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October 27
1275. Traditional founding date of the city of Amsterdam.
1682. Philadelphia, PA is founded.
1806. The French Army (Napoleonic) enters Berlin.
1870. 140,000 French soldiers surrender to Prussia following the siege of Metz. Marshall Bazaine, in command, surrenders the entire Army of the Rhine under his command, totalling 180,000 soldiers. He will eventually be made a scapegoat for the defeat of the French by the Prussians, put on trial, sentenced to death, and then granted clemency.
1936. Mrs. Wallis Simpson, who has been involved in a romantic relationship with King Edward VIII of some time, divorces her husband, paving the way for her to marry the king and give rise to a constitutional crisis in Great Britain.
1962. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, a U-2 reconnaissance plane is shot down, its pilot becoming the only casualty of the crisis.
2004. The Boston Red Sox win the World Series for the first time in 86 years.
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