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History on the year of 1927

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01 Jan 1927 WW2 The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) was founded by Royal Charter, replacing the British Broadcasting Company Limited. 
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01 Feb 1927 WW2 Franklin Roosevelt founded the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation in the United States to further the research of poliomyelitis and for the care of poliomyelitis patients. 
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05 Feb 1927 WW2 Tenryu was dispatched to China to patrol the mouth of the Yangtze River. 
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10 Feb 1927 WW2 William Halsey was promoted to the rank of captain. 
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15 Feb 1927 WW2 Commander Shigeru Osamu was named the chief equipping officer of Destroyer No. 34. 
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24 Feb 1927 WW2 Henry Arnold's son David Lee Arnold was born at Fort Riley, Kansas, United States. 
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04 Mar 1927 WW2 Destroyer No. 34 was launched. 
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05 Mar 1927 WW2 La Motte-Picquet was commissioned into service under the command of capitaine de vaisseau Jean Cras. 
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05 Mar 1927 WW2 General Hanzo Kanaya was named the commanding officer of the Japanese Chosen Army in occupied Korea, relieving Shusei Morioka. 
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11 Mar 1927 WW2 He Yingqin was made a committee member of the Chinese government. 
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14 Mar 1927 WW2 Yingrui arrived at Shanghai, China. 
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24 Mar 1927 WW2 The Nanjing Incident: US and British Royal Navy warships opened fire on rioting Chinese Nationalist and Communists who were looting the property of foreign residents in the treaty port. 
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25 Mar 1927 WW2 Akagi was commissioned into service. 
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29 Mar 1927 WW2 American-born motor-racer Henry Segrave became the first man to exceed 200mph, breaking the world road speed record, at Daytona Beach, Florida, United States. 
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04 Apr 1927 WW2 Bai Chongxi purged communists from the Nationalist Chinese garrison in Shanghai, China and a number of labor leaders in the city; many of them were executed. 
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05 Apr 1927 WW2 Chiang Kaishek declared martial law in Shanghai, China as the first step of a bloody purge against Communists. 
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05 Apr 1927 WW2 Naka received a new commanding officer. 
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10 Apr 1927 WW2 He Yingqin led troops in an anti-communist purge in Nanjing, China. 
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12 Apr 1927 WW2 He Yingqin's troops clashed with communists in Nanjing, China; there were several deaths on both sides. 
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18 Apr 1927 WW2 Chinese Nationalists set up a government in Nanjing, China. 
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02 May 1927 WW2 Ira Eaker completed the 35,200 km Pan American Goodwill Flight around South America, winning the one of the Mackay Trophies. 
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19 May 1927 WW2 He Yingqin crossed the Yangtze River in China during the Northern Expedition campaign. 
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20 May 1927 WW2 Kingdom of Hejaz and Kingdom of Nejd, both under the leadership of Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, signed the Treaty of Jeddah with the United Kingdom, gaining western recognition. 
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20 May 1927 WW2 Roderick Carr and L. E. M. Gillmann departed RAF Cranwell in Lincolnshire, England, United States in an attempt to fly to India without stopping. 
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23 May 1927 WW2 Roderick Carr and L. E. M. Gillmann's attempt to fly non-stop from Britain to India failed as they ran out of fuel and had to ditch their aircraft in the Persian Gulf near Bandar Abbas, Iran. Despite the failure, they would achieve a world record for flight distance, however. 
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27 May 1927 WW2 Thirteen years after its keel was laid down, the French aircraft carrier Béarn was completed. The Béarn would become the longest surviving aircraft carrier in the world (not being scrapped until 1968) although it spent much of its life out of commission. 
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27 May 1927 RELIGIOUS Birth of Ralph Carmichael, a popular sacred composer whose works flourished most during the 1960s-1970s. Among his oft
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12 Jun 1927 WW2 The keel of Colbert was laid down at Brest Naval Shipyard, France. 
