Today in History for Year 1927

Months in Year 1927: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 258

Jan 1st - Communist uprising in West Java
Jan 1st - Dodgers announce release of future Hall of Fame Zack Wheat
Jan 1st - Turkey adopts the Gregorian calendar: December 18, 1926 (Julian), is immediately followed by January 1, 1927 (Gregorian).
Jan 5th - Fox Studios exhibits Movietone
Jan 5th - Judge Landis begins 3-day public hearing on charges that 4 games played between Chicago & Detroit in 1917 had been thrown to White Sox
Jan 6th - US marines sent to Nicaragua
Jan 7th - Coml transatlantic telephone service inaugurated between NY & London
Jan 7th - Harlem Globetrotters play 1st game (Hinckley, Illinois)
Jan 9th - Dmitri Shostakovitch' Octet opus 11, premieres in Moscow
Jan 9th - Fire in Laurier Palace cinema in Montreal, 78 children died
Jan 10th - Fritz Lang's Metropolis premieres
Jan 11th - Royale Theater (Golden, CBS Radio Playhouse) opens at 242 W 45th NYC
Jan 13th - US & Mexico battle over oil interests
Jan 14th - Toronto Maple Leafs 1st hat trick (Hap Day) vs NY Rangers
Jan 19th - British government decides to send troops to China
Jan 21st - 1st national opera broadcast from a US opera house (Faust, Chicago)
Jan 24th - Director Alfred Hitchcock releases his first film, The Pleasure Garden, in England.
Jan 26th - Maxwell Anderson's "Saturday's Children," premieres in NYC
Jan 28th - Serbian-Croatian-Slavic government of Oezonowitsj falls
Director Alfred Hitchcock Jan 29th - 4th German government of Marx forms
Jan 30th - Left wins national election in Thuringen
Jan 31st - Intl allies military command in Germany disbands
Jan 31st - NL Pres John Heydler rules Rogers Hornsby can't hold stock in the Cardinals & play for the Giants
Feb 2nd - Harry Tierney/Joseph McCarthy's "Rio Rita," premieres in NYC
Feb 2nd - Ziegfeld Theater (Loew's Ziegfeld) opens at 6th Ave & 54th St NYC
Feb 3rd - Uprising against regime of general Carmona in Portugal
Feb 4th - KGA-AM in Spokane WA begins radio transmissions
Feb 5th - Buster Keaton's movie "The General" released & bombed
Feb 8th - Belgian-Swiss treaty signed
Feb 10th - Pres Calvin Coolidge asks for 2nd disarmament conference
Feb 11th - US female Figure Skating championship won by Beatrix Loughran
Feb 11th - US male Figure Skating championship won by Nathaniel Niles
Feb 12th - British expeditionary army lands in Shanghai
Feb 13th - Uprising against Portuguese regime of Gen Carmona defeated
30th US President Calvin Coolidge Feb 16th - Noel Coward's "Marquise," premieres in London
Feb 16th - US restores diplomatic relations with Turkey
Feb 18th - 1st US radio broadcast of "Cities Service Concerts"
Feb 18th - US & Canada begin diplomatic relations
Feb 19th - General strike against British occupiers in Shanghai
Feb 20th - Golfers in SC arrested for violating Sabbath
Feb 21st - Franz Lehr's opera "Zarewitsch," premieres
Feb 22nd - ARC soccer team forms in Alphen on the Rhine
Feb 22nd - Baruch Spinosa's house of mourning opened as a museum
Feb 23rd - Pres Calvin Coolidge creates Federal Radio Commission (FRC)
Feb 24th - John Golden Theater (Theatre Masque) opens at 252 W 45th St NYC
Feb 25th - Gdanks & Polish accord concerning traffic through Polish corridor
Feb 27th - For 2nd Sunday in a row golfers in SC arrested for violating Sabbath
Mar 1st - Bank of Italy becomes a Natl Bank
Mar 2nd - Babe Ruth becomes highest paid baseball player ($70,000 per year)
