Page 16: Historical Events In 1927
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
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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