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| 1927 |
| | DuBose Heyward's novel Porgy, dramatized with a new title by himself and his wife Dorothy, has a great success on Broadway and in London | |
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| 1927 |
| | Hermann Hesse publishes a mystical novel, Steppenwolf, based on the concept of a double personality | |
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| 1927 |
| | In Being and Time German philosopher Martin Heidegger makes an existentialist case with Dasein ('Being There') as the central theme | |
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| 1927 |
| | Anglo-Irish author Elizabeth Bowen publishes her first novel, The Hotel | |
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| 1927 |
| | Gutzon Borglum begins the massive task of carving portraits of four US presidents in the rock face at Mount Rushmore | |
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| 1927 |
| | De Valera and his party, the Fianna Fáil, finally take their seats in the Dáil | |
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| 1927 |
| | In spite of widespread protest and grave judicial doubt Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are sent to the electric chair | |
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| 1927 |
| | Although not the first film with synchronized sound, The Jazz Singer with Al Jolson in the title role does much to popularize the 'talkies' | |
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| 1927 |
| | Virginia Woolf uses a Hebridean holiday as the setting for her narrative in To The Lighthouse | |
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| 1927 |
| | Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy star together for the first time in the silent film Duck Soup | |
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| 1927 |
| | Isadora Duncan dies in Nice when her scarf tangles in the wheel of a Bugatti sports car, breaking her neck | |
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| 1927 |
| | William Randolph Hearst by now owns a nation-wide string of some 28 daily newspapers | |
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| 1927 |
| | Irish author Frank Harris publishes the fourth and final volume of My Life and Loves | |
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| 1927 |
| | The Scottish National War Memorial, designed by Robert Lorimer, is unveiled in Edinburgh Castle | |
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| 1927 |
| | Don Marquis publishes archy and mehitabel, the first collection of his sketches about archy the cockroach and mehitabel the alley cat | |
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| 1927 |
| | President Coolidge issues a famously terse statement: 'I do not choose to run for President in 1928' | |
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| 1927 |
| | 11-year-old Yehudi Menuhin gives a sensational performance of the Beethoven Violin Concerto in the Carnegie Hall, conducted by Fritz Busch | |
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| 1927 |
| | Austrian zoologist Karl von Frisch demonstrates that bees communicate the whereabouts of food by means of a dance | |
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| 1927 |
| | Leos Janacek's Glagolitic Mass has its first performance in his home town, Brno | |
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| 1927 |
| | Stuttgart's Weissenhofsiedlung, designed by Mies van der Rohe, le Corbusier, Gropius and others, sets a defining standard for International Modernism | |
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| 1927 |
| | Mysterious German author B. Traven writes a novel, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, about three Americans searching for a lost gold mine in Mexico | |
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| 1927 |
| | Stanley Spencer begins his murals in the Memorial Chapel for Henry Sandham at Burghclere, in Hampshire | |
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| 1927 |
| | Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern open on Broadway with an immensely influential American musical, Show Boat | |
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| 1928 |
| | In only his third Test match, 20-year-old Australian cricketer Donald Bradman scores a century | |
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| 1928 |
| | Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali make Un Chien andalou, a surrealist film specifically designed to shock | |
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| 1928 |
| | Le Corbusier and other modernist architects set up the Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM) | |
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| 1928 |
| | 'Pine Top' Smith records Pinetop's Boogie-Woogie, the first recording to be labelled boogie-woogie | |
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| 1928 |
| | Ninette De Valois creates her first ballet, Les Petits Riens, at the Old Vic | |
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| 1928 |
| | English psychologist Henry Havelock Ellis completes a thirty-year project, his 7-volume Studies in the Psychology of Sex | |
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| 1928 |
| | English sculptor Henry Moore receives his first public commission, for the headquarters of London Underground | |
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| 1928 |
| | An Aerial Medical Service is launched in Queensland, Australia, subsequently becoming the Flying Doctor Service | |
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| 1928 |
| | Alvaro Obregón, the leading figure in Mexico's anti-clerical revolution, is shot by a Roman Catholic assassin | |
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| 1928 |
| | Beijing falls to Kuomintang forces, extending the rule of Jiang Jieshi's National Government into the north of China | |
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| 1928 |
| | Gershwin's orchestral work An American in Paris (with parts for four taxi-horns) has its first performance in New York | |
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| 1928 |
| | Mickey Mouse makes his first appearance in Walt Disney's short animated film Steamboat Willie | |
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| 1928 |
| | George Balanchine creates Apollo for Ballets Russes, to music by Igor Stravinksy | |
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