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The Jazz Singer is a 1927 American part-talkie musical drama film directed by Alan Crosland and produced by Warner Bros. Pictures. It is the first feature-length motion picture with both synchronized recorded music and lip-synchronous singing and speech (in several isolated sequences).
The ten years 1917–1927 saw a radical transformation of the Russian Empire into a socialist state, the Soviet Union. Soviet Russia covers 1917–1922 and Soviet Union covers the years 1922 to 1991. After the Russian Civil War (1917–1923), the Bolsheviks took control. They were dedicated to a version of Marxism developed by Vladimir Lenin.
John Samuel Cutmore. Bridget Delia Cutmore ( née McLaughin) John Daniel "Snowy" Cutmore (29 August 1895 – 27 October 1927), was an Australian criminal, well known in the criminal underworld of both Melbourne and Sydney during the inter-war years until his violent death in 1927. Cutmore was raised in inner-city Melbourne and was a prominent ...
1927 – Pierre Alechinsky, Belgian painter and illustrator; 1927 – Stephen Keynes, English businessman (d. 2017) 1928 – Lou Scheimer, American animator, producer, and voice actor, co-founded the Filmation Company (d. 2013) 1929 – Lewis Wolpert, South African-English biologist, author, and academic (d. 2021)
Lawrence Kohlberg ( / ˈkoʊlbɜːrɡ /; October 25, 1927 – January 17, 1987) was an American psychologist best known for his theory of stages of moral development . He served as a professor in the Psychology Department at the University of Chicago and at the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University. Even though it was considered ...
The 15th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) was held during 2–19 December 1927 in Moscow. It was attended by 898 delegates with a casting vote and 771 with a consultative vote. [1] The congress ended an inner-party struggle, as Leon Trotsky, Gregorii Zinoviev and other opponents of Joseph Stalin were expelled from the party.
Jacob "Little Augie" Orgen (January 1893 – October 16, 1927) was a New York gangster involved in bootlegging and labor racketeering during Prohibition. Biography [ edit ] Born to a middle-class Orthodox Jewish family from Austria as Jacob Orgenstein, Orgen became a well-known labor slugger for Benjamin "Dopey Benny" Fein by the early 1910s.
