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'''1927''' '''(MCMXXVII)''' was a [[common year starting on Saturday]] (link will take you to calendar).

==Events==
{{Year B}}
===January-March===
* [[January 1]] - [[Cristero War]] erupts in [[Mexico]] when pro-[[Catholic Church|Church]] rebels attack secular-minded government
* [[January 7]] - First transatlantic [[telephone]] call - [[New York City]] to [[London]]
* [[January 9]] - Military rebellion crushed in [[Lisbon]]
* [[January 14]] - [[Paul Doumer]] elected president of France
* [[January 19]] - Britain sends troops to [[China]]
* [[January 30]] - Right-wing [[veteran]]s and the ''Republican [[Schutzbund]]'' clash in [[Schattendorf]], [[Burgenland]], [[Austria]]. One man and a child are killed by gunshots. See July 15.
* [[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 [[Federal Radio Commission]] (later renamed the [[Federal Communications Commission]]) begins to regulate the use of [[radio]] frequencies.
* [[March 4]] - A [[diamond]] rush in [[South Africa]] includes trained athletes that have been hired by major companies to stake claims
* [[March 6]] - In Britain, a 1000 people a week die from [[influenza]] epidemic
* [[March 10]] - [[Albania]] mobilizes in case of an attack of Yugoslavia
* [[March 11]] - In [[New York City]], the [[Roxy Theatre]] is opened by [[Samuel Roxy Rothafel]].

===April-June===
* [[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]] - The [[Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927]] renames the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland]] to the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland]]. The change acknowledges that the [[Irish Free State]] is no longer part of the Kingdom.
* [[April 12]] - [[Kuomintang]] troops kill number of communist-supporting workers in [[Shanghai]]
* [[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]] - [[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 of the United Kingdom|George V]] proclaims the change of his style from [[List of British monarchs|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]].
* [[May 20]] - [[Saudi Arabia]] becomes independent of the [[United Kingdom]] ([[Treaty of Jedda]]).
* [[May 20]]-[[May 21|21]] first solo non-stop Trans-Atlantic flight from New York to Paris by [[Charles Lindbergh]].
* [[May 22]] - 8.6 [[richter scale]] [[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 [[agitprop|agitation]]
* [[May 27]] - [[Ford Motor Company]] ceases manufacturing [[Ford Model T]]s and begins to retool plants to make [[Ford Model A]]s.
* [[June 4]] - [[Yugoslavia]] severs diplomatic relations to [[Albania]]
* [[June 7]] - [[Peter Voikov]], Soviet ambassador to [[Warsaw]], assassinated
* [[June 9]] - Soviet Union executes 20 British for alleged espionage
* [[June 13]] - [[Leon Daudet]], leader of French [[monarchist]]s, is arrested in [[France]]
* [[June 13]] - A [[ticker-tape parade]] is held for aviator [[Charles Lindbergh]] down 5th Avenue in [[New York City]].

===July-September===
* [[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 [[Austria]]n police clash in Vienna. More than 600 people are injured. See [[Massacre of July 15, 1927]].
* [[July 24]] - The [[Menin Gate Memorial|Menin Gate]] war memorial is unveiled at [[Ypres]].
* [[August 1]] - Formation of the [[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]] executed.
* [[August 24]]-[[August 25|25]] - Hurricane hits Atlantic shore of Canada causing massive damage - at least 56 dead
* [[September 7]] - The [[UFMG|University of Minas Gerais]] is founded in [[Brazil]].
* [[September 14]] - underwater earthquake in Japan - over 100 dead

===October-December===
* [[October 6]] - [[The Jazz Singer]] opens and becomes a huge success, marking the end of the [[silent film]] era.
* [[October 7]] - [[Mercedes Gleitze]] is the first Englishwoman to swim the [[English Channel]]
* [[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 28]] - Pan American Airways first flight took off from Key West to Havana.
* [[November 10]] - Unexplained explosions in [[Canton, Ohio]]
* [[November 12]] - [[Mahatma Gandhi]] made his first and last visit to [[Ceylon]].
* [[November 12]] - [[Leon Trotsky]] is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving [[Joseph Stalin]] with undisputed control of the [[Soviet Union]]
* [[November 12]] - The [[Holland Tunnel]] opens to traffic as the first [[Hudson River]] vehicular [[tunnel]] linking [[New Jersey]] to [[New York City]].
* [[November 24]] - Total [[solar eclipse]] over Northern England and Wales
* [[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 had hurt themselves on the icy streets
* [[December 30]] - Japan's first [[metro|subway]] line, the [[Ginza Line]] in [[Tokyo]], opens.

