June 1, 1927 (Wednesday)

• Liquor sales began again in the province of Ontario
  Ontario
  Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....
  
   for the first time since 1916. Visitors from the United States
  United States
  The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
  
  , where alcohol sales had been banned nationwide since 1920
  Prohibition in the United States
  Prohibition in the United States was a national ban on the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol, in place from 1920 to 1933. The ban was mandated by the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution, and the Volstead Act set down the rules for enforcing the ban, as well as defining which...
  
  , were allowed to purchase up to two cases apiece of whiskey, wine and beer, no more often than once a month, and only if they were issued a non-citizen permit, which required three days stay in Canada.
• Radio frequencies assigned by the Federal Radio Commission
  Federal Radio Commission
  The Federal Radio Commission was a government body that regulated radio use in the United States from its creation in 1926 until its replacement by the Federal Communications Commission in 1934...
  
  , effective June 15, for 694 American radio stations. All stations in the U.S. were required to begin broadcasting on their assigned AM radio frequency no later than 3:00 a.m. Eastern time on the 15th, or have their licenses taken. Federal Radio Commission's new frequency allocations take effect at 3:00 am Eastern time
• World lightweight boxing champion Sammy Mandell and challenger Steve Adams (real name Steven Adamczyk) met in an exhibition bout in Kansas City. In the second round, Adams jumped back from a blow and struck his head on the top rope of the ring, fell unconscious, and was counted out. Minutes later, he was pronounced dead.
• Died: Lizzie Borden, 66, who was acquitted in the 1892 ax murders of her parents; and J.B. Bury, 65, Irish historian

June 2, 1927 (Thursday)

• The Aviation Corporation of America was founded by Juan Trippe
  Juan Trippe
  Juan Terry Trippe was an American airline entrepreneur and pioneer, and the founder of Pan American World Airways, one of the world's most prominent airlines of the twentieth century.-Early years:...
  
  , with the backing of Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney
  Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney
  Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney was an American businessman, film producer, writer, and government official, as well as the owner of a leading stable of thoroughbred racehorses....
  
   and W. Averell Harriman
  W. Averell Harriman
  William Averell Harriman was an American Democratic Party politician, businessman, and diplomat. He was the son of railroad baron E. H. Harriman. He served as Secretary of Commerce under President Harry S. Truman and later as the 48th Governor of New York...
  
  , and raised $250,000 in startup capital from the sale of stock to launch the first major airline, Pan American World Airways
  Pan American World Airways
  Pan American World Airways, commonly known as Pan Am, was the principal and largest international air carrier in the United States from 1927 until its collapse on December 4, 1991...
  
  .
• Died: Wang Guowei
  Wang Guowei
  Wang Guowei , courtesy name Jing'an or Baiyu , was a Chinese scholar, writer and poet...
  
  , 49, Chinese poet, by suicide

June 3, 1927 (Friday)

• The creation of a chain of 600 vaudeville and movie theatres, largest in the United States, was announced with a $250 million merger of companies into the Keith-Albee-Orpheum
  Keith-Albee-Orpheum
  The Keith-Albee-Orpheum Corporation was the owner of a chain of vaudeville and motion picture theatres. It was formed by the merger of the holdings of Benjamin Franklin Keith and Edward Franklin Albee II and Martin Beck's Orpheum Circuit, Inc..-History:...
  
   Corporation.
• Born: Boots Randolph
  Boots Randolph
  Homer Louis "Boots" Randolph III was an American musician best known for his 1963 saxophone hit, "Yakety Sax"...
  
  , American saxophone player, in Paducah, KY (d. 2007)
• Died: Einar Hanson
  Einar Hanson
  Einar Hanson , also known as Einar Hansen, was a Swedish silent film motion-picture actor.-Career:...
  
  , 29, Swedish film actor and co-star of Pola Negri
  Pola Negri
  Pola Negri was a Polish stage and film actress who achieved worldwide fame for her tragedienne and femme fatale roles from the 1910s through the 1940s during the Golden Era of Hollywood film. She was the first European film star to be invited to Hollywood, and became a great American star. She...
  
  ; in a car accident near Santa Monica, California
  Santa Monica, California
  Santa Monica is a beachfront city in western Los Angeles County, California, US. Situated on Santa Monica Bay, it is surrounded on three sides by the city of Los Angeles — Pacific Palisades on the northwest, Brentwood on the north, West Los Angeles on the northeast, Mar Vista on the east, and...
  
  .

June 4, 1927 (Saturday)

• The Indonesian National Party
  Indonesian National Party
  The Indonesian National Party is the same used by several political parties in Indonesia from 1927 until the present day.-Pre-independence:...
  
   (Partai Nasional Indonesia or PNI) was founded by Sukarno
  Sukarno
  Sukarno, born Kusno Sosrodihardjo was the first President of Indonesia.Sukarno was the leader of his country's struggle for independence from the Netherlands and was Indonesia's first President from 1945 to 1967...
  
   (Kusno Sosrodihardjo) and Mohammad Hatta
  Mohammad Hatta
  was born in Bukittinggi, West Sumatra, Dutch East Indies . He was Indonesia's first vice president, later also serving as the country's Prime Minister. Known as "The Proclamator", he and a number of Indonesians, including the first president of Indonesia, Sukarno, fought for the independence of...
  
  , and guided the Dutch East Indies
  Dutch East Indies
  The Dutch East Indies was a Dutch colony that became modern Indonesia following World War II. It was formed from the nationalised colonies of the Dutch East India Company, which came under the administration of the Netherlands government in 1800....
  
   to independence from the Netherlands by 1945, when Sukarno and Hatta became the first President and Vice-President of Indonesia.
• Charles Lindbergh
  Charles Lindbergh
  Charles Augustus Lindbergh was an American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist.Lindbergh, a 25-year-old U.S...
  
   and his airplane, the Spirit of St. Louis
  Spirit of St. Louis
  The Spirit of St. Louis is the custom-built, single engine, single-seat monoplane that was flown solo by Charles Lindbergh on May 20–21, 1927, on the first non-stop flight from New York to Paris for which Lindbergh won the $25,000 Orteig Prize.Lindbergh took off in the Spirit from Roosevelt...
  
