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- Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion in 2022 and renamed it X in 2023.
- New York opened its first subway on Oct. 27, 1904, with over 100,000 riders day one.
- NASA launched the first Saturn I test flight on Oct. 27, 1961.
- A U-2 was shot down over Cuba on Oct. 27, 1962, killing Maj. Rudolf Anderson Jr.
- Hurricane Mitch hit Honduras and Belize on Oct. 27, 1998, killing at least 10,000 people.