Timeline July 1927

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• 1865 – 1927 Ferdinand I of Romania (1865-1927) Died 20 July 1927, aged 61 Ferdinand I was King of Romania from 1914. He led the country through the First World War, and during his reign Transylvania, Bessarabia and Bukovina were united with Romania to form Greater Romania.
• 1868 – 1927 Constance Markievicz (1868-1927) Died 15 July 1927, aged 59 Constance Markievicz was an Irish revolutionary and a commander in the 1916 Easter Rising. In 1918 she became the first woman elected to the British House of Commons, though she did not take her seat. She was later one of the first women in the world to hold a cabinet post.
• 1892 – 1927 Kevin O'Higgins (1892-1927) Died 10 July 1927, aged 35 Kevin O'Higgins was Vice-President of the Executive Council and Minister for Justice of the Irish Free State. He was assassinated by IRA members in Dublin in revenge for the executions carried out during the Civil War.
• 1892 – 1927 Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) Died 24 July 1927, aged 35 Ryūnosuke Akutagawa was a Japanese short-story writer whose works include Rashōmon and In a Grove. He took his own life in Tokyo. Japan's leading literary award, the Akutagawa Prize, is named after him.
• 1927 Wimbledon 1927 Men: Henri Cochet · Women: Helen Wills Helen Wills (later Moody) began her Wimbledon dominance.
• 1927 – 2023 Gina Lollobrigida (1927-2023) Italian actress, one of the great European stars of the 1950s and 1960s, and later a photojournalist and sculptor.
• 1927 Gina Lollobrigida born in Subiaco Gina Lollobrigida is born in Subiaco.
• 1927 Indonesian National Party founded Sukarno launches a nationalist party in Bandung Sukarno and others founded the Partai Nasional Indonesia in Bandung. It campaigned for independence from Dutch rule and refused to cooperate with the colonial authorities. The Dutch arrested Sukarno in 1929.
• 1927 – 2018 Neil Simon (1927-2018) Died 26 August 2018, aged 91 American playwright and screenwriter behind dozens of Broadway hits including The Odd Couple and Barefoot in the Park. He was among the most commercially successful playwrights in American theater history. His work also translated widely to film and television.
• 1927 – 2004 Janet Leigh (1927-2004) American actress best remembered for the shower scene in Hitchcock's Psycho, and mother of Jamie Lee Curtis.
• 1927 Janet Leigh born in Merced Janet Leigh is born in Merced.
• 1927 Jericho earthquake Earthquake shakes Mandatory Palestine and Transjordan An earthquake centred near the northern Dead Sea struck Mandatory Palestine and Transjordan. It killed about 300 people and damaged buildings in Jerusalem, Nablus, Ramla and Amman.
• 1927 – 2017 Simone Veil (1927-2017) Died 30 June 2017, aged 89 French stateswoman and Auschwitz survivor who as health minister championed the 1975 law legalizing abortion in France, and later became the first president of the directly elected European Parliament. She was widely admired as a symbol of postwar European reconciliation. She was later interred in the Pantheon in Paris.
• 1927 July Revolt in Vienna Rioters burn the Palace of Justice Right-wing paramilitaries were acquitted of killing two people at Schattendorf, and workers in Vienna rioted in protest. Crowds set fire to the Palace of Justice. Police fired on the protesters and killed 89 people, which deepened the political divide in the First Austrian Republic.
• 1927 Battle of Ocotal Sandino's rebels attack US Marines in Nicaragua Augusto César Sandino's forces attacked a garrison of US Marines and Nicaraguan National Guard at Ocotal. American aircraft broke the attack in one of the first organised dive-bombing attacks in combat. The battle began Sandino's long guerrilla war against the US occupation.
• 1927 Bristol sessions Recordings that launched the Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers Ralph Peer of the Victor Talking Machine Company recorded local musicians in Bristol, on the Tennessee–Virginia line. The sessions produced the first recordings of the Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers. They are often called the big bang of country music.
• 1927 Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Act Britain restricts strikes after the General Strike After the 1926 General Strike, the Conservative government passed an act that banned sympathetic strikes and general strikes. It also required union members to opt in to paying the political levy to the Labour Party. The act was repealed in 1946.