Page 12: Historical Events In 1927

Sep 12   Gianna Maria Canale, Reggio Calabria Italy, actress (Go For Broke).   

Sep 12   Sigmund Romberg's musical "My Maryland," premieres in NYC   

Sep 12   Walther Amelung, German archaeologist, dies at 61.   

Sep 13   Yanks clinch pennant, Ruth hits 2 HRs (52 en route to 60)   

Sep 14   Isadora Duncan, dies as her scarf became entangled in her car's wheel.   

Sep 15   Herman Gorter, socialist/poet (Mai, Pan), dies at 62.   

Sep 16   Peter Falk, US television and film actor (TV's 'Columbo') is born.   

Sep 16   Rene Lacoste beats Bill Tilden for US Lawn Tennis Assn title.   

Sep 17   47th US Mens Tennis: Rene Lacoste beats William T Tilden (119 63 119)   

Sep 17   Charles Lindbergh visits San Francisco   

Sep 18   18 station CBS radio network begins, (WOR is NYC affiliate)   

Sep 18   Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air (16 radio stations).   

Sep 18   The American CBS broacasting organisation is created   

Sep 19   Rosemary Harris, English actress   

Sep 20   Clarice Taylor, Va, actress (Nurse Bailey-Nurse).   

Sep 20   George Nichols, actor (His Favorite Pastime, Star Boarder), dies at 62.   

Sep 20   NY Yankee Babe Ruth hits record 60th HR of season off Tom Zachry   

Sep 22   Eligio [Kika] De La Garza, (Rep-D-Texas, 1965- )   

Sep 22   Famous "Long count" fight (Dempsey loses boxing title to Tunney)   

Sep 22   Giannotto Bastianelli, composer, dies at 44.   

Sep 24   NHL's Toronto St Patricks become Maple Leafs   

Sep 24   NHL's Toronto St Patricks become the Maple Leafs   

Sep 24   Richard Swift, composer   

Sep 25   Carl Braun, basketball player (NY Knicks).   

Sep 26   Patrick O'Neal, Ocala Fla, actor (Kaz, Alvarez Kelly, King Rat)   

Sep 26   St James Theater (Erlanger) opens at 246 W 44th St NYC   

Sep 29   Babe Ruth ties record by hitting grand slams in consecutive games   

Sep 29   Tornado strikes St Louis Missouri.   

Sep 29   Willem Einthoven, Dutch physiologist (Nobel-1924), dies at 67.   

Sep 30   Babe Ruth hits record setting 60th HR (off Tom Zachary).   

Sep 30   W. S. Merwin, American poet   

Oct 01   Tom Bosley, Chicago, actor (Howard-Happy Days, Murder She Wrote).   

Oct 01   Wilhelm Harteveld, composer, dies at 68.   

Oct 02   Svante August Arrhenius, chemist, dies.   

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Jan 01   Barbara Baxley, Stockton CA, actress (Norma Rae, Countdown) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 01   Juliusz Luciuk, composer was born on this day in history.   

Jan 01   On this day in history birth of yuri Grigorovich, Leningrad, choreographer   

Jan 01   Doak Walker, American football star (d. 1998) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 01   In the year 1927 birth of calum MacKay, Canadian hockey player (d. 2001)   

Jan 01   On this day in history birth of maurice Béjart, French choreographer (d. 2007)   

Jan 01   On this day in history birth of pat Heywood, Scottish actress   

Jan 01   Vernon L. Smith, American economist, winner was born in the year 1927.   

Jan 03   On this day in history death of carle David Tolmé Runge, German physicist (b. 1856)   

Jan 09   Houston S Chamberlain, British/German race theorist, dies at 71 on this day in history.   

Jan 17   Juliette Gordon Low, American founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA (b. 1860) died on this day in history.   

Jan 19   On this day in history charlotte MAAVCL, princess of Belg/emp of Mexico (1864-67), dies at 86   

Jan 21   Floris H Verster, Dutch painter/cartoonist/etcher, dies at 65 on this day in history.   

Jan 27   Georgios Grivas, Cyprus-born general in the Greek Army died on this day in history.   

Jan 30   Friedrich Ernst Koch, composer, dies at 64 on this day in history.   

Feb 04   On this day in history thomas Linnemann Laub, composer, dies at 74