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Everything about 1927 totally explainedYear 1920 ( MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.
Events of 1927
January
February
February 12 - First British troops land in Shanghai.
February 14 - Earthquake in Yugoslavia - 700 dead.
February 19 - General strike in Shanghai in protest of the presence of the British troops.
February 23 - The U.S. Federal Radio Commission (later renamed the Federal Communications Commission) begins to regulate the use of radio frequencies.
March
March 4 - A diamond rush in South Africa includes trained athletes that have been hired by major companies to stake claims.
March 10 - Albania mobilizes in case of an attack of Yugoslavia.
March 11
March 13 - Fritz Lang's culturally influential Metropolis (film) debuts.
April
April 1 - First female police officers in Dresden.
April 5 - In Britain, Trade Disputes Act forbids strikes of support.
April 7 - Bell Telephone Co. transmits an image of Commerce Secretary Hoover which becomes the first successful long distance demonstration of television.
April 12
April 18 - Nanking government of China, Kuomintang.
April 21 - Banking crisis in Japan.
April 22 - May 5 - The Great Mississippi Flood affects 700,000 people in the greatest national disaster in US history.
May
May - Philo Farnsworth transmits first experimental electronic television pictures.
May 7 - Civil war ends in Nicaragua.
May 9 - The Australian Parliament first convenes in Canberra.
May 11 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the "Academy" in "Academy Awards," is founded.
May 12 - British police raids the office of Soviet trade delegation.
May 13 - George V proclaims the change of his title from King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to King of Great Britain and Ireland.
May 14 - Cap Arcona's launching, Blohm & Voss shipyard, in Hamburg. In the U.S., University of Chicago's local collegiate organization, Phi Sigma, becomes incorporated under the laws of the State of Illinois as Eta Sigma Phi, the National Honorary Classical Fraternity.
May 17 - Army aviation pioneer, Major Harold Geiger, died in the crash of his Airco DH.4 de Havilland plane at Olmstead Field, Pennsylvania
May 18 - Bombings result in 45 deaths, mostly children, in the Bath School disaster in Bath Township, Michigan.
May 20 - Saudi Arabia becomes independent of the United Kingdom (Treaty of Jedda).
May 20-21 - First solo non-stop Trans-Atlantic flight from New York to Paris by Charles Lindbergh.
May 22 - An 8.6 magnitude earthquake in Xining, China kills 200,000.
May 23 - The first demonstration of television before a live audience. Nearly 600 members of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and the Institute of Radio Engineers view the demonstration at the Bell Telephone Building in New York.
May 24 - Britain severs diplomatic relations with Soviet Union because of revelations of espionage and underground agitation.
June
June 4 - Yugoslavia severs diplomatic relations with Albania.
June 7 - Peter Voikov, Soviet ambassador to Warsaw, assassinated.
June 9 - Soviet Union executes 20 British for alleged espionage.
June 13
July
July 10 - Kevin O'Higgins, vice president of the Irish Free State, assassinated in Dublin.
July 15 - 85 protesters and 5 policemen are dead after left-wing protesters and the Austrian police clash in Vienna. More than 600 people are injured. See Massacre of July 15, 1927.
July 22 - Italian football club A.S. Roma founded.
July 24 - The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres.
August
August 1 - Formation of the Communist Chinese People's Liberation Army during the Nanchang Uprising.
August 7 - Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.
August 22 - In Hyde Park, London, 200 people demonstrate against the sentence of Sacco and Vanzetti.
August 23 - Sacco and Vanzetti are executed.
August 24-25 - Hurricane hits Atlantic shore of Canada causing massive damage - at least 56 dead.
August 26-Paul R. Redfern leaves Brunswick, Ga flying his Stinson Detroiter "Port of Brunswick" to attempt a solo non-stop flight to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He later crashes in the Venezuela jungle, the crash site never located.
September
September 7 - The University of Minas Gerais is founded in Brazil.
September 14 - An underwater earthquake in Japan kills over 100 people.
September 18 - The Columbia Phonographic Broadcasting System (later known as CBS) is formed and goes on air with 47 radio stations.
September 27 - 79 are killed and 550 are injured in East St. Louis Tornado. 2nd costliest and at least 24th deadliest tornado in U.S. history.
October
October 6 - The Jazz Singer opens and becomes a huge success, marking the end of the silent film era.
October 8 - Murderer's Row New York Yankees complete 4 game sweep of Pittsburgh Pirates.
October 9 - Mexican government crushes a rebellion in Vera Cruz.
October 27 - Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands opens Meuse-Waal Canal in Nijmegen.