Baseball Great Babe Ruth Mar 5th - 1,000 US marines land in China to protect American property
Mar 7th - Earthquake measuring 8 on Richter scale strikes Tango, Japan
Mar 8th - Pan American Airlines incorporates
Mar 10th - Albania mobilize by threat of Serbian, Croatian & Slovenes
Mar 10th - Bavaria lifts ban on Hitler's speeches
Mar 11th - 1st armored commercial car hold-up in US, Pittsburgh
Mar 11th - 1st golden gloves tournament
Mar 11th - Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens famous Roxy Theater (NYC)
Mar 17th - US government doesn't sign league of Nations disarmament treaty
Mar 19th - Bloody battles between communists & nazis in Berlin
Mar 21st - Guomindang Army conquerors Shanghai as British marines flee
Mar 22nd - Federico Garcia Lorca's "El Maleficio," premieres in Madrid
Mar 24th - Cuban chess champ, Jose Capablanca wins 33-day Grand Chess Tournie
Mar 24th - Dutch 1st Chamber condemns Belgian & Neth's Wielingen Treaty
Mar 26th - Alfred Hugenberg purchases German film company UFA
Mar 26th - Gaumont-British Film Corporation forms
Mar 28th - Majestic Theater opens at 245 W 44th St NYC
Mar 29th - Henry O D Seagrave races his Sunbeam to a record 203.79 mph at Daytona
Apr 1st - 1st automatic record changer introduced by His Master's Voice
Apr 3rd - Interstate Commerce Comm transfers Ohio to Eastern time zone
Apr 5th - Johnny Weissmuller set records in 100 & 200 m free style
Apr 7th - Using phone lines TV is sent from Wash DC to NYC
Apr 9th - Italy & US anarchists Sacco & Vanzetti given death sentences
Apr 11th - Chilean gen Carlos Ibáñez names himself president
Apr 12th - Gen Chiang Kai-shek begins counter revolution in Shanghai
Apr 13th - Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators beat Boston Bruins, in 2 games & 2 ties
Apr 14th - The first Volvo car premieres in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Apr 15th - Babe Ruth hits 1st of 60 HRs of season (off A's Howard Ehmke)
Apr 15th - Switzerland & USSR agree to diplomatic relations
Apr 17th - Japan's Wakarsoeki government falls/Baron Tanaka becomes premier
Apr 18th - Chiang Kai-Shek forms anti-government in China
Apr 19th - "Vagabond King" opens in London
Apr 19th - 31st Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar of Mass in 2:40:22.2
Apr 22nd - 1st performance of Roger Sessions' Symphony in E
Apr 25th - Spain routes 20,000 soldiers to Morocco (uprising Rifkabylen)
Apr 27th - Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmery) are created.
Apr 29th - Construction of Spirit of St Louis is completed
Apr 30th - Princess Juliana gets seat in Dutch Council of State
May 1st - 1st British airliner to serve cooked meals (Imperial Airways)
May 1st - Netherlands beats Belgium 3-2 in soccer match in Amsterdam
May 1st - Panningen soccer team forms in Panningen
May 2nd - Intl Economic Conference (52 countries including USSR) opens
May 2nd - Pulitzer prize awarded to Louis Bromfield (Early Autumn)
May 4th - 1st balloon flight over 40,000 feet (Scott Field, Ill)
May 4th - Nicaragua agrees to a US supervised presidential election in 1928
May 5th - Dmitri Sjostakovitch' 1st Symphony, premieres in Berlin
May 7th - SF Municipal Airport (Mills Field) dedicated
May 7th - Angelos Sikelianos organizes the first Delphic Festival in Delphi to celebrate the ancient Greek Delphic ideal.
May 9th - 53rd Preakness: Whitey Abel aboard Bostonian wins in 2:01.6
May 9th - Canberra replaces Melbourne as the capital of Australia
May 9th - The Australian Parliament first convenes in Canberra.

