Today in History for March 1927

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 20 of 20

1st - Bank of Italy becomes a Natl Bank
2nd - Babe Ruth becomes highest paid baseball player ($70,000 per year)
5th - 1,000 US marines land in China to protect American property
7th - Earthquake measuring 8 on Richter scale strikes Tango, Japan
8th - Pan American Airlines incorporates
10th - Albania mobilize by threat of Serbian, Croatian & Slovenes
10th - Bavaria lifts ban on Hitler's speeches
11th - 1st armored commercial car hold-up in US, Pittsburgh
11th - 1st golden gloves tournament
11th - Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens famous Roxy Theater (NYC)
17th - US government doesn't sign league of Nations disarmament treaty
19th - Bloody battles between communists & nazis in Berlin
21st - Guomindang Army conquerors Shanghai as British marines flee
22nd - Federico Garcia Lorca's "El Maleficio," premieres in Madrid
24th - Cuban chess champ, Jose Capablanca wins 33-day Grand Chess Tournie
24th - Dutch 1st Chamber condemns Belgian & Neth's Wielingen Treaty
26th - Alfred Hugenberg purchases German film company UFA
26th - Gaumont-British Film Corporation forms
28th - Majestic Theater opens at 245 W 44th St NYC
Baseball Great Babe Ruth 29th - Henry O D Seagrave races his Sunbeam to a record 203.79 mph at Daytona

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 80 of 80

1st - Harry Belafonte, Harlem NYC, calypso singer (Buck & the Preacher)
1st - Lusine Amara, opera/concert singer
1st - Robert Heron Bork, judge, nominated for supreme court, (d. 2012)
2nd - Siegfried Kohler, composer
2nd - Witold Szalonec, composer
2nd - Roger Walkowiak, French cyclist
3rd - Charles O Whitley, (Rep-D-NC, 1977- )
3rd - Frank Singleton, librarian
3rd - John McLaughlin, commentator (McLaughlin Report)
3rd - Pierre Aubert, member of the Swiss Federal Council
4th - Robert Di Domenica, composer
4th - Thayer David, MA, actor (Eiger Sanction, Rocky, Nero Wolfe, Savages)
4th - Philip Batt, 29th Governor of the U.S. state of Idaho
4th - Robert Orben, American magician
4th - Dick Savitt, American tennis player
5th - Jack Cassidy, Richmond Hill VA, actor (Oscar/Jetman-He & She)
6th - Gabriel García Márquez, Aracataca, Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist (1982 Nobel Prize in Literature)
6th - John Fairchild, Newark NJ, CEO (Fairchild publishing)
6th - Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr, Shawnee Oklahoma, USAF/astronaut (Mer 9, Gem 5)
Colombian Writer and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Gabriel García Márquez (6th) 6th - Norman Treigle, New Orleans Louisiana, bass-baritone
6th - William J Bell, Chicago Ill, soap opera creator (Young & Restless)
7th - James Broderick, American actor (d. 1982)
7th - Jean-Paul Desbiens, Quebec writer and teacher (d. 2006)
7th - Henri Landwirth, Belgian-American hotel owner and philanthropist
8th - Jaromir Podesva, composer
8th - Joseph Berg, composer
9th - Hans Ludwig Schilling, composer
9th - Jack Jensen, baseball player (AL MVP 1958)
9th - John Beckwith, composer
10th - Claude Laydu, actress (Diary of a Country Priest)
10th - Donn Trenner, New Haven Ct, orchestra leader (ABC's Nightlife)
10th - Paul Wunderlich, German lithographer/painter/sculptor
11th - Alan Betts, emeritus professor (Royal Veterinary College)
11th - Raymond Jackson, [Jaki], British cartoonist
11th - Robert Mosbacher, US politician(?)
11th - Ron Todd, British trade unionist
12th - Mstislav Rostropovich, Baku Russia, cellist (Cello Concerto) [3/22 NS]
12th - Raul Alfonsin, president (Argentina)
13th - Charles Sickman Corsen, Dutch Antillean poet
13th - Robert Denning, American interior designer (d. 2005)
14th - Bill Rexford, auto racer
14th - Joop F Wolff, Dutch editor (Truth)/Dutch politician (CPN)
15th - Carl Smith, Maynardville Tn, country singer (Grand Ole Opry)
15th - Philip Vincent Belloc Jebb, architect
15th - Stanisław Kania, Polish politician
16th - Daniel Patrick Moynihan, US ambassador to UN/(Sen-D-NY, 1977- )
16th - Karlheinz Boehm, Germany, actor (Face of Fear, Peeping Tom, Unnatural)
16th - Olga San Juan, NYC, actress (Variety Girl, 1 Touch of Venus)
16th - Vladimir M Komarov, Moscow Russia, cosmonaut (Voshkod I Soyuz 1)
17th - Kenneth S Goldstein, folklorist/enthomusicologist
17th - Maurice Ingvar Karkoff, composer
17th - Nancy Sheehan, writer
17th - Patrick Allen, Malawi, actor (Roman Holiday, Dial "M" for Murder)
17th - Sulkhan Ivanovich Nasidze, composer
18th - George Plimpton, NYC, sports writer (Paper Lion)
18th - John Harold Kander, composer (Cabaret, Funny Lady, Kramer vs Kramer)
19th - Richie Ashburn, baseball infielder (Philadelphia Phillies)/sportscaster
20th - John Pierre Herman Joubert, composer (Chamber Music for brass quintet)
21st - Hans-Dietrich Genscher, German minister of Foreign affairs (FDP)
22nd - George Thoms, cricketer (1 Test Aust against WI 1952, scored 16 & 28)
22nd - Mstislav Rostropovich, composer [3/12 OS]
22nd - Viscount Bolingbroke
23rd - Osvaldo Lacerda, composer
24th - Janos Decsenyi, composer
24th - Martin Walser, writer
25th - Leslie Claudius, India, field hockey (Olympic-gold-1948, 52, 56)
26th - Jonathan Tod, Vice-Admiral (England)
27th - Anthony Lewis, columnist (NY Times)/author (Gideon's Trumpet)
27th - Lord Fanshawe of Richmond, MP
27th - Mstislav Leopold Rostropovich, Baku USSR, cellist/conductor
28th - Marianne Fredriksson, Swedish author (d. 2007)
29th - Arthur Ravenel Jr, (Rep-R-South Carolina)
29th - John McLaughlin, TV commentator (McLaughlin Group)
29th - John Vane, FRS/pharmacologist
29th - Donald Ross [Lord Ross], Dundee, Scottish judge
30th - Lord Armstrong of Ilminster
30th - Peter Marshall, Huntington WV, TV game show host (Hollywood Squares)
30th - Wally Grout, cricketer (great Aussie wicket-keeper)
Farm Labor Leader Cesar Chavez (31st) 31st - Cesar Chavez, Yuma Az, farm labor leader (United Farm Workers)
31st - William Daniels, Bkln NY, actor (Dr Mark Craig-St Elsewhere, 1776)

Famous Divorces

Divorces 1 - 1 of 1

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

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 9 of 9

3rd - Mikhail Artsybashev, Russian writer (b. 1878)
3rd - J.G. Parry-Thomas, Welsh motor-racing driver (b. 1884)
4th - Ira Remsen American chemist (b. 1846)
5th - Franz Mertens, German mathematician (b. 1840)
17th - James Scott Skinner, composer, dies at 83
23rd - Paul César Helleu, French artist (b. 1859)
27th - Joe Start, American baseball player (b. 1842)
28th - Karl Prohaska, composer, dies at 57
31st - Borisav "Bora" Stanković, Serbian writer (b. 1875)