October 27 - At 5:50 a.m. a ground fault gave way, causing the mine and part of the town of Worthington to collapse into a large chasm located in Ontario, Canada. Nobody was injured in the incident, however, the area was evacuated the night before after a mine foreman noticed abnormal rock shifts in the mine.
October 28 - Pan American Airways first flight took off from Key West to Havana.
November
November 4 - Frank Heath and his horse Gypsy Queen return to Washington, D.C., having completed a two-year journey of 11,356 miles to all 48 states.
November 10 - Unexplained explosions in Canton, Ohio.
November 12
November 14 - The Pittsburgh Gasometer Explosion: three Equitable Gas storage tanks in the North Side of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania explode, killing 26 people and causing damage estimated between contemporary totals of $4 million and $5 million.
November 24 - Total solar eclipse over Northern England and Wales.
December
December 2 - Following 19 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Model A as its new automobile.
December 12 - 1600 people hospitalized in London when they'd hurt themselves on the icy streets.
December 15 - Marian Parker, 12, is kidnapped in Los Angeles. Her dismembered body is found on December 19 prompting the largest manhunt to date on the West Coast for her killer, William Edward Hickman, who is arrested on December 22 in Oregon.
December 17 - U.S. submarine S-4 is accidentally rammed and sunk by United States Coast Guard destroyer John Paulding off Provincetown, Massachusetts killing everyone aboard after several unsuccessful attempts to raise sub.
December 27 - Kern and Hammerstein's musical play Show Boat, based on Edna Ferber's novel, opens on Broadway and goes on to become the first great classic of the American musical theatre.
December 30 - First Japanese metro line, the Ginza Line in Tokyo, opens.
Undated
The British Broadcasting Corporation is granted a Royal Charter of Incorporation.
The Columbia Phonographic Broadcasting System (later known as CBS) is formed.
Harold Stephen Black invents the feedback amplifier.
Voluntary Committee of Lawyers founded to bring about repeal of prohibition of alcohol in United States.
World population reaches 2 billion.
In Britain, 1000 people a week die from influenza epidemic.
Births
January-February
January 1
January 5 - Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, American-born Hindu guru who spearheaded a global Hindu renaissance and founder of Kauai's Hindu Monastery (d. 2001)
January 10
January 13
January 17 - Eartha Kitt, American actress and singer
January 24 - Lasse Pöysti, Finnish writer and playwright
January 25 - Antonio Carlos Jobim, Brazilian composer (d. 1994)
January 26 - José Azcona del Hoyo, President of Honduras (d. 2005)
January 28 - Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japanese director
January 29
January 30 - Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1986)
February 2 - Stan Getz, American musician (d. 1991)
February 3
February 7
February 10 - Leontyne Price, American soprano
February 14 - Lois Maxwell, British actress (d. 2007)
February 15 - Harvey Korman, American actor and comedian
February 16 - June Brown, British actress
February 20
February 21
February 23 - Régine Crespin, French operatic soprano (d. 2007)
February 24 - Mark Lane, American conspiracy theorist
February 26 - Tom Kennedy, American game show host
February 27 - Lynn Cartwright, American actress (d. 2004)
March-April
March 1
March 3 - Pierre Aubert, member of the Swiss Federal Council
March 4
March 6
March 11 - Ron Todd, British trade union leader (d. 2005)
March 13
March 16
March 18 - George Plimpton, American writer and actor (d. 2003)
March 20 - John Joubert, South African-born British composer
March 21 - Hans-Dietrich Genscher, German politician
March 24 - Martin Walser, German author
March 25 - Bill Barilko, Canadian hockey player
March 27 - Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor (d. 2007)
March 29 - John Robert Vane, British pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
March 30 - Peter Marshall, American game-show host
March 31
April 2
April 6 - Gerry Mulligan, American musician (d. 1996)
April 10 - Marshall Warren Nirenberg, American scientist, Nobel Prize laureate
April 15 - Robert Mills, American physicist (d. 1999)
April 16
April 20
April 24 - Alan MacDiarmid, New Zealand chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
April 27 - Coretta Scott King, American civil rights leader (d. 2006)
May-June
May 9 - Manfred Eigen, German biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
May 11
- Mort Sahl, Canadian-born comedian, political commentator
- Gene Savoy, American author, explorer, scholar and cleric (d. 2007)
May 13 - Herbert Ross, American film director
