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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 31 December 2024. This article is about the year 1927. For other uses, see 1927 (disambiguation). 1927 January February March April May June July August September October November December Calendar year Millennium: 2nd millennium Centuries: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1900s 1910s ...
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.
This is a list of American films released in 1927, All films on this list are in the Public Domain since 2023. The Jazz Singer starring Al Jolson . 1927 Academy Award nominees
1927 are an Australian pop rock band formed in 1987 with James Barton on drums, Billy Frost on bass guitar, his brother Garry Frost on guitar and keyboards, and Eric Weideman on vocals, guitar and keyboards. They were popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s with major hit songs.
The 1927 New York Yankees season was the 25th season of the New York Yankees of the American League. The team finished with a record of 110–44–1, winning their fifth pennant and finishing 19 games ahead of the Philadelphia Athletics and were tied for first or better for the whole season. [ 1 ]
August 2 – American electrical engineer Harold Stephen Black invents the negative-feedback amplifier.; September 7 – Philo Farnsworth's electronic image dissector television camera tube transmits its first image at his laboratory at 202 Green Street in San Francisco.
September 28, 1927 (Wednesday) [ edit ] Babe Ruth tied his record of 59 home runs hit in 1921, hitting his 58th and 59th in the Yankees' 15–0 win over the visiting Washington Senators, and their pitcher, Horace Lisenbee .
In the case of Buck v.Bell, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., delivered the 8-1 majority opinion by the U.S. Supreme Court, upholding a Virginia law permitting compulsory sterilization of mentally retarded women, writing, "It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or to let them starve for their own imbecility, society can prevent those who are ...