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Birthdays

January 1 - Doak Walker, American football star (d. 1998)
January 1 - Calum MacKay, Canadian hockey player (d. 2001)
January 1 - Maurice Béjart, French choreographer (d. 2007)
January 1 - Pat Heywood, Scottish actress
January 1 - Vernon L. Smith, American economist
January 4 - Paul Desmarais, Canadian businessman
January 4 - Barbara Rush, American actress
January 8 - Charles Tomlinson, British poet and translator
January 10 - Gisele MacKenzie, Canadian singer (d. 2003)
January 10 - Johnnie Ray, American singer (d. 1990)
January 10 - Otto Stich, Swiss politician
January 13 - Brock Adams, American politician (d. 2004)
January 13 - Sydney Brenner, British Nobel Laureate
January 14 - Zuzana Ruzickova, Czech harpsichordist
January 15 - Phyllis Coates, American actress
January 17 - Dr Tom Dooley, American humanitarian (d. 1961)
January 17 - Norman Kaye, Australian actor and musician (d. 2007)
January 17 - Eartha Kitt, American actress and singer
January 18 - Sundaram Balachander, Indian veena player (d. 1990)
January 21 - Clive Churchill, Australian rugby league footballer (d. 1985)
January 22 - Lou Creekmur, American football player
January 23 - Lars-Eric Lindblad, Swedish-American entrepreneur and explorer (d. 1994)
January 24 - Sir Patrick Macnaghten, 11th Baronet
January 25 - Antonio Carlos Jobim, Brazilian musician (d. 1994)
January 26 - José Azcona del Hoyo, President of Honduras (d. 2005)
January 26 - Bob Nieman, American baseball player (d. 1985)
January 28 - Ronnie Scott, British jazz tenor saxophonist and jazz club owner (d. 1996)
January 28 - Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japanese director (d. 2001)
January 29 - Edward Abbey, American author and environmentalist (d. 1989)
January 30 - Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1986)
February 2 - Stan Getz, American musician (d. 1991)
February 3 - Kenneth Anger, American Underground Filmmaker
February 3 - Val Doonican, Irish singer and entertainer
February 3 - Joan Lowery Nixon, American writer (d. 2003)
February 3 - Blas Ople, Filipino politician (d. 2003)
February 5 - Ruth Fertel, American entrepreneur (d. 2002)
February 6 - Gerard K. O'Neill, American physicist (d. 1992)
February 7 - Juliette Greco, French singer and actor
February 7 - Vladimir Kuts, Russian runner (d. 1975)
February 10 - Leontyne Price, American soprano
February 10 - Brian Priestman, British conductor
February 14 - Lois Maxwell, Canadian actress (d. 2007)
February 15 - Harvey Korman, American actor and comedian (d. 2008)
February 16 - June Brown, British actress
February 18 - John Warner, American politician
February 18 - Luis Arroyo, Puerto Rican baseball player
February 20 - Roy Cohn, American lawyer (d. 1986)
February 20 - Ibrahim Ferrer, Cuban musician (Buena Vista Social Club) (d. 2005)
February 20 - Sidney Poitier, American actor
February 21 - Erma Bombeck, American humorist (d. 1996)
February 21 - Hubert de Givenchy, French fashion designer
February 21 - Pierre Mercure, French-Canadian musician and composer (d. 1966)
February 23 - Régine Crespin, French operatic soprano (d. 2007)
February 24 - Emmanuelle Riva, French actress
February 25 - Ralph Stanley, American musician
February 26 - Tom Kennedy, American game show host
February 27 - Lynn Cartwright, American actress (d. 2004)
February 27 - Guy Mitchell, American singer (d. 1999)
March 1 - Harry Belafonte, American musician and activist
March 1 - Robert Bork, American legal scholar
March 2 - Roger Walkowiak, French cyclist
March 3 - Pierre Aubert, member of the Swiss Federal Council
March 4 - Philip Batt, 29th Governor of Idaho
March 4 - Thayer David, American actor (d. 1978)
March 4 - Robert Orben, American magician
March 4 - Dick Savitt, American tennis player
March 4 - Cy Touff, American jazz musician (d. 2003)
March 5 - Jack Cassidy, American actor (d. 1976)
March 6 - Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian writer
March 6 - Gordon Cooper, astronaut (d. 2004)
March 6 - Norman Treigle, American bass-baritone (d. 1975)
March 7 - James Broderick, American actor (d. 1982)
