1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). 1927 - Events. January 1 - Cristero War erupts in Mexico when pro-Church rebels attack secular-minded government January 7 - First transatlantic telephone call - New York City to London January 9 - Military rebellion crushed in Lisbon January 14 - Paul Doumer elected president of France January 19 - Britain sends troops to China Including:

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1927 - January-March. January 1 - Cristero War erupts in Mexico when pro-Church rebels attack secular-minded government January 7 - First transatlantic telephone call - New York City to London January 9 - Military rebellion crushed in Lisbon January 14 - Paul Doumer elected president of France January 19 - Britain sends troops to China January 30 - Right-wing veterans and the Republican Schutzbund clash in Schattendorf, Burgenla ...

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See also: 1926 in film 1927 1928 in film 1920s in film years in film film 1927 in film - Events. January 10 - The film Metropolis by Fritz Lang premieres. April 12 - The Marx Brothers' Zeppo Marx marries Marion Benda. May 11 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was formed. The first Academy Awards (Oscars) went to films released in 1927 or 1928. October 6 - The Jazz Singer, starring A ...

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Charles Cameron (October 31, 1927 - January 1, 2001) was a professional magician who specialized in a style known as bizarre magic. He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. ...

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1927 in rail transport - January events. January - John J. Bernet succeeds Frederick D. Underwood as president of the Erie Railroad. 1927 in rail transport - December events. December 30 - The Ginza Line, the oldest subway line in Asia, opens in Tokyo, Japan. 1927 in rail transport - Unknown date events. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad celebrates its centennial in the Fair of the Iron Horse in Baltimore, Maryla ...

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January January 7 - Imperial Airways commences a regular service from Basra to Cairo via Baghdad, the first of its Empire "trunk routes" January 15 - Boeing Air Transport is formed, to carry airmail between Chicago and San Francisco. This will eventually become United Airlines March March 14 - Pan American Airways is formed to carry a ...

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On January 10, 1927 the film premiered in Berlin, with moderate success. In the United States, the movie was shown in a version edited by the American playwright Channing Pollock, who almost completely obscured the original plot, considered too controversial by the American distributors, and is considerably shortened. In Germany, a version similar to Pollock's was shown on August 5. Only copies of these versions—mostly considered as badly-edited—remain today. Several restored versions (all of them missing footag ...

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Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (1927 - 2001), affectionately known as Gurudeva, was born in Oakland, California on January 5, 1927. He established a Hindu monastery in Kauai, Hawaii and founded the magazine Hinduism Today. He also authored many books and was one of the most prominent faces of Hinduism during the last two decades of the 20th century. He was the founder and leader of the Saiva Siddhanta Church, world's first hindu church. ...

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Carlo Maria Cardinal Martini SJ (born 15 February 1927), Italian clergyman, was Catholic Archbishop of Milan from January 1980 to July 2002 and has been a Cardinal since February 1983. Often considered to be one of the more "progressive" members of the College of Cardinals, he has achieved widespread notice for his wide-ranging and open-minded writings — popularity in some circles, notoriety in others. Carlo Maria Cardinal Martini - Career. Born in Turin, Italy in 1927, Martini entered the ...

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Robert Keeshan (June 27, 1927 – January 23, 2004) was an actor who was the original "Clarabell the Clown" on the Howdy Doody television program, but who is most famous as the star and title character of the children's show Captain Kangaroo. Bob's birth name was Carl Keeshan. Keeshan was born in Lynbrook, New York, attended Fordham University after a stint in the Unite ...

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Balasaheb "Bal" Thackeray (born January 23, 1927) is the founder-president of the hardline Hindu party Shiv Sena in India. Bal Thackeray - Backgrond. Thackeray considers himself a hard-core Hindu nationalist and has referred to himself as the "Hitler of Bombay" and the "Hitler of India."[1] People of his party and some others refer to him as Hindu Hridaysamrat ("Emperor of the Hindu heart"). Thackeray started his career as a cartoonist in the Free Press Journal of Bombay (now Mumbai) in ...

