October 27 is:
Cuba Discovery Day, anniversary of the discovery of Cuba by Columbus in 1492.
Navy Day, anniversary of the establishment of the American Navy in 1775.
National American Beer Day
Foodimentary.com says:
The bittering agent in beer, Hops, is closely related to marijuana.
Brown bottles are designed to keep beer fresh.
The average American consumes nearly 23 gallons of beer annually.
According to broadcasting regulations, American beer commercials are not allowed to show anyone consuming alcohol.
Obama is the first American President to brew his own beer.
The first of the Federalist Papers, a series of essays calling for ratification of the U.S. Constitution, was published in a New York newspaper in 1787. The Federalist Papers refers to a collection of 85 articles and essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay under the collective pseudonym “Publius” to promote the ratification of the United States Constitution.
Federalist #1
Significant Quotes:
It seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force. If there be any truth in the remark, the crisis at which we are arrived may with propriety be regarded as the era in which that decision is to be made; and a wrong election of the part we shall act may, in this view, deserve to be considered as the general misfortune of mankind.
Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people, commencing demagogues and ending tyrants.
In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.
Birthday of Theodore Roosevelt (October 27, 1858), twenty-sixth president of the United States. He became president upon the assassination of William McKinley.
Birthday of Dylan Marlais Thomas (October 27, 1914), Welsh-British poet. Authored “Do not go gentle into that good night”
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
1932 Birthday of Sylvia Plath, American poet best known for her novel ‘The Bell Jar,’ and for her poetry collections ‘The Colossus’ and ‘Ariel.’
2004: The Boston Red Sox ended the “Curse of the Bambino”—an alleged hex on the team that resulted from its 1920 sale of Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees—by defeating the St. Louis Cardinals to win the World Series title, the team’s first in 86 years.