October 27

1953 – Actor Robert Picardo (The Emergency Medical Hologram) is born.
1961 – NASA launches the first Saturn I rocket in Mission: Saturn-Apollo 1.
1994 – Gliese 229B is the first Substellar Mass Object to be unquestionably identified.
2005 – The SSETI Express micro-satellite, the first spacecraft to be designed and built by European students, is successfully launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome.