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What Happened in 1927

11 historical events, 25 notable births, and 6 notable deaths in 1927.

Major Events

January 1927

sports

1927 South American Championship — 1927 football championship

general

Petrushka — 1911 ballet by Igor Stravinsky, Michel Fokine and Alexandre Benois, Ballets Russes

general

1st Chess Olympiad — FIDE chess tournament for national teams

general

Davisson–Germer experiment — experiment

culture

1927 in film — overview of the events of 1927 in film

sports

World Chess Championship 1927 — chess championship

August 1927

general

Sacco and Vanzetti — Italian American anarchist duo executed by Massachusetts

general

Nanchang Uprising — communist rebellion to form the PLA in China

April 1927

culture

Shanghai massacre of 1927 — mass arrests and executions of members of the Chinese Communist Party and some leftists of the Kuomintang by the Nationalist government (1927-1928)

September 1927

general

Autumn Harvest Uprising — insurrection in China on September 7, 1927