  , began their trip back to the United States from France, as passenger and cargo on the USS Memphis
  USS Memphis (CL-13)
  USS Memphis was an Omaha-class light cruiser of the United States Navy. She was the fourth Navy ship named for the city of Memphis, Tennessee....
  
  . Lindbergh flew from Paris
  Paris
  Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
  
   to Cherbourg, where a launch took him to the Memphis. "
• General Alexandru Averescu
  Alexandru Averescu
  Alexandru Averescu was a Romanian marshal and populist politician. A Romanian Armed Forces Commander during World War I, he served as Prime Minister of three separate cabinets . He first rose to prominence during the peasant's revolt of 1907, which he helped repress in violence...
  
   was removed as Prime Minister of Romania
  Prime Minister of Romania
  The Prime Minister of Romania is the head of the Government of Romania. Initially, the office was styled President of the Council of Ministers , when the term "Government" included more than the Cabinet, and the Cabinet was called The Council of Ministers...
  
   by King Ferdinand, who replaced him with Barbu Ştirbey
  Barbu Stirbey
  Prince Barbu Ştirbey was briefly Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Romania in 1927. He was the son of Prince Alexandru Ştirbey and his wife Maria Ghika-Comăneşti, and grandson of another Barbu Dimitrie Ştirbey , who was Prince of Wallachia and died in 1869.He married Princess Nadèje Bibescu about...
  
  .
• From the U.S. presidential yacht Mayflower
  USS Mayflower (PY-1)
  USS Mayflower was the second ship in the United States Navy to have that name. Mayflower — a luxurious steam yacht built in 1896 by J. and G. Thompson, Clydebank, Scotland — was purchased by the Navy from the estate of Ogden Goelet and commissioned at New York Navy Yard on 24 March 1898,...
  
  , stationed off of Cape Henry, Virginia, President Coolidge watched the most elaborate naval review
  Naval Review
  A Naval Review is an event, where the whole of the US Navy is paraded to be reviewed by the president or the Secretary of the Navy. It often includes delegates from other national navies. It is more regular and frequent than its British equivalent, the Fleet Review, and often occurs on a Navy...
  
   in the nation's history. In all, 98 aircraft carriers, battleships, destroyers, submarines and other U.S. Navy vessels sailed past the Commander in Chief. Unidentified sources in the Navy later claimed that Coolidge had watched only 20 minutes of the procession, wore only casual clothes, and been indifferent to the honor.
• Died: Robert McKim
  Robert McKim (actor)
  Robert McKim was an American actor of the silent era. He appeared in 99 films between 1915 and 1927. He is best remembered for playing the arch villain opposite Douglas Fairbanks's Zorro in The Mark of Zorro in 1920. McKim also starred with Lon Chaney in the 1923 silent version of All The Brothers...
  
  , 49, American silent film actor and vaudevillian, three weeks after he suffered a cerebral hemorrhage on stage while performing at a vaudeville show.

June 5, 1927 (Sunday)

• Arthur Barry, the most successful gentleman thief
  Gentleman thief
  In the Victorian vernacular, a gentleman thief is a particularly well-behaving and apparently well bred thief. A "gentleman" is usually, but not always, a man with an inherited title of nobility and inherited wealth, who need not work for a living. Such a man steals not in order to gain material...
  
   in history, was arrested at the train station in Ronkonkoma, New York
  Ronkonkoma, New York
  Ronkonkoma is a census-designated place on Long Island in the Town of Islip, Suffolk County, New York, United States. The population was 20,029 at the 2000 census...
  
  , bringing to an end a career in which he stole more than five million dollars worth of jewelry from the homes of wealthy victims. Barry, whose real name was Arthur Gibson, escaped prison in 1929 and was recaptured in 1932, then released in 1949.
• Torino FC bribed opposing defender Luigi Allemandi
  Luigi Allemandi
  Luigi Allemandi was an Italian footballer who played as a defender.Born in San Damiano Macra, province of Cuneo, he debuted in 1921 with A.C. Legnano. Later, he played with Juventus F.C., F.C. Internazionale Milano, A.S. Roma, S.S.C. Venezia and S.S. Lazio. He was a member of the Italian national...
  
   of Juventus F.C.
  Juventus F.C.
  Juventus Football Club S.p.A. , commonly referred to as Juventus and colloquially as Juve , are a professional Italian association football club based in Turin, Piedmont...
  
   prior to a match, and was later stripped of its title for the 1926-27 season.

June 6, 1927 (Monday)

• Clarence D. Chamberlin and Charles A. Levine became the second persons to fly an airplane across the Atlantic Ocean from North America, to Europe, landing the Columbia at Eisleben
  Eisleben
  Eisleben is a town in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is famous as the hometown of Martin Luther, hence its official name is Lutherstadt Eisleben. As of 2005, Eisleben had a population of 24,552...
  
  , in Germany
  Germany
  Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
  
  , after a nonstop flight of 3,905 miles in 44 hours and 35 minutes. The duo had planned to reach Berlin
  Berlin
  Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
  
   but were forced to land 100 miles short of their goal by a damaged propeller.
• Article 58
  Article 58 (RSFSR Penal Code)
  Article 58 of the Russian SFSR Penal Code was put in force on 25 February 1927 to arrest those suspected of counter-revolutionary activities. It was revised several times...
  
   of the Russian Penal Code was amended to expand the number of "anti-Soviet" crimes, including "aid to social groups that are under the influence of that part of the international bourgeoisie that does not recognize the equality of rights of the Communist system", making statements in favor of "weakening" Soviet power, or possessing subversive literature. Failure to report a counter-revolutionary crime could be punishable by up to ten years in prison.

