Month January 1927 Calendar

About Month of January Calendar

• January is the first month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars and one of seven months with the length of 31 days. The first day of the month is known as the day of New Year. It is, on average, the coldest month of the year within most of the Northern Hemisphere (where it is the second month of winter) and the warmest month of the year within most of the Southern Hemisphere (where it is the second month of summer).
  
  January symbols: The birthstone of January is the garnet which represents constancy. Its birth flower is the cottage pink Dianthus caryophyllus or galanthus. In Finnish, the month of tammikuu means the heart of the winter and because the name literally means Oak moon. The zodiac signs for the month of January are Capricorn (until January 19) and Aquarius (January 20 onwards). The traditional English birth month flower is the Carnation.

Historical Events for January, 1927

• Day of Week 1st » The Cristero War begins in Mexico.
• 1st » Turkey adopts the Gregorian calendar: December 18, 1926 (Julian), is immediately followed by January 1, 1927 (Gregorian).
• Day of Week 2nd » Angered by the anti-clerical provisions of the Constitution of Mexico or Mexican Constitution of 1917, Catholic rebels in Mexico Cristero War or rebelled against the government.
• Day of Week 7th » The first transatlantic telephone service is established from New York City named New York, New York to London named London, United Kingdom.
• Day of Week 9th » A fire at the Laurier Palace Theatre fire called Laurier Palace movie theatre in Montreal named Montreal, Quebec, Canada, kills 78 children.
• Day of Week 11th » Louis B. Mayer, head of film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), announces the creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, at a banquet in Los Angeles e.g Los Angeles, California.
• Day of Week 22nd » Teddy Wakelam gives the first live radio commentary of a association football football match anywhere in the world, between Arsenal F.C. and Sheffield United F.C. Sheffield United at Arsenal Stadium Highbury.
• Day of Week 27th » Ibn Saud takes the title of Kingdom of Nejd and Hejaz known as King of Nejd.

Famous Birthdays on January in 1927

• 1st » Maurice Béjart, French-Swiss dancer, choreographer, and director (d. 2007)
• 1st » Calum MacKay, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2001)
• 1st » Yvonne Sanson, Greek actress (d. 2003)
• 1st » Vernon L. Smith, American economist, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences or Nobel Prize laureate
• 1st » Doak Walker, American football player (d. 1998)
• 2nd » Grigoris Varfis, Greek politician
• 4th » Paul Desmarais, Canadian businessman
• 4th » Barbara Rush, American actress
• 6th » Jesse Leonard Steinfeld, American physician and academic, 11th Surgeon General of the United States (d. 2014)
• 8th » Charles Tomlinson, English poet and academic
• 9th » Sunderlal Bahuguna, Indian environmentalist
• 10th » Gisele MacKenzie, Canadian-American singer and actress (d. 2003)
• 10th » Lee Philips, American actor and director (d. 1999)
• 10th » Johnnie Ray, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1990)
• 10th » Otto Stich, Swiss politician, 140th President of the Swiss Confederation (d. 2012)
• 13th » Brock Adams, American politician (d. 2004)
• 13th » Sydney Brenner, South African biologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine named Nobel Prize laureate
• 14th » Zuzana Růžičková, Czech harpsichord player
• 15th » Phyllis Coates, American actress
• 17th » Thomas Anthony Dooley III, American physician and humanitarian (d. 1961)
• 17th » Norman Kaye, Australian actor (d. 2007)
• 17th » Eartha Kitt, American actress and singer (d. 2008)
• 17th » Harlan Mathews, American lawyer and politician (d. 2014)
• 17th » E.W. Swackhamer, American director and producer (d. 1994)
• 20th » Helen Elliot, Scottish table tennis player (d. 2013)
• 21st » Clive Churchill, Australian rugby player (d. 1985)
• 22nd » Lou Creekmur, American football player (d. 2009)
• 23rd » Lars-Eric Lindblad, Swedish-American businessman and explorer (d. 1994)
• 23rd » Jack Quinlan, American sportscaster (d. 1965)
• 24th » Sir Patrick Macnaghten, 11th Baronet, Scottish chief (d. 2007)
• 25th » Antônio Carlos Jobim, Brazilian singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1994)
• 26th » José Azcona del Hoyo, Honduran politician, President of Honduras (d. 2005)
• 26th » Bob Nieman, American baseball player (d. 1985)
• 26th » Hubert Schieth, German footballer and manager (d. 2013)
• 27th » Billy Barnes (composer) e.g Billy Barnes, American composer (d. 2012)
• 27th » Jerry Haynes, American actor (d. 2011)
• 28th » Per Oscarsson, Swedish actor (d. 2010)
• 28th » Ronnie Scott, English saxophonist (d. 1996)
• 28th » Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2001)
• 28th » Vera Williams, American author and illustrator
• 29th » Edward Abbey, American environmentalist and author (d. 1989)
• 29th » Gerald D. Klee, American psychiatrist and educator (d. 2013)
• 30th » Ahmed Abdul-Malik, American bassist and oud player (d. 1993)
• 30th » Olof Palme, Swedish politician, 26th Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1986)
• 30th » Bendapudi Venkata Satyanarayana, Indian dermatologist (d. 2005)
• 31st » Norm Prescott, American animator, producer, and composer, co-founded Filmation e.g Filmation Studios (d. 2005)

Famous Deaths for January 1927

• 3rd » Carl David Tolmé Runge, German physicist (b. 1856)
• 7th » Nikolaos Kalogeropoulos, Greek politician, 99th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1851)
• 9th » Houston Stewart Chamberlain, English-German author (b. 1855)
• 17th » Juliette Gordon Low, American founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA (b. 1860)
• 19th » Carlota of Mexico (b. 1840)
• 22nd » James Ford Rhodes, American historian and author (b. 1848)
• 27th » Jurgis Matulaitis-Matulevičius, Lithuanian bishop (b. 1871)

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