The temperature on December 19, 1927 was between -11.2 °C and -2.6 °C and averaged -6.5 °C. There was 3.2 hours of sunshine (41%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
April 30 » The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opens in Alderson, West Virginia, as the first women's federal prison in the United States.
August 19 » Patriarch Sergius of Moscow proclaims the declaration of loyalty of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Soviet Union.
September 30 » Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season.
October 4 » Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore.
December 17 » Indian revolutionary Rajendra Lahiri is hanged in Gonda jail, Uttar Pradesh, India, two days before the scheduled date.
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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