June 7, 1927 (Tuesday)

• Alvin "Shipwreck" Kelly climbed up the 50 foot tall flagpole at the St. Francis Hotel in Newark, New Jersey
  Newark, New Jersey
  Newark is the largest city in the American state of New Jersey, and the seat of Essex County. As of the 2010 United States Census, Newark had a population of 277,140, maintaining its status as the largest municipality in New Jersey. It is the 68th largest city in the U.S...
  
   at 10:00 am, set a stool on the sphere at the top, and announced that he would remain there for at least eight days. Kelly, who had trained by a 7-day stunt in St. Louis in January, told reporters that the point of the stunt was to prove to the American public that it "overdoes things- especially eating", and that he would be in better physical shape after he came down than when he went up. Kelly remained at his perch for 12 days and 12 hours, coming down on June 19.
• Pyotr Voykov, Soviet ambassador to Poland
  Poland
  Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
  
  , was assassinated at the railway station in Warsaw
  Warsaw
  Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...
  
  . He was shot by 19 year old Boris Kowerda, an exiled Russian youth, in retaliation for having signed the death warrants in 1918 for Tsar Nicholas II and the Russian Imperial Family.;

June 8, 1927 (Wednesday)

• Canada
  Canada
  Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
  
   sent a note of protest to U.S. Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg
  Frank B. Kellogg
  Frank Billings Kellogg was an American lawyer, politician and statesman who served in the U.S. Senate and as U.S. Secretary of State. He co-authored the Kellogg-Briand Pact, for which he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1929..- Biography :Kellogg was born in Potsdam, New York, and his family...
  
   concerning a decision to require all Canadians, working in the U.S., to obtain immigrant visas by December 1. Thousands of Canadians had, for years, commuted to jobs in the United States every day, but border restrictions were made in response to the legalization of liquor sales in Canada, which were still prohibited in the U.S.
• American theatrical producer Earl Carroll
  Earl Carroll
  Earl Carroll was an American theatrical producer, director, songwriter and composer born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.-Career:...
  
   began a prison sentence of one year and one day as inmate number 24,909 in the federal prison in Atlanta
  United States Penitentiary, Atlanta
  United States Penitentiary, Atlanta is a medium-security federal prison for men in Atlanta, Georgia. It also has a detention center for pre-trial and holdover inmates and an adjacent camp for minimum security male inmates...
  
  , after being convictedof perjury. Carroll had created a national scandal when he had thrown a party on Washington's Birthday in 1926, featuring a nude model in a bathtub of champagne, then lied about it.
• Born: Jerry Stiller
  Jerry Stiller
  Gerald Isaac "Jerry" Stiller is an American comedian and actor.He spent many years in the comedy team Stiller and Meara with his wife Anne Meara...
  
  , American comedian, in New York City
  New York City
  New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
  
  

June 9, 1927 (Thursday)

• Irish general election, June 1927: W.T. Cosgrave
  W.T. Cosgrave
  William Thomas Cosgrave , known generally as W. T. Cosgrave, was an Irish politician who succeeded Michael Collins as Chairman of the Irish Provisional Government from August to December 1922. He served as the first President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State from 1922 to...
  
   retained his post as Prime Minister of the Irish Free State
  Irish Free State
  The Irish Free State was the state established as a Dominion on 6 December 1922 under the Anglo-Irish Treaty, signed by the British government and Irish representatives exactly twelve months beforehand...
  
  . His Cumann na nGaedheal Party won 47 seats in the Dáil Éireann
  Dáil Éireann
  Dáil Éireann is the lower house, but principal chamber, of the Oireachtas , which also includes the President of Ireland and Seanad Éireann . It is directly elected at least once in every five years under the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote...
  
  , while the Fianna Fáil
  Fianna Fáil
  Fianna Fáil – The Republican Party , more commonly known as Fianna Fáil is a centrist political party in the Republic of Ireland, founded on 23 March 1926. Fianna Fáil's name is traditionally translated into English as Soldiers of Destiny, although a more accurate rendition would be Warriors of Fál...
  
  , led by Éamon de Valera
  Éamon de Valera
  Éamon de Valera was one of the dominant political figures in twentieth century Ireland, serving as head of government of the Irish Free State and head of government and head of state of Ireland...
  
  , received 44.
• A forerunner of the musical synthesizer, the "Clavier à Lampes", was demonstrated by its inventor, Armand Givelet, at the Trocadero Theatre in Philadelphia.
• Died: Victoria Woodhull
  Victoria Woodhull
  Victoria Claflin Woodhull was an American leader of the woman's suffrage movement, an advocate of free love; together with her sister, the first women to operate a brokerage in Wall Street; the first women to start a weekly newspaper; an activist for women's rights and labor reforms and, in 1872,...
  
  , 88, American leader of the campaign to give woment the right to vote; first woman to run for U.S. President (1872)

June 10, 1927 (Friday)

• Printing of Nan Britton
  Nan Britton
  Nan P. "Nanny" Britton was a figure associated with the Presidency of Warren G. Harding due to her claim that Harding fathered her illegitimate daughter shortly before his election as President....
  
  's controversial book, The President's Daughter, was halted by New York City police, following a complaint by the Society for the Suppression of Vice. The police were forced to release confiscated books and printing plates on June 29, and the book, in which Britton claimed that she and the late President Warren G. Harding
  Warren G. Harding
  Warren Gamaliel Harding was the 29th President of the United States . A Republican from Ohio, Harding was an influential self-made newspaper publisher. He served in the Ohio Senate , as the 28th Lieutenant Governor of Ohio and as a U.S. Senator...
  
   had had an affair, was published in 1928.

June 11, 1927 (Saturday)

• Following a week-long voyage from France, the U.S.S. Memphis sailed up the Potomac River
  Potomac River
  The Potomac River flows into the Chesapeake Bay, located along the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States. The river is approximately long, with a drainage area of about 14,700 square miles...
  
   to return Charles Lindbergh and his plane to the United States, three weeks after his May 20 departure by airplane. "Lucky Lindy" received an enthusiastic welcome in Washington, D.C.
  Washington, D.C.
  Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....
  
   and was honored by the President and Mrs. Coolidge, before setting off the next day by train to New York City. He became the first person to be awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross
  Distinguished Flying Cross
  The Distinguished Flying Cross may refer to:*Distinguished Flying Cross , including Commonwealth countries*Distinguished Flying Cross...
  