March 7 - Jean-Paul Desbiens, Quebec writer and teacher (d. 2006)
March 7 - Henri Landwirth, Belgian-American hotel owner and philanthropist
March 8 - Dick Hyman, American pianist and composer
March 11 - Robert Mosbacher, 28th United States Secretary of Commerce
March 13 - Robert Denning, American interior designer (d. 2005)
March 15 - Stanisław Kania, Polish politician
March 15 - Carl Smith, American singer
March 15 - Christian Marquand, French actor and director (d. 2000)
March 16 - Vladimir Komarov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1967)
March 16 - Daniel Patrick Moynihan, U.S. Senator from New York (d. 2003)
March 16 - Olga San Juan, American comedian
March 18 - John Kander, American songwriter
March 18 - George Plimpton, American writer and actor (d. 2003)
March 19 - Richie Ashburn, American baseball player (d. 1997)
March 20 - John Joubert, South African-born British composer
March 21 - Hans-Dietrich Genscher, German politician
March 24 - Martin Walser, German author
March 27 - Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor (d. 2007)
March 28 - Marianne Fredriksson, Swedish author (d. 2007)
March 29 - John McLaughlin, American political commentator
March 29 - John Robert Vane, English pharmacologist
March 30 - Peter Marshall, American game show host
March 31 - César Chávez, American labor activist (d. 1993)
March 31 - William Daniels, American actor
April 1 - Amos Milburn, American pianist (d. 1980)
April 2 - Carmen Basilio, American boxer
April 2 - Ferenc Puskás, Hungarian footballer (d. 2006)
April 2 - Kenneth Tynan, English critic and writer (d. 1980)
April 6 - Gerry Mulligan, American musician (d. 1996)
April 7 - Babatunde Olatunji, Nigerian drummer (d. 2003)
April 10 - Marshall Warren Nirenberg, American scientist
April 13 - Maurice Ronet, French film actor (d. 1983)
April 14 - Alan MacDiarmid, New Zealand chemist
April 14 - Dany Robin, French actress (d. 1995)
April 15 - Robert Mills, American physicist (d. 1999)
April 16 - Edie Adams, American actress
April 16 - Pope Benedict XVI,
April 16 - Peter Mark Richman, American actor
April 18 - Samuel P. Huntington, American political scientist
April 20 - Phil Hill, American race car driver (d. 2008)
April 20 - Karl Alexander Müller, Swiss physicist
April 21 - Gerald Flood, British actor (d. 1989)
April 22 - Laurel Aitken, Jamaican singer (d. 2005)
April 25 - Albert Uderzo, French cartoonist
April 26 - Jack Douglas, English actor
April 27 - Coretta Scott King, American civil rights activist and wife of Martin Luther King
April 27 - Joe Moakley, American politician (d. 2001)
April 27 - Karl Alexander Müller, Swiss physicist
April 27 - Sheila Scott, English aviatrix (d. 1988)
May 2 - Ray Barrett, Australian actor
May 5 - Pat Carroll, American actress
May 7 - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, German screenwriter
May 7 - Jim Lowe, American singer
May 8 - Chumy Chúmez, Spanish film director (d. 2003)
May 9 - Manfred Eigen, German biophysicist
May 10 - Nayantara Sahgal, Indian author
May 11 - Mort Sahl, Canadian comedian and political commentator
May 11 - Gene Savoy, American author
May 13 - Archie Scott-Brown, English race car driver (d. 1958)
May 13 - Herbert Ross, American director (d. 2001)
May 14 - Herbert W. Franke, Austrian writer
May 16 - Nílton Santos, Brazilian footballer
May 20 - Bud Grant, American football coach
May 20 - Franciszek Macharski, Polish Cardinal
May 20 - David Hedison, American actor
May 22 - George Andrew Olah, Hungarian-born chemist
May 22 - Michael Constantine, American actor
May 22 - Phil Tucker, American director
May 25 - Robert Ludlum, American writer (d. 2001)
May 29 - Jean Coutu, Quebec businessman (Jean Coutu Group)
May 30 - Clint Walker, American actor
June 2 - W. Watts Biggers, American novelist and animator
June 3 - Boots Randolph, American saxophonist (d. 2007)
June 4 - Geoffrey Palmer, English actor
June 7 - Charles de Tornaco, Belgian racing driver (d. 1953)
June 8 - Jerry Stiller, American comedian and actor
June 10 - Lin Yang-kang, Chinese politician
June 10 - Ladislao Kubala, Hungarian-born footballer (d. 2002)
