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1927 (''' MCMXXVII ''') was a Common Year Starting On Saturday (link will take you to calendar).
Events
January-March
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 proclaims the change of his style from 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 - 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 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
October-December
Unknown dates
Births
January
- January 1 - Vernon L. Smith , American economist, 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 , 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 laureate
- April 24 - Alan MacDiarmid , New Zealand chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- April 27 - Coretta Scott King , American civil rights leader (d. 2006 )
May
- 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 laureate
- May 25 - Robert Ludlum , American author (d. 2001 )
- May 30 - Clint Walker , American actor
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
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 laureate (b. 1859 )
- October 10 - Gustave Whitehead , German-born aviation pioneer (b. 1874 )
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