  , a medal which had been created on July 2, 1926.

June 12, 1927 (Sunday)

• The body of the last victim of American serial killer
  Serial killer
  A serial killer, as typically defined, is an individual who has murdered three or more people over a period of more than a month, with down time between the murders, and whose motivation for killing is usually based on psychological gratification...
  
   Earle Nelson
  Earle Nelson
  Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Killer was an American serial killer.Nelson's childhood was a difficult one. His mother and father both died of syphilis before Nelson turned two. He was subsequently sent to be raised by his maternal grandmother, a devout Pentecostal...
  
   was discovered in a rooming house in Winnipeg
  Winnipeg
  Winnipeg is the capital and largest city of Manitoba, Canada, and is the primary municipality of the Winnipeg Capital Region, with more than half of Manitoba's population. It is located near the longitudinal centre of North America, at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers .The name...
  
  . Dubbed "The Gorilla Murderer" by the American press, Nelson killed at least 22 women in the U.S. over a period of a year and a half, then murdered a boardinghouse operator and a 14-year old girl after coming to Canada. Arrested on June 15 in Manitoba
  Manitoba
  Manitoba is a Canadian prairie province with an area of . The province has over 110,000 lakes and has a largely continental climate because of its flat topography. Agriculture, mostly concentrated in the fertile southern and western parts of the province, is vital to the province's economy; other...
  
  , he was convicted of the murder of Emily Patterson, and hanged on January 13, 1928.
• The threat of war between Yugoslavia
  Yugoslavia
  Yugoslavia refers to three political entities that existed successively on the western part of the Balkans during most of the 20th century....
  
   and Albania
  Albania
  Albania , officially known as the Republic of Albania , is a country in Southeastern Europe, in the Balkans region. It is bordered by Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, the Republic of Macedonia to the east and Greece to the south and southeast. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea...
  
  , with Italy
  Italy
  Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
  
   taking Albania's side, was eased at a meeting in Geneva
  Geneva
  Geneva In the national languages of Switzerland the city is known as Genf , Ginevra and Genevra is the second-most-populous city in Switzerland and is the most populous city of Romandie, the French-speaking part of Switzerland...
  
   of the Council of Foreign Ministers at the League of Nations
  League of Nations
  The League of Nations was an intergovernmental organization founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. It was the first permanent international organization whose principal mission was to maintain world peace...
  
  . Earlier in the month, Yugoslavia had severed diplomatic relations after the arrest of an embassy employee in Tirana.
• Guglielmo Marconi
  Guglielmo Marconi
  Guglielmo Marconi was an Italian inventor, known as the father of long distance radio transmission and for his development of Marconi's law and a radio telegraph system. Marconi is often credited as the inventor of radio, and indeed he shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand...
  
  , the inventor of wireless radio and Italy
  Italy
  Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
  
  's most celebrated living scientist, married the Countess Maria Christina Bezzi-Scali in Rome
  Rome
  Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
  
  . The couple received full military honors and the ceremony was attended by dictator Benito Mussolini
  Benito Mussolini
  Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was an Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party and is credited with being one of the key figures in the creation of Fascism....
  
  .

June 13, 1927 (Monday)

• A ticker-tape parade
  Ticker-tape parade
  A ticker-tape parade is a parade event held in a built-up urban setting, allowing large amounts of shredded paper to be thrown from nearby office buildings onto the parade route, creating a celebratory effect by the snowstorm-like flurry...
  
   was held for aviator Charles Lindbergh
  Charles Lindbergh
  Charles Augustus Lindbergh was an American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist.Lindbergh, a 25-year-old U.S...
  
   down 5th Avenue in New York City
  New York City
  New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
  
  . An estimated 4,500,000 people turned out to watch, and millions more heard the events described in a live radio broadcast.

June 14, 1927 (Tuesday)

• Reinhold Gliere
  Reinhold Glière
  Reinhold Moritzevich Glière was a Russian and Soviet composer of German–Polish descent.- Biography :Glière was born in Kiev, Ukraine...
  
  's The Red Poppy
  The Red Poppy
  The Red Poppy or sometimes The Red Flower is a ballet in three acts and an apotheosis; score written by Reinhold Glière and a scenario by Mikhail Kurilko. This ballet was created in 1927 as the first Soviet ballet with a modern revolutionary theme....
  
  , received its first performance. Premiering in Moscow
  Moscow
  Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
  
  , it was the first Communist-themed ballet.
• Died:Jerome K. Jerome
  Jerome K. Jerome
  Jerome Klapka Jerome was an English writer and humorist, best known for the humorous travelogue Three Men in a Boat.Jerome was born in Caldmore, Walsall, England, and was brought up in poverty in London...
  
  , 68, English humorist

June 15, 1927 (Wednesday)

• President Coolidge, his wife, and his top aides arrived in Rapid City, South Dakota
  Rapid City, South Dakota
  Rapid City is the second-largest city in the U.S. state of South Dakota, and the county seat of Pennington County. Named after Rapid Creek on which the city is established, it is set against the eastern slope of the Black Hills mountain range. The population was 67,956 as of the 2010 Census. Rapid...
  
  , two days after leaving Washington, D.C., then traveled 32 miles to the 40 room state game lodge. For nearly three months, the President took an extended summer vacation and governed from the state park in the Black Hills
  Black Hills
  The Black Hills are a small, isolated mountain range rising from the Great Plains of North America in western South Dakota and extending into Wyoming, USA. Set off from the main body of the Rocky Mountains, the region is something of a geological anomaly—accurately described as an "island of...
  
  , before returning to the White House
  White House
  The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the president of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., the house was designed by Irish-born James Hoban, and built between 1792 and 1800 of white-painted Aquia sandstone in the Neoclassical...
  
   on September 11.

June 16, 1927 (Thursday)

• Charles Lindbergh collected the $25,000 Orteig prize
  Orteig Prize
  The Orteig Prize was a $25,000 reward offered on May 19, 1919, by New York hotel owner Raymond Orteig to the first allied aviator to fly non-stop from New York City to Paris or vice-versa. On offer for five years, it attracted no competitors...
  