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 672

Jan 1st - Barbara Baxley, Stockton CA, actress (Norma Rae, Countdown)
Jan 1st - Juliusz Luciuk, composer
Jan 1st - Yuri Grigorovich, Leningrad, choreographer
Jan 1st - Doak Walker, American football star (d. 1998)
Jan 1st - Calum MacKay, Canadian hockey player (d. 2001)
Jan 1st - Maurice Béjart, French choreographer (d. 2007)
Jan 1st - Pat Heywood, Scottish actress
Jan 1st - Vernon L. Smith, American economist, winner
Jan 2nd - David Herbert, publisher
Jan 2nd - Gino Marchetti, NFL defensive end (Dallas Texans, Baltimore Colts)
Jan 2nd - Richard Belmont Ray, (Rep-D-Ga) [or Feb 2]
Jan 4th - Barbara Rush, Denver Co, actress (Marsha-Peyton Place, Flamingo Road)
Jan 4th - Paul Desmarais, Canadian businessman
Jan 8th - Charles Tomlinson, British poet and translator
Jan 10th - Gisele MacKenzie, Winnipeg Manitoba, singer/actress (Your Hit Parade)
Jan 10th - Johnnie Ray, Dallas OR, pop singer (Cry)
Jan 10th - Lee Philips, Bkln NY, actor (Ellery Queen)
Jan 10th - Otto Stich, Swiss politician
Jan 11th - John Hayes, cricketer (NZ fast bowler in 15 Tests 1951-58)
Jan 11th - Wilton "Bogey" Gaynair, saxophonist
Jan 12th - Leopold Ahsen, writer
Jan 12th - Salvatore Martirano, composer
Jan 13th - Brock Adams, American politician (d. 2004)
Jan 13th - Sydney Brenner, British Nobel Laureate
Jan 14th - Ivan Kalita, USSR, equestrian dressage (Olympic-silver-1968)
Jan 14th - Zuzana Ruzickova, Czech harpsichordist
Jan 15th - Francis Routh, composer
Jan 15th - Norm Crosby, Boston MA, comedian (Young at Heart Comedians)
Jan 17th - Donald Erb, Youngstown, Ohio, composer
Jan 17th - Eartha Kitt, singer/actress (Catwoman-Batman)
Jan 17th - Michael Herford Wooller, TV/film producer
Jan 17th - Dr Tom Dooley, American humanitarian (d. 1961)
Jan 18th - Sundaram Balachander, Indian veena player (d. 1990)
Jan 20th - Geoffrey WT Atkins, British World Champion racket player (1954-72)
Jan 20th - Olivier Strebelle, Belgian sculptor/ceramist
Jan 21st - Clive Churchill, Australian rugby league footballer (d. 1985)
Jan 22nd - Joe Perry, NFL Hall-of-Famer
Jan 22nd - Lou Creekmur, Baseball Hall-of-Famer
Jan 23rd - Lars-Eric Lindblad, Swedish-American entrepreneur and explorer (d. 1994)
Jan 24th - Paula Hawkins, (Sen-R-FL, 1981-86)
Jan 24th - Sir Patrick Macnaghten, 11th Baronet, British aristocrat (d. 2007)
Jan 25th - Antonio Carlos Jobim, composer
Jan 25th - Gregg Palmer, SF, actor (Scream, To Hell & Back)
Jan 25th - Seung Sahn, zen teacher (Korean line)
Jan 25th - Fernie Flaman [Ferdinand], Dysart, SK, CAN, Hall of Fame NHL player (Boston Bruins and Toronto Maple Leafs), (d. 2012)
Jan 26th - Jose Simon Azcona Hoyo, president of Honduras (1986-90)
Jan 26th - William Redfield, NYC, actor (Jimmy Hughes Rookie Cop, Marriage)
Jan 26th - Bob Nieman, American baseball player (d. 1985)
Jan 27th - Doretta Morrow, NYC, actress (Because You're Mine)
Jan 27th - Joe Perry, AAFC/NFL Hall of Fame fullback (SF 49ers, Balt Colts)
