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1927 Calendar Trivia

The next time you can reuse this calendar will be on year 2033. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a solar cycle.

April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), December 12 (12/12), and the last day of February always fall on the same day of the week in any given year. This is called the ‘Doomsday rule’. Check these dates using the full 12-month calendar below to verify.

1927 Calendar

Historical Events Of 1927

• February 2, 1927 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
• April 7, 1927 – First long-distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
• April 12, 1927 – Rocksprings, Texas was hit by an F5 tornado that destroyed 235 of the 247 buildings in the town and killed 72 townspeople and injured 205; third deadliest tornado in Texas history.
• August 16, 1927 – The Dole Air Race begins from Oakland, California, to Honolulu, Hawaii, during which six out of the eight participating planes crash or disappear.
• August 23, 1927 – Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti are executed after a lengthy, controversial trial.
• September 7, 1927 – The first fully electronic television system is achieved by Philo Farnsworth.
• October 25, 1927 – The Italian luxury liner SS Principessa Mafalda sinks off the coast of Brazil, killing 314.
• November 12, 1927 – Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin in undisputed control of the Soviet Union.
• December 3, 1927 – Putting Pants on Philip, the first Laurel and Hardy film, is released.
• December 10, 1927 – The phrase “Grand Ole Opry” is used for the first time on-air.

Who Were Born On 1927?

• January 31, 1927 – Norm Prescott, American animator, producer, and composer, co-founded Filmation Studios (d. 2005)
• February 19, 1927 – Philippe Boiry, French journalist (d. 2014)
• February 21, 1927 – Erma Bombeck, American journalist and author (d. 1996)
• March 27, 1927 – Jacek Sempoliński, Polish painter and critic (d. 2012)
• March 28, 1927 – Marianne Fredriksson, Swedish journalist and author (d. 2007)
• June 2, 1927 – W. Watts Biggers, American author, screenwriter, and animator (d. 2013)
• July 11, 1927 – Theodore Maiman, American-Canadian physicist and engineer (d. 2007)
• July 16, 1927 – Shirley Hughes, English author and illustrator
• October 10, 1927 – Dana Elcar, American actor and director (d. 2005)
• November 17, 1927 – Robert Drasnin, American clarinet player and composer (d. 2015)