Daily Calendar for Monday, October 27, 2025
Question of the Day
How can I remove mildew stains from clothing and towels?
Moisten the affected area with a mixture of lemon juice and salt, then dry it in the sun. If this does not work, try sponging it with hydrogen peroxide and then drying it in the sun.
Advice of the Day
The more red berries seen in the hedgerows, the more frost and snow in the coming winter.
Home Hint of the Day
To remove ugly stains on clothing from car batteries, make a paste of dry starch and cold water, apply the paste to the stain, and let the fabric sit for a while. Then rinse with water.
Word of the Day
Celestial sphere
An imaginary sphere projected into space that represents the entire sky, with an observer on Earth at its center. All celestial bodies other than Earth are imagined as being on its inside surface.
Puzzle of the Day
Why is there a difference of only two letters of the alphabet between an accepted and a rejected love?
One kisses his miss, and the other misses his kiss.
Born
- James Cook (naval captain & explorer) –
- Niccolo Paganini (composer, violinist) –
- Isaac Singer (inventor) –
- Kenyon Cox (painter) –
- Theodore Roosevelt (26th U.S. president) –
- Stamen Gigov Grigorov (Bulgarian physician, microbiologist) –
- Enid Bagnold (author) –
- Leif Erickson (actor) –
- Dylan Thomas (poet) –
- Nanette Fabray (actress) –
- Sylvia Plath (poet) –
- John Cleese (actor) –
- Maxine Hong Kingston (author) –
- Fran Lebowitz (writer) –
- Simon Le Bon (musician) –
Died
- James M. Cain (novelist) –
- Rod Roddy (the flamboyantly dressed announcer on The Price is Right whose booming voice invited audience members to Come on down!” for nearly 20 years”) –
- Betsy Drake (actress) –
Events
- Massachusetts Bay Colony, having outlawed Quakers, hung two who defiantly returned to the colony. They were the first Quakers to be hanged in America. –
- Harvard expedition observed solar eclipse in British-occupied Penobscot Bay, Maine –
- The Treaty of San Lorenzo was signed between the United States and Spain, giving the United States the right to navigate the Mississippi River –
- Macy’s Department store opened in N.Y.C. –
- U.S. president-to-be Theodore Roosevelt married Alice Hathaway Lee –
- At 16, Jascha Heifetz made his American debut at Carnegie Hall –
- Dupont announced the invention of nylon –
- 32-pound bull trout caught in Lake Pend Oreille, Idaho –
- Saturn I first launched –
- Last performance of opera singer Beverly Sills –
- The Boston Red Sox won the World Series for the first time in 86 years, beating the St. Louis Cardinals 3-0 in a four-game sweep –
- 16-foot Burmese python caught in the Florida Everglades –
Weather
- A storm deposited snow and sleet on Mississippi –
- Eighty-three degrees F in Boston, Massachusetts –
- -3 degrees Fahrenheit in Jump River, Wisconsin –
