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John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum was an American sculptor best known for his work on Mount Rushmore. He is also associated with various other public works of art across the U.S., in…
Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore.
Imatra was a cinema in Tampere, Finland, located in Hämeenkatu 12.
The Imatra Cinema is destroyed in a fire in Tampere, Finland, during showing the 1924 film Wages of Virtue; 21 people…
Edie Adams was an American comedian, actress, singer and businesswoman who was prominent in the second half of the 1900s. She earned a Tony Award and was nominated for an Emmy Awar…
Edie Adams, American actress and singer (died 2008)
Pope Benedict XVI was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 2005 until his resignation in 2013. Following his resignation, he chose to be known as "pope em…
Pope Benedict XVI (died 2022)
Rolf Schult was a German actor who specializes in dubbing. He provided the German dub for actor Robert Redford, among many others. Until the film Hannibal (2001), he provided the …
Rolf Schult, German actor (died 2013)
The July Revolt of 1927 was a major riot starting on 15 July 1927 in the Austrian capital, Vienna. The revolt was sparked by the acquittal of three nationalist paramilitary members…
Massacre of July 15, 1927: Eighty-nine protesters are killed by Austrian police in Vienna.
Augusto César Sandino was a Nicaraguan revolutionary, founder of the militant group EDSN, and leader of a rebellion between 1927 and 1933 against the United States occupation of Ni…
Augusto César Sandino leads a raid on U.S. Marines and Nicaraguan Guardia Nacional that had been sent to apprehend him…
The Nanchang Uprising of August 1927 was the point at which conflict between the Chinese Communist Party and the Nationalist Party of China (Kuomintang) became an outright rebellio…
The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Chinese…
The Peace Bridge is an international bridge over the Niagara River between Canada and the United States, located just north of the river's source at the east end of Lake Erie about…
The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.
The Dole Air Race, also known as the Dole Derby, was an air race across the Pacific Ocean from northern California to the Territory of Hawaii in August 1927. Of the 18 official and…
The Dole Air Race begins from Oakland, California, to Honolulu, Hawaii, during which six out of the eight…
Samuel Phillips Huntington was an American political scientist, adviser, and academic. He was the Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor at Harvard University, where he dir…
Samuel P
Tadeusz Mazowiecki was a Polish author, journalist, philanthropist and politician, formerly one of the leaders of the Solidarity movement, and the first non-communist Polish prime …
Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Polish journalist and politician, Prime Minister of Poland (died 2013)
Cora Susan Collins was an American former child actress who appeared in films during the Golden Years of Hollywood. Although she did not make the transition to a film career in adu…
Cora Sue Collins, American child actress (died 2025)
Jack Sydney George "Bud" Cullen, was a Canadian Federal Court judge and politician.
Bud Cullen, Canadian judge and politician, 1st Canadian Minister of Employment and Immigration (died 2005)
Philip Toll Hill Jr. was an American racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1958 to 1966. Hill won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1961 with Ferrari, and wo…
Phil Hill, American race car driver (died 2008)
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were Italian immigrants and anarchists, controversially accused of murdering Alessandro Berardelli and Frederick Parmenter, a guard and a payma…
Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti are executed after a lengthy, controversial trial.
The Famous Five, also known as The Valiant Five, and initially as The Alberta Five, were five prominent Canadian suffragists who advocated for women and children: Henrietta Muir Ed…
Five Canadian women file a petition to the Supreme Court of Canada, asking: "Does the word 'Persons' in Section 24 of…
The Jazz Singer is a 1927 American part-talkie musical drama film directed by Alan Crosland and produced by Warner Bros. Pictures. It is the first feature-length motion picture wit…
Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent "talkie" movie.
SS Principessa Mafalda was an Italian transatlantic ocean liner built for the Navigazione Generale Italiana (NGI) company. Named after Princess Mafalda of Savoy, second daughter of…
The Italian luxury liner SS Principessa Mafalda sinks off the coast of Brazil, killing 314.
Margot Honecker was an East German politician and influential member of the country's Communist government until 1989. From 1963 until 1989, she was Minister of National Education …
Margot Honecker, East German politician and First Lady (died 2016)
Karl Alexander Müller was a Swiss physicist and Nobel laureate. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1987 with Georg Bednorz for their work in superconductivity in ceramic mat…
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Ahmed Arif was a Turkish-Kurdish poet.
Ahmed Arif, Turkish poet and author (died 1991)
Lorenzo "Laurel" Aitken was a Cuban-Jamaican singer and one of the pioneers of ska music. He is often referred to as the "Godfather of Ska".
Laurel Aitken, Cuban-Jamaican singer (died 2005)
Joseph "Josy" Barthel was a Luxembourgish athlete and politician. He was the surprise winner of the Men's 1500 metres at the 1952 Summer Olympics, and the only athlete representing…
Josy Barthel, Luxembourgish runner and politician, Luxembourgish Minister for Energy (died 1992)