WKOW 27: Madison, WI Breaking News, Weather and SportsThis day in history: October 27
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1692 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is founded.
1838 - Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, which orders all Mormons to leave the state or be exterminated.
1992 - United States Navy radioman Allen R. Schindler, Jr. is brutally murdered by shipmates for being gay, precipitating first military, then national, debate about gays in the military that resulted in the United States "Don't ask, don't tell" military policy.
1994 - The U.S. prison population tops 1 million for the first time in American history.
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