June 15 - Ibn-e-Insha, Pakistani humourist and Urdu poet (d. 1978)
June 15 - Hugo Pratt, Italian comic book creator (d. 1995)
June 16 - Tom Graveney, English cricketer
June 16 - Herbert Lichtenfeld, German author and playwright (d. 2001)
June 17 - Martin Böttcher, German conductor
June 18 - Paul Eddington, English actor (d. 1995)
June 18 - Eva Bartok, Hungarian-born British actress
June 21 - Carl Stokes, Mayor of Cleveland
June 22 - Ann Petersen, Belgian actress (d. 2003)
June 23 - Bob Fosse, American choreographer (d. 1987)
June 24 - Martin Lewis Perl, American physicist
June 27 - Bob Keeshan, American actor (d. 2004)
June 28 - Frank Sherwood Rowland, American chemist
July 1 - Alan J. Charig, British palaeontologist (d. 1997)
July 2 - Brock Peters, American actor (d. 2005)
July 2 - Gene Ray, Founder of the Time Cube website and proponent of Time Cube philosophy
July 3 - Ken Russell, British director
July 4 - Gina Lollobrigida, Italian actress
July 4 - Neil Simon, American playwright
July 6 - Jan Hein Donner, Dutch chess player
July 6 - Alan Freeman, British DJ known by his nickname 'Fluff' (d. 2006)
July 6 - Janet Leigh, American actress (d. 2004)
July 6 - Pat Paulsen, American comedian (d. 1997)
July 6 - Nilo Soruco, Bolivian songwriter (d. 2004)
July 7 - Doc Severinsen, American composer and musician
July 7 - Charlie Louvin, American country musician
July 8 - Maurice Hayes, Irish politician
July 9 - Ed Ames, American singer and actor
July 9 - Susan Cabot, American actress (d. 1986)
July 9 - Red Kelly, Canadian ice hockey player
July 10 - Grigory Barenblatt, Russian mathematician
July 10 - Suzanne Cloutier, Canadian film actor (d. 2003)
July 13 - Simone Veil, French politician
July 14 - John Chancellor, American television commentator (d. 1996)
July 16 - John Warr, English cricketer
July 18 - Kurt Masur, Silesian-born conductor
July 23 - Gérard Brach, French film director and screenwriter (d. 2006)
July 25 - Daniel Ceccaldi, French actor (d. 2003)
July 25 - Sadiq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani politician (d. 2000)
July 26 - Gulabrai Ramchand, Former Indian cricketer (d. 2003)
July 27 - Sat Mahajan, Indian politician
July 28 - John Ashbery, American poet
July 29 - Harry Mulisch, Dutch author
July 30 - Victor Wong, American actor (d. 2001)
August 1 - Raymond Leppard, English conductor
August 3 - Gordon Scott, American actor (d. 2007)
August 4 - Jess Thomas, American tenor (d. 1993)
August 7 - Edwin W. Edwards, American politician
August 7 - Art Houtteman, American baseball player (d. 2003)
August 7 - Carl Switzer, American child actor (d. 1959)
August 8 - Johnny Temple, American baseball player (d. 1994)
August 9 - Daniel Keyes, American author
August 9 - Robert Shaw, English actor (d. 1978)
August 10 - Vernon Washington, American actor (d. 1988)
August 12 - Porter Wagoner, American singer (d. 2007)
August 15 - Eddie Leadbeater, England cricketer
August 18 - Rosalynn Carter, First Lady of the United States
August 20 - Geriatric1927, English video blogger
August 20 - Yootha Joyce, English actress (d. 1980)
August 21 - Thomas S. Monson, 16th president of the (Mormon) Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
August 23 - Dick Bruna, Dutch illustrator
August 24 - David Ireland, Australian author
August 24 - Harry Markowitz, American economist
August 25 - Althea Gibson, American tennis player (d. 2003)
August 26 - B. V. Doshi, Indian architect
August 27 - Jimmy C. Newman, American singer
August 31 - Bill Daily, American actor and comedian
September 4 - John McCarthy, American computer scientist
September 5 - Paul Volcker, former chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank
September 7 - Claire L'Heureux-Dubé, French Canadian judge
September 7 - Eric Hill, British children's Author
September 8 - Harlan Howard, American country music songwriter (d. 2002)
September 9 - Elvin Jones, American jazz drummer (d. 2004)
September 11 - G. David Schine, American businessman (d. 1996)
September 11 - Vernon Corea, Sri Lankan broadcaster (d. 2002)
September 11 - Willie Christine King, Sister of Martin Luther King Jr.
