October 27 – 939 – Æthelstan, the “pillar of the dignity of the western world” in the words of the Annals of Ulster, died at Malmesbury. He was succeeded by his half brother Edmund 1st , then aged 18. Edmund became the 3rd great grand father of St Margaret the wife of Malcolm 3rd , and thus ancestor of all English and Scots royalty there after. Reign of Constantine II, who abdicated 943, and succeeded by Malcolm I (Maol Chaluim mac Dhòmhnaill), then by Indulf.

Malcolm I “the Dangerous Red’.

1327 – Elizabeth de Burgh Writtle, Essex, England died, (born 1289) queen married 1302 Robert I the Good (Roibert a Briuis).

1584 Privy Council orderd to stop all traffic, from Fife, Perth, north of the Forth, take sails off ferry boats few exceptions. A History of Epidemics in Britain from A.D. 664 to the Extinction of Plague Charles Creighton, M.A. M.D. Demonstrator of Anatomy University of Cambridge. 1891 October 27

1644 Second Battle of Newbury.

1814 – Daniel H. Wells, Mormon leader and politician born (d. 1891).

1854 William Alexander Smith born Scottish religious leader, founded the Boys’ Brigade (died 1914).

1871 David Livingstone met Henry Morton Stanley, who had been sent to find him by the New York Herald newspaper in 1869, found Livingstone in the town of Ujiji on the shores of Lake Tanganyika on 27 October 1871, greeting him with the now famous words “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?” to which he responded “Yes, and I feel thankful that I am here to welcome you.”

Henry Morton Stanley meets David Livingstone. The phrase appears in a New York Herald editorial dated 10 August 1872, and the Encyclopædia Britannica and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography both quote it without questioning its veracity. The words are famous because of their tongue-in-cheek humourous nature: Dr. Livingstone was the only white person for hundreds of miles.

1942 Battle of El Alamein 23 October to 5 November. Field Marshal, Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein. Bernard came from the direct line of Scottish Montgomerys who settled in Ireland in 1628. Order of the Garter, Order of the Bath, Distinguished Service Order, and member Privy Council of the United Kingdom. British Army officer, often referred to as “Monty” successfully commanded Allied forces at the Battle of El Alamein, a major battle in World War II, and troops under his command were largely responsible for the expulsion of Axis forces from North east Africa. Field Marshal Montgomery was later a senior commander in Italy and North-West Europe, where he was in command of all Allied ground forces during Operation Overlord and then until after the Battle of Normandy.

Montgomery in a Grant tank in North Africa, November 1942.

1963 Marla Ann Maples born Cohutta, Georgia. She married Donald Trump (clans MacLeod, McSwane, Smith). Maples and Donald Trump have one child together, Tiffany Ariana Trump, who was born on October 13, 1993

 

1997 Trump the Art of the Comeback.

Donald John Trump, Sr. (clans MacQueen, Macaulay, MacLeod, of Aberdeenshire and Outer Hebrides), (born June 14, 1946). His mother was Mary Anne MacLeod, (born May 10, 1912,– died August 7, 2000), who was married in 1936. Mary Anne was born at Tong, Stornoway, on the Isle of Lewis, off the coast of Scotland, United Kingdom.

2013 Clocks go back on Sunday 27 October 2013 marking the end of British Summer Time. Clocks go back an hour to Greenwich time. The first Daylight Saving Bill was brought before the House of Commons more than a century back. During the Second World War the Government moved the clocks forward one hour to help munitions factories maximize productivity and allow people to get home safely before the blackout.

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