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1927 Calendar

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•  January 2, 1927 – Angered by the anti-clerical provisions of the Mexican Constitution of 1917, Catholic rebels in Mexico rebelled against the government.
•  February 2, 1927 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
•  May 1, 1927 – The Union Labor Life Insurance Company is founded by the American Federation of Labor.
•  May 21, 1927 – Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world’s first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
•  July 4, 1927 – First flight of the Lockheed Vega.
•  August 19, 1927 – Metropolitan Sergius proclaims the declaration of loyalty of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Soviet Union.
•  August 27, 1927 – Five Canadian women file a petition to the Supreme Court of Canada, asking, “Does the word ‘Persons’in Section 24 of the British North America Act, 1867, include female persons?”
•  December 11, 1927 – Guangzhou Uprising: Communist militia and worker Red Guards launch an uprising in the Chinese city of Guangzhou, taking over most of the city and announcing the formation of a Guangzhou Soviet.
•  December 19, 1927 – Three Indian revolutionaries viz. Ram Prasad Bismil, Roshan Singh and Ashfaqulla Khan were executed by the British government.
•  December 30, 1927 – The Ginza Line, the first subway line in Asia, opens in Tokyo, Japan.

•  February 2, 1927 – Doris Sams, American baseball player
•  March 23, 1927 – Mato Damjanović, Croatian chess grandmaster (d. 2011)
•  May 22, 1927 – Phil Tucker, American director (d. 1985)
•  July 3, 1927 – Ken Russell, British director (d. 2011)
•  July 25, 1927 – Midge Decter, American journalist and author
•  August 8, 1927 – Johnny Temple, American baseball player (d. 1994)
•  August 21, 1927 – Thomas S. Monson, 16th president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church)
•  September 30, 1927 – W. S. Merwin, American poet
•  October 26, 1927 – Warne Marsh, American jazz saxophonist (d. 1987)
•  December 12, 1927 – Robert Noyce, American inventor (d. 1990)