  , as the first person to fly an airplane between New York City and Paris. Raymond Orteig
  Raymond Orteig
  Raymond Orteig was the New York City hotel owner who offered the Orteig Prize for the first non-stop transatlantic flight between New York and Paris....
  
   handing him the award at the Hotel Brevoort. The same day, Lindbergh also became the first person to receive the American Distinguished Flying Cross
  Distinguished Flying Cross (United States)
  The Distinguished Flying Cross is a medal awarded to any officer or enlisted member of the United States armed forces who distinguishes himself or herself in support of operations by "heroism or extraordinary achievement while participating in an aerial flight, subsequent to November 11, 1918." The...
  
   on the same day (authorized July 2, 1926).

June 17, 1927 (Friday)

• American occupation troops began their withdrawal from Nicaragua
  Nicaragua
  Nicaragua is the largest country in the Central American American isthmus, bordered by Honduras to the north and Costa Rica to the south. The country is situated between 11 and 14 degrees north of the Equator in the Northern Hemisphere, which places it entirely within the tropics. The Pacific Ocean...
  
  , with a small contingent group of a contingent of U.S. Marines sailing from Corinto
  Corinto, Nicaragua
  Corinto is a town of 17,000 on the northwest Pacific coast of Nicaragua in the province of Chinandega. The municipality was founded in 1863 and was named in honour of the Greek city of Corinth.- Economy :...
  
  .
• Born: Wallace Wood, American comic artist, in Menahga, Minnesota
  Menahga, Minnesota
  Menahga is a city in Wadena County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 1,306 at the 2010 census.Menahga means "blueberry bush" in the Chippewa language.-Geography:...
  
   (d. 1981)
• Died: John R. Thompson, 62, founder of one of the first fast food
  Fast food
  Fast food is the term given to food that can be prepared and served very quickly. While any meal with low preparation time can be considered to be fast food, typically the term refers to food sold in a restaurant or store with preheated or precooked ingredients, and served to the customer in a...
  
   restaurant chains in the United States. Thompson built on the concept of the cafeteria
  Cafeteria
  A cafeteria is a type of food service location in which there is little or no waiting staff table service, whether a restaurant or within an institution such as a large office building or school; a school dining location is also referred to as a dining hall or canteen...
  
  , catering to business people in large cities. At the time of his death, there were 120 Thompson's Restaurants in 42 states.

June 18, 1927 (Saturday)

• Marshal Chang Tso-Lin began a military dictatorship in northeast China
  China
  Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
  
  , with Beijing
  Beijing
  Beijing , also known as Peking , is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of 19,612,368 as of 2010. The city is the country's political, cultural, and educational center, and home to the headquarters for most of China's...
  
   as his capital, and vowed to purge the entire nation of Communists led by Mao Tse-tung and Nationalists led by Chiang Kai-shek
  Chiang Kai-shek
  Chiang Kai-shek was a political and military leader of 20th century China. He is known as Jiǎng Jièshí or Jiǎng Zhōngzhèng in Mandarin....
  
  .
• The first of 15 million U.S. air mail stamps, printed with a picture of the Spirit of St. Louis in honor of Lindbergh's flight to Paris
  Paris
  Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
  
  , went on sale and were sought after by collectors. The 10¢ stamps went on sale in St. Louis, Detroit, Washington and Lindbergh's boyhood hometown of Little Falls, Minnesota
  Little Falls, Minnesota
  As of the census of 2000, there were 7,719 people , 3,197 households, and 1,899 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,232.5 people per square mile . There were 3,358 housing units at an average density of 536.2 per square mile...
  
  .
• Born: Paul Eddington
  Paul Eddington
  Paul Eddington CBE was an English actor best known for his appearances in popular television sitcoms of the 1970s and 80s: The Good Life, Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister.-Early life:...
  
  , British actor, in London
  London
  London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
  
   (d. 1995)

June 19, 1927 (Sunday)

• Plans were announced for the merger of the Great Northern Railway and the Northern Pacific Railway
  Northern Pacific Railway
  The Northern Pacific Railway was a railway that operated in the west along the Canadian border of the United States. Construction began in 1870 and the main line opened all the way from the Great Lakes to the Pacific when former president Ulysses S. Grant drove in the final "golden spike" in...
  
  , the two largest carriers in the northwestern United States, with lines Seattle and Minneapolis. The Interstate Commerce Commission
  Interstate Commerce Commission
  The Interstate Commerce Commission was a regulatory body in the United States created by the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887. The agency's original purpose was to regulate railroads to ensure fair rates, to eliminate rate discrimination, and to regulate other aspects of common carriers, including...
  
   eventually (1931) rejected the proposal to create the "Great Northern Pacific Railway Company". A larger merger finally took place in 1970, with the two companies and others joining as the Burlington Northern Railroad
  Burlington Northern Railroad
  The Burlington Northern Railroad was a United States-based railroad company formed from a merger of four major U.S. railroads. Burlington Northern operated between 1970 and 1996....
  
  . As of 1996, the two former systems are now part of the BNSF Railway
  BNSF Railway
  The BNSF Railway is a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., and is headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas. It is one of seven North American Class I railroads and the second largest freight railroad network in North America, second only to the Union Pacific Railroad, its primary...
  
  .

June 20, 1927 (Monday)

• The Geneva Naval Conference
  Geneva Naval Conference
  The Geneva Naval Conference was a conference held to discuss naval arms limitation, held in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1927. This is a separate conference from the later general disarmament conference, the Geneva Conference ....
  
   opened with representatives of the United States
  United States
  The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
  
  , the United Kingdom
  United Kingdom
  The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
  
   and Japan
  Japan
  Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
  
   discussing further limitations on the building of warships, including a prohibition against submarine
  Submarine
  A submarine is a watercraft capable of independent operation below the surface of the water. It differs from a submersible, which has more limited underwater capability...
  
  s. The Conference was a failure, adjourning on August 24 with no agreement
• Aristide Briand
  Aristide Briand
  Aristide Briand was a French statesman who served eleven terms as Prime Minister of France during the French Third Republic and received the 1926 Nobel Peace Prize.- Early life :...
  
