On This Day for October 27 - Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin awarded Nobel Peace Prize, Theodore Roosevelt is featured, and more

This message contains graphics. If you do not see the graphics, click here to view. October 27 FEATURED BIOGRAPHY Theodore Roosevelt READ MORE   FEATURED EVENT 1978 Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin awarded Nobel Peace Prize READ MORE   Advertisement Advertisement   MORE EVENTS ON THIS DAY 2017: Catalonia's parliament voted to declare the region independent from Spain, resulting in the central government's dismissing that legislative body and calling for new elections, in which the majority of seats were claimed by the pro-independence movement. [ Take our quiz about Europe.] 2014: American singer Taylor Swift released 1989, which she described as her first "official pop album"; it was a blockbuster hit and won the Grammy Award for album of the year. [How much do you know about Taylor Swift?] 2004: The Boston Red Sox ended the "Curse of the Bambino"—an alleged hex on the team that resulted from its 1920 sale of Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees—by defeating the St. Louis Cardinals to win the World Series title, the team's first in 86 years. [Test your knowledge of baseball.] 2000: At a concert near Tel Aviv, the music of German composer Richard Wagner, which many associate with the Nazi regime, was played for the first time in public in Israel. [Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about music composers.] 1979: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, an island country lying within the Lesser Antilles in the eastern Caribbean Sea, achieved its independence. [Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about islands.] 1968: Physicist Lise Meitner, whose research (along with that of Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann) led to the discovery of nuclear fission, died in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England. [Take our physics quiz.] SEE ALL EVENTS ON THIS DAY ALSO BORN ON THIS DAY 1858 Theodore Roosevelt president of United States 1728 James Cook British naval officer 1939 John Cleese British actor 1940 John Gotti American organized-crime boss 1932 Sylvia Plath American author 1923 Roy Lichtenstein American painter SEE ALL BIOS ON THIS DAY   Advertisement   FOLLOW: To unsubscribe from Britannica e-mails, click here. Encyclopædia Britannica 325 N. LaSalle Street, Suite 200 Chicago, Illinois 60654 United States © 2020 Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. Privacy Policy • Help