===Unknown dates===
* 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

==Births==
===January===
*[[January 1]] - [[Vernon L. Smith]], American economist, [[Nobel Prize in Economics|Nobel Prize]] laureate
*[[January 1]] - [[Doak Walker]], American Footballer (d.[[1998]])
*[[January 10]] - [[Gisele MacKenzie]], Canadian-born singer (d. [[2003]])
*[[January 10]] - [[Johnnie Ray]], American singer (d. [[1990]])
*[[January 13]] - [[Brock Adams]], American politician (d. [[2004]])
*[[January 13]] - [[Sydney Brenner]], British biologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]]
*[[January 17]] - [[Eartha Kitt]], American actress and singer
*[[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]] - [[Edward Abbey]], American environmentalist (d. [[1989]])
*[[January 29]] - [[Lewis Urry]], Canadian inventor (d. [[2004]])
*[[January 30]] - [[Olof Palme]], [[Prime Minister of Sweden]] (d. [[1986]])

===February===
* [[February 2]] - [[Stan Getz]], American musician (d. [[1991]])
* [[February 3]] - [[Val Doonican]], Irish singer and entertainer
* [[February 7]] - [[Juliette Greco]], French singer and actor
*February 7 - [[Vladimir Kuts]], Russian runner (d. [[1975]])
* [[February 10]] - [[Leontyne Price]], American soprano
* [[February 15]] - [[Harvey Korman]], American actor and comedian
* [[February 16]] - [[June Brown]], British actor
*February 16 - [[Tom Kennedy]], American game show host
* [[February 20]] - [[Roy Cohn]], American lawyer and anti-Communist (d. [[1986]])
*February 20 - [[Sidney Poitier]], American actor
* [[February 21]] - [[Erma Bombeck]], American writer and humorist (d. [[1996]])
*February 21 - [[Hubert de Givenchy]], French fashion designer
* [[February 27]] - [[Lynn Cartwright]], American actress (d. [[2004]])

===March===
* [[March 1]] - [[Harry Belafonte]], American musician and actor
*March 1 - [[Robert Bork]], American law professor
* [[March 6]] - [[Gordon Cooper]], astronaut (d. [[2004]])
*March 6 - [[Wes Montgomery]], American musician (d. [[1968]])
* [[March 11]] - [[Ron Todd]], [[TGWU]] General Secretary (1985-1992) (d. [[2005]])
* [[March 13]] - [[Robert Denning]], American interior designer (d. [[2005]]}
* [[March 16]] - [[Vladimir Komarov]], cosmonaut (d. [[1967]])
*March 16 - [[Daniel Patrick Moynihan]], U.S. Senator from New York (d. [[2003]])
* [[March 18]] - [[George Plimpton]], American writer and actor (d. [[2003]])
* [[March 21]] - [[Hans-Dietrich Genscher]], German politician
* [[March 24]] - [[Martin Walser]], German author
* [[March 27]] - [[Mstislav Rostropovich]], Russian cellist and conductor
* [[March 29]] - [[John Robert Vane]], British pharmacologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[2004]])
* [[March 31]] - [[César Chávez]], American labor activist (d. [[1993]])
*March 31 - [[William Daniels]], American actor

===April===
*[[April 2]] - [[Ferenc Puskás]], Hungarian footballer
*[[April 2]] - [[Kenneth Tynan]], English theatre critic (d. [[1980]])
*[[April 6]] - [[Gerry Mulligan]], American musician (d. [[1996]])
*[[April 10]] - [[Marshall Warren Nirenberg]], American scientist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]]
*[[April 15]] - [[Robert Mills (physicist)|Robert Mills]], American physicist (d. [[1999]])
*[[April 16]] - [[Pope Benedict XVI]]
*[[April 16]] - [[Peter Mark Richman]], American actor
*[[April 20]] - [[Phil Hill]], American race car driver
*[[April 20]] - [[Karl Alexander Müller]], Swiss physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate
*[[April 24]] - [[Alan MacDiarmid]], New Zealand chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate
*[[April 27]] - [[Coretta Scott King]], American civil rights leader

