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Events from the year 1927 in the United States .
Incumbents
Governors and Lieutenant Governors
Governors
Governor of Alabama : William W. Brandon (Democratic ) (until January 17), Bibb Graves (Democratic ) (starting January 17)Governor of Arizona : George W. P. Hunt (Democratic )Governor of Arkansas : Tom Jefferson Terral (Democratic ) (until January 11), John Ellis Martineau (Democratic ) (starting January 11)Governor of California : Friend Richardson (Republican ) (until January 4), Clement C. Young (Republican ) (starting January 4)Governor of Colorado : Clarence Morley (Republican ) (until January 11), Billy Adams (Democratic ) (starting January 11)Governor of Connecticut : John H. Trumbull (Republican )Governor of Delaware : Robert P. Robinson (Republican )Governor of Florida : John W. Martin (Democratic )Governor of Georgia : Clifford Walker (Democratic ) (until June 25), Lamartine G. Hardman (Democratic ) (starting June 25)Governor of Idaho : Charles C. Moore (Republican ) (until January 3), H. C. Baldridge (Republican ) (starting January 3)Governor of Illinois : Len Small (Republican )Governor of Indiana : Edward L. Jackson (Republican )Governor of Iowa : John Hammill (Republican )Governor of Kansas : Ben S. Paulen (Republican )Governor of Kentucky : William J. Fields (Democratic ) (until December 13), Flem D. Sampson (Republican ) (starting December 13)Governor of Louisiana : Oramel H. Simpson (Democratic )Governor of Maine : Owen Brewster (Republican )Governor of Maryland : Albert C. Ritchie (Democratic )Governor of Massachusetts : Alvan T. Fuller (Republican )Governor of Michigan : Alex Groesbeck (Republican ) (until January 1), Fred W. Green (Republican ) (starting January 1)Governor of Minnesota : Theodore Christianson (Republican )Governor of Mississippi : Henry L. Whitfield (Democratic ) (until March 18), Dennis Murphree (Democratic ) (starting March 18)Governor of Missouri : Samuel Aaron Baker (Republican )Governor of Montana : John E. Erickson (Democratic )Governor of Nebraska : Adam McMullen (Republican )Governor of Nevada : James G. Scrugham (Democratic ) (until January 3), Fred B. Balzar (Republican ) (starting January 3)Governor of New Hampshire : John Gilbert Winant (Republican ) (until January 6), Huntley N. Spaulding (Republican ) (starting January 6)Governor of New Jersey : A. Harry Moore (Democratic )Governor of New Mexico : Arthur T. Hannett (Democratic ) (until January 1), Richard C. Dillon (Republican ) (starting January 1)Governor of New York : Al Smith (Democratic )Governor of North Carolina : Angus Wilton McLean (Democratic )Governor of North Dakota : Arthur G. Sorlie (Republican )Governor of Ohio : A. Victor Donahey (Democratic )Governor of Oklahoma : Martin E. Trapp (Democratic ) (until January 10), Henry S. Johnston (Democratic ) (starting January 10)Governor of Oregon : Walter M. Pierce (Democratic ) (until January 10), I. L. Patterson (Republican ) (starting January 10)Governor of Pennsylvania : Gifford Pinchot (Republican ) (until January 18), John Stuchell Fisher (Republican ) (starting January 18)Governor of Rhode Island : Aram J. Pothier (Republican )Governor of South Carolina : Thomas Gordon McLeod (Democratic ) (until January 18), John Gardiner Richards, Jr. (Democratic ) (starting January 18)Governor of South Dakota : Carl Gunderson (Republican ) (until January 4), William J. Bulow (Democratic ) (starting January 4)Governor of Tennessee : Austin Peay (Democratic ) (until October 3), Henry Hollis Horton (Democratic ) (starting October 3)Governor of Texas : Miriam A. Ferguson (Democratic ) (until January 17), Dan Moody (Democratic ) (starting January 17)Governor of Utah : George Dern (Democratic )Governor of Vermont : Franklin S. Billings (Republican ) (until January 6), John E. Weeks (Republican ) (starting January 6)Governor of Virginia : Harry F. Byrd (Democratic )Governor of Washington : Roland H. Hartley (Republican )Governor of West Virginia : Howard M. Gore (Republican )Governor of Wisconsin : John J. Blaine (Republican ) (until January 3), Fred R. Zimmerman (Republican ) (starting January 3)Governor of Wyoming : Nellie Tayloe Ross (Democratic ) (until January 3), Frank C. Emerson (Republican ) (starting January 3)
Lieutenant Governors
Lieutenant Governor of Alabama : Charles S. McDowell (Democratic ) (until January 17), William C. Davis (Democratic ) (starting January 17)Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas : Harvey Parnell (Democratic ) (starting month and day unknown)Lieutenant Governor of California : Clement Calhoun Young (Republican ) (until January 6), Buron Fitts (Republican ) (starting January 6)Lieutenant Governor of Colorado : Sterling Byrd Lacy (Democratic ) (until January 11), George Milton Corlett (Republican ) (starting January 11)Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut : J. Edwin Brainard (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Delaware : James H. Anderson (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Idaho : H. C. Baldridge (Republican ) (until January 3), O. E. Hailey (Republican ) (starting January 3)Lieutenant Governor of Illinois : Fred E. Sterling (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Indiana : F. Harold Van Orman (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Iowa : Clem F. Kimball (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Kansas : De Lanson Alson Newton Chase (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky : Henry Denhardt (Democratic ) (until December 13), James Breathitt, Jr. (Democratic ) (starting December 13)Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana : Philip H. Gilbert (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts : Frank G. Allen (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Michigan : George W. Welsh (Republican ) (until January 1), Luren D. Dickinson (Republican ) (starting January 1)Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota : William I. Nolan (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi : Dennis Murphree (Democratic ) (until March 18), vacant (starting March 18)Lieutenant Governor of Missouri : Philip Allen Bennett (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Montana : W. S. McCormack (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska : George A. Williams (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Nevada : Maurice J. Sullivan (Democratic ) (until January 3), Morley Griswold (Republican ) (starting January 3)Lieutenant Governor of New Mexico : Edward G. Sargent (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of New York : Edwin Corning (Democratic ) (starting January 1)Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina : Jacob E. Long (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota : Walter Maddock (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Ohio : Charles H. Lewis (Republican ) (until January 10), Earl D. Bloom (Democratic ) (starting January 10)Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma : vacant (until January 10), William J. Holloway (Democratic ) (starting January 10)Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania : David J. Davis (Republican ) (until January 18), Arthur H. James (Republican ) (starting January 18)Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island : Nathaniel W. Smith (Republican ) (until month and day unknown), Norman S. Case (Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina : E. B. Jackson (Democratic ) (until January 18), Thomas Bothwell Butler (Democratic ) (starting January 18)Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota : Alva Clark Forney (Republican ) (until January 4), Hyatt E. Covey (Republican ) (starting January 4)Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee :
Lieutenant Governor of Texas : Barry Miller (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Vermont :
Lieutenant Governor of Virginia : Junius Edgar West (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Washington : W. Lon Johnson (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin : Henry A. Huber (Republican )
Events
May 20–21: Charles Lindbergh flies from New York to Paris . April 19 – Actress-playwright Mae West is sentenced to ten days incarceration for "corrupting the morals of youth" for her comedy-drama Sex Broadway .
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 Supreme Court of the United States , permitting compulsory sterilization of people with intellectual disability .
May 11 – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , the "Academy" in "Academy Awards ," is founded.
May 14 – The University of Chicago 's local collegiate organization, Phi Sigma, becomes incorporated under the laws of the State of Illinois as Eta Sigma Phi , the National Honorary Classical Fraternity.
May 17 – Army aviation pioneer Major Harold Geiger dies in the crash of his Airco DH.4 de Havilland plane, at Olmsted Field, Pennsylvania.
May 18 – Bath School disaster : Bombings by a disaffected local official result in 45 deaths, mostly children, in Bath Township, Michigan .
May 20–21 – Aviator Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo non-stop trans-Atlantic flight, from New York to Paris in the single-seat, single-engine monoplane Spirit of St. Louis
May 23 – Nearly 600 members of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and the Institute of Radio Engineers view the first live demonstration of television at the Bell Telephone Building in New York.
May 26 – The final Model T rolls off the assembly line at the Ford Motor Company factory in Highland Park, Michigan , ending a run of 19 years and 15 million cars.
June 13 – A ticker-tape parade is held for aviator Charles Lindbergh down Fifth Avenue in New York City .
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 6: The Jazz Singer October 6 – The Jazz Singer silent film era.
October 8 – Murderer's Row : The New York Yankees complete a 4-game sweep of the Pittsburgh Pirates in the World Series.
October 28 – Pan American Airways ' first flight takes off from Key West , bound for Havana .
