Once Upon A Time – October 27 – 1938 – Dupont Announces Its New Synthetic Polyamide Fiber Will Be Called “Nylon”

1795 Pinckney’s Treaty [Treaty of San Lorenzo] signed by Spain and US, establishing the southern boundary of the US and giving Americans right to navigate the Mississippi River

1962 Black Saturday during the Cuban Missile Crisis: An American spy plane is shot down over Cuba and the navy drops warning depth charges on Soviet submarines

1982 China announces its population has reached 1 billion plus people

1986 British government deregulates financial markets in a “Big Bang”, enhancing London’s status as a financial capital while increasing income inequality

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OCT 27 IN FILM & TV

1955 “Rebel Without a Cause”, directed by Nicholas Ray, starring James Dean and Natalie Wood, is released

OCT 27 IN MUSIC

1960 American pop and soul singer Ben E. King records “Spanish Harlem” & “Stand By Me”

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1938 DuPont announces its new synthetic polyamide fiber will be called “nylon”

1904 First section of New York subway – Lower Manhattan to Broadway Harlem, opened by Interborough Rapid Transit (IRT), fare one nickel

FAMOUS WEDDINGS

1880 Theodore Roosevelt, later 26th US President marries Alice Hathaway Lee, on his 22nd birthday

1910 Baseball legend Connie Mack (47) weds Katherine Holahan

1964 American singers Sonny Bono (29) & Cher (18) wed, Cher wore bell-bottoms