September 14 - Martin Caidin, American aviation writer (d. 1997)
September 15 - David Stove, Australian philosopher
September 16 - Peter Falk, American actor
September 16 - Jack Kelly, American actor (d. 1992)
September 17 - George Blanda, American football player
September 18 - Phyllis Kirk, American actress (d. 2006)
September 19 - Rosemary Harris, English actress
September 19 - William Hickey, American actor (d. 1997)
September 20 - Johnny Dankworth, English musician and composer
September 20 - Rachel Roberts, English actress (d. 1980)
September 22 - Gordon Astall, English footballer
September 22 - Tommy Lasorda, American baseball manager
September 24 - Alfredo Kraus, Spanish tenor (d. 1999)
September 25 - Sir Colin Davis, English conductor
September 26 - Robert Blackburn, Irish educationist (d. 1990)
September 26 - Robert Cade, American physician and beverage inventor (d. 2007)
September 26 - Patrick O'Neal, American actor (d. 1994)
September 27 - Romano Scarpa, Italian comic book artist
September 27 - Steve Stavro, Canadian businessman (d. 2006)
September 30 - W. S. Merwin, American poet
October 1 - Tom Bosley, American actor
October 1 - Sandy Gall, Malaysian-born British journalist and newscaster
October 6 - Bill King, American sports broadcaster (d. 2005)
October 7 - R. D. Laing, Scottish psychiatrist (d. 1989)
October 7 - Al Martino, American singer and actor
October 8 - Jim Elliot, American missionary (d. 1956)
October 8 - César Milstein, Argentine scientist
October 10 - Dana Elcar, American actor (d. 2005)
October 11 - Princess Joséphine-Charlotte of Belgium, (d. 2005)
October 13 - Lee Konitz, American jazz saxophonist
October 14 - Roger Moore, English actor
October 16 - Günter Grass, German writer
October 18 - George C. Scott, American actor (d. 1999)
October 21 - Fritz Wintersteller, Austrian mountaineer who made the first ascent of Broad Peak
October 22 - Allan Hendrickse, South African politician (d. 2005)
October 23 - Leszek Kołakowski, Polish philosopher
October 24 - Jean-Claude Pascal, French singer and actor (d. 1992)
October 24 - Gilbert Bécaud, French composer and actor (d. 2001)
October 25 - Barbara Cook, American singer and actress
October 25 - Jorge Batlle Ibáñez, President of Uruguay
October 28 - Dame Cleo Laine, British singer
October 30 - Joe Adcock, American baseball player (d. 1999)
October 31 - Lee Grant, American actress
November 2 - Steve Ditko, American artist
November 7 - Hiroshi Yamauchi, Japanese computer game executive
November 7 - Ivor Emmanuel, Welsh singer and actor (d. 2007)
November 8 - Ken Dodd, English comedian
November 8 - Nguyen Khanh, Prime Minister of South Vietnam
November 8 - Patti Page, American singer
November 10 - Sabah (singer), Lebanese singer and actress
November 11 - Mose Allison, American jazz pianist and singer
November 12 - Yutaka Taniyama, Japanese mathematician (d. 1958)
November 13 - Billy Klüver, American scientist (d. 2004)
November 14 - Bart Cummings, Australian race horse trainer
November 14 - McLean Stevenson, American actor (d. 1996)
November 14 - Narciso Yepes, Spanish classical guitarist (d. 1997)
November 15 - Gregor Mackenzie, British politician (d. 1992)
November 17 - Robert Brown, American actor
November 18 - Hank Ballard, American musician (d. 2003)
November 20 - Estelle Parsons, American actress
November 21 - Georgia Frontiere, co-owner of the St. Louis Rams (d. 2008)
November 23 - Guy Davenport, American author
November 24 - Ahmadou Kourouma, Ivorian writer (d. 2003)
November 26 - Ernie Coombs, American children's entertainer (d. 2001)
November 27 - Carlos José Castilho, Brazilian footballer (d. 1987)
November 28 - Chuck Mitchell, American actor (d. 1992)
November 29 - Vin Scully, American baseball announcer
November 30 - Robert Guillaume, American actor
December 3 - Andy Williams, American singer
December 5 - Bhumibol Adulyadej, King of Thailand
December 7 - Helen Watts, British contralto
December 8 - Ferdie Pacheco, American boxing trainer
December 8 - Vladimir Shatalov, Soviet cosmonaut