  , former Premier of France
  France
  The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
  
  , visited the U.S. Embassy in Paris and presented his proposed treaty to outlaw war. The Kellogg-Briand Pact
  Kellogg-Briand Pact
  The Kellogg–Briand Pact was an agreement signed on August 27, 1928, by the United States, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, Japan, Weimar Germany and a number of other countries.The pact renounced war , prohibiting the use of war...
  
   would be signed in 1928 by many of the world's superpowers.

June 21, 1927 (Tuesday)

• In an incident of antisemitism that shocked the United States
  United States
  The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
  
  , three Jewish physicians, interning at the Kings County Hospital Center in Brooklyn
  Brooklyn
  Brooklyn is the most populous of New York City's five boroughs, with nearly 2.6 million residents, and the second-largest in area. Since 1896, Brooklyn has had the same boundaries as Kings County, which is now the most populous county in New York State and the second-most densely populated...
  
  , were grabbed from their beds, bound and gagged, dunked in ice cold water, and threatened with reprisals if they didn't quit the traditionally "Christian" institution. The perpetrators turned out to be other M.D.s, a group of 20 of the men's fellow interns. The victims pressed charges, and six of the attackers were expelled.
• Born: Carl Stokes, first African-American Mayor of a major U.S. city politician, in Cleveland, where he was Mayor 1968-71 (d. 1996)

June 22, 1927 (Wednesday)

• The South Dakota
  South Dakota
  South Dakota is a state located in the Midwestern region of the United States. It is named after the Lakota and Dakota Sioux American Indian tribes. Once a part of Dakota Territory, South Dakota became a state on November 2, 1889. The state has an area of and an estimated population of just over...
  
   state legislature, meeting in special session, voted unanimously to rename Lookout Mountain, elevation 5,971 feet, in honor of the President, who had moved to the state for the summer. Mount Coolidge overlooks what is now Custer State Park
  Custer State Park
  Custer State Park is a state park and wildlife reserve in the Black Hills of southwestern South Dakota, USA. The park is South Dakota's largest and first state park, named after Lt...
  
  .

June 23, 1927 (Thursday)

• General Motors
  General Motors
  General Motors Company , commonly known as GM, formerly incorporated as General Motors Corporation, is an American multinational automotive corporation headquartered in Detroit, Michigan and the world's second-largest automaker in 2010...
  
   CEO Alfred P. Sloan
  Alfred P. Sloan
  Alfred Pritchard Sloan, Jr. was an American business executive in the automotive industry. He was a long-time president, chairman, and CEO of General Motors Corporation...
  
   changed automotive history by creating the "Art and Color Section" for the design of all GM automobiles, with Harley Earl
  Harley Earl
  Harley J. Earl was first Vice President of Design at General Motors. He was an industrial designer and a pioneer of modern transportation design. A coachbuilder by trade, Earl pioneered the use of freeform sketching and hand sculpted clay models as design techniques...
  
   to plan vehicles that would be visually appealing.
• A grand jury in Los Angeles
  Los Ángeles
  Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
  
   issued an indictment of 55 persons associated with the Julian Petroleum Company, on charges of conspiracy to swindle investors of millions of dollars. Sales of worthless stock had been halted on May 6.
• The Cleanliness Institute, with a mission of increasing sales of personal care
  Personal care
  Personal care or toiletries is the industry which manufactures consumer products used for beautification and in personal hygiene.-Subsectors:Subsectors of personal care include cosmetics and feminine hygiene....
  
   products through education and press releases, was founded in New York City by Sidney M. Colgate, president of the Association of American Soap and Glycerine Producers. "The institute was short-lived," an observer noted 80 years later, "but helped give birth to the shelves of deodorants, soaps, shampoos, toothpastes, mouthwashes, teeth-whiteners, douches and antibacterial lotions that fill our pharmacy shelves today."
• Born: Bob Fosse
  Bob Fosse
  Robert Louis “Bob” Fosse was an American actor, dancer, musical theater choreographer, director, screenwriter, film editor and film director. He won an unprecedented eight Tony Awards for choreography, as well as one for direction...
  
  , American choreographer and director, winner of 8 Tony Awards; in Chicago
  Chicago
  Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
  
   (d. 1987)

June 24, 1927 (Friday)

• The Iron Guard
  Iron Guard
  The Iron Guard is the name most commonly given to a far-right movement and political party in Romania in the period from 1927 into the early part of World War II. The Iron Guard was ultra-nationalist, fascist, anti-communist, and promoted the Orthodox Christian faith...
  
   (Garda de fier), a fascist organization known officially as the Legion of the Archangel Michael (Legiunea Arhanghelul Mihail), was founded in Romania
  Romania
  Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...
  
   by Corneliu Codreanu.
• Born: Martin Lewis Perl
  Martin Lewis Perl
  Martin Lewis Perl is an American physicist, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 for his discovery of the tau lepton.His parents were Jewish emigrants to the US from the Polish area of Russia....
  
  , American physicist and 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics
  Nobel Prize in Physics
  The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded once a year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and awarded since 1901; the others are the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and...
  
   laureate for discovery of the tau lepton
  Tau lepton
  The tau , also called the tau lepton, tau particle or tauon, is an elementary particle similar to the electron, with negative electric charge and a spin of . Together with the electron, the muon, and the three neutrinos, it is classified as a lepton...
  
  ; in New York City
  New York City
  New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
  
  

June 25, 1927 (Saturday)

• Léon Daudet
  Léon Daudet
  Léon Daudet was a French journalist, writer, an active monarchist, and a member of the Académie Goncourt.-Move to the right:...
  
  , the jailed French monarchist leader and editor of L'Action française
  Action Française
  The Action Française , founded in 1898, is a French Monarchist counter-revolutionary movement and periodical founded by Maurice Pujo and Henri Vaugeois and whose principal ideologist was Charles Maurras...
  
