1927 Calendar
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1927 Historical Event(s)
January 9, 1927
– A fire at the Laurier Palace movie theatre in Montreal, Quebec, kills 78 children.
February 2, 1927
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
February 23, 1927
– German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg writes a letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, in which he describes his uncertainty principle for the first time.
April 12, 1927
– April 12 Incident: Chiang Kai-shek orders the Communist Party of China members executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front.
April 30, 1927
– Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood.
May 1, 1927
– The first cooked meals on a scheduled flight are introduced on an Imperial Airways flight from London to Paris.
May 18, 1927
– The Bath School Disaster: forty-five people are killed by bombs planted by a disgruntled school-board member in Michigan.
June 26, 1927
– The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island.
July 4, 1927
– First flight of the Lockheed Vega.
December 10, 1927
– The phrase “Grand Ole Opry” is used for the first time on-air.
Who Were Born On 1927?
February 10, 1927
– Brian Priestman, British conductor
March 1, 1927
– Harry Belafonte, American actor and musician
April 1, 1927
– Peter Cundall, Australian horticulturist
April 14, 1927
– Alan MacDiarmid, New Zealand chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2007)
May 13, 1927
– Herbert Ross, American director (d. 2001)
May 14, 1927
– Herbert W. Franke, Austrian writer
May 16, 1927
– Nílton Santos, Brazilian footballer
August 23, 1927
– Martial Solal, French jazz pianist and composer
October 18, 1927
– George C. Scott, American actor (d. 1999)
November 10, 1927
– Sabah, Lebanese singer and actress