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1927 Historical Event(s)
February 2, 1927
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
March 11, 1927
– In New York City, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens the Roxy Theatre.
April 14, 1927
– The first Volvo car premieres in Gothenburg, Sweden.
April 19, 1927
– Mae West is sentenced to 10 days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.
May 1, 1927
– The first cooked meals on a scheduled flight are introduced on an Imperial Airways flight from London to Paris.
May 27, 1927
– The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacture of the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make the Ford Model A.
July 16, 1927
– Augusto César Sandino leads a raid on U.S. Marines and Nicaraguan Guardia Nacional that had been sent to apprehend him in the village of Ocotal, but is repulsed by one of the first dive-bombing attacks in history.
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?”
September 30, 1927
– Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season.
November 12, 1927
– Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin in undisputed control of the Soviet Union.
Who Were Born On 1927?
January 14, 1927
– Zuzana Ruzickova, Czech harpsichordist
January 17, 1927
– Eartha Kitt, American actress and singer (d. 2008)
July 10, 1927
– Grigory Barenblatt, Russian mathematician
August 10, 1927
– Vernon Washington, American actor (d. 1988)
August 24, 1927
– Harry Markowitz, American economist, Nobel laureate
September 2, 1927
– Milo Hamilton, American Hall of Fame sports broadcaster
September 19, 1927
– Rosemary Harris, English actress
December 24, 1927
– Mary Higgins Clark, American author
December 27, 1927
– Agnes Nixon, American television producer, director, and writer