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Today in History: Saturday, October 27, 2012
On Oct. 27, 1858, Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States, was born in New York City.
1787 The first of the Federalist Papers, a series of essays calling for ratification of the U.S. Constitution, was published in a New York newspaper.
1880 Theodore Roosevelt married Alice Lee.
1904 The first rapid transit subway opened, in New York City.
1914 Author-poet Dylan Thomas was born in Swansea, Wales.
1947 "You Bet Your Life," starring Groucho Marx, premiered on ABC Radio.
1978 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin won the Nobel Peace Prize.
1997 The Dow Jones industrial average tumbled 554.26 points, forcing the stock market to shut down for the first time since the 1981 assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan.
2002 Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was elected president of Brazil in a runoff, becoming the country's first elected leftist leader.
2004 The Boston Red Sox won their first World Series since 1918, beating the St. Louis Cardinals 3-0 in Game 4.
2005 White House counsel Harriet Miers withdrew her nomination to the Supreme Court after three weeks of criticism from fellow conservatives.
2005 Surgeons in France performed the world's first partial face transplant on a woman who was mauled by a dog.
2008 Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, was convicted of seven corruption charges for lying about free home renovations and other gifts from a wealthy oil contractor. (A judge later dismissed the case, saying prosecutors had withheld evidence.)
