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  1. Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan

    Moving to Al Ain

    1927Al Ain, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

    He have moved from Abu Dhabi to Al Ain in 1927, after the assassination of his father. As Zayed was growing up in Al-Ain, there were no modern schools anywhere along the coast. He only received a basic instruction in the principles of Islam, and lived in the desert with Bedouin tribesmen, familiarizing himself with the life of the people, their traditional skills and their ability to survive under the harsh climatic conditions.

  2. Computer

    The art of mechanical analog computing reached its zenith

    1927Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.

    The art of mechanical analog computing reached its zenith with the differential analyzer, built by H. L. Hazen and Vannevar Bush at MIT starting in 1927. This built on the mechanical integrators of James Thomson and the torque amplifiers invented by H. W. Nieman. A dozen of these devices were built before their obsolescence became obvious. By the 1950s, the success of digital electronic computers had spelled the end for most analog computing machines, but analog computers remained in use during the 1950s in some specialized applications such as education (control systems) and aircraft (slide rule).

  3. Harry S. Truman

    Elected to the Judgeship

    1927U.S.

    In 1926, Truman was elected to the judgeship with the support of the Pendergast machine, and he was re-elected in 1930. Truman helped coordinate the Ten Year Plan, which transformed Jackson County and the Kansas City skyline with new public works projects, including an extensive series of roads and construction of a new Wight and Wight-designed County Court building.

  4. Chinese Civil War

    KMT-CPC rivalry led to a split in the revolutionary ranks

    1927China

    In early 1927, the KMT-CPC rivalry led to a split in the revolutionary ranks. The CPC and the left wing of the KMT had decided to move the seat of the KMT government from Guangzhou to Wuhan, where communist influence was strong.

  5. Martin Bormann

    Bormann Joined The National Socialist German Workers Party

    1927Germany

    In 1927, Bormann joined the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi Party; NSDAP). His membership number was 60,508.

  6. Heinrich Himmler

    Deputy propaganda Chief

    Jan, 1927Munich, Germany

    Strasser appointed Himmler deputy propaganda chief in January 1927. As was typical in the NSDAP, he had considerable freedom of action in his post, which increased over time. He began to collect statistics on the number of Jews, Freemasons, and enemies of the party, and following his strong need for control, he developed an elaborate bureaucracy.

  7. Young Genius

    1927Guildford, England

    Very early in life, Turing showed signs of the genius that he was later to display prominently. His parents purchased a house in Guildford in 1927, and Turing lived there during school holidays. The location is also marked with a blue plaque.

  8. Meditation

    Tibetan Book of the Dead

    1927U.S.

    New schools of yoga developed in Hindu revivalism from the 1890s. Some of these schools were introduced to the West, by Vivekananda and later gurus. The first English translation of the Tibetan Book of the Dead was published in 1927.

  9. Halloween

    Trick or Treat

    1927Canada

    The earliest known use in print of the term "trick or treat" appears in 1927, in the Blackie Herald Alberta, Canada.

  10. Winston Churchill

    Churchill met Mussolini

    1927Rome, Italy

    In early 1927, Churchill visited Rome where he met Mussolini, whom he praised for his stand against Leninism.

  11. Spanish Civil War

    Battle of Jarama

    Monday Feb 7, 1927Arganda del Rey, Madrid, Spain

    The consolidation of various militias into the Republican Army had started in December 1936. The main Nationalist advance to cross the Jarama and cut the supply to Madrid by the Valencia road, termed the Battle of Jarama, led to heavy casualties (6,000–20,000) on both sides. The operation's main objective was not met, though Nationalists gained a modest amount of territory.

  12. Josip Broz Tito

    He was appointed secretary of the Zagreb branch of the Metal Workers' Union

    Mar, 1927Zagreb, Croatia

    In March 1927, he wrote an article complaining about the exploitation of workers in the factory, and after speaking up for a worker he was promptly sacked. Identified by the CPY as worthy of promotion, he was appointed secretary of the Zagreb branch of the Metal Workers' Union, and soon after of the whole Croatian branch of the union.

