January 2 » American statesman and diplomat John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China.
March 14 » The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing the United States currency on the gold standard.
April 5 » Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discover a large cache of clay tablets with hieroglyphic writing in a script they call Linear B.
May 17 » Second Boer War: British troops relieve Mafeking.
September 8 » Galveston hurricane: A powerful hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people.
October 9 » The Cook Islands become a territory of the United Kingdom.
Day of death January 3, 1927
The temperature on January 3, 1927 was between 1.8 °C and 6.4 °C and averaged 4.1 °C. There was 1.7 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
May 9 » Old Parliament House, Canberra officially opens.
June 29 » The Bird of Paradise, a U.S. Army Air Corps Fokker tri-motor, completes the first transpacific flight, from the mainland United States to Hawaii.
July 15 » Massacre of July 15, 1927: Eighty-nine protesters are killed by the Austrian police in Vienna.
August 19 » Patriarch Sergius of Moscow proclaims the declaration of loyalty of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Soviet Union.
December 3 » Putting Pants on Philip, the first Laurel and Hardy film, is released.
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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