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13 Jun 1927 WW2 Aviator Charles Lindbergh received a ticker-tape parade down 5th Avenue in New York, New York, United States. 
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15 Jun 1927 WW2 Nachi was launched at the Kure Naval Arsenal, Japan. 
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02 Jul 1927 WW2 Marcel-Bruno Gensoul was promoted to the rank of capitaine de vaisseau. 
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07 Jul 1927 WW2 The county of Shanghai in China was raise to a city status. 
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14 Jul 1927 WW2 The city of Shanghai was given the status of a municipality directly controlled by the Chinese central government. 
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17 Jul 1927 WW2 Five US Marine Corps de Havilland DH-4 aircraft were used to make a strafing and dive bombing attack against bandits besieging the US Marine garrison at Ocotal, Nicaragua. Whilst US Marine aircraft had carried out dive-bomb attacks in Haiti in 1919, the mission at Ocotal, led by Major Ross Rowell, used the newly-established USMC doctrine for the first time. 
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25 Jul 1927 WW2 Destroyer No. 34 was commissioned into service with Commander Shigeru Osamu in command. 
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25 Jul 1927 WW2 The newly created Air Defence of Great Britain, the UK-based element of the RAF, staged the first annual tactical air defence exercise. The four day exercise involved all the RAF's fighting elements plus contributions by the Observer Corps and the Ground Forces of London. 
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26 Jul 1927 WW2 Iwane Matsui was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general. 
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26 Jul 1927 WW2 Major General Nenosuke Sato was named the chief of staff of the Taiwan Army. 
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27 Jul 1927 WW2 HMS Hermes arrived at Weihai, Shandong Province, China, a British leased territory. 
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29 Jul 1927 WW2 In Russia, Metropolitan Sergei Stragorodsky, the most senior prelate, issued a public declaration that the church recognized the Soviet state as its "Civil Fatherland". Hundreds of clergy refused to accept the church coming under state control and by 1930 an estimated one fifth of all those imprisoned in the Solovki camp complex were clerical victims of persecution. 
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15 Aug 1927 WW2 The new battleship, HMS Nelson, was commissioned into the British Royal Navy. One of two new battleships permitted by the Washington Treaty, HMS Nelson would become the flagship of the Home Fleet. 
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18 Aug 1927 RELIGIOUS At age 20, Christian radio pioneer Theodore Epp was converted to a living faith. In 1939 he founded Back to the Bible Broadcast, an evangelistic radio program with outlets today on over 600 stations around the world.
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24 Aug 1927 WW2 Oberon was commissioned into service. 
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26 Aug 1927 WW2 Marshal Count Hisaichi Terauchi was named the chief of staff of the Japanese Chosen Army in occupied Korea. 
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01 Sep 1927 WW2 Aoba was commissioned into service. 
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01 Sep 1927 WW2 Kinugasa was commissioned into service. 
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09 Sep 1927 WW2 Hiroshi Nemoto was attached to the Army Ministry in Tokyo, Japan and was placed in charge with China affairs. 
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14 Sep 1927 RELIGIOUS Bob Jones University opened in Greenville, South Carolina, and eighty-eight students registered for the first fall term.
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24 Sep 1927 WW2 Joseph Rochefort was assigned to destroyer USS Macdonough as her executive officer and navigator. 
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28 Sep 1927 WW2 Lieutenant Dick Bently of the South African Air Force landed his D.H.60X Moth aircraft after making the first solo flight from Great Britain to Cape Peninsula, South Africa. He had left London on 1 Sep 1927. 
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29 Sep 1927 WW2 Georg Wulf, co-founder of the Focke-Wulf aircraft company, was killed when his radically-designed tail-first Focke-Wulf Fw 19 aircraft crashed whilst making a public demonstration. 
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29 Sep 1927 WW2 Georg Wulf, co-founder of the Focke-Wulf aircraft company, was killed when his radically-designed tail-first Focke-Wulf Fw 19 suffered a broken control rod, resulting in a fatal crash during a public demonstration. 