  13. Chinese Civil War

    KMT held its second party meeting where the Soviets helped pass resolutions against the Expedition

    Mar, 1927China

    Then, in March 1927, the KMT held its second party meeting where the Soviets helped pass resolutions against the Expedition and curbing Chiang's power. Soon, the KMT would be clearly divided.

  14. Bank of America

    The combined bank operates under Federal Charter 13044, which was granted to Giannini's Bank of Italy

    Tuesday Mar 1, 1927U.S.

    While NationsBank was the nominal survivor, the merged bank took the better-known name of Bank of America. Hence, the holding company was renamed Bank of America Corporation, while NationsBank, N.A. merged with Bank of America NT&SA to form Bank of America, N.A. as the remaining legal bank entity. The combined bank operates under Federal Charter 13044, which was granted to Giannini's Bank of Italy on March 1, 1927.

  15. Juan Trippe

    Pan American Airways

    Monday Mar 14, 1927Key West, Florida, U.S.

    Interested in operating to the Caribbean, Trippe created the Aviation Corporation of the Americas. Based in Florida, the company would evolve into the unofficial United States flag carrier, Pan American Airways, commonly known as Pan Am.

  16. St. Patrick's Day

    Selling alcohol ban

    Thursday Mar 17, 1927Ireland

    In 1927, the Irish Free State government banned the selling of alcohol on St Patrick's Day, although it remained legal in Northern Ireland. The ban was not repealed until 1961.

  17. Anna May Wong

    Mr. Wu

    Saturday Mar 26, 1927U.S.

    In Mr. Wu (1927) Wong played a supporting role as increasing censorship against mixed-race onscreen couples cost her the lead. In The Crimson City, released the following year, this happened again.

  18. Mao Zedong

    The KMT's five-member Central Land Committee

    Apr, 1927China

    In April 1927, Mao was appointed to the KMT's five-member Central Land Committee, urging peasants to refuse to pay rent. Mao led another group to put together a "Draft Resolution on the Land Question", which called for the confiscation of land belonging to "local bullies and bad gentry, corrupt officials, militarists and all counter-revolutionary elements in the villages". Proceeding to carry out a "Land Survey", he stated that anyone owning over 30 mou (four and a half acres), constituting 13% of the population, were uniformly counter-revolutionary. He accepted that there was great variation in revolutionary enthusiasm across the country, and that a flexible policy of land redistribution was necessary.

  19. Ho Chi Minh

    Quốc (Ho) left Canton

    Apr, 1927Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

    After Chiang Kai-shek's 1927 anti-Communist coup, Quốc (Ho) left Canton again in April 1927 and returned to Moscow, spending part of the summer of 1927 recuperating from tuberculosis in Crimea.

  20. Albrecht Kossel

    The Celebration

    Apr, 1927London, England, U.K.

    In April 1927, he attended the Lister Centenary Celebration held in England.

  21. Chinese Civil War

    Chiang and several other KMT leaders held a meeting during which they proposed that Communist activities

    Thursday Apr 7, 1927China

    On April 7, Chiang and several other KMT leaders held a meeting, during which they proposed that Communist activities were socially and economically disruptive and had to be undone for the Nationalist revolution to proceed.

  22. Anna May Wong

    Re-titled The Dragon Horse

    1927California, U.S.

    Wong starred in The Silk Bouquet. Re-titled The Dragon Horse in 1927, the film was one of the first U.S. films to be produced with Chinese backing, provided by San Francisco's Chinese Six Companies. The story was set in China during the Ming Dynasty and featured Asian actors playing the Asian roles.

  23. Mao Zedong

    The CPC's Fifth Congress

    Wednesday Apr 27, 1927Wuhan, China

    The CPC continued supporting the Wuhan KMT government, a position Mao initially supported, but by the time of the CPC's Fifth Congress he had changed his mind, deciding to stake all hope on the peasant militia.

  24. Joseph Goebbels

    Goebbels used provocation to bring attention to the NSDAP

    Thursday May 5, 1927Germany

    Goebbels' tactic of using provocation to bring attention to the NSDAP, along with violence at the public party meetings and demonstrations, led the Berlin police to ban the NSDAP from the city on 5 May 1927.

