Page 16: Historical Events In 1927

Dec 16   G Randall P D Garrett, US, sci-fi writer (Takeoff (too)!) in the year 1927.   

Dec 16   Hugh Archibald Clarke, composer, dies at 88 in the year 1927.   

Dec 17   In the year 1927 bradman scores 118 on 1st-class cricket debut, 188 mins 8 fours   

Dec 17   Richard Long, Chic Ill, actor (Prof-Nanny & the Professor) on this day in history.   

Dec 17   US sub 'S-4' sinks after collision kills all 34 aboard in the year 1927.   

Dec 18   Ramsey Clark, US attorney General (1967-69) in the year 1927.   

Dec 20   In the year 1927 jim Simpson, sportscaster   

Dec 21   In the year 1927 jack Saunders, cricketer (79 wickets-14 Tests for Aust 1902-08), dies   

Dec 21   Michael Carreras, film director on this day in history.   

Dec 24   Test Cricket debut of Walter Hammond, who scored 51 & took 5-36 v S Af on this day in history.   

Dec 25   Sergei D Sazonov, Russian Foreign minister (1910-16), dies at 66 on this day in history.   

Dec 26   Alan King, Bkln NY, comedian/actor (Anderson Tapes, Memories of Me) in the year 1927.   

Dec 27   On this day in history "Show Boat" opens at the Ziegfeld Theater (New York NY)   

Dec 27   On this day in history antony Gardner, British politician   

Dec 27   In London England, the Daily Mail publishes the world's first wire photo, the invention of Winnipeg born engineer William Stephenson, later know as Intrepid, head of British security in North America during World War II in the year 1927.   

Dec 27   Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein II's "Show Boat," premieres in NYC on this day in history.   

Dec 27   Leon Trotsky expelled from the Communist Party in the year 1927.   

Dec 27   In the year 1927 stalin's faction wins All-Union Congress in USSR, Trotsky expelled   

Dec 28   Anne Legendre Armstrong, ambassador (to UK) in the year 1927.   

Dec 28   George Kaufman & Moss Hart's "Royal Family," premieres in NYC in the year 1927.   

Dec 29   In the year 1927 jim Simpson, Wash DC, sportscaster (Monday Night Baseball)   

Dec 30   In the year 1927 bernard Barrow, NYC, actor (Ryan's Hope, Louie Slavinsky-Loving)   

Dec 30   Japan dedicates 1st subway in Orient (route under 2 miles long) in the year 1927.   

Dec 30   Japan dedicates first subway in the Orient (route under 2 miles long) on this day in history.   

Dec 31   In the year 1927 dieter Noll, writer   

Dec 31   Ponsford scores 336 against SA, giving him 1146 for month on this day in history.   

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Jan 01   On this day in history birth of barbara Baxley, Stockton CA, actress (Norma Rae, Countdown)   

Jan 01   In the year 1927 birth of juliusz Luciuk, composer   

Jan 01   In the year 1927 birth of yuri Grigorovich, Leningrad, choreographer   

Jan 01   In the year 1927 birth of doak Walker, American football star (d. 1998)   

Jan 01   On this day in history birth of calum MacKay, Canadian hockey player (d. 2001)   

Jan 01   Maurice Béjart, French choreographer (d. 2007) was born in the year 1927.   

Jan 01   In the year 1927 birth of pat Heywood, Scottish actress   

Jan 01   On this day in history birth of vernon L. Smith, American economist, winner   

Jan 03   In the year 1927 death of carle David Tolmé Runge, German physicist (b. 1856)   

Jan 09   Houston S Chamberlain, British/German race theorist, dies at 71 in the year 1927.   

Jan 17   Juliette Gordon Low, American founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA (b. 1860) died on this day in history.   

Jan 19   On this day in history charlotte MAAVCL, princess of Belg/emp of Mexico (1864-67), dies at 86   

Jan 21   Floris H Verster, Dutch painter/cartoonist/etcher, dies at 65 in the year 1927.   

Jan 27   Georgios Grivas, Cyprus-born general in the Greek Army died in the year 1927.   

Jan 30   In the year 1927 friedrich Ernst Koch, composer, dies at 64   

Feb 04   On this day in history thomas Linnemann Laub, composer, dies at 74