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1860 – Henry Campbell Black, founder of Black's Law Dictionary (d. 1927) 1864 – Elinor Glyn, English author, screenwriter, and producer (d. 1943) 1865 – James Rudolph Garfield, American lawyer and politician, 23rd United States Secretary of the Interior (d. 1950) 1867 – Josep Puig i Cadafalch, Catalan architect who designed the Casa ...
The 6th Dáil first met on 11 October 1927. In the debate on the nomination of the President of the Executive Council, Cumann na nGaedheal leader and outgoing President W. T. Cosgrave was proposed, and this resolution was carried with 76 votes in favour and 70 against. [1] Cosgrave was then appointed as President of the Executive Council by ...
Ford Model A (1927–1931) The Ford Model A (also colloquially called the A-Model Ford or the A, and A-bone among hot rodders and customizers) [6] was the Ford Motor Company 's second market success, replacing the venerable Model T which had been produced for 18 years. It was first produced on October 20, 1927, but not introduced until December ...
1927 – Dominick Argento, American composer and educator (d. 2019) 1928 – Gilles Vigneault, Canadian singer-songwriter and poet; 1929 – Myra Carter, American actress (d. 2016) 1929 – Bill George, American football player (d. 1982) 1929 – Maurice Robert Johnston, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire
Show Boat. Show Boat is a musical with music by Jerome Kern and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. It is based on Edna Ferber 's best-selling 1926 novel of the same name. The musical follows the lives of the performers, stagehands and dock workers on the Cotton Blossom, a Mississippi River show boat, over 40 years from 1887 to 1927.
Release date. 27 October 1927. ( 1927-10-27) Country. Germany. Languages. Silent. German intertitles. The White Spider (German: Die weiße Spinne) is a 1927 German silent film directed by Carl Boese and starring Maria Paudler, Walter Rilla and John Loder.
The 1927 World Chess Championship was played between José Raúl Capablanca and Alexander Alekhine, in Buenos Aires from September 16 to November 29, 1927. Alekhine, a Russian, became a naturalised French citizen during the match (on November 5). [1]
