This day in history

Today is Friday, Oct. 27, the 300th day of 2023. There are 65 days left in the year.

Birthdays: Actor-comedian John Cleese is 84. Author Maxine Hong Kingston is 83. Country singer Lee Greenwood is 81. Garry Tallent, bass player for Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, is 74. Author Fran Lebowitz is 73. Judas Priest guitarist K.K. Downing is 72. TV personality Jayne Kennedy is 72. Actor-director Roberto Benigni is 71. Actor Peter Firth is 70. Golf Hall of Famer Patty Sheehan is 67. “Duran Duran” singer Simon Le Bon is 65. Internet news editor Matt Drudge is 57. Author Anthony Doerr is

50. Actor Sheeri Rappaport is

46. Violinist Vanessa-Mae is 45. Actor-singer Kelly Osbourne is 39. Actor Christine Evangelista is 37.

► In 1787, the first of the Federalist Papers, a series of essays calling for ratification of the US Constitution, was published.

► In 1904, the first rapid transit subway, the IRT, was inaugurated in New York City.

► In 1914, author-poet Dylan Thomas was born in Swansea, Wales.

► In 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, a U-2 reconnaissance aircraft was shot down while flying over Cuba, killing the pilot, Air Force Major Rudolf Anderson Jr.

► In 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.

► In 1986, the Red Sox, after taking a 3-0 lead, lost Game 7 of the World Series against the Mets.

► In 1998, Hurricane Mitch cut through the western Caribbean, pummeling coastal Honduras and Belize; the storm caused several thousand deaths in Central America in the days that followed.

► In 2004, the Boston Red Sox won their first World Series since 1918, sweeping the St. Louis Cardinals in four games.

► In 2017, golfer Tiger Woods pleaded guilty to reckless driving, resolving charges from an arrest in which he was found passed out in his car with prescription drugs and marijuana in his system.

► In 2013, Lou Reed, who radically challenged rock’s founding promise of good times and public celebration as leader of the Velvet Underground and a solo artist, died at age 71.

► In 2018, a gunman shot and killed 11 congregants and wounded six others at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue in the deadliest attack on Jews in US history; authorities said the suspect raged against Jews during and after the rampage. (He was convicted and sentenced to death in 2023.)

► In 2020, Amy Coney Barrett was formally sworn as the Supreme Court’s ninth justice, her oath administered in private by Chief Justice John Roberts.