On October 27
On October 27, the Human Saga records one pivotal event: Lula's election and Brazil's commodity-boom rise (2002).
On this day
On 27 October 2002 Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a former metalworker and union leader, won Brazil's presidency with about 61 percent of the runoff vote, and was inaugurated on 1 January 2003 as the country's first working-class president.
Also this week in history (Oct 24 – Oct 30)
On 28 October 312 CE Constantine defeated his rival Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge outside Rome, where Maxentius drowned in the Tiber; the victory left Constantine master of the western empire.
After a speculative boom, the New York Stock Exchange collapsed in late October 1929.
In late October 1922 tens of thousands of Fascist Blackshirts converged on the Italian capital in a coordinated show of force orchestrated by Benito Mussolini and the National Fascist Party.
Following Ottoman defeat in World War I and the Turkish War of Independence, recognition of the Ankara government at the Treaty of Lausanne (24 July 1923) cleared the way for the proclamation of the Republic of Turkey on 29 October 1923…
On 29 October 1969 the first message was transmitted over the ARPANET, an experimental packet-switched computer network funded by the U.S. Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency.
On 26 October 2025, Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) captured El Fasher, the Sudanese army's last stronghold in the Darfur region, after a brutal siege lasting some 18 months.
The generative-AI boom became a dominant force in global markets in the mid-2020s, concentrating trillions of dollars of value in a handful of technology firms.
On 29 October 1945, only months after the end of the war in Europe, Jean-Paul Sartre delivered a public lecture titled "Existentialism Is a Humanism" at the Club Maintenant in Paris.
On 26 October 1958 Pan American World Airways inaugurated transatlantic jet service with the Boeing 707, flying from New York to Paris.