  25. Disasters with highest death tolls

    1927 Gulang Earthquake

    Sunday May 22, 192706:32:00 AMGansu, China

    The 1927 Gulang earthquake occurred at 6:32 a.m. on 22 May (22:32 UTC on 21 May). This 7.6 magnitude event had an epicenter near Gulang, Gansu in the Republic of China. There were more than 40,900 casualties.

  26. Anna May Wong

    Old San Francisco

    Tuesday Jun 21, 1927California, U.S.

    Wong continued to be assigned supporting roles. Hollywood's Asian female characters tended toward two stereotypical poles: the naïve and self-sacrificing "Butterfly" and the sly and deceitful "Dragon Lady". In Old San Francisco (1927), directed by Alan Crosland for Warner Brothers, Wong played a "Dragon Lady", a gangster's daughter.

  27. Josip Broz Tito

    Broz was arrested

    Jul, 1927Ogulin, Croatia

    In July 1927 Broz was arrested, along with six other workers, and imprisoned at nearby Ogulin.

  28. Albrecht Kossel

    Kossel's Death

    Tuesday Jul 5, 1927Germany

    Kossel died quietly on 5 July 1927, after a recurring attack of angina pectoris. He is buried in Heidelberg, Germany.

  29. Severo Ochoa

    Summer in Glasgow

    1927Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

    Ochoa spent the summer of 1927 in Glasgow working with D. Noel Paton on creatine metabolism improving his English skills.

  30. Mao Zedong

    The Nanchang Uprising

    Monday Aug 1, 1927Nanchang, Jiangxi, China

    The CPC founded the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army of China, better known as the "Red Army", to battle Chiang. A battalion led by General Zhu De was ordered to take the city of Nanchang on August 1, 1927, in what became known as the Nanchang Uprising.

  31. Chinese Civil War

    The Communist Party launched an uprising in Nanchang

    Monday Aug 1, 1927Nanchang, China

    On 1 August 1927, the Communist Party launched an uprising in Nanchang against the Nationalist government in Wuhan. This conflict led to the creation of the Red Army.

  32. Chinese Civil War

    CPC meeting confirmed the objective of the party was to seize the political power by force

    Sunday Aug 7, 1927China

    A CPC (Communist Party of China) meeting on August 7 confirmed the objective of the party was to seize the political power by force, but the CPC was quickly suppressed the next day on August 8 by the Nationalist government in Wuhan led by Wang Jingwei.

  33. Severo Ochoa

    Biochemistry career beginning

    1927Madrid, Spain

    During the summer he refined the assay procedure further and upon returning to Spain he and Valdecasas submitted a paper describing the work to the Journal of Biological Chemistry, where it was rapidly accepted, marking the beginning of Ochoa's biochemistry career.

  34. Chinese Civil War

    Chiang Kai-shek announced his temporary retirement

    Sunday Aug 14, 1927China

    On August 14, Chiang Kai-shek announced his temporary retirement, as the Wuhan faction and Nanjing faction of the Kuomintang were allied once again with common goal of suppressing the Communist Party after the earlier split.

  35. Heinrich Himmler

    Deputy Reichsführer-SS

    Sep, 1927Germany

    In September 1927, Himmler told Hitler of his vision to transform the SS into a loyal, powerful, racially pure elite unit. Convinced that Himmler was the man for the job, Hitler appointed him Deputy Reichsführer-SS, with the rank of SS-Oberführer.

  36. Chinese Civil War

    Nationalist forces quickly reoccupied Nanchang

    Sunday Sep 4, 1927Nanchang, China

    On August 4, the main forces of the Red Army left Nanchang and headed southwards for an assault on Guangdong. Nationalist forces quickly reoccupied Nanchang while the remaining members of the CPC in Nanchang went into hiding.

  37. Mao Zedong

    Mao's defeat at Changsha

    Thursday Sep 15, 1927Changsha, Hunan, China

    Mao was appointed commander-in-chief of the Red Army and led four regiments against Changsha in the Autumn Harvest Uprising, in the hope of sparking peasant uprisings across Hunan. On the eve of the attack, Mao composed a poem—the earliest of his to survive—titled "Changsha". His plan was to attack the KMT-held city from three directions on September 9, but the Fourth Regiment deserted to the KMT cause, attacking the Third Regiment. Mao's army made it to Changsha, but could not take it; by September 15, he accepted defeat and with 1000 survivors marched east to the Jinggang Mountains of Jiangxi.

