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President Coolidge issues a famously terse statement: 'I do not choose to run for President in 1928'
11-year-old Yehudi Menuhin gives a sensational performance of the Beethoven Violin Concerto in the Carnegie Hall, conducted by Fritz Busch
Austrian zoologist Karl von Frisch demonstrates that bees communicate the whereabouts of food by means of a dance
Leos Janacek's Glagolitic Mass has its first performance in his home town, Brno
Stuttgart's Weissenhofsiedlung, designed by Mies van der Rohe, le Corbusier, Gropius and others, sets a defining standard for International Modernism
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
Stanley Spencer begins his murals in the Memorial Chapel for Henry Sandham at Burghclere, in Hampshire
Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern open on Broadway with an immensely influential American musical, Show Boat
It is estimated that in approximately 1927 the population of the world reached two billion
In only his third Test match, 20-year-old Australian cricketer Donald Bradman scores a century
Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali make Un Chien andalou, a surrealist film specifically designed to shock
Le Corbusier and other modernist architects set up the Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM)
'Pine Top' Smith records Pinetop's Boogie-Woogie, the first recording to be labelled boogie-woogie
Ninette De Valois creates her first ballet, Les Petits Riens, at the Old Vic
English psychologist Henry Havelock Ellis completes a thirty-year project, his 7-volume Studies in the Psychology of Sex
English sculptor Henry Moore receives his first public commission, for the headquarters of London Underground
An Aerial Medical Service is launched in Queensland, Australia, subsequently becoming the Flying Doctor Service
Alvaro Obregón, the leading figure in Mexico's anti-clerical revolution, is shot by a Roman Catholic assassin
Beijing falls to Kuomintang forces, extending the rule of Jiang Jieshi's National Government into the north of China
Gershwin's orchestral work An American in Paris (with parts for four taxi-horns) has its first performance in New York
Mickey Mouse makes his first appearance in Walt Disney's short animated film Steamboat Willie
George Balanchine creates Apollo for Ballets Russes, to music by Igor Stravinksy
Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming accidentally discovers a mould that selectively kills bacteria, and calls it penicillin
W.B. Yeats's new volume of poems, The Tower, includes 'Sailing to Byzantium'
Marcel Breuer, working at the Bauhaus, designs the classic version of his tubular-steel cantilever chair their homesr