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Anton Melik (January 1, 1890 – June 8, 1966) was a Slovene geographer. Image:AntonMelik.png Melik was born in a village Črna vas ("Black Village"), south of Ljubljana, Austria-Hungary, (today Slovenia). Before and during World War I, he studied at the University of Vienna, graduating in 1916 in history and geography. Later on he was employed as a gymnasium professor. In 1926/1927 he became a senior university teacher at the Philosophical Faculty (PF) in Ljubljana, in 1932 a se ...

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Yury Nikolayevich Grigorovich (born January 2, 1927 in Leningrad) is a Russian dancer and choreographer who dominated the Russian ballet for 30 years. Grigorovich was born into a family connected with the Imperial Russian Ballet. He graduated from the Leningrad Choreographic School in 1946 and danced as a soloist of the Kirov Ballet until 1962. His staging of Sergey Prokofiev's The Stone Flower (1957) and of The Legend of Love (1961) brought him acclaim as a choreographer. In 1964 he moved to the Bolshoi Theatre, ...

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Carl David Anderson (3 September 1905 – 11 January 1991) was a U.S. experimental physicist. He was born in New York City, the son of Swedish immigrants. He studied physics and engineering at Caltech (B.S., 1927; Ph.D., 1930). Under the supervision of Robert A. Millikan, he began investigations into cosmic rays during the course of which he encountered unexpected particle tracks in his cloud chamber photographs that he correctly interpreted as having been created by a particle with the same mass as the electron, but with oppos ...

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Carl William Blegen (born January 27, 1887, Minneapolis, Minnesota; died August 24, 1971 Athens, Greece) was an archaeologist famous for his work on the site of Troy in modern day Turkey. Blegen was professor of classical archaeology at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio (1927–57). He directed the university's excavations of the mound of Hisarlik, the site of Troy, from 1932 to 1938. Blegen earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Minnesota in 1904 and started graduate studies at Yale University in 1907. At Athens ...

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His Eminence Adolfo Antonio Cardinal Suárez Rivera (born 9 January 1927) is a Cardinal Priest in the Roman Catholic Church and currently holds the rank of Archbishop Emeritus of Monterrey in that Church. Born in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico, Suárez Rivera studied classical literature at the conciliar seminary of Chiapas in San Cristóbal, and then philosophy at the archdiocesan seminary of Xalapa and the Pontifical Seminary of Montezuma in Montezuma, New Mexico, in the United States. After these studies, he comp ...

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Antonio Carlos Jobim (born Antonio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim, January 25, 1927 in Rio de Janeiro – December 8, 1994 in New York City), also called Tom Jobim, was a Brazilian composer, arranger, singer, pianist and perhaps the greatest legend of bossa nova. Jobim's compositions, many performed by João Gilberto, gave birth to the genre in the early 1960s. Jobim's roots were planted firmly in the works of Pixinguinha, a legendary musician and composer that started in the 1930s the development of modern Brazilian music. He was also influenced by the music o ...

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Coretta Scott King (born April 27, 1927 near Marion, Alabama) is the widow of the slain civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr. and a noted community leader in her own right. The Kings were married on June 18, 1953. The wedding ceremony took place in Scott's parents' house in Marion and was performed by King's father. King and Scott had four children: Yolanda Denise King (November 17, 1955, Montgomery, Alabama) Martin Luther King III (October 23, 1957, Montgomery, Alabama) Dexter Scott King (January 30, 1961, Atlanta, Georgia) Bernice ...

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1874 - January to June. January 1 - Gustav Albin Weißkopf , German-American aviation pioneer (d. 1927) January 4 - Josef Suk, Czech composer and violinist (d. 1935) January 5 - Joseph Erlanger, American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965) January 16 - Robert W. Service, American poet (d. 1958) January 20 - Steve Bloomer, English footballer, cricketer and baseball player (d. 1938) January 21 - Frederick Madison Smith, American religious leader and author ...

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