01 Jan 1927
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Communist uprising in West Java
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01 Jan 1927
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Dodgers announce release of future Hall of Fame Zack Wheat
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01 Jan 1927
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Turkey adopts the Gregorian calendar: December 18, 1926 (Julian), is immediately followed by January 1, 1927 (Gregorian). |
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01 Jan 1927
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The Cristero War begins in Mexico. |
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02 Jan 1927
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Angered by the anti-clerical provisions of the Mexican Constitution of 1917, Catholic rebels in Mexico rebelled against the government. |
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05 Jan 1927
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Fox Studios exhibits Movietone
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05 Jan 1927
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Judge Landis begins 3-day public hearing on charges that 4 games played between Chicago and Detroit in 1917 had been thrown to White Sox
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06 Jan 1927
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US marines sent to Nicaragua
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07 Jan 1927
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Coml transatlantic telephone service inaugurated between New York and London
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07 Jan 1927
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Harlem Globetrotters play 1st game (Hinckley, Ill)
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07 Jan 1927
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The first transatlantic telephone service is established from New York, New York to London, United Kingdom. |
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09 Jan 1927
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Fire in Laurier Palace cinema in Montreal, 78 children died
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09 Jan 1927
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A fire at the Laurier Palace movie theatre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, kills 78 children. |
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10 Jan 1927
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Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany. |
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10 Jan 1927
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Fritz Lang's Metropolis premieres
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11 Jan 1927
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Louis B. Mayer, head of film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), announces the creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, at a banquet in Los Angeles, California. |
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11 Jan 1927
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Royale Theater (Golden, CBS Radio Playhouse) opens at 242 W 45th New York City NY
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13 Jan 1927
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US & Mexico battle over oil interests
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14 Jan 1927
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Toronto Maple Leafs 1st hat trick (Hap Day) vs New York Rangers
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19 Jan 1927
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British government decides to send troops to China
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21 Jan 1927
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1st national opera broadcast from a US opera house (Faust, Chicago)
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22 Jan 1927
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Teddy Wakelam gives the first live radio commentary of a football match anywhere in the world, between Arsenal F.C. and Sheffield United at Highbury. |
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26 Jan 1927
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Maxwell Anderson's "Saturday's Children" premieres in New York City NY
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27 Jan 1927
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Ibn Saud takes the title of King of Nejd. |
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27 Jan 1927
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Harlem Globetrotters play their 1st game
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28 Jan 1927
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Serbian-Croatian-Slavic government of Oezonowitsj falls
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29 Jan 1927
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4th German government of Marx forms
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30 Jan 1927
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Left wins national election in Th
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31 Jan 1927
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International allies military command in Germany disbands
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31 Jan 1927
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National League President John Heydler rules Roger Hornsby can't hold stock in the Cardinals & play for the Giants
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03 Feb 1927
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Uprising against regime of general Carmona in Portugal
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04 Feb 1927
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KGA-AM in Spokane WA begins radio transmissions
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08 Feb 1927
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Belgian-Swiss treaty signed
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10 Feb 1927
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President Coolidge asks for 2nd disarmament conference
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11 Feb 1927
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US female Figure Skating championship won by Beatrix Loughran
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11 Feb 1927
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US male Figure Skating championship won by Nathaniel Niles
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12 Feb 1927
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British expeditionary army lands in Shanghai
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13 Feb 1927
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Uprising against Portuguese regime of General Carmona defeated
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16 Feb 1927
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No
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16 Feb 1927
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US restores diplomatic relations with Turkey
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18 Feb 1927
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1st US radio broadcast of "Cities Service Concerts"
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18 Feb 1927
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US & Canada begin diplomatic relations
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19 Feb 1927
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General strike against British occupiers in Shanghai
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20 Feb 1927
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Golfers in South Carolina arrested for violating Sabbath
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21 Feb 1927
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Franz Lehr's opera "Zarewitsch" premieres
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22 Feb 1927