  38. Audrey Hepburn

    Parents moved to Brussels

    1927Brussels, Belgium

    After a year in London, they moved to Brussels, where he had been assigned to open a branch office.

  39. Charles de Gaulle

    De Gaulle promoted to commandant

    Sunday Sep 25, 1927France

    De Gaulle was promoted to commandant (major) on 25 September 1927.

  40. Willem Einthoven

    Death

    Thursday Sep 29, 1927Leiden, Netherlands

    Einthoven died in Leiden in the Netherlands and is buried in the graveyard of the Reformed Church at 6 Haarlemmerstraatweg in Oegstgeest. It is encouraged to visit his grave and pay respects.

  41. Joseph Stalin

    Crushing the enemies

    Oct, 1927Soviet Union, (Russia)

    In October 1927, Zinoviev and Trotsky were removed from the Central Committee; the latter was exiled to Kazakhstan and later deported from the country in 1929. Some of those United Opposition members who were repentant were later rehabilitated and returned to government.

  42. Juan Trippe

    Pan Am's First Flight

    Wednesday Oct 19, 1927Havana, Cuba

    Pan Am's first flight took off on October 19, 1927, from Key West, Florida, to Havana, Cuba, in a hired Fairchild FC-2 floatplane being delivered to West Indian Aerial Express in the Dominican Republic.

  43. Ho Chi Minh

    Returning to Paris

    Nov, 1927Paris, France

    Quốc (Ho) returned to Paris once more in November 1927.

  44. Charles de Gaulle

    De Gaulle began a two-year posting as commanding officer

    Nov, 1927Trier, Germany

    In November 1927 he began a two-year posting as commanding officer of the 19th chasseurs à pied (a battalion of élite light infantry) with the occupation forces at Trier.

  45. Marcus Garvey

    Released

    Friday Nov 18, 1927U.S.

    The Attorney General, John Sargent, received a petition with 70,000 signatures urging for Garvey's release. Sargeant warned President Calvin Coolidge that African-Americans were regarding Garvey's imprisonment not as a form of justice against a man who had swindled them but as "an act of oppression of the race in their efforts in the direction of race progress". Eventually, Coolidge agreed to commute the sentence so that it would expire immediately, on 18 November 1927. He stipulated, however, that Garvey should be deported straight after release.

  46. Marcus Garvey

    Garvey was taken by train to New Orleans, where around a thousand supporters saw him onto the SS Saramaca

    Saturday Dec 3, 1927New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.

    On being released, Garvey was taken by train to New Orleans, where around a thousand supporters saw him onto the SS Saramaca on 3 December. The ship then stopped at Cristóbal in Panama, where supporters again greeted him, but where the authorities refused his request to disembark. He then transferred to the SS Santa Maria, which took him to Kingston.

  47. Chinese Civil War

    Guangzhou Uprising

    Sunday Dec 11, 1927Guangzhou, China

    On December 11, the CPC started the Guangzhou Uprising, establishing a soviet there the next day, but lost the city by December 13 to a counter-attack under the orders of General Zhang Fakui.

  48. Chinese Civil War

    Wang Jingwei fled to France

    Friday Dec 16, 1927France

    On December 16, Wang Jingwei fled to France. There were now three capitals in China: the internationally recognized republic capital in Beijing, the CPC and left-wing KMT (Kuomintang) at Wuhan and the right-wing KMT regime at Nanjing, which would remain the KMT capital for the next decade.

  49. Jimmy Hoffa

    Hoffa Left School

    1927Detroit, Michigan, U.S.

    Hoffa left school at age 14 and began working full-time manual labor jobs such as house painting to help support his family.

  50. Benito Mussolini

    Mussolini was re-baptized

    1927Italy

    In 1927, Mussolini was re-baptized by a Roman Catholic priest.

