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1927
1927 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar).
Events
January-March
April-June
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April 1 - First female police officers in Dresden
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April 5 - In Britain, Trade Disputes Act forbids strikes of support
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April 7 - Bell Telephone Co. transmits an image of Commerce Secretary Hoover which becomes the first successful long distance demonstration of television.
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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
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April 18 - Nanking government of China, Kuomintang
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April 21 - Banking crisis in Japan
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April 22 - May 5 - The Great Mississippi Flood affects 700,000 people in the greatest national disaster in US history.
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May - Philo Farnsworth transmits first experimental electronic television pictures
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May 7 - Civil war ends in Nicaragua
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May 9 - The Australian Parliament first convenes in Canberra.
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May 11 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the "Academy" in "Academy Awards," is founded.
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May 12 - British police raids the office of Soviet trade delegation
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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.
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May 14 - Cap Arcona's launching, Blohm & Voss shipyard, in Hamburg.
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May 20 - Saudi Arabia becomes independent of the United Kingdom (Treaty of Jedda ).
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May 20-21 first solo non-stop Trans-Atlantic flight from New York to Paris by Charles Lindbergh.
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May 22 - 8.6 richter scale earthquake in Xining, China kills 200.000
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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.
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May 24 - Britain severs diplomatic relations with Soviet Union because of revelations of espionage and underground agitation
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May 27 - Ford Motor Company ceases manufacturing Ford Model Ts and begins to retool plants to make Ford Model As.
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June 4 - Yugoslavia severs diplomatic relations to Albania
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June 7 - Voikov , Soviet ambassador to Warsaw, assassinated
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June 9 - Soviet Union executes 20 British for alleged espionage
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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
October-December
Unknown dates
Year in topic
Births
January
February
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February 2 - Stan Getz, musician (d. 1991)
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February 3 - Val Doonican , Irish singer and entertainer
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February 7 - Juliette Greco, singer and actor
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February 7 - Vladimir Kuts, Soviet long-distance runner
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February 10 - Leontyne Price, American soprano
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February 15 - Harvey Korman, actor, comedian
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February 16 - Tom Kennedy, game show host.
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February 20 - Sidney Poitier, actor
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February 21 - Erma Bombeck, writer, humorist
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February 21 - Hubert de Givenchy, fashion designer
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February 16 - June Brown, British actor
March
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March 1 - Harry Belafonte, musician and actor
- March 1 - Robert Bork, law professor
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March 6 - Gordon Cooper, astronaut (d. 2004)
- March 6 - Wes Montgomery, musician
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March 10 - Paul Wunderlich , painter, graphic artist, sculptor
- March 10 - Jupp Derwall , football coach
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March 11 - Joachim Fuchsberger , actor
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March 16 - Vladimir Komarov, cosmonaut
- March 16 - Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Senator from New York
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March 18 - George Plimpton, writer
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March 21 - Hans-Dietrich Genscher, politician
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March 24 - Martin Walser, author
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March 27 - Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist, conductor
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March 31 - César Chávez, labor activist (d. 1993)
- March 31 - William Daniels, actor
April
May-June
July-August
September-November
December
Deaths
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