February 23 » Émile Zola is imprisoned in France after writing J'Accuse…!, a letter accusing the French government of antisemitism and wrongfully imprisoning Captain Alfred Dreyfus.
February 27 » King George I of Greece survives an assassination attempt.
May 8 » The first games of the Italian football league system are played.
July 1 » Spanish–American War: The Battle of San Juan Hill is fought in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba.
August 23 » The Southern Cross Expedition, the first British venture of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, departs from London.
December 18 » Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat sets the first officially recognized land speed record of 39.245mph (63.159km/h) in a Jeantaud electric car.
Day of marriage January 29, 1927
The temperature on January 29, 1927 was between 3.1 °C and 7.4 °C and averaged 5.2 °C. There was 7.8 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 6 Bft (strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 7 » The first transatlantic telephone service is established from New York City to London.
April 7 » The first long-distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
July 16 » Augusto César Sandino leads a raid on U.S. Marines and Nicaraguan Guardia Nacional that had been sent to apprehend him in the village of Ocotal, but is repulsed by one of the first dive-bombing attacks in history.
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 30 » The Ginza Line, the first subway line in Asia, opens in Tokyo, Japan.
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