  51. Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan

    Moving to Al Ain

    1927Al Ain, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

    He have moved from Abu Dhabi to Al Ain in 1927, after the assassination of his father. As Zayed was growing up in Al-Ain, there were no modern schools anywhere along the coast. He only received a basic instruction in the principles of Islam, and lived in the desert with Bedouin tribesmen, familiarizing himself with the life of the people, their traditional skills and their ability to survive under the harsh climatic conditions.

  52. Computer

    The art of mechanical analog computing reached its zenith

    1927Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.

    The art of mechanical analog computing reached its zenith with the differential analyzer, built by H. L. Hazen and Vannevar Bush at MIT starting in 1927. This built on the mechanical integrators of James Thomson and the torque amplifiers invented by H. W. Nieman. A dozen of these devices were built before their obsolescence became obvious. By the 1950s, the success of digital electronic computers had spelled the end for most analog computing machines, but analog computers remained in use during the 1950s in some specialized applications such as education (control systems) and aircraft (slide rule).

  53. Harry S. Truman

    Elected to the Judgeship

    1927U.S.

    In 1926, Truman was elected to the judgeship with the support of the Pendergast machine, and he was re-elected in 1930. Truman helped coordinate the Ten Year Plan, which transformed Jackson County and the Kansas City skyline with new public works projects, including an extensive series of roads and construction of a new Wight and Wight-designed County Court building.

  54. Chinese Civil War

    KMT-CPC rivalry led to a split in the revolutionary ranks

    1927China

    In early 1927, the KMT-CPC rivalry led to a split in the revolutionary ranks. The CPC and the left wing of the KMT had decided to move the seat of the KMT government from Guangzhou to Wuhan, where communist influence was strong.

  55. Martin Bormann

    Bormann Joined The National Socialist German Workers Party

    1927Germany

    In 1927, Bormann joined the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi Party; NSDAP). His membership number was 60,508.

  56. Heinrich Himmler

    Deputy propaganda Chief

    Jan, 1927Munich, Germany

    Strasser appointed Himmler deputy propaganda chief in January 1927. As was typical in the NSDAP, he had considerable freedom of action in his post, which increased over time. He began to collect statistics on the number of Jews, Freemasons, and enemies of the party, and following his strong need for control, he developed an elaborate bureaucracy.

  57. Young Genius

    1927Guildford, England

    Very early in life, Turing showed signs of the genius that he was later to display prominently. His parents purchased a house in Guildford in 1927, and Turing lived there during school holidays. The location is also marked with a blue plaque.

  58. Meditation

    Tibetan Book of the Dead

    1927U.S.

    New schools of yoga developed in Hindu revivalism from the 1890s. Some of these schools were introduced to the West, by Vivekananda and later gurus. The first English translation of the Tibetan Book of the Dead was published in 1927.

  59. Halloween

    Trick or Treat

    1927Canada

    The earliest known use in print of the term "trick or treat" appears in 1927, in the Blackie Herald Alberta, Canada.

  60. Winston Churchill

    Churchill met Mussolini

    1927Rome, Italy

    In early 1927, Churchill visited Rome where he met Mussolini, whom he praised for his stand against Leninism.

  61. Spanish Civil War

    Battle of Jarama

    Monday Feb 7, 1927Arganda del Rey, Madrid, Spain

    The consolidation of various militias into the Republican Army had started in December 1936. The main Nationalist advance to cross the Jarama and cut the supply to Madrid by the Valencia road, termed the Battle of Jarama, led to heavy casualties (6,000–20,000) on both sides. The operation's main objective was not met, though Nationalists gained a modest amount of territory.

  62. Josip Broz Tito

    He was appointed secretary of the Zagreb branch of the Metal Workers' Union

    Mar, 1927Zagreb, Croatia

    In March 1927, he wrote an article complaining about the exploitation of workers in the factory, and after speaking up for a worker he was promptly sacked. Identified by the CPY as worthy of promotion, he was appointed secretary of the Zagreb branch of the Metal Workers' Union, and soon after of the whole Croatian branch of the union.

