February 1 » Shinhan Bank, the oldest bank in South Korea, opens in Seoul.
April 18 » The Greco-Turkish War is declared between Greece and the Ottoman Empire.
August 21 » Oldsmobile, an American automobile manufacturer and marque, is founded.
August 31 » Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.
September 1 » The Tremont Street Subway in Boston opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America.
December 9 » Activist Marguerite Durand founds the feminist daily newspaper La Fronde in Paris.
Day of death August 13, 1927
The temperature on August 13, 1927 was between 13.4 °C and 18.7 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was 15.4 mm of rain. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 10 » Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany.
January 11 » Louis B. Mayer, head of film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), announces the creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, at a banquet in Los Angeles, California.
May 5 » To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf is first published.
May 18 » The Bath School disaster: Forty-five people, including many children, are killed by bombs planted by a disgruntled school-board member in Michigan.
November 12 » Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin in undisputed control of the Soviet Union.
December 3 » Putting Pants on Philip, the first Laurel and Hardy film, is released.
Day of burial August 17, 1927
The temperature on August 17, 1927 was between 10.4 °C and 20.4 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain. There was 11.4 hours of sunshine (78%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
March 11 » In New York City, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens the Roxy Theatre.
July 15 » Massacre of July 15, 1927: Eighty-nine protesters are killed by the Austrian police in Vienna.
July 23 » The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in Bombay.
October 6 » Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent "talkie" movie.
December 19 » Three Indian revolutionaries, Ram Prasad Bismil, Roshan Singh and Ashfaqulla Khan, are executed by the British Raj for participation in the Kakori conspiracy.
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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