  , strolled out of La Santé Prison
  La Santé Prison
  La Santé Prison is a prison operated by the Ministry of Justice located in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, France. It is one of the most famous prisons in France, with both VIP and high security wings....
  
   after the warden was tricked by a phone call. Shortly after noon, prison governor Haute took the call and was told, "This is the Minister of the Interior speaking. You are to release Leon Daudet immediately... the President of the Republic has reprieved him." Haute called the Ministry for confirmation and was answered by another plotter, who claimed to be the Minister's secretary. Released also were L'Action francaise manager Joseph Delest, and French Communist Party
  French Communist Party
  The French Communist Party is a political party in France which advocates the principles of communism.Although its electoral support has declined in recent decades, the PCF retains a large membership, behind only that of the Union for a Popular Movement , and considerable influence in French...
  
   leader Pierre Semard
  Pierre Semard
  Pierre Semard was a trade unionist, secretary general of the federation of railway-workers and leader of the French Communist Party . He was shot in prison by the Germans in 1942, and is buried at the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris...
  
  , who were all personally escorted out the front gate by Haute. Daudet went into exile in Belgium until he was pardoned in 1929.
• Died: Daniel D. Luckenbill, 46, Professor of Assyriology
  Assyriology
  Assyriology is the archaeological, historical, and linguistic study of ancient Mesopotamia and the related cultures that used cuneiform writing. The field covers the Akkadian sister-cultures of Assyria and Babylonia, together with their cultural predecessor; Sumer...
  
   and author of the first volume of Ancient Records of Assyria and Babylonia, translated by him from cuneiform
  Cuneiform
  Cuneiform can refer to:*Cuneiform script, an ancient writing system originating in Mesopotamia in the 4th millennium BC*Cuneiform , three bones in the human foot*Cuneiform Records, a music record label...
  
   records.

June 26, 1927 (Sunday)

• The Pons-Winnecke Comet
  7P/Pons-Winnecke
  7P/Pons–Winnecke is a periodic comet in our solar system.Jean Louis Pons originally discovered the comet on June 12, 1819, it was later rediscovered by Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke on March 9, 1858. It is believed to be the parent body of the June Bootids of late June.7P has an orbital...
  
   passed within 0.04 AU (6 million kilometers) of Earth
  Earth
  Earth is the third planet from the Sun, and the densest and fifth-largest of the eight planets in the Solar System. It is also the largest of the Solar System's four terrestrial planets...
  
  , making the closest approach of any comet
  Comet
  A comet is an icy small Solar System body that, when close enough to the Sun, displays a visible coma and sometimes also a tail. These phenomena are both due to the effects of solar radiation and the solar wind upon the nucleus of the comet...
  
   in the 20th Century, and the closest since Lexell's Comet
  Lexell's Comet
  D/1770 L1, popularly known as Lexell's Comet after its orbit computer Anders Johan Lexell, was a comet discovered by astronomer Charles Messier in June 1770. It is notable for having passed closer to the Earth than any other comet in recorded history, approaching to a distance of only...
  
   on July 1, 1770.
• The Cyclone
  Coney Island Cyclone
  The Coney Island Cyclone is a historic hybrid roller coaster in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn, New York City. On June 18, 1975, Dewey and Jerome Albert, owners of Astroland Park, contracted to operate the Cyclone under an agreement with New York City...
  
  , at the time the world's largest and fastest roller coaster
  Roller coaster
  The roller coaster is a popular amusement ride developed for amusement parks and modern theme parks. LaMarcus Adna Thompson patented the first coasters on January 20, 1885...
  
  , opened at New York's Coney Island
  Coney Island
  Coney Island is a peninsula and beach on the Atlantic Ocean in southern Brooklyn, New York, United States. The site was formerly an outer barrier island, but became partially connected to the mainland by landfill....
  
  . Refurbished in 1975, the Cyclone continues to operate.

June 27, 1927 (Monday)

• Led by Prime Minister
  Prime Minister of Japan
  The is the head of government of Japan. He is appointed by the Emperor of Japan after being designated by the Diet from among its members, and must enjoy the confidence of the House of Representatives to remain in office...
  
   Tanaka Giichi
  Tanaka Giichi
  Baron was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army, politician, and the 26th Prime Minister of Japan from 20 April 1927 to 2 July 1929.-Early life and military career:...
  
  , the "Far Eastern Conference" was convened in Tokyo
  Tokyo
  , ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...
  
  . Over a period of ten days, Japan
  Japan
  Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
  
  's military and political leaders discussed long range strategy for the conquest of China
  China
  Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
  
  , and possibly the world. A report was made to the Emperor
  Hirohito
  , posthumously in Japan officially called Emperor Shōwa or , was the 124th Emperor of Japan according to the traditional order, reigning from December 25, 1926, until his death in 1989. Although better known outside of Japan by his personal name Hirohito, in Japan he is now referred to...
  
   following the conference, and in 1929, the "Tanaka Memorial
  Tanaka Memorial
  The is an alleged Japanese strategic planning document from 1927, in which Prime Minister Baron Tanaka Giichi laid out for the Emperor Hirohito a strategy to take over the world...
  
  ", purporting to be a leaked
  News leak
  A news leak is a disclosure of embargoed information in advance of its official release, or the unsanctioned release of confidential information.-Types of news leaks:...
  
   copy of the secret document, was published. The Tanaka Memorial, whose authenticity has been questioned, described plans for Japanese control of the Pacific Ocean
  Pacific Ocean
  The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic in the north to the Southern Ocean in the south, bounded by Asia and Australia in the west, and the Americas in the east.At 165.2 million square kilometres in area, this largest division of the World...
  
  , including conquest of the western United States
  United States
  The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
  
  , Australia
  Australia
  Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
  
   and New Zealand
  New Zealand
  New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
  
  .
• Born: Bob Keeshan
  Bob Keeshan
  Robert James "Bob" Keeshan was an American television producer and actor. He is most notable as the title character of the children's television program Captain Kangaroo, which became an icon for millions of people during its 30-year run from 1955 to 1984.Keeshan also played the original...
  