December 9 - Pierre Henry, French composer
December 11 - John Buscema, American comics artist (d. 2002)
December 12 - Robert Noyce, American inventor (d. 1990)
December 14 - Richard Cassilly, American tenor (d.1998)
December 16 - Randall Garrett, American writer (d. 1987)
December 17 - Richard Long, American actor (d. 1974)
December 18 - Ramsey Clark, U.S. Attorney General
December 18 - Roméo LeBlanc, 25th Governor General of Canada
December 19 - James Booth, English actor and screenwriter (d. 2005)
December 20 - Kim Young-sam, President of South Korea
December 24 - Mary Higgins Clark, American author
December 25 - Nellie Fox, baseball player (d. 1975)
December 26 - Alan King, American comedian (d. 2004)
December 26 - Stu Miller, American baseball player
December 26 - Denis Quilley, British actor (d. 2003)
December 27 - Antony Gardner, British politician
December 27 - Agnes Nixon, American television producer
December 29 - Andy Stanfield, American athlete (d. 1985)
December 30 - Bernard Barrow, American actor (d. 1993)
December 30 - Robert Hossein, French film actor and director

Deaths

January 3 - Carle David Tolmé Runge, German physicist (b. 1856)
January 9 - Houston Stewart Chamberlain, British pro-Aryan anti-semitic writer
January 17 - Juliette Gordon Low, American founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA (b. 1860)
January 19 - Empress Carlotta of Mexico, (b. 1840)
January 27 - Georgios Grivas, Cyprus-born general in the Greek Army
January 27 - Blessed Jurgis Matulaitis-Matulevičius (Matulewicz), Lithuanian bishop
February 5 - Inayat Khan, Indian sufi
February 6 - Sam Maguire, Irish Republican and Gaelic footballer (b. 1879)
February 19 - Robert Fuchs, Austrian composer (b. 1847)
March 3 - Mikhail Artsybashev, Russian writer (b. 1878)
March 3 - J.G. Parry-Thomas, Welsh motor-racing driver (b. 1884)
March 4 - Ira Remsen American chemist, (b. 1846)
March 5 - Franz Mertens, German mathematician (b. 1840)
March 23 - Paul César Helleu, French artist (b. 1859)
March 27 - Joe Start, American baseball player (b. 1842)
March 31 - Borisav "Bora" Stanković, Serbian writer (b. 1875)
April 15 - Gaston Leroux, French writer (b. 1868)
May 2 - Ernest Starling, British physiologist (b. 1866)
May 17 - Harold Geiger, U.S. Army aviation pioneer (b. 1884)
May 18 - Andrew Kehoe, American mass murderer (b. 1872)
May 25 - Payne Whitney, American businessman (b. 1876)
May 28 - Boris Kustodiev, Russian painter (b. 1878)
June 1 - J. B. Bury, Irish historian (b. 1861)
June 7 - Edmund James Flynn, Premier of Quebec (b. 1847)
June 11 - William Attewell, English cricketer (b. 1861)
June 14 - Ottavio Bottecchia, Italian cyclist (b. 1894)
June 14 - Jerome K. Jerome, British author (b. 1859)
July 5 - Albrecht Kossel, German physician
July 7 - Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Swedish mathematician (b. 1846)
July 9 - John Drew Jr., American actor (b. 1853)
July 20 - King Ferdinand of Romania, (b. 1865)
July 24 - Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Japanese writer (b. 1892)
August 23 - Nicola Sacco, Italian anarchist (b. 1891)
August 23 - Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian anarchist (b. 1888)
September 12 - Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer (b. 1847)
September 14 - Isadora Duncan, American dancer (b. 1877)
September 19 - Michael Peter Ancher, Danish painter (b. 1849)
September 29 - Willem Einthoven, Dutch inventor
September 29 - Arthur Achleitner, German writer (b. 1858)
October 2 - Svante Arrhenius, Swedish chemist
October 10 - Gustave Whitehead, German-born inventor (b. 1874)
October 22 - Borisav "Bora" Stanković, Serbian writer (b. 1876)
November 3 - Karel Matěj Čapek-Chod, Czech journalist (b. 1860)
November 29 - George Giffen, Australian cricketer (b. 1859)
December 14 - Yulian Vasilievich Sokhotski, Russian mathematician (b. 1842)

Events

January 1 - Turkey adopts the Gregorian calendar: December 18, 1926 (Julian), is immediately followed by January 1, 1927 (Gregorian).
