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1927 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1927th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 927th year of the 2nd millennium, the 27th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1920s decade.
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January 1 – Cristero War erupts in Mexico when pro-Churchrebels attack secular-minded governmentJanuary 7 – First transatlantic telephone call – New York City to LondonJanuary 9 – Military rebellion crushed in LisbonJulius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian doctor, won the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, (b. 1857) (d. 1940)
January
1. January 3 – Mario Lanfranchi, Italian movie directors (d. 2022) 2. January 30 – Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1986)
February
1. February 7 – Juliette Gréco, French singer and actress (d. 2020) 2. February 20 – Sidney Poitier, Bahamian-American actor (d. 2022) 3. February 21 – Hubert de Givenchy, French fashion designer (d. 2018)
March
1. March 6 – Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian writer, journalist and Nobel Prize in Literature (d. 2014) 2. March 17 - Patrick Allen, English actor (d. 2006) 3. March 31 – Cesar Chavez, American labor union leader (d. 1993)
April 22–May 5 – The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 affects 700,000 people in the greatest national disaster in U.S. history at this time. April 30 – The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opens near Alderson, West Virginia, as the first federal prison for women in the U.S. May 2 – Buck v. Bell decided in the Supreme Court of the ...
1927: A Year in the Collections. May 20–21, 1927, Charles Lindbergh made his famous solo, non-stop transatlantic flight in the Spirit of St. Louis.
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The book is a history of the summer of 1927 in the United States. It was published in October 2013 by Doubleday. The book focuses on various key events of that summer as lenses through which to view American life: what it had recently been and what it was becoming.
This year saw the renaming of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, recognising in name the Irish Free State's independence, it having come into existence with the Anglo-Irish Treaty in 1922.
