Today in History....October 27

On this day in …

1995, Joe Gringo gets married in Tequila, Jalisco, México, the first of 2 wedding ceremonies. In México, a Catholic wedding has a civil ceremony (basically in front of a judge to make it legal) and then the religous ceremony in the church (which seals the deal). The religous ceremony took place 6 months later in Tequila.

1787, the first of the Federalist Papers, a series of essays calling for ratification of the United States Constitution, was published in a New York newspaper

1795, the United States and Spain signed the Treaty of San Lorenzo (also known as "Pinckney's Treaty"), which provided for free navigation of the Mississippi River

1900, After four years of work, the first section of the New York subway was opened

1901, the first known use of a "getaway car" occurred in Paris when thieves drove off after holding up a shop
1918, in Germany, Kaiser Wilhelm II accepted the resignation of General Erich Ludendorff after the failure of his offensive on the Western Front

1922, the Italian government resigned under increasing pressure from the fascist movement of Benito Mussolini

1938, Du Pont announced a name for its new synthetic yarn: "nylon"

1978, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin were named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize for their progress toward achieving a Middle East accord

1980, the first total Internet crash took place in its earliest days when the U.S Defense Department's prototype Internet -- ARPANET -- caught a virus

1987, a referendum in South Korea approved constitutional reforms, including direct elections to the presidency

1996, a U.S. envoy Dennis Ross shuttled between Jerusalem and the Palestinians' Gaza Strip headquarters, trying to finesse a deal to start an overdue Israeli withdrawal from Judaism's second holiest city, Hebron

2001, in Washington, the search for deadly anthrax widened to thousands of businesses and 30 mail distribution centers

2005, White House counsel Harriet Miers withdrew her nomination to the Supreme Court after three weeks of brutal criticism from fellow GOPers