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  • I had no idea but wikipeda did http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1927_in_Australia
  • I missread your question. I thought you were born in Australia and was wondering what happened of Historic Interest throughout the world.Check out 01/13/1927 -US & Mexico battle over oil interests 01/07/1927 - Coml transatlantic telephone service inaugurated between NY & London 01/07/1927 - Harlem Globetrotters play 1st game (Hinckley, Ill) 01/09/1927 - Dmitri Shostakovitch' Octet opus 11, premieres in Moscow 01/09/1927 - Fire in Laurier Palace cinema in Montreal, 78 children died 01/10/1927 - Fritz Lang's Metropolis premieres 01/11/1927 - Royale Theater (Golden, CBS Radio Playhouse) opens at 242 W 45th NYC 01/13/1927 - US & Mexico battle over oil interests 01/14/1927 - Toronto Maple Leafs 1st hat trick (Hap Day) vs NY Rangers 01/19/1927 - British govt decides to send troops to China 01/21/1927 - 1st national opera broadcast from a US opera house (Faust, Chicago) 01/26/1927 - Maxwell Anderson's "Saturday's Children," premieres in NYC 01/27/1927 - Harlem Globetrotters play their 1st game 01/28/1927 - Serbian-Croatian-Slavic govt of Oezonowitsj falls 01/29/1927 - 4th German govt of Marx forms 01/30/1927 - Left wins national election in Thringen 01/31/1927 - Intl allies military command in Germany disbands 01/31/1927 - NL Pres John Heydler rules Rogers Hornsby can't hold stock in the Cardinals & play for the Giants 02/02/1927 - Harry Tierney/Joseph McCarthy's "Rio Rita," premieres in NYC 02/02/1927 - Ziegfeld Theater (Loew's Ziegfeld) opens at 6th Ave & 54th St NYC 02/03/1927 - Uprising against regime of general Carmona in Portugal 02/04/1927 - KGA-AM in Spokane WA begins radio transmissions 02/05/1927 - Buster Keaton's movie "The General" released & bombed 02/08/1927 - Belgian-Swiss treaty signed 02/10/1927 - Pres Coolidge asks for 2nd disarmament conference 02/11/1927 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Beatrix Loughran 02/11/1927 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Nathaniel Niles 02/12/1927 - British expeditionary army lands in Shanghai 02/13/1927 - Uprising against Portuguese regime of Gen Carmona defeated 02/16/1927 - No‰l Coward's "Marquise," premieres in London 02/16/1927 - US restores diplomatic relations with Turkey 02/18/1927 - 1st US radio broadcast of "Cities Service Concerts" 02/18/1927 - US & Canada begin diplomatic relations 02/19/1927 - General strike against British occupiers in Shanghai 02/20/1927 - Golfers in SC arrested for violating Sabbath 02/21/1927 - Franz Lehr's opera "Zarewitsch," premieres 02/22/1927 - ARC soccer team forms in Alphen on the Rhine 02/22/1927 - Baruch Spinosa's house of mourning opened as a museum 02/23/1927 - Pres Coolidge creates Federal Radio Commission (FCC) 02/24/1927 - John Golden Theater (Theatre Masque) opens at 252 W 45th St NYC 02/25/1927 - Gdanks & Polish accord concerning traffic through Polish corridor 02/27/1927 - For 2nd Sunday in a row golfers in SC arrested for violating Sabbath 03/01/1927 - Bank of Italy becomes a Natl Bank 03/02/1927 - Babe Ruth becomes highest paid baseball player ($70,000 per year) 03/05/1927 - 1,000 US marines land in China to protect American property 03/07/1927 - Earthquake measuring 8 on Richter