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ARC soccer team forms in Alphen on the Rhine
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22 Feb 1927
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Baruch Spinosa's house of mourning opened as a museum
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23 Feb 1927
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German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg writes a letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, in which he describes his uncertainty principle for the first time. |
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23 Feb 1927
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U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs a bill by Congress establishing the Federal Radio Commission (later replaced by the Federal Communications Commission) which was to regulate the use of radio frequencies in the United States. |
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23 Feb 1927
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President Coolidge creates Federal Radio Commission (FCC predecessor)
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24 Feb 1927
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John Golden Theater (Theatre Masque) opens at 252 W 45th St, New York City
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25 Feb 1927
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Gdansk & Polish accord concerning traffic through Polish corridor
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27 Feb 1927
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For 2nd Sunday in a row golfers in South Carolina arrested for violating Sabbath
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01 Mar 1927
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Bank of Italy becomes a National Bank
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02 Mar 1927
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Babe Ruth becomes highest paid baseball player ($70,000 per year)
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05 Mar 1927
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1,000 US marines land in China to protect American property
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07 Mar 1927
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Earthquake measuring 8 on Richter scale strikes Tango, Japan
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08 Mar 1927
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Pan American Airlines incorporates
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10 Mar 1927
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Albania mobilize by threat of Serbian, Croatian & Slovenes
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10 Mar 1927
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Bavaria lifts ban on Hitler's speeches
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11 Mar 1927
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In New York City, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens the Roxy Theatre. |
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11 Mar 1927
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1st armored commercial car hold-up in US, Pittsburgh
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11 Mar 1927
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1st golden gloves tournament
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11 Mar 1927
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Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens famous Roxy Theater (New York NY)
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17 Mar 1927
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US government doesn't sign league of Nations disarmament treaty
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19 Mar 1927
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Bloody battles between communists & Nazis in Berlin
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21 Mar 1927
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Guomindang Army conquerors Shanghai as British marines flee
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22 Mar 1927
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Federico Garc
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24 Mar 1927
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Nanking Incident: Foreign warships bombard Nanjing, China, in defense of the foreign citizens within the city. |
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24 Mar 1927
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Cuban chess champion, Jose Capablanca wins 33-day Grand Chess Tournie
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24 Mar 1927
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Dutch 1st Chamber condemns Belgian & Netherlands' Wielingen Treaty
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26 Mar 1927
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Alfred Hugenberg purchases German film company UFA
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26 Mar 1927
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Gaumont-British Film Corporation forms
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28 Mar 1927
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Majestic Theater opens at 245 W 44th St, New York City
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29 Mar 1927
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Henry O D Seagrave races his Sunbeam to a record 203.79 mph at Daytona
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29 Mar 1927
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Henry O D Segrave races his Sunbeam to a record 203.79 mph at Daytona; 1st auto to exceed 200 mph (322 kph)
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03 Apr 1927
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Interstate Commerce Comm transfers Ohio to Eastern time zone
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05 Apr 1927
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Johnny Weissmuller set records in 100 and 200 m free style
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07 Apr 1927
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Using phone lines TV is sent from Washington DC to New York City
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07 Apr 1927
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First long-distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover). |
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09 Apr 1927
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Italy and US anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti given death sentences
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11 Apr 1927
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Chilean General Carlos Ib
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12 Apr 1927
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Rocksprings, Texas was hit by an F5 tornado that destroyed 235 of the 247 buildings in the town and killed 72 townspeople and injured 205; third deadliest tornado in Texas history. |
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12 Apr 1927
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Shanghai massacre of 1927: Chiang Kai-shek orders the Communist Party of China members executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front. |
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12 Apr 1927
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General Chiang Kai-shek begins counter revolution in Shanghai
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13 Apr 1927
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Stanley Cup Ottawa Senators beat Boston Bruins, in 2 games & 2 ties
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14 Apr 1927
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The first Volvo car premieres in Gothenburg, Sweden. |
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15 Apr 1927
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Switzerland and the USSR agree to diplomatic relations
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15 Apr 1927
