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1927 Calendar

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•  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.
•  April 27, 1927 – Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmery) are created.
•  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.
•  June 29, 1927 – First test of Wallace Turnbull’s controllable pitch propeller.
•  July 15, 1927 – Massacre of July 15, 1927: 89 protesters are killed by the Austrian police in Vienna.
•  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.
•  November 12, 1927 – Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin in undisputed control of the Soviet Union.
•  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.

•  February 14, 1927 – Lois Maxwell, Canadian actress (d. 2007)
•  April 14, 1927 – Alan MacDiarmid, New Zealand chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2007)
•  May 11, 1927 – Gene Savoy, American author, explorer, scholar and cleric (d. 2007)
•  June 18, 1927 – Eva Bartok, Hungarian/British actress (d. 1998)
•  August 24, 1927 – Harry Markowitz, American economist, Nobel laureate
•  September 27, 1927 – Red Rodney, jazz trumpeter (d. 1994)
•  October 23, 1927 – Leszek Kołakowski, Polish philosopher (d. 2009)
•  November 21, 1927 – Joseph Campanella, American actor
•  December 7, 1927 – Helen Watts, British contralto (d. 2009)
•  December 18, 1927 – Roméo LeBlanc, 25th Governor General of Canada (d. 2009)