scale strikes Tango, Japan 03/08/1927 - Pan American Airlines incorporates 03/10/1927 - Albania mobilize by threat of Serbian, Croatian & Slovenes 03/10/1927 - Bavaria lifts ban on Hitler's speeches 03/11/1927 - 1st armored commercial car hold-up in US, Pittsburgh 03/11/1927 - 1st golden gloves tournament 03/11/1927 - Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens famous Roxy Theater (NYC) 03/17/1927 - US govt doesn't sign league of Nations disarmament treaty 03/19/1927 - Bloody battles between communists & nazis in Berlin 03/21/1927 - Guomindang Army conquerors Shanghai as British marines flee 03/22/1927 - Federico Garc¡a Lorca's "El Maleficio," premieres in Madrid 03/24/1927 - Cuban chess champ, Jose Capablanca wins 33-day Grand Chess Tournie 03/24/1927 - Dutch 1st Chamber condemns Belgian & Neth's Wielingen Treaty 03/26/1927 - Alfred Hugenberg purchases German film company UFA 03/26/1927 - Gaumont-British Film Corporation forms 03/28/1927 - Majestic Theater opens at 245 W 44th St NYC 03/29/1927 - Henry O D Seagrave races his Sunbeam to a record 203.79 mph at Daytona 04/01/1927 - 1st automatic record changer introduced by His Master's Voice 04/03/1927 - Interstate Commerce Comm transfers Ohio to Eastern time zone 04/05/1927 - Johnny Weissmuller set records in 100 & 200 m free style 04/07/1927 - Using phone lines TV is sent from Wash DC to NYC 04/09/1927 - Italy & US anarchists Sacco & Vanzetti given death sentences 04/11/1927 - Chilean gen Carlos Ib ¤ez names himself president 04/12/1927 - Gen Chiang Kai-shek begins counter revolution in Shanghai 04/13/1927 - Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators beat Boston Bruins, in 2 games & 2 ties 04/15/1927 - Babe Ruth hits 1st of 60 HRs of season (off A's Howard Ehmke) 04/15/1927 - Switzerland & USSR agree to diplomatic relations 04/17/1927 - Japan's Wakarsoeki govt falls/Baron Tanaka becomes premier 04/18/1927 - Chiang Kai-Shek forms anti-govt in China 04/19/1927 - "Vagabond King" opens in London 04/19/1927 - 31st Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar of Mass in 2:40:22.2 04/22/1927 - 1st performance of Roger Sessions' Symphony in E 04/25/1927 - Spain routes 20,000 soldiers to Morocco (uprising Rifkabylen) 04/29/1927 - Construction of Spirit of St Louis is completed 04/30/1927 - Princess Juliana gets seat in Dutch Council of State 05/01/1927 - 1st British airliner to serve cooked meals (Imperial Airways) 05/01/1927 - Netherlands beats Belgium 3-2 in soccer match in Amsterdam 05/01/1927 - Panningen soccer team forms in Panningen 05/02/1927 - Intl Economic Conference (52 countries including USSR) opens 05/02/1927 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Louis Bromfield (Early Autumn) 05/04/1927 - 1st balloon flight over 40,000 feet (Scott Field, Ill) 05/04/1927 - Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences forms 05/04/1927 - Nicaragua agrees to a US supervised presidential election in 1928 05/05/1927 - Dmitri Sjostakovitch' 1st Symphony, premieres in Berlin 05/07/1927 - SF Municipal Airport (Mills Field) dedicated 05/09/1927 - 53rd Preakness: Whitey Abel aboard Bostonian wins in 2:01.6 05/09/1927 - Canberra replaces Melbourne as the capital of Australia 05/11/1927 - Belgium beats England 9-1 in soccer 05/11/1927 - Louis B Mayer