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1927
 
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De Valera and his party, the Fianna Fáil, finally take their seats in the Dáil       
1927
 
     
In spite of widespread protest and grave judicial doubt Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are sent to the electric chair        
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'        
1927
 
    
Virginia Woolf uses a Hebridean holiday as the setting for her narrative in To The Lighthouse       
1927
 
   
Archaeologists, excavating the bison remains at Folsom, find an ancient spear point embedded in the skeleton - first proof of the Folsom culture      
1927
 
    
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy star together for the first time in the silent film Duck Soup       
1927
 
    
Isadora Duncan dies in Nice when her scarf tangles in the wheel of a Bugatti sports car, breaking her neck       
1927
 
  
William Randolph Hearst by now owns a nation-wide string of some 28 daily newspapers     
1927
 
    
Irish author Frank Harris publishes the fourth and final volume of My Life and Loves       
1927
 
     
The Scottish National War Memorial, designed by Robert Lorimer, is unveiled in Edinburgh Castle