1927 in the United States

Summary

Events from the year 1927 in the United States.

1927
in
the United States

Decades:
  • 1900s
  • 1910s
  • 1920s
  • 1930s
  • 1940s
See also:

Incumbents edit

Federal government edit

Events edit

January–March edit

April–June edit

 
May 20–21: Charles Lindbergh flies from New York to Paris.

July–September edit

  • August 2 – U.S. President Calvin Coolidge announces, "I do not choose to run for president in 1928."
  • August 7 – The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario, and Buffalo, New York.
  • August 23—After six years of appeals, as protests rage in capital cities around the world, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are electrocuted at midnight in Charlestown, Massachusetts.
  • August 26 – Paul Redfern leaves Brunswick, Georgia, flying his Stinson Detroiter Port of Brunswick to attempt a solo non-stop flight to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He later crashes in the Venezuela jungle (the crash site is never located).
  • September 18 – The Columbia Phonographic Broadcasting System (later known as CBS) is formed and goes on the air with 47 radio stations.
  • September 29 – 79 are killed and 550 are injured when a tornado strikes the St. Louis, Missouri area; it is the second-costliest and at least 24th-deadliest tornado in U.S. history.

October–December edit

 
October 6: The Jazz Singer.

Undated edit

Ongoing edit

Births edit

January edit

 
Barbara Rush
 
Johnnie Ray
 
Eartha Kitt

February edit

 
Harvey Korman
 
John Warner
 
Sidney Poitier

March edit

 
Harry Belafonte
 
Jack Cassidy
 
Cesar Chavez
 
William Daniels

April edit

 
Coretta Scott King

May edit

 
Michael Constantine

June edit

 
Jerry Stiller
 
Martin Lewis Perl
 
F. Sherwood Rowland

July edit

 
Neil Simon
 
Janet Leigh
 
David Dinkins

August edit

 
Porter Wagoner
 
Rosalynn Carter
 
Althea Gibson
 
Bill Daily

September edit

 
Peter Falk
 
Jack Kelly
 
Harold Brown
 
W. S. Merwin

October edit

 
Al Martino
 
George C. Scott

November edit

 
Patti Page
 
McLean Stevenson
 
Robert Guillaume

December edit

 
Andy Williams
 
Ramsey Clark

Deaths edit

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "National Weather Service - Burlington, VT - The Flood of 1927". Archived from the original on 2014-02-11.
  2. ^ "The long legacy of the U.S. occupation of Haiti". Washington Post. Retrieved 19 August 2022.
  3. ^ "Volstead Act | History, Definition, & Significance | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
  4. ^ Virginia Norwood, a pioneer in satellite land imaging, dies at age 96
  5. ^ Jack, Adrian (26 December 2008). "Obituary: Eartha Kitt". the Guardian. Retrieved 10 December 2020.
  6. ^ Art Stewart, who drafted Bo Jackson, Mike Sweeney and others for Royals, dies at 94
  7. ^ "Last fluent speaker of Wichita tribal language preserves what's left." Dallas Morning News.
  8. ^ Ruckman, S. E. "Tribal language fading away." Tulsa World. 26 Nov 2007 (retrieved 3 Oct 2009)
  9. ^ Chris Strodder (March 1, 2007). The Encyclopedia of Sixties Cool: A Celebration of the Grooviest People, Events, and Artifacts of the 1960s. Santa Monica Press. p. 109. ISBN 978-1-59580-986-5.
  10. ^ John Gribbin (22 February 2000). Q is for Quantum: An Encyclopedia of Particle Physics. Simon and Schuster. p. 277. ISBN 978-0-684-86315-3.
  11. ^ William Post, Who Helped Create Pop-Tarts, Dies at 96
  12. ^ "Neil Simon obituary". the Guardian. 26 August 2018. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
  13. ^ Joe Turkel dead at 94
  14. ^ Midge Decter, an Architect of Neoconservatism, Dies at 94
  15. ^ Rev. W. Sterling Cary, Pioneering Black Churchman, Dies at 94
  16. ^ "Former Knicks star Carl Braun dies at 82". USATODAY.com. February 10, 2010. Retrieved February 10, 2010.
  17. ^ "Birth details for Paul Lawrence Brady". FamilySearch.org. Retrieved September 21, 2017.
  18. ^ "William Bromwell Melish". Grand Lodge Free & Accepted Masons of Ohio. Archived from the original on January 6, 2009. Retrieved 2009-07-24.

External links edit

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