Wikipedia:Main Page history/2016 October 27

The

Craigievar Express

• ... that the Craigievar Express (pictured) is driven by a steam engine previously used in a sawmill?
• ... that 18th-century chemist Claudine Picardet translated scientific articles from Swedish, English, German, and Italian into French?
• ... that while visiting segregated
  Ex Unitate Vires
  on a tablecloth and said, "Not much bloody Unitate about this place!"?
• ... that in 2012, a small
  HK$
  207.86 million (US$26.7 million)?
• ... that the newspaper publisher
  Sir Hildebrand Harmsworth gave money to a charity fund after his chauffeur
  killed a boy while driving Harmsworth's car?
• ... that Arizona's Queen Creek Tunnel is the first in the state to be equipped with LED lighting?
• ... that after declaring independence from the
  Ava Kingdom, Thinkhaya III of Toungoo built his own palace, but left out the royal white umbrella
  ?
• ... that in a Polish study, the silver stretch spider ate an average of 3.7 mosquitoes per day in early June?

Model of the Schiaparelli lander

• At least 70 people are killed and around 600 others injured in a train derailment in Cameroon.
• Numerous media outlets, social networks, and retailers go offline in parts of North America and Europe during a large-scale
  denial-of-service cyberattack
  .
• The
  Schiaparelli lander (model pictured) during its descent to the planet's surface
  .
• Iraqi government forces, allied militias,
  Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
  .

October 27: Tihar/Swanti begin (Nepalese calendar, 2016); Independence Day in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (1979) and Turkmenistan (1991)