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The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, the most destructive river flood in U.S. history, begins. |
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15 Apr 1927
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Babe Ruth hits 1st of 60 homeruns of season (off A's Howard Ehmke)
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17 Apr 1927
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Japan's Wakarsoeki government falls/Baron Tanaka becomes premier
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18 Apr 1927
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Chiang Kai-shek forms anti-government in China
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19 Apr 1927
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"Vagabond King" opens in London
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19 Apr 1927
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Mae West is sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex. |
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19 Apr 1927
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"Vagabond King" opens in London
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22 Apr 1927
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1st performance of Roger Sessions' Symphony in E
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23 Apr 1927
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Cardiff City defeat Arsenal in the FA Cup Final, the only time it has been won by a team not based in England. |
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25 Apr 1927
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Spain routes 20,000 soldiers to Morocco (uprising Rifkabylen)
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27 Apr 1927
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Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmerie) are created. |
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29 Apr 1927
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Construction of the Spirit of St Louis is completed
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30 Apr 1927
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Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood. |
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30 Apr 1927
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The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opens in Alderson, West Virginia, as the first women's federal prison in the United States. |
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30 Apr 1927
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Princess Juliana gets seat in Dutch Council of State
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01 May 1927
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1st British airliner to serve cooked meals (Imperial Airways)
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01 May 1927
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Netherlands beats Belgium 3-2 in soccer match in Amsterdam
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01 May 1927
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Panningen soccer team forms in Panningen
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01 May 1927
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The Union Labor Life Insurance Company is founded by the American Federation of Labor. |
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01 May 1927
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The first cooked meals on a scheduled flight are introduced on an Imperial Airways flight from London to Paris. |
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02 May 1927
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International Economic Conference (52 countries including USSR) opens
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02 May 1927
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Pulitzer prize awarded to Louis Bromfield (Early Autumn)
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04 May 1927
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1st balloon flight over 40,000 feet (Scott Field, Ill)
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04 May 1927
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Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences forms
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04 May 1927
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Nicaragua agrees to a US supervised presidential election in 1928
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07 May 1927
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San Francisco Municipal Airport (Mills Field) dedicated
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08 May 1927
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Attempting to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight from Paris to New York, French war heroes Charles Nungesser and François Coli disappear after taking off aboard The White Bird biplane. |
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09 May 1927
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53rd Preakness: Whitey Abel aboard Bostonian wins in 2:01.6
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09 May 1927
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Canberra replaces Melbourne as the capital of Australia
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09 May 1927
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The Australian Parliament first convenes in Canberra. |
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11 May 1927
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is founded. |
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11 May 1927
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Belgium beats England 9-1 in soccer
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11 May 1927
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Louis B Mayer forms Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
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13 May 1927
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"Black Friday" on Berlin Stock Exchange
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13 May 1927
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"Black Friday" on Berlin Stock Exchange
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13 May 1927
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VVOG soccer team forms in Harderwijk
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14 May 1927
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"Ain't She Sweet?" hits #1 on the pop singles chart by Ben Bernie
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14 May 1927
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53rd Kentucky Derby: Linus McAtee aboard Whiskery wins in 2:06
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16 May 1927
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New York Yankee Bob Meusel steals 2nd, 3rd & home
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16 May 1927
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Supreme Court ruled bootleggers must pay income tax
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17 May 1927
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Chicago Cubs beat Boston Braves, 4-3, in 22 innings
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18 May 1927
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"Slide Lake" in Gros Ventre Wyoming collapses
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18 May 1927
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The Bath School disaster: Forty-five people are killed by bombs planted by a disgruntled school-board member in Michigan. |
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18 May 1927
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After being founded for 20 years, the Government of the Republic of China approves Tongji University to be among the first national universities of the Republic of China. |
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18 May 1927
