January 4 » Topsy, an elephant, is electrocuted by the owners of Luna Park, Coney Island. The Edison film company records the film Electrocuting an Elephant of Topsy's death.
May 29 » In the May Coup, Alexander I, King of Serbia, and Queen Draga, are assassinated in Belgrade by the Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization.
June 16 » Roald Amundsen leaves Oslo, Norway, to commence the first east–west navigation of the Northwest Passage.
June 19 » Benito Mussolini, at the time a radical Socialist, is arrested by Bern police for advocating a violent general strike.
September 11 » The first race at the Milwaukee Mile in West Allis, Wisconsin is held. It is the oldest major speedway in the world.
October 10 » The Women's Social and Political Union is founded in support of the enfranchisement of British women.
Day of marriage 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
April 12 » Shanghai massacre of 1927: Chiang Kai-shek orders the Chinese Communist Party members executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front.
July 23 » The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in Bombay.
September 22 » Jack Dempsey loses the "Long Count" boxing match to Gene Tunney.
December 3 » Putting Pants on Philip, the first Laurel and Hardy film, is released.
December 8 » The Brookings Institution, one of the United States' oldest think tanks, is founded through the merger of three organizations that had been created by philanthropist Robert S. Brookings.
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.
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