Jan 27th - Michael Craig, Poona India, actor (Escape 2000, Vault of Horror)
Jan 27th - Nancy Dickerson, journalist (NBC)
Jan 28th - Anthony Garner, director (Conservative Central Office)
Jan 28th - J D Hughes, Principal (Ruskin College-Oxford)
Jan 28th - James Callaghan, British MP
Jan 28th - Ronnie Scott, jazz musician/club-owner
Jan 29th - Edward Abbey, US author (Desert Solitaire)
Jan 30th - Olof Palme, Stockholm, PM of Sweden (1969-76, 1982-86) assassinated
Feb 1st - Galway Kinnell, Providence RI, author (Body Rags, Book of Nightmares)
Feb 2nd - Friedrich K Flick, German industrialist
Feb 2nd - Richard Ray, (Rep-D-GA, 1983- ) [or Jan 2]
Feb 2nd - Richard Vance Maxfield, composer
Feb 2nd - Stan Getz, Phila, jazz tenor saxophonist (Benny Goodman, Jimmy Dorsey)
Feb 3rd - Kenneth Anger, American Underground Filmmaker
Feb 3rd - Val Doonican, Irish singer and entertainer
Feb 3rd - Joan Lowery Nixon, American writer (d. 2003)
Feb 3rd - Blas Ople, Filipino politician (d. 2003)
Feb 5th - Robert Brown, Herbrides Is, actor (Here Come the Brides, Primus)
Feb 5th - Val Dufour, New Orleans LA, actor (Eugenie Grandet, Another World)
Feb 5th - Ruth Fertel, American entrepreneur (d. 2002)
Feb 6th - Smokey Burgess, baseball catcher (Pittsburgh Pirates)
Feb 7th - John Buller, composer
Feb 7th - Vladimir Kuts, Russian runner (d. 1975)
Feb 8th - John T Myers, (Rep-R-IN, 1967- )
Feb 8th - Stanley Baker, Ferndale Wales, actor (Concrete Jungle, Zorro, Zulu)
Feb 8th - Zdenek Zouhar, composer
Feb 9th - Donald Miller, CEO (Scottish Power)
Feb 9th - Norman Adams, painter/ceramic sculptor
Feb 10th - Jakov Lind, German/British author (Counting My Footsteps)
Opera Soprano Leontyne Mary Violet Price (Feb 10th) Feb 10th - Leontyne Mary Violet Price, Laurel Miss, opera soprano (Porgy & Bess)
Feb 10th - Nigel Bagnall, British field marshal
Feb 10th - Viscount Cowdray, British financier/multi-millionaire
Feb 12th - Anne Gillis, Little Rock Ark, actress (Adv of Tom Sawyer, Little Men)
Feb 13th - Harry Wich, Dutch set designer
Feb 14th - Lois Maxwell, Kitchener Ontario, actress (Miss Moneypenny)
Feb 15th - Frank Dunlop, director (Edinburgh International Festival)
Feb 15th - Gottfrid Grasbeck, composer
Feb 15th - Harvey Korman, Chicago, actor (Carol Burnett Show, Blazing Saddles)
Feb 15th - William Bentley, diplomat
Feb 16th - June Brown, British actress
Feb 18th - Fazal Mahmood, cricketer (Pakistani medium-pace workhorse 1952-62)
Feb 18th - John W Warner, (Sen-R-VA, 1979- ), married Liz Taylor
Feb 18th - Tabe Bas, actor/opera vocalist (Leiser Wolf in Anatevka)
Feb 18th - Luis Arroyo, Puerto Rican baseball player
Feb 19th - Rene Firino-Martell, cognac manufacturer
Feb 20th - Roy Cohn, lawyer, "grand inquisitor" (for Sen Joseph McCarthy)
Feb 20th - Sidney Poitier, American actor
Feb 21st - Erma Bombeck, Dayton Ohio, humorist (Grass is Always Greener...)
Feb 21st - Hubert de Givenchy, Beauvais France, fashion designer (Audrey Hepburn)
Feb 21st - Pierre Mercure, composer