===May-June===
*[[May 9]] - [[Manfred Eigen]], German biophysicist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]]
* [[May 11]] - [[Mort Sahl]], Canadian-born comedian, political commentator
* [[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 in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate
* [[May 25]] - [[Robert Ludlum]], American author (d. [[2001]])
* [[May 30]] - [[Clint Walker]], American actor
* [[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 in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate
*[[June 28]] - [[Frank Sherwood Rowland]], American chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate

===July-August===
* [[July 4]] - [[Gina Lollobrigida]], Italian actress
* [[July 6]] - [[Alan Freeman]], Australian-born broadcaster and disc jockey
* [[July 6]] - [[Janet Leigh]], American actress (d. [[2004]])
* [[July 18]] - [[Kurt Masur]], Silesian-born conductor
* [[July 31]] - [[Victor Wong]], American actor (d. [[2001]])
* [[August 4]] - [[Jess Thomas]], American tenor (d. [[1993]])
* [[August 18]] - [[Rosalynn Carter]], wife of U.S President [[Jimmy Carter]]
* [[August 8]] - [[Johnny Temple]], baseball player (d. [[1994]])
* [[August 23]] - [[Dick Bruna]], Dutch illustrator
*[[August 24]] - [[Harry Markowitz]], American economist, [[Nobel Prize in Economics|Nobel Prize]] laureate
* [[August 25]] - [[Albert Uderzo]], French cartoonist
* [[August 26]] - [[Althea Gibson]], American tennis player (d. [[2003]])
* [[August 30]] - [[Geoffrey Beene]], American fashion designer (d. [[2004]])

===September-November===
* [[September 11]] - [[Vernon Corea]], Sri Lankan broadcaster
*[[September 11]] - [[G. David Schine]], American businessman (d. [[1996]])
* [[September 16]] - [[Peter Falk]], American actor
* [[September 25]] - Sir [[Colin Davis]], English conductor
* [[September 20]] - [[Lloyd Robinson]], Australian speleologist
* [[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 in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate
* [[October 18]] - [[George C. Scott]], American actor (d. [[1999]])
* [[November 18]] - [[Hank Ballard]], American musician (d. [[2003]])
* [[November 24]] - [[Ahmadou Kourouma]], Ivorian writer (d. [[2003]])
*[[November 24]] - [[Alfredo Kraus]], Spanish tenor (d. [[1999]])
* [[November 27]] - [[Vin Scully]], baseball broadcaster
* [[November 28]] - [[Chuck Mitchell]], American actor (d. [[1992]])
* [[November 30]] - [[Richard Crenna]], American actor (d. [[2003]])

===December===
* [[December 5]] - [[Bhumibol Adulyadej]], [[King of Thailand]]
* [[December 7]] - [[Helen Watts]], Welsh contralto
* [[December 8]] - [[Vladimir Shatalov]], cosmonaut
* [[December 9]] - [[Pierre Henry]], French composer
* [[December 18]] - [[Romeo LeBlanc]], 25th [[Governor General of Canada]]
* [[December 25]] - [[Nellie Fox]], baseball player (d. [[1975]])
* [[December 26]] - [[Denis Quilley]], British actor (d. [[2003]])
* [[December 29]] - [[Andy Stanfield]], American athlete (d. [[1985]])

==Deaths==
* [[January 18]] - Empress [[Carlota of Mexico]] (b. [[1840]])
* [[February 19]] - [[Robert Fuchs]], Austrian composer (b. [[1847]])
* [[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]] - [[Lizzie Borden]], American accused murderer (b. [[1860]])
*June 1 - [[J. B. Bury]], Irish historian (b. [[1861]])
* [[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 5]] - [[Albrecht Kossel]], German physician, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (b. [[1853]])
* [[July 24]] - [[Akutagawa Ryunosuke]], Japanese poet and writer (b. [[1892]])
* [[August 23]] - [[Nicola Sacco]], Italian anarchist (executed) (b. [[1891]])
*August 23 - [[Bartolomeo Vanzetti]], Italian anarchist (executed) (b. [[1888]])
* [[September 5]] - [[Wayne Wheeler]], American temperance movement leader (b. [[1868]])
* [[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 in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1859]])
* [[October 10]] - [[Gustave Whitehead]], German-born aviation pioneer (b. [[1874]])