forms Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences 05/13/1927 - "Black Friday" on Berlin Stock Exchange 05/13/1927 - VVOG soccer team forms in Harderwijk 05/14/1927 - "Ain't She Sweet?" hits #1 on the pop singles chart by Ben Bernie 05/14/1927 - 53rd Kentucky Derby: Linus McAtee aboard Whiskery wins in 2:06 05/16/1927 - NY Yankee Bob Meusel steals 2nd, 3rd & home 05/16/1927 - Supreme Court ruled bootleggers must pay income tax 05/17/1927 - Chicago Cubs beat Boston Braves, 4-3, in 22 innings 05/18/1927 - "Slide Lake" in Gros Ventre Wyoming collapses 05/18/1927 - Grauman's Chinese Theater opens in Hollywood Calif 05/18/1927 - Ritz Hotel opens in Boston 05/20/1927 - At 7:40 AM, Lindbergh takes off from NY to cross Atlantic for Paris 05/20/1927 - Saudi Arabia becomes independent of Great Britain (Treaty of Jedda) 05/21/1927 - Lindburgh lands in Paris, after 1st solo air crossing of Atlantic 05/22/1927 - 8.3 earthquake strikes Nan-Shan China, 200,000 killed 05/22/1927 - Dodgers beat Phillies, 20-4 05/25/1927 - Henry Ford stops producing Model T car (begins Model A) 05/26/1927 - Ford Motor Company manufactures its 15 millionth Model T automobile 05/27/1927 - Japanese military intervention in Chinese civil war 05/27/1927 - Thomas Masaryk elected Czechoslovakia president 05/28/1927 - Hammond scores his 1,000th cricket run of the season after 22 days 05/30/1927 - Walter Johnson records 113th & last shutout of his career 05/31/1927 - Ford Motor Company produces last "Tin Lizzie" (begins Model A) 05/31/1927 - Tiger 1st baseman Johnny Neun makes an unassisted triple play 06/04/1927 - 1st Ryder Cup: US beats England, 9«-2« at Worcester CC Mass 06/04/1927 - Johnny Weissmuller set swim records in 100-yard & 200-yard free-style 06/05/1927 - 3rd French Mens Tennis: R Lacoste beats B Tilden (64 46 57 63 11-9) 06/05/1927 - Johnny Weissmuller sets 100-yard & 200-yard free-style swim record 06/08/1927 - Tony Lazzeri hits 3 HRs Yanks beat White Sox 12-11 06/11/1927 - 59th Belmont: Earl Sande aboard Chance Shot wins in 2:32.6 06/11/1927 - Babe Ruth hits 19th & 20th of 60 HRs 06/11/1927 - Charles Lindbergh is awarded the 1st Distinguished Flying Cross 06/13/1927 - Ticker-tape parade welcomed Charles A Lindbergh to NYC 06/16/1927 - 31st US Golf Open: Tommy Armour shoots a 301 at Oakmont CC in Pa 06/18/1927 - Paavo Nurmi runs world record 2000 m: 5:24.6 06/23/1927 - Lou Gehrig hits 3 HRs in 11-4 victory over Red Sox 06/25/1927 - WVO soccer team forms in Oosterhout 06/26/1927 - Comet 7P/Pons-Winnecke approaches within 0.0394 AUs of Earth 06/29/1927 - 1st flight from West Coast arrives in Hawaii 06/30/1927 - Augusto Cesar Sandino issues his Manifesto Politico 06/30/1927 - US Assay Office in Deadwood, South Dakota closes 07/02/1927 - 40th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats L de Alvarez (62 64) 07/02/1927 - Earthquake hits Palestine 07/03/1927 - 47th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: H Cochet beats Borotra (46 46 63 64 75) 07/04/1927 - Ir Sukarno forms PNI (Perserikatan Nasional Indonesia) in Batavia 07/09/1927 - Atty William T Francis named minister to Liberia 07/12/1927 - Babe Ruth hits 30th of 60 HRs 07/14/1927 - 1st commercial airplane flight in Hawaii 07/15/1927 - 62nd British Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 285 at St Andrews 07/16/1927 - Augusto Sandino