  63. Chinese Civil War

    KMT held its second party meeting where the Soviets helped pass resolutions against the Expedition

    Mar, 1927China

    Then, in March 1927, the KMT held its second party meeting where the Soviets helped pass resolutions against the Expedition and curbing Chiang's power. Soon, the KMT would be clearly divided.

  64. Bank of America

    The combined bank operates under Federal Charter 13044, which was granted to Giannini's Bank of Italy

    Tuesday Mar 1, 1927U.S.

    While NationsBank was the nominal survivor, the merged bank took the better-known name of Bank of America. Hence, the holding company was renamed Bank of America Corporation, while NationsBank, N.A. merged with Bank of America NT&SA to form Bank of America, N.A. as the remaining legal bank entity. The combined bank operates under Federal Charter 13044, which was granted to Giannini's Bank of Italy on March 1, 1927.

  65. Juan Trippe

    Pan American Airways

    Monday Mar 14, 1927Key West, Florida, U.S.

    Interested in operating to the Caribbean, Trippe created the Aviation Corporation of the Americas. Based in Florida, the company would evolve into the unofficial United States flag carrier, Pan American Airways, commonly known as Pan Am.

  66. St. Patrick's Day

    Selling alcohol ban

    Thursday Mar 17, 1927Ireland

    In 1927, the Irish Free State government banned the selling of alcohol on St Patrick's Day, although it remained legal in Northern Ireland. The ban was not repealed until 1961.

  67. Anna May Wong

    Mr. Wu

    Saturday Mar 26, 1927U.S.

    In Mr. Wu (1927) Wong played a supporting role as increasing censorship against mixed-race onscreen couples cost her the lead. In The Crimson City, released the following year, this happened again.

  68. Mao Zedong

    The KMT's five-member Central Land Committee

    Apr, 1927China

    In April 1927, Mao was appointed to the KMT's five-member Central Land Committee, urging peasants to refuse to pay rent. Mao led another group to put together a "Draft Resolution on the Land Question", which called for the confiscation of land belonging to "local bullies and bad gentry, corrupt officials, militarists and all counter-revolutionary elements in the villages". Proceeding to carry out a "Land Survey", he stated that anyone owning over 30 mou (four and a half acres), constituting 13% of the population, were uniformly counter-revolutionary. He accepted that there was great variation in revolutionary enthusiasm across the country, and that a flexible policy of land redistribution was necessary.

  69. Ho Chi Minh

    Quốc (Ho) left Canton

    Apr, 1927Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

    After Chiang Kai-shek's 1927 anti-Communist coup, Quốc (Ho) left Canton again in April 1927 and returned to Moscow, spending part of the summer of 1927 recuperating from tuberculosis in Crimea.

  70. Albrecht Kossel

    The Celebration

    Apr, 1927London, England, U.K.

    In April 1927, he attended the Lister Centenary Celebration held in England.

  71. Chinese Civil War

    Chiang and several other KMT leaders held a meeting during which they proposed that Communist activities

    Thursday Apr 7, 1927China

    On April 7, Chiang and several other KMT leaders held a meeting, during which they proposed that Communist activities were socially and economically disruptive and had to be undone for the Nationalist revolution to proceed.

  72. Anna May Wong

    Re-titled The Dragon Horse

    1927California, U.S.

    Wong starred in The Silk Bouquet. Re-titled The Dragon Horse in 1927, the film was one of the first U.S. films to be produced with Chinese backing, provided by San Francisco's Chinese Six Companies. The story was set in China during the Ming Dynasty and featured Asian actors playing the Asian roles.

  73. Mao Zedong

    The CPC's Fifth Congress

    Wednesday Apr 27, 1927Wuhan, China

    The CPC continued supporting the Wuhan KMT government, a position Mao initially supported, but by the time of the CPC's Fifth Congress he had changed his mind, deciding to stake all hope on the peasant militia.

  74. Joseph Goebbels

    Goebbels used provocation to bring attention to the NSDAP

    Thursday May 5, 1927Germany

    Goebbels' tactic of using provocation to bring attention to the NSDAP, along with violence at the public party meetings and demonstrations, led the Berlin police to ban the NSDAP from the city on 5 May 1927.

