What day of the week was October 27, 1838?

The day of the week October 27th, 1838 fell on was a Saturday.

There were 59 days until Christmas.

John Davis Long the American lawyer and politician, 34th United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 1915) was born on 27 October in 1838.

Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order the which orders all Mormons to leave the state or be exterminated.