begins 5«-year war against US occupation of Nicaragua 07/18/1927 - Ty Cobb's 4,000th career hit 07/19/1927 - Ty Cobb gets his 4,000th hit 07/20/1927 - Lindbergh begins NY flight (Spirit of St Louis) 07/27/1927 - Major Bernard Montgomery (29) marries widow Betty Carver 07/27/1927 - Mel Ott, 18, hits his 1st league home run (inside the park) 07/29/1927 - 1st iron lung installed (Bellevue hospital, NY) 07/29/1927 - Bellevue Hospital in NY installs 1st iron lung 07/29/1927 - Phil Mead scores his 100th 100, Hampshire v Northants 08/01/1927 - Earliest date for a film to be considered for the Academy Awards 08/04/1927 - Peace Bridge between US & Canada opens 08/05/1927 - Phillies Cy Williams hits for cycle in just 4 at bats 08/07/1927 - Peace Bridge between US & Canada dedicated 08/07/1927 - US rum smuggler Horace Alderman kills 3 08/12/1927 - "Wings," the only silent film to win an Oscar for best picture, opens 08/16/1927 - 1st HR hit out of Comiskey Park Chicago (NY Yankee Babe Ruth) 08/21/1927 - 4th Pan-African Congress meets (NYC) 08/22/1927 - Babe Ruth hits 40th of 60 homers 08/27/1927 - Parks College, America's oldest aviation school, opens 08/30/1927 - 41st US Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats Betty Nuthall (61 64) 09/02/1927 - Rumour starts that Yankee Lou Gehrig will be traded to Tigers 09/04/1927 - Charles Lindbergh visits Boise, Idaho, on his cross-country tour 09/05/1927 - Red Sox beat Yankees 12-11 in 18 innings 09/06/1927 - B G DeSylva/Lew Brown's musical "Good News," premieres in NYC 09/06/1927 - Red Sox beat NY Yankees 12-11 in 18 innings at Fenway Park 09/07/1927 - Philo Farnsworth demonstrates 1st use of TV in SF 09/09/1927 - Tony Lazzeri Day at Yankee Stadium 09/10/1927 - 22nd Davis Cup: France beats USA in Philadelphia (3-2) 09/11/1927 - After losing 21 in a row to NY, the Browns win their last meeting, 6-2 09/11/1927 - Babe Ruth hits 50th of 60 homers 09/12/1927 - Sigmund Romberg's musical "My Maryland," premieres in NYC 09/13/1927 - Yanks clinch pennant, Ruth hits 2 HRs (52 en route to 60) 09/13/1927 - Waite Hoyt became only 20 game winner of 1927 Yankees 09/16/1927 - Rene Lacoste beats Bill Tilden for US Lawn Tennis Assn title 09/17/1927 - 47th US Mens Tennis: Rene Lacoste beats William T Tilden (119 63 119) 09/17/1927 - Charles Lindbergh visits San Francisco 09/18/1927 - 18 station CBS radio network begins, (WOR is NYC affiliate) 09/20/1927 - NY Yankee Babe Ruth hits record 60th HR of season off Tom Zachry 09/22/1927 - Famous "Long count" fight (Dempsey loses boxing title to Tunney) 09/22/1927 - Gene Tunney beats Jack Dempsey in 10 for heavyweight boxing title 09/22/1927 - Yanks Earle Coombs hits 3 triples 09/24/1927 - NHL's Toronto St Patricks become Maple Leafs 09/24/1927 - Yanks set record of 106 victories 09/26/1927 - St James Theater (Erlanger) opens at 246 W 44th St NYC 09/29/1927 - Babe Ruth ties record by hitting grand slams in consecutive games 09/29/1927 - Telephone service begins between US & Mexico 09/29/1927 - Tornado strikes St Louis Missouri, 85 die 09/30/1927 - Babe Ruth hits record setting 60th HR (off Tom Zachary) 10/01/1927 - Pirates clinch NL pennant with a 9-6 win over Reds 10/06/1927 - "Jazz Singer," 1st movie with a sound track, premieres (NYC) 10/07/1927 - Yank Herb Pennock retires 1st 22 Pirates in World Series