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 3 of 3

Apr 23rd - Mary Barbara Hamilton (25,)best-selling British romantic author, marries 1st husband Alexander McQorquodale
May 10th - 1954 Nobel Prize winner in Literature Ernest Hemingway (27) weds journalist Pauline Pfeiffer (31)
Jul 27th - Major Bernard Montgomery (29) marries widow Betty Carver

Famous Divorces

Divorces 1 - 1 of 1

Mar 10th - American author and journalist "The Old man and the Sea" Enerest Hemingway divorces 1st wife Elizabeth Hadley Richardson

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 98 of 98

Jan 3rd - Carle David Tolmé Runge, German physicist (b. 1856)
Jan 9th - Houston S Chamberlain, British/German race theorist, dies at 71
Jan 17th - Juliette Gordon Low, American founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA (b. 1860)
Jan 19th - Charlotte MAAVCL, princess of Belg/emp of Mexico (1864-67), dies at 86
Jan 19th - Empress Carlotta of Mexico (b. 1840)
Jan 21st - Floris H Verster, Dutch painter/cartoonist/etcher, dies at 65
Jan 27th - Georgios Grivas, Cyprus-born general in the Greek Army
Jan 27th - Blessed Jurgis Matulaitis-Matulevičius (Matulewicz), Lithuanian bishop
Jan 30th - Friedrich Ernst Koch, composer, dies at 64
Feb 4th - Thomas Linnemann Laub, composer, dies at 74
Feb 5th - Inayat Khan, Indian sufi
Feb 6th - Daniel F Scheurleer, Dutch musicologist/banker, dies at 71
Feb 6th - Sam Maguire, Irish Republican and Gaelic footballer (b. 1879)
Feb 13th - Brooks Adams, US philosopher (New Empire), dies at 78
Feb 19th - Georg Brandes, [Cohen], Danish literary-historian/critic, dies at 85
Feb 19th - Robert Fuchs, composer, dies at 80
Feb 23rd - Sveinbjorn Sveinbjornsson, composer, dies at 79
Mar 3rd - Mikhail Artsybashev, Russian writer (b. 1878)
Mar 3rd - J.G. Parry-Thomas, Welsh motor-racing driver (b. 1884)
Mar 4th - Ira Remsen American chemist (b. 1846)
Mar 5th - Franz Mertens, German mathematician (b. 1840)
Mar 17th - James Scott Skinner, composer, dies at 83
Mar 23rd - Paul César Helleu, French artist (b. 1859)
Mar 27th - Joe Start, American baseball player (b. 1842)
Mar 28th - Karl Prohaska, composer, dies at 57
Mar 31st - Borisav "Bora" Stanković, Serbian writer (b. 1875)
Apr 10th - Ivo Bligh, cricketer (8th Earl of Darnley, 4 Tests 1882-83), dies
Apr 15th - Francesco Gaeta, Italian poet (Di Giacomo), dies at 47
Apr 15th - Gaston Leroux, French writer (b. 1868)
May 2nd - Ernest Starling, British physiologist (b. 1866)
May 5th - Charles Boissevain, editor in chief (General Trade 1885-1908), dies
May 9th - Tommy Routledge, cricketer (4 Tests for South Africa 1892-96), dies
May 11th - Henry Martyn Robert, (Robert's Rules of Order), dies at 90
May 11th - Juan Gris, Spanish cubist painter, dies at 40
May 17th - Harold Geiger, U.S. Army aviation pioneer (b. 1884)
May 18th - Andrew Kehoe, American mass murderer (b. 1872)
May 25th - Payne Whitney, American businessman (b. 1876)
May 28th - Georges Eekhoud, Belgian writer (Belgian Kempen), dies
May 28th - Boris Kustodiev, Russian painter (b. 1878)
Jun 1st - J. B. Bury, Irish historian (b. 1861)
Jun 2nd - Eduard GHH Cuypers, architect (De Hooge Vuursche), dies at 67
Jun 2nd - Freidrich Hegar, composer, dies at 85
Murderer Lizzie Borden (Jun 2nd) Jun 2nd - Lizzie Borden, American accused murderer, dies at 68
Jun 5th - Paul Lacombe, composer, dies at 89
Jun 7th - Voikov, Soviet ambassador to Warsaw, murdered
Jun 7th - Edmund James Flynn, Premier of Quebec (b. 1847)