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"Slide Lake" in Gros Ventre WY collapses
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18 May 1927
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Grauman's Chinese Theater opens in Hollywood CA
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18 May 1927
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Ritz Hotel opens in Boston
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20 May 1927
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Treaty of Jeddah: The United Kingdom recognizes the sovereignty of King Ibn Saud in the Kingdoms of Hejaz and Nejd, which later merge to become the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. |
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20 May 1927
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At 07:52 Charles Lindbergh takes off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, New York, on the world's first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. He touched down at Le Bourget Field in Paris at 22:22 the next day. |
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20 May 1927
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At 7:40 AM, Lindbergh takes off from New York to cross Atlantic for Paris
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20 May 1927
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Saudi Arabia becomes independent of Great Britain (Treaty of Jedda)
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21 May 1927
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Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. |
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21 May 1927
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Lindbergh lands in Paris France, after 1st solo air crossing of Atlantic
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22 May 1927
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8.3 earthquake strikes Nan-Shan China, 200,000 killed
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22 May 1927
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Dodgers beat Phillies, 20-4
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25 May 1927
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Henry Ford stops producing Model T car (begins Model A)
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26 May 1927
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Ford Motor Company manufactures its 15 millionth Model T automobile
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27 May 1927
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The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacture of the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make the Ford Model A. |
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27 May 1927
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Japanese military intervention in Chinese civil war
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27 May 1927
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Thomas Masaryk elected Czechoslovakian president
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28 May 1927
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Hammond scores his 1,000th cricket run of the season after 22 days
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30 May 1927
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Walter Johnson records 113th & last shutout of his career
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31 May 1927
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Ford Motor Company produces last "Tin Lizzie" (begins Model A)
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31 May 1927
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The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles. |
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31 May 1927
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Detroit Tiger 1st baseman Johnny Neun makes an unassisted triple play
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04 Jun 1927
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Johnny Weissmuller set swim records in 100-yard and 200-yard free-style
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05 Jun 1927
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3rd French Mens Tennis: R Lacoste beats B Tilden (64 46 57 63 11-9)
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05 Jun 1927
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Johnny Weissmuller sets 100-yard and 200-yard free-style swim record
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08 Jun 1927
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Tony Lazzeri hits 3 HRs Yanks beat White Sox 12-11
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11 Jun 1927
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59th Belmont: Earl Sande aboard Chance Shot wins in 2:32.6
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11 Jun 1927
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Charles Lindbergh is awarded the 1st Distinguished Flying Cross
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11 Jun 1927
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Babe Ruth hits 19th & 20th of 60 HRs
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13 Jun 1927
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Ticker-tape parade welcomed Charles A Lindbergh to New York City
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13 Jun 1927
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Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker-tape parade down 5th Avenue in New York City. |
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16 Jun 1927
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31st US Golf Open: Tommy Armour shoots a 301 at Oakmont Country Club - Pennsylvania
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16 Jun 1927
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Tommy Armour wins golf's US open
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18 Jun 1927
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Paavo Nurmi runs world record 2000 m: 5:24.6
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23 Jun 1927
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Lou Gehrig hits 3 HRs in 11-4 victory over Red Sox
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25 Jun 1927
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WVO soccer team forms in Oosterhout
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26 Jun 1927
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Comet 7P / Pons-Winnecke approaches within 0.0394 AUs of Earth
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26 Jun 1927
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The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island. |
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27 Jun 1927
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Prime Minister of Japan Tanaka Giichi leads a conference to discuss Japan's plans for China; later, a document detailing these plans, the "Tanaka Memorial" is leaked, although it is now considered a forgery. |
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29 Jun 1927
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The Bird of Paradise, a U.S. Army Air Corps Fokker tri-motor, completes the first transpacific flight, from the mainland United States to Hawaii. |
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29 Jun 1927
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First test of Wallace Turnbull's controllable-pitch propeller. |
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29 Jun 1927
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1st flight from West Coast arrives in Hawaii
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30 Jun 1927
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Augusto Cesar Sandino issues his Manifesto Politico
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30 Jun 1927
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US Assay Office in Deadwood, South Dakota closes
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02 Jul 1927
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40th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats L de Alvarez (62 64)
