Historical Events In 1927

Jan 01   Communist uprising in West Java.   

Jan 02   David Herbert, publisher   

Jan 04   Barbara Rush, Denver Co, actress (Marsha-Peyton Place, Flamingo Road)   

Jan 05   Fox Studios exhibits Movietone.   

Jan 06   US marines sent to Nicaragua   

Jan 07   Coml transatlantic telephone service inaugurated between NY and London.   

Jan 07   Commercial transatlantic telephone service inaugurated between New York and London.   

Jan 07   Harlem Globetrotters play inaugural game (Hinckley IL)   

Jan 07   The inaugural telephone service between London and New York begins operating.   

Jan 09   Dmitri Shostakovitch' Octet opus 11, premieres in Moscow.   

Jan 09   Fire in Laurier Palace cinema in Montreal, 78 children died.   

Jan 09   Houston S Chamberlain, British/German race theorist, dies at 71.   

Jan 09   Small fire breaks out in the Laurier Palace movie theatre in Montreal Quebec, firemen arrive within 2 minutes and put out the blaze in 10 minutes, but the children panic to escape; 12 are crushed to death and 64 are asphyxiated at the bases of stairways   

Jan 10   Fritz Lang's Metropolis premieres.   

Jan 11   Royale Theater (Golden, CBS Radio Playhouse) opens at 242 W 45th NYC.   

Jan 13   US and Mexico battle over oil interests.   

Jan 14   Toronto Maple Leafs 1st hat trick (Hap Day) vs NY Rangers   

Jan 18   Empress Charlotte, wife of Mexico's ill-fated Emperor Maximilian, dies   

Jan 19   British government decides to send troops to China.   

Jan 19   British govt decides to send troops to China.   

Jan 19   Charlotte MAAVCL, princess of Belg/emp of Mexico (1864-67), dies at 86   

Jan 19   Empress Charlotte, wife of Mexico's ill-fated Emperor Maximilian, dies.   

Jan 21   1st national opera broadcast from a US opera house (Faust, Chicago).   

Jan 21   Floris H Verster, Dutch painter/cartoonist/etcher, dies at 65.   

Jan 21   The inaugural national opera broadcast from a US opera house (Faust, Chicago)   

Jan 24   In this year, Director Alfred Hitchcock releases his inaugural film, The Pleasure Garden, in England.   

Jan 24   Paula Hawkins, (Sen-R-FL, 1981-86)   

Jan 25   Antonio Carlos Jobim, composer.   

Jan 26   Maxwell Anderson's "Saturday's Children," premieres in NYC   

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

Jan 27   Harlem Globetrotters play their inaugural game   

Jan 28   Serbian-Croatian-Slavic government of Oezonowitsj falls   

Jan 28   Serbian-Croatian-Slavic govt of Oezonowitsj falls.   

Jan 29   4th German government of Marx forms   

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Jan 01   Barbara baxley: Stockton ca, actress (norma rae, countdown)   

Jan 01   Juliusz luciuk: Composer   

Jan 01   Yuri grigorovich: Leningrad, choreographer   

Jan 01   Doak walker: American football star    

Jan 01   Calum mackay: Canadian hockey player    

Jan 01   Maurice béjart: French choreographer    

Jan 01   Pat heywood: Scottish actress   

Jan 01   Vernon l. smith: American economist, winner   

Jan 03   Carle david tolmé runge: German physicist (b. 1856)   

Jan 09   Houston s chamberlain: British/german race theorist,    

Jan 17   Juliette gordon low: American founder of the girl scouts of the usa (b. 1860)   

Jan 19   Charlotte maavcl: Princess of belg/emp of mexico (1864-67),   

Jan 21   Floris h verster: Dutch painter/cartoonist/etcher,   

Jan 27   Georgios grivas: Cyprus-born general in the greek army   

Jan 30   Friedrich ernst koch: Composer,   

Feb 04   Thomas linnemann laub: Composer,