October 27, 1972 (Friday)
- The Consumer Product Safety Act was signed into law.
- Mariner 9 was switched off after having transmitted 7,329 images since its arrival into orbit (November 13, 1971) over the planet Mars.
- Air Inter Flight 696 crashed while attempting a landing in Loire, France, killing 60 of the 68 people on board.
- Elton John's single "Crocodile Rock" was released, and would become his first No. 1 hit by February.
- Born: Maria de Lurdes Mutola, Mozambican athlete, women's 800 meter world champion, in Maputo and Elissa, Lebanese singer, in Deir el Ahmar
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“The autumnal change of our woods has not yet made a deep impression on our own literature yet. October has hardly tinged our poetry.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)