  75. Disasters with highest death tolls

    1927 Gulang Earthquake

    Sunday May 22, 192706:32:00 AMGansu, China

    The 1927 Gulang earthquake occurred at 6:32 a.m. on 22 May (22:32 UTC on 21 May). This 7.6 magnitude event had an epicenter near Gulang, Gansu in the Republic of China. There were more than 40,900 casualties.

  76. Anna May Wong

    Old San Francisco

    Tuesday Jun 21, 1927California, U.S.

    Wong continued to be assigned supporting roles. Hollywood's Asian female characters tended toward two stereotypical poles: the naïve and self-sacrificing "Butterfly" and the sly and deceitful "Dragon Lady". In Old San Francisco (1927), directed by Alan Crosland for Warner Brothers, Wong played a "Dragon Lady", a gangster's daughter.

  77. Josip Broz Tito

    Broz was arrested

    Jul, 1927Ogulin, Croatia

    In July 1927 Broz was arrested, along with six other workers, and imprisoned at nearby Ogulin.

  78. Albrecht Kossel

    Kossel's Death

    Tuesday Jul 5, 1927Germany

    Kossel died quietly on 5 July 1927, after a recurring attack of angina pectoris. He is buried in Heidelberg, Germany.

  79. Severo Ochoa

    Summer in Glasgow

    1927Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

    Ochoa spent the summer of 1927 in Glasgow working with D. Noel Paton on creatine metabolism improving his English skills.

  80. Mao Zedong

    The Nanchang Uprising

    Monday Aug 1, 1927Nanchang, Jiangxi, China

    The CPC founded the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army of China, better known as the "Red Army", to battle Chiang. A battalion led by General Zhu De was ordered to take the city of Nanchang on August 1, 1927, in what became known as the Nanchang Uprising.

  81. Chinese Civil War

    The Communist Party launched an uprising in Nanchang

    Monday Aug 1, 1927Nanchang, China

    On 1 August 1927, the Communist Party launched an uprising in Nanchang against the Nationalist government in Wuhan. This conflict led to the creation of the Red Army.

  82. Chinese Civil War

    CPC meeting confirmed the objective of the party was to seize the political power by force

    Sunday Aug 7, 1927China

    A CPC (Communist Party of China) meeting on August 7 confirmed the objective of the party was to seize the political power by force, but the CPC was quickly suppressed the next day on August 8 by the Nationalist government in Wuhan led by Wang Jingwei.

  83. Severo Ochoa

    Biochemistry career beginning

    1927Madrid, Spain

    During the summer he refined the assay procedure further and upon returning to Spain he and Valdecasas submitted a paper describing the work to the Journal of Biological Chemistry, where it was rapidly accepted, marking the beginning of Ochoa's biochemistry career.

  84. Chinese Civil War

    Chiang Kai-shek announced his temporary retirement

    Sunday Aug 14, 1927China

    On August 14, Chiang Kai-shek announced his temporary retirement, as the Wuhan faction and Nanjing faction of the Kuomintang were allied once again with common goal of suppressing the Communist Party after the earlier split.

  85. Heinrich Himmler

    Deputy Reichsführer-SS

    Sep, 1927Germany

    In September 1927, Himmler told Hitler of his vision to transform the SS into a loyal, powerful, racially pure elite unit. Convinced that Himmler was the man for the job, Hitler appointed him Deputy Reichsführer-SS, with the rank of SS-Oberführer.

  86. Chinese Civil War

    Nationalist forces quickly reoccupied Nanchang

    Sunday Sep 4, 1927Nanchang, China

    On August 4, the main forces of the Red Army left Nanchang and headed southwards for an assault on Guangdong. Nationalist forces quickly reoccupied Nanchang while the remaining members of the CPC in Nanchang went into hiding.

  87. Mao Zedong

    Mao's defeat at Changsha

    Thursday Sep 15, 1927Changsha, Hunan, China

    Mao was appointed commander-in-chief of the Red Army and led four regiments against Changsha in the Autumn Harvest Uprising, in the hope of sparking peasant uprisings across Hunan. On the eve of the attack, Mao composed a poem—the earliest of his to survive—titled "Changsha". His plan was to attack the KMT-held city from three directions on September 9, but the Fourth Regiment deserted to the KMT cause, attacking the Third Regiment. Mao's army made it to Changsha, but could not take it; by September 15, he accepted defeat and with 1000 survivors marched east to the Jinggang Mountains of Jiangxi.

