December 1927 calendar

Events

• 02 Dec 1927 1st Model A Fords sold, for $385
• 04 Dec 1927 Duke Ellington opens at Cotton Club in Harlem
• 10 Dec 1927 "Grand Ole Opry" makes its first radio broadcast, in Nashville, Tennessee.
• 11 Dec 1927 Guangzhou Uprising: Communist militia and worker Red Guards launch an uprising in the Chinese city of Guangzhou, taking over most of the city and announcing the formation of a Guangzhou Soviet.
• 14 Dec 1927 Iraq gains independence from Britain, but British troops remain.
• 15 Dec 1927 Ed Hickman kidnaps child he later beheads
• 17 Dec 1927 Victoria scores 793 in cricket against Queensland, Bill Ponsford scores 437.
• 19 Dec 1927 3 Indian Revolutionaries viz Pandit Ram Prasad Bismil, Thakur Roshan Singh and Ashfaqulla Khan were executed by the British Empire 4th Rajendra Nath Lahiri had been executed two day's before i.e. on December 17
• 25 Dec 1927 The Vietnamese Nationalist Party is founded.
• 27 Dec 1927 Kern and Hammerstein's musical play, ''Show Boat'', based on Edna Ferber's novel, opens on Broadway and then goes on to become the first great classic of the American musical theater.
• 30 Dec 1927 Japan dedicates first subway in the Orient (route under two miles long).
• 31 Dec 1927 Ponsford scores 336 against SA, giving him 1146 for month

Famous Birthday

• Robert Hossein

  French film actor, director, and writer of Azerbaijani and Jewish origin.

• Mary Higgins Clark
• Bhumibol Adulyadej

  King of Thailand.

• René Fallet
• Andy Williams

  American musician, singer in the crooner style so popular in the 1950s and '60s.

• Geneviève Page
• Gae Aulenti

  Italian architect, artist, designer and sculptress.

• Robert Noyce

  American inventor and businessman co-founded the Intel Corporation (d. 1990).

• Rama IX
• Paul Guers

  Tours Actor.

• Giampiero Albertini

  Italian voice-over actor who dubbed Peter Falk's voice for the TV series "Colombo" in Italy.

• Randall Garrett

  American sci-fi writer, wrote many stories under his own name and a variety of other names in the '50s and early '60s.

• Georges Besse
• Kenneth Negus

  American astrologer and professor of German who has a Ph.

• Éva Ruttkai
• Charlie Williams (comedian)
• Ray Bluth

  American bowler.

• Jean-Marc Soyez
• Guy Chambelland
• James Wright

  American poet.

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Famous Deaths

• Heinrich Reitsch

  Composer, dies at 67.

• Hugh Archibald Clarke

  Composer, dies at 88.

• Sergei D Sazonov

  Russian Foreign minister (1910-16), dies at age 66.

• Yulian Vasilievich Sokhotski

  Russian mathematician (Born 1842).

• Rajendra Lahiri

  Indian British anti-occupation activist (Born 1892).

• Ram Prasad Bismil

  Indian Revolutionary (Born 1897).

• Roshan Singh

  Indian nationalist (date of birth unknown).

• Ashfaqulla Khan

  Indian independence movement figure (Born 1900).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra - Dancing Tambourine
2. Gene Austin - The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi
3. Jimmie Rodgers - The Soldier's Sweetheart
4. Don Voorhees & His Orchestra - My Blue Heaven
5. Nat Shilkret & The Victor Orchestra - Diane (I'm In Heaven When I See You Smile)