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03 Jul 1927
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47th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: H Cochet beats Borotra (46 46 63 64 75)
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04 Jul 1927
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Ir Sukarno forms PNI (Perserikatan Nasional Indonesia) in Batavia
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04 Jul 1927
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The Lockheed Vega first flew. |
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09 Jul 1927
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Atty William T Francis named Minister to Liberia
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12 Jul 1927
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Babe Ruth hits 30th of 60 HRs
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14 Jul 1927
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1st commercial airplane flight in Hawaii
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15 Jul 1927
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62nd British Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 285 at St. Andrews
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15 Jul 1927
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Massacre of July 15, 1927: Eighty-nine protesters are killed by the Austrian police in Vienna. |
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16 Jul 1927
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Augusto César Sandino leads a raid on U.S. Marines and Nicaraguan Guardia Nacional that had been sent to apprehend him in the village of Ocotal, but is repulsed by one of the first dive-bombing attacks in history. |
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16 Jul 1927
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Augusto Sandino begins 5
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18 Jul 1927
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Ty Cobb's 4,000th career hit
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19 Jul 1927
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Ty Cobb gets his 4,000th hit
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20 Jul 1927
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event
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Lindbergh begins New York flight (Spirit of St. Louis)
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23 Jul 1927
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The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in Bombay. |
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24 Jul 1927
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The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres. |
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27 Jul 1927
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Major Bernard Montgomery (29) marries widow Betty Carver
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27 Jul 1927
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Mel Ott, 18, hits his 1st league home run (inside the park)
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29 Jul 1927
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event
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1st iron lung installed (Bellevue hospital, NY)
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29 Jul 1927
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Bellevue Hospital in New York installs 1st iron lung
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29 Jul 1927
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Phil Mead scores his 100th 100, Hampshire vs. Northants
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01 Aug 1927
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Earliest date for a film to be considered for the Academy Awards
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01 Aug 1927
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The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Chinese Communist Party. This day is commemorated as the anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army. |
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04 Aug 1927
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Peace Bridge between US and Canada opens
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05 Aug 1927
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event
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Phillies Cy Williams hits for cycle in just 4 at bats
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07 Aug 1927
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event
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Peace Bridge between US and Canada dedicated
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07 Aug 1927
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US rum smuggler Horace Alderman kills 3
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07 Aug 1927
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The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York. |
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08 Aug 1927
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The predecessor to the Philippine Stock Exchange opens. |
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12 Aug 1927
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event
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"Wings, " the only silent film to win an Oscar for best picture, opens
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16 Aug 1927
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event
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1st HR hit out of Comiskey Park Chicago (NY Yankee Babe Ruth)
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16 Aug 1927
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The Dole Air Race begins from Oakland, California, to Honolulu, Hawaii, during which six out of the eight participating planes crash or disappear. |
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21 Aug 1927
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event
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4th Pan-African Congress meets (NYC)
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22 Aug 1927
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Babe Ruth hits 40th of 60 homers
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27 Aug 1927
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event
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Parks College, America's oldest aviation school, opens
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30 Aug 1927
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event
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41st US Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats Betty Nuthall (61 64)
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02 Sep 1927
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event
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Rumour starts that Yankee Lou Gehrig will be traded to Tigers
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04 Sep 1927
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event
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Charles Lindbergh visits Boise, Idaho, on his cross-country tour
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05 Sep 1927
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event
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Red Sox beat Yankees 12-11 in 18 innings
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05 Sep 1927
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event
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The first Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon, Trolley Troubles, produced by Walt Disney, is released by Universal Pictures. |
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06 Sep 1927
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event
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Red Sox beat the New York Yankees 12-11 in 18 innings at Fenway Park
