What day of the week was October 27, 1962?

The day of the week October 27th, 1962 fell on was a Saturday.

There were 59 days until Christmas.

Rudolf Anderson the American pilot (b. 1927) died on this day in 1962. As did Enrico Mattei the Italian politician (b. 1906) .

Major Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane is shot down in Cuba by a Soviet-supplied SA-2 Guideline surface-to- air missile. A plane carrying Enrico Mattei the post-war Italian administrator, crashes in mysterious circumstances.