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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_27" title="October 27">October 27</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1942" title="1942">1942</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>: The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Japanese_Navy" title="Imperial Japanese Navy">Imperial Japanese Navy</a> achieved a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrrhic_victory" title="Pyrrhic victory">pyrrhic victory</a> against the United States at the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Santa_Cruz_Islands" title="Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands">Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992" title="1992">1992</a> – U.S. Navy <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petty_officer_third_class" title="Petty officer third class">Petty Officer</a> <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Allen_R._Schindler_Jr." title="Murder of Allen R. Schindler Jr.">Allen R. Schindler Jr.</a></b> was killed in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasebo" title="Sasebo">Sasebo</a>, Japan, for being gay, which led to the U.S. Armed Forces' "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_ask,_don%27t_tell" title="Don't ask, don't tell">don't ask, don't tell</a>" policy.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999" title="1999">1999</a> – Armed men led by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nairi_Hunanyan" title="Nairi Hunanyan">Nairi Hunanyan</a> carried out <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_parliament_shooting" title="Armenian parliament shooting">a mass shooting</a></b> at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Assembly_(Armenia)" title="National Assembly (Armenia)">Armenian parliament</a>, killing Prime Minister <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vazgen_Sargsyan" title="Vazgen Sargsyan">Vazgen Sargsyan</a></b>, National Assembly speaker <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Demirchyan" title="Karen Demirchyan">Karen Demirchyan</a>, and six others.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011" title="2011">2011</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_D._Higgins" title="Michael D. Higgins">Michael D. Higgins</a></b> was <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Irish_presidential_election" title="2011 Irish presidential election">elected President of Ireland</a></b> with far more votes than any politician in the country's history.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_B%C3%A1thory" title="Gabriel Báthory">Gabriel Báthory</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1613); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rex_Shelley" title="Rex Shelley">Rex Shelley</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1930); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoya_Phan" title="Zoya Phan">Zoya Phan</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1980)</p>
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