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    1927 January February March April May June July August September October November December The following events occurred in August 1927: The Nanchang...
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    Metropolis is a 1927 German expressionist science-fiction silent film directed by Fritz Lang and written by Thea von Harbou in collaboration with Lang...
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    schism, Chiang Kai-shek stepped down as the commander of the NRA in August 1927, and went into exile in Japan. The second phase of the Expedition began...
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    by AMPAS president Douglas Fairbanks, honored the best films from 1 August 1927 to 31 July 1928 and took place on May 16, 1929, at a private dinner held...
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    The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 was the most destructive river flood in the history of the United States, with 27,000 square miles (70,000 km2) inundated...
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    The King of Kings is a 1927 American synchronized sound epic film produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille. It depicts the last weeks of Jesus before...
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  • Peter Oakley (redirect from Geriatric 1927)
    Peter Oakley (20 August 1927 – 23 March 2014) was an English pensioner and Internet personality, who posted YouTube videos under the Internet pseudonym...
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    limitations of the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922. Entering service in 1927, the ship spent her peacetime career with the Atlantic and Home Fleets, usually...
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  • John Bunting (sculptor) (category 1927 births)
    John Joseph Bunting (3 August 1927 – 19 November 2002) was a British sculptor and teacher. He was influenced by furniture-maker Robert (Mouseman) Thompson...
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    Robert Shaw (actor) (category 1927 births)
    Robert Archibald Shaw (9 August 1927 – 28 August 1978) was an English actor, novelist, playwright and screenwriter. Beginning his career in theatre, Shaw...
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    Peter Paul Wyngarde (born Cyril Goldbert, 23 August 1927[disputed – discuss] – 15 January 2018) was a British television, stage and film actor active...
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    Communist Party (CCP), with armed conflict continuing intermittently from 1 August 1927 until 7 December 1949, resulting in a CCP victory and control of mainland...
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    the siege of Kuomintang forces by 5 August, withdrawing to the Jinggang Mountains of western Jiangxi. 1 August 1927 was later regarded as the anniversary...
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    February 1927) Koko in 1999 (10 March 1927) Koko the Kavalier (10 March 1927) Koko Needles the Boss (10 May 1927) Ko-Ko Plays Pool (6 August 1927) Ko-Ko's...
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  • Yootha Joyce (category 1927 births)
    Yootha Joyce Needham (20 August 1927 – 24 August 1980), known as Yootha Joyce, was an English actress best known for playing Mildred Roper opposite Brian...
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    During the period between 1927 to 1949 in the Republican era amidst the Chinese Civil War against the Nationalist government, the Soviet-backed Chinese...
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  • all forms of tyranny. "The twenty years since that execution night in August 1927," the manifesto read, "have brought upon the world mass slaughter and...
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    In August 1926, Jiang Zuobin, a KMT general in Hubei, was sent from Guangzhou to Mukden to discuss a possible alliance. Towards Winter 1926–1927, foreign...
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    held in Weimar, 3–4 July 1926. 1927: The 3rd Party Congress ("Day of Awakening") was held in Nuremberg, 19–21 August 1927. The propaganda film Eine Symphonie...
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    which had been produced for 18 years. It was first produced on October 20, 1927, but not introduced until December 2. This new Model A (a previous model...
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    official professional snooker championship in 1927. Davis won the first 15 world championships from 1927 to 1946, and he is the only undefeated player...
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    Bourbon-Parma and Nassau (Charles Frédéric Louis Guillaume Marie; 7 August 1927 – 26 July 1977), was a younger son of Grand Duchess Charlotte and Prince...
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    York Times. July 7, 1927. New York Times. July 20, 1927. "Why We May Wait 20 Years for Ocean Airliners" Popular Science, August 1927, p. 9 Rodger, Eugene...
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    Corps Area. The headquarters was initiated on 28 August 1924 at New York City, New York. In August 1927, the War Department realized it would need at least...
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    Sascha Schneider (category 1927 deaths)
    Schneider, commonly known as Sascha Schneider (21 September 1870 – 18 August 1927), was a German painter and sculptor. Schneider was born in Saint Petersburg...
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    The Jazz Singer is a 1927 American part-talkie musical drama film directed by Alan Crosland and produced by Warner Bros. Pictures. It is the first feature-length...
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    1926 26 March 1927 17 April 1929 Sunk in air attack at Bergen, 10 April 1940 Karlsruhe Deutsche Werke, Kiel 27 July 1926 20 August 1927 6 November 1929...
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    February March April May June July August September October November December The following events occurred in August 1974: As part of the reforms of the...
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  • Hills Like White Elephants (category 1927 short stories)
    Ernest Hemingway. It was first published in August 1927, in the literary magazine transition, then later in the 1927 short story collection Men Without Women...
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