January 7 - First transatlantic telephone call
January 22 - First live radio commentary of a football match anywhere in the world, bewtween Arsenal F.C. and Sheffield United at Highbury.
January 24 - Director Alfred Hitchcock releases his first film, The Pleasure Garden, in England.
February 23 - The Federal Radio Commission (later renamed the Federal Communications Commission) begins to regulate the use of radio frequencies.
March 6 - Fritz Lang's Metropolis is released.
March 11 - In New York City, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens the Roxy Theatre.
April 7 - First distance public television broadcast (from Washington, DC to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
April 12 - April 12 Incident: Chiang Kai-shek orders the CPC members executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front.
April 14 - The first Volvo car premieres in Gothenburg, Sweden.
April 19 - Mae West is sentenced to 10 days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.
April 27 - Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmery) are created.
April 30 - The Federal Industrial Institute for Women, opens in Alderson, West Virginia, as the first women's federal prison in the United States.
April 30 - Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood.
May 1 - The first cooked meals on a scheduled flight are introduced on an Imperial Airways flight from London to Paris.
May 1 - The Union Labor Life Insurance Company is founded by the American Federation of Labor.
May 7 - Angelos Sikelianos organizes the first Delphic Festival in Delphi to celebrate the ancient Greek Delphic ideal.
May 9 - The Australian Parliament first convenes in Canberra.
May 11 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is founded.
May 14 - Cap Arcona is launched at the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg.
May 14 - The University of Chicago's local collegiate organization, Phi Sigma, becomes incorporated under Illinois law as Eta Sigma Phi, the National Honorary Classical Fraternity.
May 17 - U.S. Army aviation pioneer, Major Harold Geiger, dies in the crash of his Airco DH.4 de Havilland plane at Olmstead Field, Pennsylvania
May 18 - The Bath School Disaster: Forty-five people are killed by bombs planted by a disgruntled school-board member in Michigan.
May 20 - By the Treaty of Jedda, the United Kingdom recognizes the sovereignty of King Ibn Saud in the Kingdoms of Hejaz and Nejd, which later merged to become the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
May 20 - At 07:52 Charles Lindbergh takes off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, New York, on the world's first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean, touching down at Le Bourget Field in Paris at 22:22 the next day.
May 21 - Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
May 27 - The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacturing the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make Ford Model As.
May 31 - The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.
June 13 - Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker-tape parade down 5th Avenue in New York City.
June 26 - The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island
June 29 - First test of Wallace Turnbull's Controllable pitch propeller.
July 4 - First flight of the Lockheed Vega.
July 15 - Massacre of July 15, 1927: 89 protesters are killed by the Austrian police in Vienna.
July 24 - The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres.
August 1 - The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Communist Party of China. This day is commemorated as the anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army.
August 7 - The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.
August 19 - Metropolitan Sergius proclaims the declaration of loyalty of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Soviet state.
August 23 - Sacco and Vanzetti are executed.
September 5 - The first Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon, Trolley Troubles, produced by Walt Disney, is released by Universal Pictures.
September 7 - The University of Minas Gerais is founded in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, by GovernorAntônio Carlos.
September 7 - The first fully electronic television system is achieved by Philo Taylor Farnsworth.
September 10 - France had its first Davis Cup win, though it had competed since 1905.
September 18 - The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air.
September 22 - Jack Dempsey loses the Long Count boxing match to Gene Tunney.
September 30 - Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season
October 4 - Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mt. Rushmore.
October 6 - Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent talking movie.
November 12 - Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin in undisputed control of the Soviet Union.
November 13 - The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicular tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City.
November 21 - Columbine Mine Massacre: Striking coal miners were allegedly attacked with machine guns by a detachment of state police dressed in civilian clothes.
December 2 - Following 19 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Model A as its new automobile.
December 11 - Guangzhou Uprising: Communist militia and worker red guards launch an uprising in the Chinese city of Guangzhou, taking over most of the city and announcing the formation of a Guangzhou Soviet.
December 30 - The Ginza Line, the first subway line in Asia, opens in Tokyo, Japan.

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