May 20 - Bud Grant, Canadian and American football coach
May 22 - George Andrew Olah, Hungarian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
May 25 - Robert Ludlum, American author (d. 2001)
May 27 - Ralph Carmichael, American composer and arranger
May 30 - Clint Walker, American actor
June 3 - Boots Randolph, American saxophone player (d .2007)
June 8 - Jerry Stiller, American comedian and actor
June 12 - Al Fairweather, Scottish jazz musician (d. 1993)
June 21 - Carl Stokes, American politician (d. 1996)
June 23 - Bob Fosse, American choreographer and director (d. 1987)
June 24 - Martin Lewis Perl, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
June 27 - Bob Keeshan, American actor (d. 2004)
June 28 - Frank Sherwood Rowland, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
July-August
July 4
July 6
July 10 - David Norman Dinkins, Mayor of New York City from 1989 through 1993
July 18 - Kurt Masur, Silesian-born conductor
July 30 - Victor Wong, American actor (d. 2001)
August 4 - Jess Thomas, American tenor (d. 1993)
August 7 - Carl Switzer, American actor (d. 1959)
August 8 - Johnny Temple, baseball player (d. 1994)
August 12 - Porter Wagoner, American singer (d. 2007)
August 18 - Rosalynn Carter, wife of U.S President Jimmy Carter
August 23 - Dick Bruna, Dutch illustrator
August 24 - Harry Markowitz, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
August 25 - Albert Uderzo, French cartoonist
August 26 - Althea Gibson, American tennis player (d. 2003)
September-October
September 11
September 16 - Peter Falk, American actor
September 22 - Gordon Astall, English footballer
September 25 - Sir Colin Davis, English conductor
September 27
October 1 - Tom Bosley, American actor
October 8 - César Milstein, Argentine scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2002)
October 14 - Roger Moore, English actor
October 16 - Günter Grass, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate
October 18 - George C. Scott, American actor (d. 1999)
October 31 - Lee Grant, American actress
November-December
November 2 - Steve Ditko, influential comic book writer and artist, co-creator of Spider-Man
November 8 - Patti Page, American singer
November 10 - Sabah (singer), Lebanese singer and actress
November 14 - McLean Stevenson. American actor (d. 1996)
November 15 - Gregor Mackenzie, Labour Party (UK) politician (d. 1992)
November 18 - Hank Ballard, American musician (d. 2003)
November 21 - Georgia Frontiere, co-owner of the St. Louis Rams (d. 2008)
November 23 - Guy Davenport, American author, artist, and scholar (d. 2005)
November 24
November 27 - Vin Scully, baseball broadcaster
November 28 - Chuck Mitchell, American actor (d. 1992)
December 3 - Andy Williams, American singer
December 5
December 7 - Helen Watts, Welsh contralto
December 8 - Vladimir Shatalov, cosmonaut
December 9 - Pierre Henry, French composer
December 12 - Robert Noyce, Intel cofounder (d. 1990)
December 13 - James Wright, American poet (d. 1980)
December 18 - Roméo LeBlanc, 25th Governor General of Canada
December 24 - Mary Higgins Clark, famous American novelist
December 25 - Nellie Fox, baseball player (d. 1975)
December 26
December 29 - Andy Stanfield, American athlete (d. 1985)
Deaths
January - June
January 19 - Empress Carlota of Mexico (b. 1840)
February 19 - Robert Fuchs, Austrian composer (b. 1847)
March 4 - Ira Remsen, American chemist, discoverer of saccharin (b. 1846)
March 14 - Jānis Čakste, Latvian politician, first president of Latvian Republic (b. 1859)
March 23 - Paul César Helleu, French artist (b. 1859)
March 27 - Joe Start, baseball player (b. 1842)
May 2 - Ernest Starling, British physiologist (b. 1866)
June 1
June 9 - Victoria Woodhull, American feminist (b. 1838)
June 11 - William Attewell, English cricketer (b. 1861)
June 14 - Jerome K. Jerome, English writer (b. 1859)
July - December
July 5 - Albrecht Kossel, German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1853)
July 24 - Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Japanese poet and writer (b. 1892)
August 23
September 5 - Wayne Wheeler, American temperance movement leader (b. 1868)
September 14
September 19 - Michael Peter Ancher, Danish painter (b. 1849)
September 29 - Willem Einthoven, Dutch inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1860)
October 2 - Svante Arrhenius, Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
October 10 - Gustave Whitehead, German-born aviation pioneer (b. 1874)
October 22 - Borisav "Bora" Stanković, Serbian writer (b. 1876)
Nobel prizes
Physics - Arthur Holly Compton, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
Chemistry - Heinrich Otto Wieland
Physiology or Medicine - Julius Wagner-Jauregg
Literature - Henri Bergson
Peace - Ferdinand Buisson, Ludwig QuiddeFurther Information
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