October 27 In World History… 1944 – World War II: German forces capture Banská Bystrica during Slovak National Uprising thus bringing it to an end. 1962 – Major Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane is shot down in Cuba by a Soviet-supplied SA-2 Guideline surface-to-air missile. 1971 – The Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire. 1991 – Turkmenistan achieves independence from the Soviet Union. 2005 – Riots begin in Paris after the deaths of two Muslim teenagers. 1920 – K. R. Narayanan, Indian politician, 10th President of India was born. 1974 – C. P. Ramanujam, Indian mathematician Was Died. :) bhrt
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