Daily Calendar for Tuesday, October 27, 2026

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James M. Cain (novelist) – 1977
Rod Roddy (the flamboyantly dressed announcer on The Price is Right whose booming voice invited audience members to Come on down!” for nearly 20 years”) – 2003
Betsy Drake (actress) – 2015

Massachusetts Bay Colony, having outlawed Quakers, hung two who defiantly returned to the colony. They were the first Quakers to be hanged in America. – 1659
Harvard expedition observed solar eclipse in British-occupied Penobscot Bay, Maine – 1780
The Treaty of San Lorenzo was signed between the United States and Spain, giving the United States the right to navigate the Mississippi River – 1795
Macy’s Department store opened in N.Y.C. – 1858
U.S. president-to-be Theodore Roosevelt married Alice Hathaway Lee – 1880
At 16, Jascha Heifetz made his American debut at Carnegie Hall – 1917
Dupont announced the invention of nylon – 1938
32-pound bull trout caught in Lake Pend Oreille, Idaho – 1949
Saturn I first launched – 1961
Last performance of opera singer Beverly Sills – 1980
The Boston Red Sox won the World Series for the first time in 86 years, beating the St. Louis Cardinals 3-0 in a four-game sweep – 2004
16-foot Burmese python caught in the Florida Everglades – 2011