OCTOBER 27
1962:U.S. Air Force pilot Maj. Rudolf Anderson Jr. becomes the only combat fatality of the Cuban missile crisis, when his U-2 reconnaissance plane is shot down by a surface-to-air missile near Banes, Cuba. President John F. Kennedy would posthumously award Anderson the first Air Force Cross.
1904: Mayor George B. McClellan sits at the controls of the inaugural train of New York's underground and underwater subway system, built by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company under chief engineer William Barclay Parsons. The nickel-to-ride subway makes 28 stops between Lower Manhattan and Harlem and is ridden by 150,000 people on its first day of operation.
2004: The Boston Red Sox clinch their first World Series championship since 1918 with a win over the St. Louis Cardinals in Game 4, breaking the "curse of the Bambino" that had seemingly plagued them since the 1919 sale of Babe Ruth to the rival New York Yankees. The Red Sox would win the World Series again in 2007.
1971:Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire.
1925:Water skis patented by Fred Waller
1829:First patent for a baby carriage issued
1810:Spain hands over West Florida to the United States.
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