Page 16: Historical Events In 1927

Dec 20   Jim Simpson, sportscaster.   

Dec 21   Jack Saunders, cricketer (79 wickets-14 Tests for Aust 1902-08), dies.   

Dec 21   Michael Carreras, film director   

Dec 24   Test Cricket debut of Walter Hammond, who scored 51 and took 5-36 v S Af.   

Dec 25   Sergei D Sazonov, Russian Foreign minister (1910-16), dies at 66.   

Dec 26   Alan King, Bkln NY, comedian/actor (Anderson Tapes, Memories of Me)   

Dec 27   "Show Boat" opens at the Ziegfeld Theater (New York NY).   

Dec 27   Antony Gardner, British politician   

Dec 27   In this year, In London England, the Daily Mail publishes the world's inaugural wire photo, the invention of Winnipeg born engineer William Stephenson, later know as Intrepid, head of British security in North America during World War II   

Dec 27   In this year, Stalin's faction claims All-Union Congress in USSR, Trotsky expelled.   

Dec 27   Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein II's "Show Boat," premieres in NYC   

Dec 27   Leon Trotsky expelled from the Communist Party.   

Dec 28   Anne Legendre Armstrong, ambassador (to UK)   

Dec 28   George Kaufman and Moss Hart's "Royal Family," premieres in NYC.   

Dec 29   Jim Simpson, Wash DC, sportscaster (Monday Night Baseball).   

Dec 30   Bernard Barrow, NYC, actor (Ryan's Hope, Louie Slavinsky-Loving).   

Dec 30   Japan dedicates 1st subway in Orient (route under 2 miles long)   

Dec 30   Japan dedicates inaugural subway in the Orient (route under 2 miles long)   

Dec 31   Dieter Noll, writer.   

Dec 31   Ponsford scores 336 against SA, giving him 1146 for month.   

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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,