The temperature on January 2, 1927 was between 5.2 °C and 6.5 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
May 21 » Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
July 24 » The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres.
September 22 » Jack Dempsey loses the "Long Count" boxing match to Gene Tunney.
October 6 » Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent "talkie" movie.
November 21 » Columbine Mine massacre: Striking coal miners are allegedly attacked with machine guns by a detachment of state police dressed in civilian clothes.
December 27 » Kern and Hammerstein's musical play Show Boat, considered to be the first true American musical play, opens at the Ziegfeld Theatre on Broadway.
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