==Marriages==
* [[January 5]] - [[Ub Iwerks]] & [[Mildred Sarah Henderson]]
* [[January 21]] - [[Edward G. Robinson]] & [[Gladys Lloyd]]
* [[January 24]] - [[Jack Benny]] & [[Mary Livingstone]]
* [[January 27]] - [[Violet Wilkey]] & [[Russell Gilbert Kauffmann]]
* [[February 6]] - [[Jack Dougherty]] & [[Virginia Brown Faire]]
* [[February 10]] - [[Robert Ames]] & [[Muriel Oakes]]
* [[February 14]] - [[Michael Todd]] & [[Bertha Freeman]]
* [[February 28]] - [[Josephine V. Ferroli]] & [[Bruno Ferroli]]
* [[April 11]] - [[Violet Knights]] & [[Fred MacKaye]]
* [[April 12]] - [[Zeppo Marx]] & [[Marion Benda]]
* [[April 20]] - [[Musidora]] & [[Dr. Clement Marot]]
* [[April 21]] - [[A. Viruly]] & [[Dina Maria Tobia van Hattum]]
* [[May 10]] - [[Ernest Hemingway]] & [[Pauline Pfeiffer]]
* [[May 12]] - [[Hans Hedtoft]] & [[Ella Gudrun Ingeborg Holleufer]]
* [[May 14]] - [[Pola Negri]] & [[Prince Serge Mdivani]]
* [[May 19]] - [[Zora Neale Hurston]] & [[Herbert Sheen]]
* [[May 30]] - [[Florence Eldridge]] & [[Fredric March]]
* [[June 5]] - [[Elsa Chauvel]] & [[Charles Chauvel]]
* [[June 6]] - [[Shirley Grey]] & [[John Wilmot Crosby]]
* [[June 10]] - [[Maude George]] & [[Frank Passmore]]
* [[June 12]] - [[Guglielmo Marconi]] & [[Maria Bezzi-Scali]]
* [[June 19]] - [[Adrienne Morrison]] & [[Eric Pinker]]
* [[June 22]] - [[Blind Willie Johnson]] & [[Angeline]]
* [[June 26]] - [[Rod La Rocque]] & [[Vilma Bánky]]
* [[June 29]] - [[Jackie Saunders]] & [[J. Ward Cohen]]
* [[July 27]] - [[Bernard L. Montgomery]] & [[Elizabeth Hobart Carver]]
* [[August 5]] - [[Ernest Maas]] & [[Frederica Sagor]]
* [[September 17]] - [[Louis Calhern]] & [[Julia Hoyt]]
* [[September 17]] - [[Alice O'Fredericks]] & [[Oskar Klintholm]]
* [[September 29]] - [[Norma Shearer]] & [[Irving Thalberg]]
* [[September 30]] - [[Chester Morris]] & [[Suzanne Kilborn]]
* [[October 11]] - [[Milton S. Eisenhower]] & [[Helen Elsie Eakin]]
* [[October 16]] - [[Thompson Buchanan]] & [[Joan Lowell]]
* [[October 22]] - [[William Bendix]] & [[Theresa Stefanotti]]
* [[October 26]] - [[Harvey Parry]] & [[Dorothy Abril Boswell]]
* [[October 28]] - [[Darwin L. Teilhet]] & [[Hildegarde Tolman]]
* [[October 30]] - [[Gert Kubrick]] & [[Jacob Leonard Cubrick]]
* [[November 26]] - [[Maria von Trapp]] & [[Georg von Trapp]]
* [[November 29]] - [[Dr. Seuss]] & [[Helen Palmer]]
* [[December 17]] - [[Percy Marks]] & [[Margaret Ellen Gates]]

==Nobel Prizes==
* [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] - [[Arthur Holly Compton]], [[Charles Thomson Rees Wilson]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] - [[Heinrich Otto Wieland]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Physiology or Medicine]] - [[Julius Wagner-Jauregg]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Literature]] - [[Henri Bergson]]
* [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] - [[Ferdinand Buisson]], [[Ludwig Quidde]]

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1927 - Revision history

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