November 3–4 – Floods devastating Vermont incur the "worst natural disaster in the state's history".[ 1]
November 4
Frank Heath and his horse Gypsy Queen return to Washington, D.C. , having completed a 2-year journey of 11,356 miles to all 48 states.
The 7.3 Mw Lompoc earthquake affected the central coast of California with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe ), causing a tsunami and moderate damage.
November 10 – Unexplained explosions occur in Canton, Ohio .
November 13 – The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicular tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City .
November 14 – The Pittsburgh Gasometer Explosion : Three Equitable Gas storage tanks in the North Side of Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , explode, killing 26 people and causing damage estimated between contemporary totals of $4 million and $5 million.
December 2 – Following 19 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Model A as its new automobile.
December 15 – Marion Parker , 12, is kidnapped in Los Angeles. Her dismembered body is found on December 19, prompting the largest manhunt to date on the West Coast for her killer, William Edward Hickman , who is arrested on December 22 in Oregon .
December 17 – The U.S. submarine S-4 is accidentally rammed and sunk by the United States Coast Guard destroyer John Paulding off Provincetown, Massachusetts , killing everyone aboard after several unsuccessful attempts to raise the sub.
December 27 – Kern and Hammerstein's musical play Show Boat Edna Ferber 's novel, opens on Broadway and goes on to become the first great classic of the American musical theatre.
Undated
Ongoing
Births
January
Barbara Rush Johnnie Ray Eartha Kitt
February
File:Harvey-Korman.jpg Harvey Korman John Warner Sidney Poitier February 1 – Galway Kinnell , American poet (d. 2014 )February 2
February 3 – Kenneth Anger , American actor, director and screenwriterFebruary 6
February 8 – George Taliaferro , American football player (d. 2018 )February 10 – Leontyne Price , African-American sopranoFebruary 11 – Nalda Bird , American professional baseball player (d. 2004 )February 12
February 13 – Buck Hill , American jazz tenor, soprano saxophonist (d. 2017 )February 15 – Harvey Korman , American actor and Comedian (d. 2008 )February 17 – John Selfridge , American mathematician (d. 2010 )February 18 – John Warner , American politicianFebruary 20
February 21
February 22
February 23 – Paul W. Schroeder , historian (d. 2020 )February 24 – Mark Lane , American conspiracy theorist (d. 2016 )February 25
February 26 – Tom Kennedy , American game show host
March
Harry Belafonte Jack Cassidy Cesar Chavez William Daniels March 1
March 3 – Harry Whittington , American lawyer, real estate investor and political figureMarch 4
March 5 – Jack Cassidy , American actor and singer (d. 1976 )March 6
March 7 – James Broderick , American actor (d. 1982 )March 8 – Dick Hyman , American composer, pianistMarch 9 – Jackie Jensen , American baseball player (d. 1982 )March 10 – Bill Fischer , American football offensive lineman (d. 2017 )March 11 – Gloria Blackwell , African-American civil rights activist and educator (d. 2010 )March 13 – Robert Denning , American interior designer (d. 2005 )March 15
March 16 – Daniel Patrick Moynihan , American author, politician, and statesman (d. 2003 )March 18 – George Plimpton , American writer and actor (d. 2003 )March 20 – Earlene Risinger , American professional baseball player (d. 2008 )March 21 – Jerome Chazen , American businessman (d. 2022 )March 29
March 31
April
Coretta Scott King April 1 – Amos Milburn , American R&B singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1980 )April 2
April 6 – Gerry Mulligan , American musician (d. 1996 )April 10 – Marshall Warren Nirenberg , American biochemist and geneticist (d. 2010 )April 12 – Alvin Sargent , American screenwriter (d. 2019 )April 15 – Robert Mills , American physicist (d. 1999 )April 16
April 17 – Junior Collins , American-French horn player (d. 1976 )April 18 – Samuel P. Huntington , American political scientist (d. 2008 )April 20 – Phil Hill , American race car driver (d. 2008 )
April 26 – Harry Gallatin , American basketball player and coach (d. 2015 )April 27 – Coretta Scott King , African-American civil rights activist (d. 2006 )April 28 – William Lewis Moore , American postal worker (d. 1963 )April 29 – Big Jay McNeely , R&B saxophonist (d. 2018 )
