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October 27, 2008 (Monday)

Time Zone: America/New_York (GMT-05:00)

• Day numbers: 301

• Week number: 44

• Leap year: 2008 is a leap year.

• Daylight Saving Time: Yes

Sunrise, Sunset Times for October 27, 2008 (Monday)

• Sunrise time: 07:56 am

• Sunset time: 06:38 pm

• Day length: 10h 42m

• Source: suntoday.org

Moon Phase for October 27, 2008 (Monday)

• Moon Phase: Waning Crescent

• Illumination: 1%

• Moon Age: 28.59 day(s)

• Source: mooninfo.org

October 27, 2008 Holidays and National Days

October 27 in History

1997
Stock markets crash around the world over fears of a global economic meltdown.
1988
US President Ronald Reagan decides to tear down a new US Embassy in Moscow because Soviet listening devices were built into the structure.
1986
The London Stock Exchange rules change as Britain suddenly deregulates financial markets, an event called the Big Bang.
1971
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire.
1964
The political career of future US president Ronald Reagan is launched when he delivers a speech on behalf of Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater.
1962
An American U-2 reconnaissance plane is shot down by a surface-to-air missile over Cuba, killing the pilot, Maj. Rudolf Anderson, the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
1962
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev offers to remove Soviet missile bases in Cuba if the U.S. removes its missile bases in Turkey.
1954
Benjamin O. Davis Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the US Air Force.
1941
In a broadcast to the nation on Navy Day, President Franklin Roosevelt declares: “America has been attacked, the shooting has started.” He does not ask for full-scale war yet, realizing that many Americans are not yet ready for such a step.
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