Jun 11th - William Attewell, cricket bowler (England in 10 Tests 1884-1891), dies
Jun 13th - Henry CK "Clan" Petty-Fitzmaurice, gov of India (1888-94), dies at 82
Jun 14th - Johanna C P Barbiers, actress (Voddenraper of Paris), dies at 79
Jun 14th - Ottavio Bottecchia, Italian cyclist (b. 1894)
Jun 14th - Jerome K. Jerome, British author (b. 1859)
Jul 5th - Albrecht Kossel, German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1853)
Jul 7th - Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Swedish mathematician (b. 1846)
Jul 9th - John Drew Jr., American actor (b. 1853)
Jul 10th - Kevin O'Higgins, Irish Free State VP, assassinated
Jul 13th - James E K Aggrey, Ghana/US theologist, dies
Jul 20th - Ferdinand I VAM, King of Romania, dies at 61
Jul 21st - J J Lyons, cricketer (14 Tests for Australia), dies
Jul 23rd - Saad Zaghlul, Egyptian parliament chairman, dies at 74
Jul 24th - Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Japanese writer (b. 1892)
Jul 25th - Matilde Serao, [Tuffolina], Italian writer (Land of Cockayne), dies
Jul 30th - Robert Marquies de Flers, French writer (Monsieur Bretonneau), dies
Aug 4th - John Dillon, Irish nationalist/British Lower house leader, dies at 75
Aug 5th - Tom Groube, cricketer (Test for Australia 1880), dies
Aug 13th - James Curwood, US journalist/writer (Valley of Silent Men), dies at 49
Aug 17th - Horace Alderman, US, murderer, hanged
Aug 23rd - Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti, executed in Mass
Sep 12th - Walther Amelung, German archaeologist, dies at 61
Sep 12th - Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer (b. 1847)
Sep 14th - Isadora Duncan, dies as her scarf became entangled in her car's wheel
Sep 15th - Herman Gorter, socialist/poet (Mai, Pan), dies at 62
Sep 19th - Michael Peter Ancher, Danish painter (b. 1849)
Sep 20th - George Nichols, actor (His Favorite Pastime, Star Boarder), dies at 62
Sep 22nd - Giannotto Bastianelli, composer, dies at 44
Sep 29th - Willem Einthoven, Dutch physiologist (Nobel-1924), dies at 67
Sep 29th - Arthur Achleitner, German writer (b. 1858)
Oct 1st - Wilhelm Harteveld, composer, dies at 68
Oct 2nd - Svante August Arrhenius, chemist, dies
Oct 10th - Gustave Whitehead, German-born inventor (b. 1874)
Oct 20th - Mikhail Mikhaylovich Ivanov, composer, dies at 78
Oct 22nd - Ross Youngs, Hall of Fame baseballer, dies of Bright's disease at 30
Oct 22nd - Borisav "Bora" Stanković, Serbian writer (b. 1876)
Oct 28th - Eaton Faning, composer, dies at 77
Oct 29th - Leonard Nelson, Ger philosopher (Nelson-Friessche Schule), dies at 45
Nov 1st - Florence Mills, dancer/singer, dies in NYC at 32
Nov 3rd - Karel Matěj Čapek-Chod, Czech journalist (b. 1860)
Nov 9th - Ole Olsen, composer, dies at 77
Nov 17th - Adolf A Joffe, Russian author/diplomat, commits suicide at 44
Nov 20th - Karl Wilhelm Eugen Stenhammer, composer, dies at 56
Nov 23rd - S Przybyszewski, writer, dies
Nov 26th - Jean-Louis Pisuisse, Dutch performer (governess), assassinated at 47
Nov 28th - Arthur Wichmann, German/Dutch geologist (New-Guinea), dies
Nov 29th - George Giffen, cricketer (251 FC games, 11758 runs, 1023 wkts), dies
Dec 12th - Heinrich Reitsch, composer, dies at 67
Dec 14th - Yulian Vasilievich Sokhotski, Russian mathematician (b. 1842)
Dec 16th - Hugh Archibald Clarke, composer, dies at 88
Dec 21st - Jack Saunders, cricketer (79 wickets-14 Tests for Aust 1902-08), dies
Dec 25th - Sergei D Sazonov, Russian Foreign minister (1910-16), dies at 66