May
Michael Constantine May 4 – Hal Hudson , American baseball player (d. 2016 )May 5 – Pat Carroll , American actressMay 10 – Mike Souchak , American golfer (d. 2008 )May 13
May 19 – John Thompson , American football executive (d. 2022 )May 20 – Bud Grant , Canadian and American football coachMay 21 – Chuck Stewart , American photographer (d. 2017 )May 22
May 24 – William Ennis Thomson , American music educator (d. 2019 )May 25 – Robert Ludlum , American novelist (d. 2001 )May 27 – Ralph Carmichael , American composer and arranger (d. 2021 )May 28 – William A. Hilliard , American journalist (d. 2017 )May 30 – Clint Walker , American actor (d. 2018 )
June
Jerry Stiller Martin Lewis Perl F. Sherwood Rowland June 1 – Joseph Z. Nederlander , American theater owner and operator (d. 2021 )June 3 – Boots Randolph , American saxophone player (d. 2007 )June 8 – Jerry Stiller , American actor (d. 2020 )June 9 – George Nigh , American politicianJune 10 – Eugene Parker , American astrophysicist (d. 2022 )June 11 – John W. O'Malley , American Catholic historian, author and Jesuit priestJune 17
June 18 – Bud Brown , American politicianJune 19 – John Glenn Beall, Jr. , American politician (d. 2006 )June 21 – Carl Stokes , American politician (d. 1996 )June 23 – Bob Fosse , American choreographer (d. 1987 )June 24 – Martin Lewis Perl , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2014 )[ 6] June 25
June 27
June 28
June 29
June 30
July
Neil Simon Janet Leigh David Dinkins
August
Porter Wagoner Rosalynn Carter Althea Gibson Bill Daily August 1 – Warren Wolf , American football player (d. 2019 )August 4
August 6 – William D. Ford , American politician (d. 2004 )August 7
August 8
August 9 – Marvin Minsky , American computer scientist (d. 2016 )August 10 – W. Sterling Cary , African-American Christian minister (d. 2021 )[ 10] August 11 – Stuart Rosenberg , American director (d. 2007 )August 12
August 15 – Carmela Marie Cristiano , American Roman Catholic nun (d. 2011 )August 17 – F. Ray Keyser Jr. , American lawyer, politician (d. 2015 )August 18 – Rosalynn Carter , 39th First Lady of the United States August 19
August 21 – Thomas S. Monson , American religious leader, 16th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 2018 )August 23 – Allan Kaprow , American painter and performance artist (d. 2006 )August 24 – Harry Markowitz , American economistAugust 25 – Althea Gibson , African-American tennis player (d. 2003 )August 26 – Sam Massell , American businessman (d. 2022 )August 29
August 30
September
Peter Falk Jack Kelly Harold Brown W. S. Merwin September 1 – Bob DiPietro , American baseball player (d. 2012 )September 2 – Gene Rhodes , American basketball player and coach (d. 2018 )September 3
September 4 – John McCarthy , American computer and cognitive scientist (d. 2011 )September 5 – Paul Volcker , American economist, academic (d. 2019 )September 8
September 9 – Elvin Jones , African-American jazz drummer (d. 2004 )September 11
September 15
September 16
September 17 – George Blanda , American football quarterback, placekicker (d. 2010 )September 19
September 21
September 22
September 23 – Thomas Vose Daily , American Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2017 September 28
September 29 – Pete McCloskey , American politicianSeptember 30 – W. S. Merwin , American poet (d. 2019 )
October
Al Martino George C. Scott October 1 – Tom Bosley , American actor (d. 2010 )October 5
October 6 – Alice Bauer , American golfer (d. 2002 )October 7
October 10 – Dana Elcar , American actor, director (d. 2005 )October 11 – William Perry , American mathematician, engineer and businessmanOctober 13 – Lee Konitz , American jazz composer, alto saxophonist (d. 2020 )October 18 – George C. Scott , American actor (d. 1999 )October 19 – Red McCombs , American billionaireOctober 20 – Joyce Brothers , American psychologist (d. 2013 )October 23 – Barron Hilton , American socialite and businessmanOctober 24 – Cal Hogue , American baseball player (d. 2005 )October 25
October 27 – Dominick Argento , American composer and educator (d. 2019 )October 29 – William Cousins , American judge (d. 2018 )
November
