Dictionary of Meaning
<<Back
Please select a letter:
A |
B |
C |
D |
E |
F |
G |
H |
I |
J |
K |
L |
M |
N |
O |
P |
Q |
R |
S |
T |
U |
V |
W |
X |
Y |
Z |
0-9
Click here for Shopping
1927
*** Shopping-Tip: 1927
{{yearbox|
| in?=
| cp=19th century
| c=20th century
| cf=21st century
| yp1=1924
| yp2=1925
| yp3=1926
| year=1927
| ya1=1928
| ya2=1929
| ya3=1930
| dp3=1890s
| dp2=1900s
| dp1=1910s
| d=1920s
| dn1=1930s
| dn2=1940s
| dn3=1950s
}}
{{C20YearInTopic}}
'''1927''' ('''
Roman numerals 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
veterans 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.
*
March 11 -
First armoured car robbery, committed by the
Flatheads gang.
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 18 - Bombings result in 45 deaths, mostly children, in the
Bath School disaster.
*
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 Ts and begins to retool plants to make
Ford Model As.
*
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
monarchists, 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, ice president of the
Irish Free State, assassinated in
Dublin
*
July 15 - 85 protesters and 5 policemen are dead after left-wing protesters and the
Austrian 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 - 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 (d.
2006)
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
*
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)
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 19 - Empress
Carlota of Mexico (b.
1840)
*
February 19 -
Robert Fuchs, Austrian composer (b.
1847)
*
March 4 -
Ira Remsen, American chemist, discoverer of
saccharin (b.
1846)
*
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 14 -
Hugo Ball, German poet, founder of Dada (b.
1886)
*
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
*
February 14 -
Michael Todd &
Bertha Freeman
*
April 12 -
Zeppo Marx &
Marion Benda
*
April 20 -
Musidora &
Dr. Clement Marot
*
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 12 -
Guglielmo Marconi &
Maria Bezzi-Scali
*
June 22 -
Blind Willie Johnson &
Angeline
*
June 26 -
Rod La Rocque &
Vilma Bánky
*
July 27 -
Bernard L. Montgomery &
Elizabeth Hobart Carver
*
August 5 -
Ernest Maas &
Frederica Sagor
*
September 17 -
Louis Calhern &
Julia Hoyt
*
September 29 -
Norma Shearer &
Irving Thalberg
*
September 30 -
Chester Morris &
Suzanne Kilborn
*
October 11 -
Milton S. Eisenhower &
Helen Elsie Eakin
*
October 22 -
William Bendix &
Theresa Stefanotti
*
November 26 -
Maria von Trapp &
Georg von Trapp
*
November 29 -
Dr. Seuss &
Helen Palmer
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
Category:1927
af:1927
ar:1927
ast:1927
az:1927
be:1927
bg:1927
br:1927
bs:1927
ca:1927
cs:1927
csb:1927
cv:1927
cy:1927
da:1927
de:1927
el:1927
eo:1927
es:1927
et:1927
eu:1927
fi:1927
fo:1927
fr:1927
fy:1927
ga:1927
gl:1927
he:1927
hr:1927
hu:1927
ia:1927
id:1927
io:1927
is:1927
it:1927
ja:1927å¹´
ka:1927
ko:1927ë…„
kw:1927
la:1927
lb:1927
lt:1927
mk:1927
ms:1927
nap:1927
nds:1927
nl:1927
nn:1927
no:1927
os:1927
pl:1927
pt:1927
ro:1927
ru:1927
scn:1927
se:1927
simple:1927
sk:1927
sl:1927
sq:1927
sr:1927
sv:1927
th:พ.ศ. 2470
tl:1927
tr:1927
tt:1927
uk:1927
wa:1927
zh:1927å¹´
Category:1920s
ar:تصنيÙ?:1927
de:Kategorie:1927
et:Kategooria:1927
fr:Catégorie:1927
ko:분류:1927년
is:Flokkur:1927
nl:Categorie:1927
ja:Category:1927å¹´
os:Категори:1927
ro:Categorie:1927
ru:КатегориÑ?:1927
simple:Category:1927
sk:Kategória:1927
sl:Kategorija:Leto 1927
tt:Törkem:1927
tr:Kategori:1927
zh:Category:1927å¹´
*** Shopping-Tip: 1927
