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Positive things that happened on October 27, with 2 verified milestones. Each milestone links to the source it was checked against.
Scientific firsts, civil-rights wins, conservation, medicine, kindness, and other good news. Checked against the linked source.
1787
The first of the Federalist essays appeared in a New York newspaper on October 27, 1787. Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, writing as Publius, asked New Yorkers to support the new Constitution.
For a read-aloud. Writers published an essay asking people to support the new Constitution.
1904
On October 27, 1904, New York City opened its first subway. The inaugural train left City Hall just after 2:30 in the afternoon, and by evening the trains had carried more than 110,000 people.
For a read-aloud. New York opened a subway, and more than 110,000 people rode it that evening.
Two questions a teacher can use as a warm-up. This page is for an adult to read with a class.
30 stories published on October 27 in any year.
CommunityWonderfully Made at Peachtree Church bakes about 20,000 cookies a year with adults with intellectual disabilities, including Troy Millikan, known as T-Dog.
Verified · CBS News Atlanta
HeroesOfficer Alex Neel heard the dispatch, joined bystanders who were already doing CPR at a restaurant, and delivered shocks with a defibrillator. The woman regained consciousness at the scene.
Verified · WBIW
HeroesThe boys climbed steep rock south of the lookout and could not get down. A Washoe County helicopter crew lifted them to deputies waiting below. They were tired and cold, and in good condition.
Verified · The Mountain Messenger
HeroesSemper Fi Homestead, started by disabled Marine veteran and nurse Scott Rehm and Jeanalin Rehm, runs a free eight-week Veteran Homestead Boot Camp. Ten veterans are enrolled.
Verified · 8 News Now (KLAS) via Yahoo News
Health & TechIn the 338-patient Krascendo 1 trial, divarasib cut the risk of death by 44 percent versus currently approved KRAS G12C drugs. Median survival was 17.7 months, compared with 12.0, with fewer severe side effects.
Verified · MD Anderson Cancer Center
AnimalsGood News Network reported that the Agua Dulce municipal reserve covers about 715,000 acres on the Bolivia-Brazil river border, including jaguars, giant otters, and river dolphins.
Verified · Good News Network
CommunityCARE Clinic's Fresh Food Farmacy, also called VeggieRx, sends patients home with free produce each week. People with diabetes who used it lowered their A1C in an analysis with Mayo Clinic Health System doctors.
Verified · MPR News
AnimalsLily Herniman, 18, volunteers three days a week at a north Devon otter sanctuary and was named Countryfile Young Countryside Champion.
Verified · BBC
CommunityCasa Della Luce's fifth annual event at Mill Pond Plaza drew hundreds and collected canned food. Last year the same night gathered more than 2,000 pounds for a local shelter.
Verified · NBC 10 WJAR
HeroesA broken water main flooded Gregg Way before dawn. The driver climbed onto the stuck truck, and Cheyenne Fire Rescue brought him down with an aerial ladder. No one was hurt.
Verified · Cap City News
ScienceNSF-backed researchers at Colorado State, working with NVIDIA, built models that look for hail sooner: about two to three hours with Hail-StormScope, and one to eight days with CSU-MLP.
Verified · Colorado State University
AnimalsDozens of dogs joined the fourth annual Halloween Pet Costume Parade. Neighbors have also been lining up to walk Cyrus, an adoptable rescue dog.
Verified · Billy Penn
CommunityThe shelving fills a donated shipping container that holds gear for 15 sports in Carteret County and saves the program about $1,500 a year.
Verified · WCTI 12
AnimalsThe West Alabama nonprofit opened donated Virginia Stables at Eagles Pointe, with horses Louie and Dixie, for the 40 adults it serves. Trainers will work with the horses before riding begins.
Verified · WBRC
CommunityOn International School Library Day, the town inaugurated rebuilt libraries at EB de Esposende and EB do Barral in Palmeira de Faro.
Verified · O Diário de Portugal
CommunityLotus Care Transit, from the Council on Aging, CareSouth, and CATS, launched Monday. It picks up homebound or disabled residents 60 and older and takes them to the clinic.
Verified · WBRZ
AnimalsPort KC's first Goats and Ghouls let visitors meet the Goats Gone Green herd, which is clearing about two acres of invasive brush along the Riverfront Heritage Trail without chemicals. Wildflowers for pollinators come next.
Verified · Axios Kansas City
CommunityAt the Otepia talking-book library, students who are visually impaired showed braille research books, and paper makers and artists followed.
Verified · The Japan Times
HeroesCook, who performs as Dancing with the Scars, won four ballroom medals at the Transplant Games of America in Denver: one gold, two silver, and one bronze. He received new lungs in January 2025.
Verified · KOAM
HeroesThe Baker City retiree walked from the Mexican border to the Canadian border in about seven months and reached the northern monument on Oct. 12.
Verified · Baker City Herald
CommunityThe Atrius Health Equity Foundation and Undue Medical Debt are mailing letters this week. Together they have cleared more than $293 million since 2024.
Verified · WBUR
CommunityAt awards in Rotorua, a Whanganui orchard job that was extended four times sat beside a Hawke's Bay champion and a young security worker from Greymouth.
Verified · Scoop
CommunityVolunteer Valerie Atkinson is in her ninth year knitting Halloween costumes for babies at Henry Ford Hospital, with help from Knit-Picky & Hooked and the Monroe Center for Healthy Aging. Families keep them.
Verified · WILX
AnimalsThe Brooks sanctuary cares for more than 650 animals on more than 1,000 acres across five facilities. It has taken in more than 2,000 since 2001, and gifts are matched up to $15,000.
Verified · WABI
CommunityRed Cloud Renewable Energy Center has trained about 1,100 people. About 80 percent of graduates work in solar, and the center won a national Power for All award.
Verified · KOTA / South Dakota News Watch
HeroesMore than 40 responders, including State Law Enforcement Division bloodhounds and the Department of Natural Resources, found Opel Hawkins safe Monday evening after an hours-long search in Fairfield County.
Verified · WIS
AnimalsThe Korea Herald reported that the cub, born June 3 and now past 9 kilograms, starts public visits at Everland's Panda World on October 30.
Verified · The Korea Herald
CommunityThe University of Reunion said anyone may take seeds, grow them, and bring a new batch back, from a cabinet built with recycled materials.
Verified · University of Reunion
HeroesVeterans 65 and older from Greater Cincinnati, Northern Kentucky, and southeastern Indiana flew from Hebron on October 27. The free day included the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, and a welcome was planned for that night.
Verified · WKRC
AnimalsButterfly Conservation counted the sightings two years after moving adults into the Northamptonshire wood. The charity says a dry July may still test the next brood.
Verified · Butterfly Conservation