Patti Page McLean Stevenson Robert Guillaume November 2 – Steve Ditko , American comic book artist (d. 2018 )November 3 – Peggy McCay , American actress (d. 2018 )November 4 – Bobby Breen , Canadian-born American actor and singer (d. 2016 )November 5 – Howard Terpning , American painter and illustratorNovember 8 – Patti Page , American singer (d. 2013 )November 11 – Mose Allison , American jazz and blues pianist and singer-songwriter (d. 2016 )November 12 – Jack Butler , American football player (d. 2013 )November 13 – John Pont , American football player and coach (d. 2008 )November 14
November 16 – Barbara Payton , American actress (d. 1967 )November 17 – Lynn Stalmaster , American casting directorNovember 18
November 19 – John Hulett , African American civil rights activist (d. 2006 )November 20 – Estelle Parsons , American actressNovember 21
November 23 – Guy Davenport , American writer and graphic artist (d. 2005 )November 26
November 27
November 29
November 30 – Robert Guillaume , African-American actor and singer (d. 2017 )
December
Andy Williams Ramsey Clark December 3 – Andy Williams , American singer (d. 2012 )December 8 – Ferdie Pacheco , American physician and author (d. 2017 )December 10 – Bob Farrell , American motivational speaker, author, and founder of Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour and Restaurant (d. 2015 )December 12 – Robert Noyce , American co-founder of Intel (d. 1990 )December 13 – James Wright , American poet (d. 1980 )December 14 – Hershel McGriff , American stock car racing driverDecember 18 – Ramsey Clark , American politician, lawyer (d. 2021 )December 20 – Charlie Callas , American comedian, singer (d. 2011 )December 23 – Edith Irby Jones , African-American physician (d. 2019 )December 24 – Mary Higgins Clark , American novelist (d. 2020 )December 25
December 26 – Alan King , American actor, comedian (d. 2004 )December 27 – Genevieve Audrey Wagner , American professional baseball player, physician (d. 1984 )December 29 – Andy Stanfield , American athlete (d. 1985 )
Deaths
January 26 – Lyman J. Gage , financier and Presidential Cabinet Officer (b. 1836 )
February 7 – Walter Guion , U.S. Senator from Louisiana in 1918 (b. 1849 )
February 13
February 20 – George McClellan , U.S. Representative from New York (b. 1856 )
February 25 – David Baird Sr. , U.S. Senator from New Jersey from 1918 to 1919 (b. 1839 in Ireland )
March 4 – Ira Remsen , chemist (b. 1846 )
March 11 – August Paulsen , Danish-American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1871 )
April 25 – Earle Williams , actor (b. 1880 )
May 6 – Hudson Maxim , inventor and chemist (b. 1853 )
May 23 – Henry E. Huntington , railroad magnate (b. 1850 )
June 9 – Victoria Woodhull , American leader of the woman's suffrage movement (b. 1838 )
June 15 – William Joseph Deboe , U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1897 to 1903 (b. 1849 )
July 17 – Florence Roberts , actress (b. 1871 )
August 15 – B. B. Comer , 33rd Governor of Alabama from 1907 to 1911 and U.S. Senator from Alabama in 1920 (b. 1848 )
September 7 – Mary Canfield Ballard , poet and hymn-writer (b. 1852 )
September 20 – George Nichols , American actor and director (b. 1864 )
September 27 – Leopold Wharton , film director (b. 1870 )
September 30 – Charles Kilpatrick , one-legged trick cyclist (b. 1869 )
December 3 – Orrin Dubbs Bleakley , U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania (b. 1854 )
December 18 – Nicholas Fessenden , politician (b. 1847 )
See also
References
^ http://www.erh.noaa.gov/btv/events/27flood.shtml [bare URL ^ Jack, Adrian (26 December 2008). "Obituary: Eartha Kitt" . the Guardian . Retrieved 10 December 2020 . ^ Art Stewart, who drafted Bo Jackson, Mike Sweeney and others for Royals, dies at 94 ^ "Last fluent speaker of Wichita tribal language preserves what's left." Dallas Morning News. ^ Ruckman, S. E. "Tribal language fading away." Tulsa World. 26 Nov 2007 (retrieved 3 Oct 2009)
^ John Gribbin (22 February 2000). Q is for Quantum: An Encyclopedia of Particle Physics ISBN 978-0-684-86315-3 ^ "Neil Simon obituary" . the Guardian . 26 August 2018. Retrieved 10 March 2022 .^ Joe Turkel dead at 94 ^ Midge Decter, an Architect of Neoconservatism, Dies at 94 ^ Rev. W. Sterling Cary, Pioneering Black Churchman, Dies at 94 ^ "Birth details for Paul Lawrence Brady" . FamilySearch.org . Retrieved September 21, 2017 .
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