  88. Audrey Hepburn

    Parents moved to Brussels

    1927Brussels, Belgium

    After a year in London, they moved to Brussels, where he had been assigned to open a branch office.

  89. Charles de Gaulle

    De Gaulle promoted to commandant

    Sunday Sep 25, 1927France

    De Gaulle was promoted to commandant (major) on 25 September 1927.

  90. Willem Einthoven

    Death

    Thursday Sep 29, 1927Leiden, Netherlands

    Einthoven died in Leiden in the Netherlands and is buried in the graveyard of the Reformed Church at 6 Haarlemmerstraatweg in Oegstgeest. It is encouraged to visit his grave and pay respects.

  91. Joseph Stalin

    Crushing the enemies

    Oct, 1927Soviet Union, (Russia)

    In October 1927, Zinoviev and Trotsky were removed from the Central Committee; the latter was exiled to Kazakhstan and later deported from the country in 1929. Some of those United Opposition members who were repentant were later rehabilitated and returned to government.

  92. Juan Trippe

    Pan Am's First Flight

    Wednesday Oct 19, 1927Havana, Cuba

    Pan Am's first flight took off on October 19, 1927, from Key West, Florida, to Havana, Cuba, in a hired Fairchild FC-2 floatplane being delivered to West Indian Aerial Express in the Dominican Republic.

  93. Ho Chi Minh

    Returning to Paris

    Nov, 1927Paris, France

    Quốc (Ho) returned to Paris once more in November 1927.

  94. Charles de Gaulle

    De Gaulle began a two-year posting as commanding officer

    Nov, 1927Trier, Germany

    In November 1927 he began a two-year posting as commanding officer of the 19th chasseurs à pied (a battalion of élite light infantry) with the occupation forces at Trier.

  95. Marcus Garvey

    Released

    Friday Nov 18, 1927U.S.

    The Attorney General, John Sargent, received a petition with 70,000 signatures urging for Garvey's release. Sargeant warned President Calvin Coolidge that African-Americans were regarding Garvey's imprisonment not as a form of justice against a man who had swindled them but as "an act of oppression of the race in their efforts in the direction of race progress". Eventually, Coolidge agreed to commute the sentence so that it would expire immediately, on 18 November 1927. He stipulated, however, that Garvey should be deported straight after release.

  96. Marcus Garvey

    Garvey was taken by train to New Orleans, where around a thousand supporters saw him onto the SS Saramaca

    Saturday Dec 3, 1927New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.

    On being released, Garvey was taken by train to New Orleans, where around a thousand supporters saw him onto the SS Saramaca on 3 December. The ship then stopped at Cristóbal in Panama, where supporters again greeted him, but where the authorities refused his request to disembark. He then transferred to the SS Santa Maria, which took him to Kingston.

  97. Chinese Civil War

    Guangzhou Uprising

    Sunday Dec 11, 1927Guangzhou, China

    On December 11, the CPC started the Guangzhou Uprising, establishing a soviet there the next day, but lost the city by December 13 to a counter-attack under the orders of General Zhang Fakui.

  98. Chinese Civil War

    Wang Jingwei fled to France

    Friday Dec 16, 1927France

    On December 16, Wang Jingwei fled to France. There were now three capitals in China: the internationally recognized republic capital in Beijing, the CPC and left-wing KMT (Kuomintang) at Wuhan and the right-wing KMT regime at Nanjing, which would remain the KMT capital for the next decade.

  99. Jimmy Hoffa

    Hoffa Left School

    1927Detroit, Michigan, U.S.

    Hoffa left school at age 14 and began working full-time manual labor jobs such as house painting to help support his family.

  100. Benito Mussolini

    Mussolini was re-baptized

    1927Italy

    In 1927, Mussolini was re-baptized by a Roman Catholic priest.