game 10/08/1927 - NY Yankees sweep Pirates in 24th World Series 10/08/1927 - Sea battle at Navarino (Greece freed of Ottoman occupation) 10/11/1927 - Lou Gehrig named AL MVP (Babe Ruth (former winner) not eligible) 10/12/1927 - Hermann Gorner of Germany raises 24 men weighing 4,123 lbs on a plank with soles of his feet 10/17/1927 - Ban Johnson, in failing health, retires as AL president 10/23/1927 - Town of Netanya Israel founded by Nathan Strauss 10/26/1927 - Duke Ellington sings "Creole Love Song" 10/27/1927 - Queen Wilhelmina opens Meuse-Waal Canal in Nijmegen 10/28/1927 - Josip Broz (Tito) begins 7 months jail sentence in Croatia 10/28/1927 - KLM-plane "Homing Pigeon" leaves Neth-Indies after 1st regular flight 11/03/1927 - 22.3 cm rainfall at Somerset, Vermont (state record) 11/03/1927 - Rodgers & Hart's musical "Connecticut Yankee," premieres in NYC 11/03/1927 - Tropical storm flooding kills 84 in Winooski River Valley (Vt) 11/05/1927 - 10th PGA Championship: Water Hagen at Cedar Crest CC Dallas 11/05/1927 - Walter Hagen beats Joe Turnesa for 4th consecutive PGA title 11/09/1927 - Giant Panda discovered, China 11/09/1927 - Pastor of Have begins blessing of motorcars/motors 11/12/1927 - 1st underwater tunnel, Holland Tunnel connecting NY to NJ opens 11/12/1927 - Notre Dame's Fighting Irish changes blue jerseys for green 11/12/1927 - Trotsky expelled from Soviet CP; Stalin becomes undisputed dictator 11/13/1927 - NY-NJ Holland Tunnel, 1st twin-tube underwater auto tunnel, opens 11/14/1927 - Worlds largest gas tank in Pittsburgh Penn explodes; 28 die 11/17/1927 - Tornado hits Washington DC 11/22/1927 - 1st snowmobile patent granted to Carl Eliason (Sayner Wisc) 11/22/1927 - George Gershwin's "Funny Face," premieres in NYC 11/22/1927 - Neil Simon Theater (Alvin) opens at 250 W 52nd St NYC 11/26/1927 - 15th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Balmy Beach defeats Hamilton Tigers, 9-6 11/28/1927 - J McHugh & D Fields' musical "Delmar's Revels," premieres in NYC 12/02/1927 - 1st Model A Fords sold, for $385 12/04/1927 - Dmitri Shostakovitch' 2nd Symphony, premieres in Moscow 12/04/1927 - Duke Ellington opens at Cotton Club in Harlem 12/04/1927 - Pirates Paul Waner wins NL MVP 12/10/1927 - Grand Ole Opry makes its 1st radio broadcast, in Nashville, TN 12/14/1927 - Iraq gains independence from Britain, but British troops remain 12/15/1927 - Ed Hickman kidnaps child he later beheads 12/16/1927 - Cricket 1st-class debut of Don Bradman, NSW v South Australia 12/17/1927 - Bradman scores 118 on 1st-class cricket debut, 188 mins 8 fours 12/17/1927 - US sub 'S-4' sinks after collision kills all 34 aboard 12/17/1927 - Victoria score 793 against Queensland, Bill Ponsford 437 12/24/1927 - Test Cricket debut of Walter Hammond, who scored 51 & took 5-36 v S Af 12/27/1927 - Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein II's "Show Boat," premieres in NYC 12/27/1927 - Philip Barry's "Paris Bound," premieres in NYC 12/27/1927 - Stalin's faction wins All-Union Congress in USSR, Trotsky expelled 12/28/1927 - George Kaufman & Moss Hart's "Royal Family," premieres in NYC 12/30/1927 - Japan dedicates 1st subway in Orient (route under 2 miles long) 12/31/1927 - Ponsford scores 336 against SA, giving him 1146 for month
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