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Notable anniversaries in history for today: October 27
- 100th: 1924 - The Uzbek SSR forms.
- 70th: 1954 - The ABC TV network airs the first Disneyland TV show, on Wednesday night, 7:30 to 8:30. The first episode is titled The Disneyland Story. Approximately 30.8 million American viewers watch the show.
- 60th: 1964 - Sammee Tong, actor (Bachelor Father, Mickey), dies at age 63.
- 40th: 1984 - Washington State's Rueben Mayes sets college football record of 357 yards rushing.
- 25th: 1999 - Gunmen open fire in the Armenian Parliament, killing Prime Minister Vazgen Sarkisian, Parliament Chairman Karen Demirchian, and six other members.
- 25th: 1999 - The New York Yankees complete a four-game sweep of the Atlanta Braves to win their second consecutive World Series of baseball.
- 20th: 2004 - The Boston Red Sox win American baseball's World Series for the first time since 1918, defeating the Saint Louis Cardinals in four games. Curt Schilling becomes the first starting pitcher to win a World Series for three different teams.
- 20th: 2004 - Barry Bonds' 700th home run ball sells for US$804,129 in an online auction.
- 20th: 2004 - Details of the discovery of a new, recent species of fossil hominid, Homo floresiensis, from the island of Flores, Indonesia, are published.
- 5th: 2019 - U.S. President Donald Trump announces that the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was killed in a U.S. special forces operation. It was reported that al-Baghdadi detonated a suicide vest after being chased into a tunnel.
- 5th: 2019 - Presidential election in Argentina won by Alberto Fernández with 48 percent of votes, to incumbent Mauricio Macri with 40 percent.
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