  , American children's television show host who portrayed "Captain Kangaroo
  Captain Kangaroo
  Captain Kangaroo is a children's television series which aired weekday mornings on the American television network CBS for nearly 30 years, from October 3, 1955 until December 8, 1984, making it the longest-running children's television program of its day...
  
  " from 1955 to 1984; in Lynbrook, NY (d. 2004)

June 28, 1927 (Tuesday)

• Lts. Lester J. Maitland
  Lester J. Maitland
  Lester James Maitland was an aviation pioneer and career officer in the United States Army Air Forces and its predecessors. Maitland began his career as a Reserve pilot in the U.S. Army Air Service during World War I and rose to brigadier general in the Michigan Air National Guard following World...
  
   and Albert F. Hegenberger took off from Oakland at 7:10 a.m. toward Honolulu in a race to become the first persons to fly from the U.S. mainland to the Hawaiian Islands. Ernest L. Smith set off at 9:38 am to catch them, but he had to return due to a defective lid on the cockpit.
• Born: Frank Sherwood Rowland
  Frank Sherwood Rowland
  Frank Sherwood Rowland is an American Nobel laureate and a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Irvine. His research is in atmospheric chemistry and chemical kinetics....
  
  , American chemist, one of three who discovered the threat to the ozone layer from CFCs; 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
  Nobel Prize in Chemistry
  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry, physics, literature,...
  
   laureate; in Delaware, OH

June 29, 1927 (Wednesday)

• A total eclipse of the sun
  Solar eclipse of June 29, 1927
  A total solar eclipse occurred on June 29, 1927. The path of totality crossed far northern Europe and Asia. This was the first total eclipse visible from British mainland soil for 203 years.-References:* *...
  
   took place with the moon's shadow covering the United Kingdom
  United Kingdom
  The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
  
   shortly after sunrise. As a contemporary account noted, "This is the first total eclipse of the sun that has visited Great Britain since 1724 and it will be the last seen here until 1999". The next eclipse took place as predicted on August 11, 1999.
• Pilots Maitland and Hegneberger completed their trans-Pacific journey at 6:31 am local time, landing at what Wheeler Army Airfield
  Wheeler Army Airfield
  Wheeler Army Airfield , also known as Wheeler Field and formerly as Wheeler Air Force Base, is a United States Army post located in the City & County of Honolulu and in the Wahiawa District of the Island of O'ahu, Hawaii...
  
   in Honolulu.
• Filming of the MGM motion picture The Trail of '98
  The Trail of '98
  The Trail of '98 is a 1928 silent drama film featuring Harry Carey. The film was originally released by MGM in a short-lived widescreen process called Fanthom Screen.-Cast:* Dolores del Río as Berna* Ralph Forbes as Larry* Karl Dane as Lars Petersen...
  
  was marred by the deaths of stuntman Ray Thompson, and actors Joseph Bautin, F.H. Daughters. The three were filming a scene on the rapids of the Copper River
  Copper River (Alaska)
  The Copper River or Ahtna River is a 300-mile river in south-central Alaska in the United States. It drains a large region of the Wrangell Mountains and Chugach Mountains into the Gulf of Alaska...
  
   in Alaska
  Alaska
  Alaska is the largest state in the United States by area. It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait...
  
  . On the same day, actress Ethel Hall was killed on the Merced River
  Merced River
  The Merced River , in the central part of the U.S. state of California, is a -long tributary of the San Joaquin River flowing from the Sierra Nevada into the Central Valley. It is most well known for its swift and steep course through the southern part of Yosemite National Park, and the...
  
   during the filming of the silent western Tumbling River, starring Tom Mix
  Tom Mix
  Thomas Edwin "Tom" Mix was an American film actor and the star of many early Western movies. He made a reported 336 films between 1910 and 1935, all but nine of which were silent features...
  
   and Dorothy Dwan
  Dorothy Dwan
  Dorothy Dwan was an American film actress. She appeared in 40 films between 1922 and 1930.Born Dorothy Ilgenfritz in Sedalia, Missouri, she married three times...
  
   (for whom Miss Hall was standing in).
• In a major turning point in his spiritual and literary life, author T.S. Eliot was baptized into the Church of England
  Church of England
  The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church considers itself within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment principally to the mission to England by St...
  
  .
• The city of Laguna Beach, California
  Laguna Beach, California
  Laguna Beach is a seaside resort city and artist community located in southern Orange County, California, United States, approximately southwest of the county seat of Santa Ana...
  
   was incorporated.

June 30, 1927 (Thursday)

• Blood was drawn from a yellow fever
  Yellow fever
  Yellow fever is an acute viral hemorrhagic disease. The virus is a 40 to 50 nm enveloped RNA virus with positive sense of the Flaviviridae family....
  
   sufferer in the West African colony of the Gold Coast (now Ghana
  Ghana
  Ghana , officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country located in West Africa. It is bordered by Côte d'Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, Togo to the east, and the Gulf of Guinea to the south...
  
  ), then used for research by Dr. Adrian Stokes and Dr. A.H. Mahaffy. The blood sample, given by a 28 year old man named Asibi, led to the isolation and discovery of the virus
  Virus
  A virus is a small infectious agent that can replicate only inside the living cells of organisms. Viruses infect all types of organisms, from animals and plants to bacteria and archaea...
  
   that transmits the disease.
• Walter Heitler
  Walter Heitler
  Walter Heinrich Heitler was a German physicist who made contributions to quantum electrodynamics and quantum field theory...
  
   and Fritz London
  Fritz London
  Fritz Wolfgang London was a German theoretical physicist. His fundamental contributions to the theories of chemical bonding and of intermolecular forces are today considered classic and are discussed in standard textbooks of physical chemistry.With his brother Heinz, he made a significant...
  
   submitted their paper, "Wechselwirkung neutraler Atome und homöopolare Bindung nach der Quantenmechanik", for publication in Zeitschrift für Physik, and event described as "the birthday of quantum chemistry
  Quantum chemistry
  Quantum chemistry is a branch of chemistry whose primary focus is the application of quantum mechanics in physical models and experiments of chemical systems...
  
  ".