MAPS OF HISTORY · ON THIS DAY · October 27
THE DAY IN HISTORY · OCTOBER 27
October 27 in history
1917 — The Second Congress
25–27 Oct 1917 — As the Bolsheviks present the coup as an accomplished fact, the Mensheviks and Right SRs walk out in protest — leaving the hall, and the revolution, to Lenin. Trotsky consigns them to “the dustbin of history.”
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1962 — Submarine B-59
27 Oct 1962 — Depth-charged, overheated and out of contact, a Soviet submarine’s captain orders its nuclear torpedo readied. Flotilla commander Vasili Arkhipov, aboard by chance, refuses his consent. Remember how close.
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