October 27

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	312	Constantine the Great is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross.	Yesterday's New Quintet	Visions	Stevie
2.	1275	Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam.	The Outsiders	Amsterdam	Complete Polydor Tapes
3.	1682	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is founded.	The Three Degrees	T.S.O.P. (The Sound of Philadelphia)	When Will I See You Again
4.	1904	The first underground New York City Subway line opens; the system becomes the biggest in United States, and one of the biggest in world.	Brian Reitzel & Roger J. Manning Jr.	On the Subway	Lost In Translation Soundtrack
5.	1964	Ronald Reagan delivers a speech on behalf of Republican candidate for president, Barry Goldwater. The speech launched his political career and came to be known as "A Time for Choosing".	Stalag 13	The Choice is Yours	In Control
6.	1988	Ronald Reagan decides to tear down the new U.S. Embassy in Moscow because of Soviet listening devices in the building structure.	The Microphones	I Listen Close	Island Songs
7.	1992	United States Navy radioman Allen R. Schindler, Jr. is brutally murdered by shipmate Terry M. Helvey for being gay, precipitating first military, then national, debate about gays in the military that resulted in the United States "Don't ask, don't tell" military policy.	The Exciters	Tell Him	Tell Him

(Historical facts about October 27 are from Wikipedia.)