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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       
1927
 
   
President Coolidge issues a famously terse statement: 'I do not choose to run for President in 1928'      
1927
 
    
11-year-old Yehudi Menuhin gives a sensational performance of the Beethoven Violin Concerto in the Carnegie Hall, conducted by Fritz Busch       
1927
 
    
Austrian zoologist Karl von Frisch demonstrates that bees communicate the whereabouts of food by means of a dance       
1927
 
    
Leos Janacek's Glagolitic Mass has its first performance in his home town, Brno       
1927
 
     
Stuttgart's Weissenhofsiedlung, designed by Mies van der Rohe, le Corbusier, Gropius and others, sets a defining standard for International Modernism        
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       
1927
 
    
Stanley Spencer begins his murals in the Memorial Chapel for Henry Sandham at Burghclere, in Hampshire       
1927
 
     
Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern open on Broadway with an immensely influential American musical, Show Boat        
c. 1927
 
  
It is estimated that in approximately 1927 the population of the world reached two billion