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07 Sep 1927
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event
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Philo Farnsworth demonstrates 1st use of TV in San Francisco
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07 Sep 1927
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The first fully electronic television system is achieved by Philo Farnsworth. |
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09 Sep 1927
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Tony Lazzeri Day at Yankee Stadium
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10 Sep 1927
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22nd Davis Cup: France beats USA in Philadelphia (3-2)
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10 Sep 1927
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France wins its 1st Davis Cup
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11 Sep 1927
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After losing 21 in a row to NY, the Browns win their last meeting, 6-2
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11 Sep 1927
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Babe Ruth hits 50th of 60 homers
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13 Sep 1927
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Yanks clinch pennant, Ruth hits 2 HRs (52 en route to 60)
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13 Sep 1927
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Waite Hoyt became the only 20 game winner of the 1927 Yankees
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16 Sep 1927
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Rene Lacoste beats Bill Tilden for US Lawn Tennis Association title
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17 Sep 1927
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47th US Mens Tennis: Rene Lacoste beats William T Tilden (119 63 119)
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17 Sep 1927
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Charles Lindbergh visits San Francisco
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18 Sep 1927
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18 station CBS radio network begins, (WOR is NYC affiliate)
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18 Sep 1927
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The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air. |
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18 Sep 1927
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Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air (16 radio stations)
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20 Sep 1927
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New York Yankee Babe Ruth hits record 60th HR of season off Tom Zachry
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22 Sep 1927
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Famous "Long count" fight (Dempsey loses boxing title to Tunney)
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22 Sep 1927
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Jack Dempsey loses the "Long Count" boxing match to Gene Tunney. |
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22 Sep 1927
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Yanks Earle Coombs hits 3 triples
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24 Sep 1927
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NHL's Toronto St Patricks become the Maple Leafs
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24 Sep 1927
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Yanks set record of 106 victories
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26 Sep 1927
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St. James Theater (Erlanger) opens at 246 W 44th St, New York City
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29 Sep 1927
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Babe Ruth ties record by hitting grand slams in consecutive games
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29 Sep 1927
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Telephone service begins between US and Mexico
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29 Sep 1927
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Tornado strikes St. Louis Missouri, 85 die
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30 Sep 1927
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Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season. |
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30 Sep 1927
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Babe Ruth hits record setting 60th HR (off Tom Zachary)
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01 Oct 1927
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Pirates clinch NL pennant with a 9-6 win over Reds
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04 Oct 1927
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Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore. |
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06 Oct 1927
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"Jazz Singer, " 1st movie with a sound track, premieres (NYC)
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06 Oct 1927
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Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent talking movie. |
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07 Oct 1927
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Yank Herb Pennock retires 1st 22 Pirates in World Series game
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08 Oct 1927
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New York Yankees sweep Pirates in 24th World Series
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08 Oct 1927
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Sea battle at Navarino (Greece freed of Ottoman occupation)
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11 Oct 1927
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Lou Gehrig named AL MVP (Babe Ruth (former winner) not eligible)
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11 Oct 1927
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Lou Gehrig elected MVP
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12 Oct 1927
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Hermann Gorner of Germany raises 24 men weighing 4,123 lbs on a plank with the soles of his feet
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17 Oct 1927
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Ban Johnson, in failing health, retires as AL President
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22 Oct 1927
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Nikola Tesla introduces six new inventions including a motor with onephase electricity |
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23 Oct 1927
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Town of Netanya Israel founded by Nathan Strauss
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23 Oct 1927
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City of Netanya, Israel founded
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25 Oct 1927
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The Italian luxury liner SS Principessa Mafalda sinks off the coast of Brazil, killing 314. |
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26 Oct 1927
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Duke Ellington sings "Creole Love Song"
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27 Oct 1927
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Queen Wilhelmina opens Meuse-Waal Canal in Nijmegen
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28 Oct 1927
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Josip Broz (Tito) begins 7 months jail sentence in Croatia
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28 Oct 1927
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KLM-plane "Homing Pigeon" leaves Netherlands Indies after 1st regular flight
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03 Nov 1927
