Born on 27 October 1953

At A Glance

27 October 1953 at a glance

Day of the week

27 October 1953 was a Tuesday.

Top Film of 1953

The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 1953 was Peter Pan.

Star sign

The star sign for 27 October is Scorpio.

Chinese zodiac

In the Chinese zodiac, 27 October 1953 fell in the Year of the Snake.

Birthstone

The birthstone for October is Opal.

Moon phase

The moon phase on 27 October 1953 was Waning Gibbous.

On this day: 27 October

• 1944 World War II: German forces capture Banská Bystrica during Slovak National Uprising thus bringing it to an end.
• 1954 Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force.
• 1958 Iskander Mirza, the first President of Pakistan, is deposed by General Ayub Khan, who had been appointed the enforcer of martial law by Mirza 20 days earlier.
• 1961 NASA tests the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.
• 1962 By refusing to agree to the firing of a nuclear torpedo at a US warship, Vasily Arkhipov averts nuclear war.

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)

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