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06 Oct 1927 WW2 Entertainment company Warner Bros released "The Jazz Singer"; the first feature-length talking picture film. 
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11 Oct 1927 WW2 Princess Josèphine-Charlotte (later the Grand Duchess of Luxembourg) of Belgium was born at the Royal Palace in Brussels. 
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11 Oct 1927 WW2 Captain Harry Kimball Cage was named the commanding officer of USS Marblehead. 
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20 Oct 1927 WW2 Mutsu was Emperor Showa's flagship during the annual Japanese Naval Review. 
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20 Oct 1927 WW2 Eugen von Knilling died in Munich, Germany. As Prime Minister of Bavaria his declaration of Martial Law in 1923 had led to Adolf Hitler's failed rebellion (the so-called Beer-Hall Putsch). 
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23 Oct 1927 WW2 Leon Trotsky, already expelled from the Politburo, denounced Joseph Stalin on the floor of the Plenum, publicly accusing Stalin as being the real danger to the Leninist party. He received little support from the other Soviet delegates. 
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26 Oct 1927 WW2 Jiang Dingwen was named the commanding officer of the Chinese 1st Division. 
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26 Oct 1927 WW2 HMS Hermes arrived in Britain. 
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10 Nov 1927 WW2 Chiang Kaishek arrived in Shanghai, China from Japan. 
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10 Nov 1927 WW2 HMS Rodney was commissioned into service. 
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15 Nov 1927 WW2 Chuichi Nagumo was name an instructor at the Japanese naval war college. 
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15 Nov 1927 WW2 Captain Shigeru Kikuno was named the commanding officer of Tenryu. 
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15 Nov 1927 WW2 Rear Admiral Tadashi Kurata was named the Chief of Staff of the Mako naval port at Pescadores islands, Taiwan. 
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16 Nov 1927 WW2 Saratoga was commissioned into service. 
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25 Nov 1927 WW2 Having observed poor handling of sensitive codes by other officers in his destroyer squadron while he served aboard USS Macdonough, Joseph Rochefort submitted a report noting so and would soon make recommendations to secure communications. 
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01 Dec 1927 WW2 Chiang Kaishek married Song Meiling. 
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01 Dec 1927 WW2 Nobutake Kondo was promoted to the rank of captain and was named an instructor at the Japanese Naval War College. 
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01 Dec 1927 WW2 Masafumi Arima was promoted to the rank of lieutenant commander. 
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01 Dec 1927 WW2 Vice Admiral Junichi Kiyokawa was named the commanding officer of Chinkai Guard District in southern Korea. 
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01 Dec 1927 WW2 Rear Admiral Kesaichi Hitsuda was named the commanding officer of the Mako naval port at Pescadores islands, Taiwan. 
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02 Dec 1927 WW2 Captain G. Hopwood was named the commanding officer of HMS Hermes, replacing Captain R. Elliot. 
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03 Dec 1927 WW2 The keel for ship numbered 451 was laid down at Mitsubishi Shipbuilding's yard at Nagakaki, Japan. 
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10 Dec 1927 WW2 Chiang Kaishek was elected back into power. 
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14 Dec 1927 WW2 Lexington (Lexington-class) was commissioned into service. 
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17 Dec 1927 WW2 Kenjiro Kinoshita succeeded Hideo Kodama as the Governor-General of Kwantung Leased Territory in northeastern China. 
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21 Dec 1927 WW2 Papanikolis was commissioned into service. 
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27 Dec 1927 WW2 Henry Stimson became the Governor-General of the Philippines. 
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30 Dec 1927 RELIGIOUS The International Church of the Foursquare Gospel was incorporated in Los Angeles, CA. Founded in 1923 by evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, the denomination recognizes the significant role that women in ministry. Today, over 40% of its ministers are women.
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