The temperature on September 21, 1927 was between 14.4 °C and 19.1 °C and averaged 16.2 °C. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (11%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 9 » A fire at the Laurier Palace movie theatre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, kills 78 children.
March 29 » Sunbeam 1000hp breaks the land speed record at Daytona Beach, Florida.
June 26 » The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island.
July 23 » The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in Bombay.
October 4 » Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore.
December 3 » Putting Pants on Philip, the first Laurel and Hardy film, is released.
Day of death December 29, 1927
The temperature on December 29, 1927 was between -5.4 °C and -1.2 °C and averaged -3.9 °C. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (85%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
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.
April 30 » Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
May 18 » After being founded for 20 years, the Government of the Republic of China approves Tongji University to be among the first national universities of the Republic of China.
May 22 » Near Xining, China, an 8.3 magnitude earthquake causes 200,000 deaths in one of the world's most destructive earthquakes.
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.
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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