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22.3 cm rainfall at Somerset, Vermont (state record)
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03 Nov 1927
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Tropical storm flooding kills 84 in Winooski River Valley (Vt)
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05 Nov 1927
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10th PGA Championship: Water Hagen at Cedar Crest Country Club - Dallas
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05 Nov 1927
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Walter Hagen beats Joe Turnesa for 4th consecutive PGA title
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09 Nov 1927
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Giant Panda discovered, China
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09 Nov 1927
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Pastor of Have begins blessing of motorcars / motors
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12 Nov 1927
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1st underwater tunnel, Holland Tunnel connecting New York to New Jersey opens
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12 Nov 1927
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Notre Dame's Fighting Irish changes blue jerseys for green
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12 Nov 1927
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Trotsky expelled from Soviet CP; Stalin becomes undisputed dictator
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13 Nov 1927
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NY-NJ Holland Tunnel, 1st twin-tube underwater auto tunnel, opens
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14 Nov 1927
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Worlds largest gas tank in Pittsburgh Penn explodes; 28 die
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17 Nov 1927
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Tornado hit Washington DC
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22 Nov 1927
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1st snowmobile patent granted to Carl Eliason (Sayner Wisc)
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22 Nov 1927
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Neil Simon Theater (Alvin) opens at 250 W 52nd St, New York City
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26 Nov 1927
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15th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Balmy Beach defeats Hamilton Tigers, 9-6
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02 Dec 1927
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1st Model A Fords sold, for $385
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02 Dec 1927
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Following 19 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Model A as its new automobile. |
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03 Dec 1927
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Putting Pants on Philip, the first Laurel and Hardy film, is released. |
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04 Dec 1927
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Duke Ellington opens at Cotton Club in Harlem
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04 Dec 1927
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Pirates Paul Waner wins NL MVP
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08 Dec 1927
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The Brookings Institution, one of the United States' oldest think tanks, is founded through the merger of three organizations that had been created by philanthropist Robert S. Brookings. |
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10 Dec 1927
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Grand Ole Opry makes its 1st radio broadcast, in Nashville, Tennessee
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10 Dec 1927
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The phrase "Grand Ole Opry" is used for the first time on-air. |
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11 Dec 1927
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Guangzhou Uprising: Communist Red Guards launch an uprising in Guangzhou, China, taking over most of the city and announcing the formation of a Guangzhou Soviet. |
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14 Dec 1927
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Iraq gains independence from Britain, but British troops remain
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15 Dec 1927
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Ed Hickman kidnaps child he later beheads
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16 Dec 1927
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Donald Bradman makes his debut in first-class cricket for New South Wales against South Australia. Batting at No. 7, he scores a century. |
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16 Dec 1927
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Cricket 1st-class debut of Don Bradman, New South Wales vs South Australia
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17 Dec 1927
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Indian revolutionary Rajendra Lahiri is hanged in Gonda jail, Uttar Pradesh, India, two days before the scheduled date. |
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17 Dec 1927
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US sub 'S-4' sinks after collision kills all 34 aboard
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17 Dec 1927
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Bradman scores 118 on 1st-class cricket debut, 188 minutes 8 fours
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17 Dec 1927
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Victoria score 793 against Queensland, Bill Ponsford 437
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19 Dec 1927
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Three Indian revolutionaries, Ram Prasad Bismil, Roshan Singh and Ashfaqulla Khan are executed by the British Empire. |
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24 Dec 1927
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Test Cricket debut of Walter Hammond, who scored 51 & took 5-36 vs South Africa
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25 Dec 1927
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The Vietnamese Nationalist Party is founded. |
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27 Dec 1927
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Show Boat, considered to be the first true American musical play, opens at the Ziegfeld Theatre on Broadway. |
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27 Dec 1927
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Stalin's faction wins All-Union Congress in USSR, Trotsky expelled
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27 Dec 1927
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Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein II's "Show Boat" premieres at the Ziegfeld Theater (New York NY)
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27 Dec 1927
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Philip Barry's "Paris Bound" premieres in New York NY
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28 Dec 1927
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George Kaufman & Moss Hart's "Royal Family" premieres in New York NY
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30 Dec 1927
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The Ginza Line, the first subway line in Asia, opens in Tokyo, Japan. |
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30 Dec 1927
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Japan dedicates 1st subway in the Orient (route under 2 miles long)
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31 Dec 1927
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Ponsford scores 336 against South Africa, giving him 1146 for month
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