of Brazil (born 1945)
- John Cleese, English actor, comedian, screenwriter and producer (born 1939)
- Sylvia Plath, American poet, novelist, and short story writer (1932–1963)
Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Events of 2022 in the United Kingdom
A selection from Wikipedia's '2022 in the United Kingdom'. Not a complete list.
- 6 February – The Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II marks the 70th anniversary of her accession to the throne as Queen of the United Kingdom.
- 8 April – The home secretary, Priti Patel, apologises for delays in accepting Ukrainian refugees, with only a quarter of the 41,000 granted visas having entered the UK so far.
- 4 May – 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine: A new set of sanctions is announced by the government, with Russia banned from using British management consulting, accounting and PR services.
Life in 2022
Prime Minister
Rishi Sunak
Monarch
Charles III
Pint of Beer
£4.50
Loaf of Bread
£1.80
Average House
£283,615
Weekly Wage
£975.00
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