Tuesday, October 27th. Day 300 of 2026
It’s Black Cat Day
1787: The first of the Federalist Papers were published. The series of 85 essays, written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay, were published under the pen name “Publius.”
1904: The New York subway system officially opened. It was the first rapid-transit subway system in America
1938: Du Pont announced “nylon” as the new name for its new synthetic yarn
1962: The Cuban Missile Crisis! By refusing to agree to the firing of a nuclear torpedo at a US warship, Soviet Naval Officer Vasily Arkhipov averts nuclear war https://www.onthisday.com/articles/the-man-who-saved-the-world
1988: Ronald Reagan suspends construction of the new U.S. Embassy in Moscow due to Soviet listening devices in the building
2004: The Boston Red Sox won their first World Series since 1918 when they completed a 4-0 sweep of the St Louis Cardinals
2022: Elon Musk takes ownership and control of Twitter which he re-brands as X
2025: US military sinks four civilian vessels in three strikes of suspected of drug trafficking in the Pacific Ocean, bringing total to fourteen
News:
Weather: The wonderful continues…Chilly start but we’ll reach near 70 under Sunny Skies
Sports:
Happy Birthday: John Cleese, Lee Greenwood, Fran Lebowitz, Jayne Kennedy, Simon Le Bon, Marla Maples, Matt Drudge, Kelly Osbourne, Leon Draisaitl
Word of the Day: [em-buh-liz-uhm] embolism mass, such as an air bubble, detached blood clot, or foreign body, that travels in the bloodstream, lodges in a blood vessel, and obstructs or occludes it, also called embolus, the prayer following the final petitions of the Lord’s Prayer From Greek.
Quote of the Day: “In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. “…Theodore Roosevelt (Born this day in 1858)