Today in History for July 1927

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

Historical Events

Events 1 - 19 of 19

2nd - 40th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats L de Alvarez (62 64)
2nd - Earthquake hits Palestine
3rd - 47th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: H Cochet beats Borotra (46 46 63 64 75)
4th - Ir Sukarno forms PNI (Perserikatan Nasional Indonesia) in Batavia
4th - First flight of the Lockheed Vega.
9th - Atty William T Francis named minister to Liberia
12th - Babe Ruth hits 30th of 60 HRs
14th - 1st commercial airplane flight in Hawaii
15th - 62nd British Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 285 at St Andrews
15th - Massacre of July 15, 1927: 89 protesters are killed by the Austrian police in Vienna.
16th - Augusto Sandino begins 5½ year war against US occupation of Nicaragua
18th - Ty Cobb's 4,000th career hit
19th - Ty Cobb gets his 4,000th hit
20th - Lindbergh begins NY flight (Spirit of St Louis)
24th - The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres.
27th - Mel Ott, 18, hits his 1st league home run (inside the park)
29th - 1st iron lung installed (Bellevue hospital, NY)
29th - Bellevue Hospital in NY installs 1st iron lung
29th - Phil Mead scores his 100th 100, Hampshire v Northants

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 64 of 64

1st - Hans Eklund, composer
1st - Ruben Gomez, baseball player
2nd - Brock Peters, NYC, actor/singer (Carmen Jones, To Kill a Mockingbird)
2nd - Jerome Meyer, horse trainer
2nd - Ruth Berghaus, choreographer/director
3rd - Charles Vandenhove, Belgian architect (Standard-Omnisporthal, Luik)
3rd - Ken Russell, England, director (Tommy, Altered States, Gothic)
3rd - William McMillan, moderator (Gen Assembly of Church of Scot) [or 1/29]
4th - Gina Lollobrigida, Subiaco Italy, actress (Trapeze, Falcon Crest)
4th - Neil Simon, Bronx, playwright (Odd Couple, Plaza Suite, Biloxi Blues)
5th - W M Diggelmann, writer
6th - Charles Whittenberg, composer
6th - Janet Leigh, [Jeanetta Morrison], Merced CA, actress (Psycho), (d. 2004)
6th - Pat Paulsen, Wash, comedian/pres candidate (Smothers Bros Show)
6th - Susan Cabot, Boston, actress (Carnival Rock)
6th - [Jan] Hein Donner, Dutch chess master
6th - Nilo Soruco, Bolivian songwriter (d. 2004)
7th - Alan J Dixon, (Sen-D-IL, 1981- )
7th - Charlie Louvin, Rainsville Ala, country singer (Louvin Brothers)
Actress Janet Leigh (6th) 7th - Doc Severinson, [Carl], Arlington Oregon, bandleader/trumpeter on the Tonight Show
8th - Carlo Franci, composer
8th - Maurice Hayes, Irish politician
9th - Ed Ames, Malden Mass, actor (Mingo-Daniel Boone)
9th - Leonard Patrick "Red" Kelly, NHL hall of famer (Norris trophy)
9th - Red Kelly, Canadian ice hockey player
10th - David Norman Dinkins, (1st black Mayor-D-NYC, 1990-93)
10th - Don Revie, English soccer coach (Leeds, National team)
10th - William Smithers, Richmond Va, actor (Witness, Peyton Place, Attack!)
10th - Grigory Barenblatt, Russian mathematician
10th - Suzanne Cloutier, Canadian film actor (d. 2003)
11th - Herbert Blomstedt, Springfield Mass, conductor (Oslo Phil 1954-61)
12th - Gualberto T Hernandez, perfect minister Neth Antilles
13th - Karl I Pelgrom, Dutch sculptor
13th - Simone Veil, Pres European parliament (France)
14th - John William Chancellor, Chicago Ill, news anchor (NBC, VOA)
15th - Ann Jellicoe, theater director/playwright (Knack)
15th - Carmen Zapata, NYC, actress (Hagen, Viva Valdez, Man & the City)
16th - John Freeland, Legal advisor UK foreign office
16th - John Warr, England, cricket bowler (avg 281)/president (MCC)
16th - Shirley Hughes, author/illustrator
18th - Kurt Masur, German actor (Hotel Deutschland)
18th - Ludwig Harig, writer
18th - Zin Harris, cricketer (father of Chris NZ batsman in 50's & 60's)
19th - Jan Myrdal, Swedish writer/journalist (Albania Defiant)
20th - Anthony Cavendish, British MI 6 agent/banker
20th - Michael Gielen, Austrian conductor/composer
21st - Stefan Niculescu, composer
22nd - George Hunter, South Africa, light heavyweight boxer (Oly-gold-1948)
23rd - Al[fred] A McCandless, (Rep-R-CA, 1983- )
23rd - Elliot McKay See Jr, Dallas Texas, astronaut
24th - James J Howard, (Rep-D-NJ, 1965- )
24th - Wilfred Josephs, composer
25th - Midge Decter, St Paul Minn, anti woman's lib (Liberated Woman...)
25th - Stanley Dancer, harness racer (4 Hambletonians, 3 Trot Triple Crown)
25th - Daniel Ceccaldi, French actor (d. 2003)
25th - Sadiq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani politician (d. 2000)
26th - G S Ramchand, cricketer (valuable all-rounder in 33 Tests for India)
26th - M H W Wells, CEO (Charterhouse Japhet)
27th - Sat Mahajan, Indian politician
28th - John Ashbery, American poet
29th - Harry K V Mulisch, writer (Message to King Rat)
30th - Richard Johnson, actor (Never So Few, Restless, Beyond the Door)
30th - Victor Wong, American actor (d. 2001)
31st - Walter Vogt, writer

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 1 of 1

27th - Major Bernard Montgomery (29) marries widow Betty Carver

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 11 of 11

5th - Albrecht Kossel, German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1853)
7th - Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Swedish mathematician (b. 1846)
9th - John Drew Jr., American actor (b. 1853)
10th - Kevin O'Higgins, Irish Free State VP, assassinated
13th - James E K Aggrey, Ghana/US theologist, dies
20th - Ferdinand I VAM, King of Romania, dies at 61
21st - J J Lyons, cricketer (14 Tests for Australia), dies
23rd - Saad Zaghlul, Egyptian parliament chairman, dies at 74
24th - Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Japanese writer (b. 1892)
25th - Matilde Serao, [Tuffolina], Italian writer (Land of Cockayne), dies
30th - Robert Marquies de Flers, French writer (Monsieur Bretonneau), dies