February 16 » Iceland's first football club, Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur, is founded.
March 6 » Bayer registers "Aspirin" as a trademark.
July 11 » Fiat founded by Giovanni Agnelli in Turin, Italy.
July 26 » Ulises Heureaux, the 27th President of the Dominican Republic, is assassinated.
October 11 » The Second Boer War erupts in South Africa between the British-ruled Cape Colony, and the Boer-ruled Transvaal and Orange Free State.
Day of marriage August 29, 1927
The temperature on August 29, 1927 was between 9.9 °C and 24.7 °C and averaged 17.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 11.9 hours of sunshine (86%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
January 22 » Teddy Wakelam gives the first live radio commentary of a football match, between Arsenal F.C. and Sheffield United at Highbury.
March 29 » Sunbeam 1000hp breaks the land speed record at Daytona Beach, Florida.
June 26 » The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island.
October 4 » Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore.
November 13 » The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicle tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City.
December 8 » The Brookings Institution, one of the United States' oldest think tanks, is founded through the merger of three organizations that had been created by philanthropist Robert S. Brookings.
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