1927
The British Broadcasting Company became the British Broadcasting Corporation under the terms of its first Royal Charter. The tomb of Tutankhamun was opened for public viewing for the first time since the pharaoh's death in 1327BC.
The Rhyme Of The Ancient Mariner - read by JC Squire - broadcast in the Great Poems strand.
British concessions in China, located at Hankou and Jiujiang were invaded by crowds of protesters against British imperialism. A British soldier fired into the crowd at Hankou, killing one revolting protestor and wounding dozens. Within days, Britain relinquished control of both regions to the Chinese government, but soon sent troops to protect Shanghai.
The British Broadcasting Company became the British Broadcasting Corporation under the terms of its first Royal Charter. The tomb of Tutankhamun was opened for public viewing for the first time since the pharaoh's death in 1327BC.
The Rhyme Of The Ancient Mariner - read by JC Squire - broadcast in the Great Poems strand.
Boris Rtcheouloff filed a patent application for 'means of recording and reproducing pictures, images and the like,' the first means for magnetic recording of a television signal. A British patent was granted in 1928, but this forerunner of videotape was never manufactured.
Hilda Dederich's performance of Mozart's Tenth Sonata broadcast.
At 8:44am in New York City - 1:44pm in London - the first transatlantic telephone call was made. Walter S Gifford of AT&T was connected with Sir G Evelyn V Murray of the Post Office. Philo T Farnsworth, a twenty-year-old American inventor, filed his first of many patent applications, for a method of electronically scanning images and transmitting them as television signals. A US patent was granted in August 1930.
Daniel James Negley Farson born in Kensington. Marcelle Samett born in London.
Fritz Lang's science fiction film Metropolis had its world premiere at the Ufa-Palast am Zoo in Berlin.
Richard Bebb Williams born in London.
The first live sports broadcast by the BBC took place, a rugby union international between England and Wales at Twickenham. England won eleven-nine. In a split decision, the Tennessee Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of Section 49-1922 of the Tennessee Code, which prohibited the teaching of evolution. The Court set aside the order for the fine levied against teacher John Scopes. Chief Justice Grafton Green said, 'All of us agree that nothing is to be gained by prolonging the life of this bizarre case.'
The first radio broadcast of a football match - the First Division clash at Highbury between Arsenal and Sheffield United (a one-all draw). The commentator was Henry Blythe Thornhill Wakelam. The producer, Lance Sieveking, devised a plan of the pitch divided into eight numbered squares, which was published in the Radio Times.
The idea was that the listener at home could follow the play from their armchair using the grid as a guide. Some people believe this to be the origin of the phrase 'Back to Square One' (although opinion is divided on the matter). Live commentary of Newcastle United's one-nil victory over Bolton Wanderers was broadcast, being fed via a telephone line to the BBC in Newcastle and thence transmitted via the local station 5NO. Commentary was provided by Mister WT Bell, the secretary of the Northumberland FA, who was housed 'in a small wooden box, lined with felt and containing a microphone.' Walter Leonard Sparrow born in Eltham.
A hurricane swept across the British Isles, killing twenty people and injuring hundreds. Nineteen of the dead were in Scotland, including eight in Glasgow. Frank Hutchinson's adaptation of 'Stackalee' was released on Okeh Records.
The first broadcast of an FA Cup match, George Allison commentating on the Fourth Round clash between Corinthians and Newcastle United at Crystal Palace. Newcastle won three-one.
Malcolm Campbell broke the world's record for the fastest speed in an automobile, driving at nearly one hundred and seventy five miles per hour on the Pendine Sands in Wales in the Napier-Campbell Blue Bird.
Abraham Rakoff born in Toronto.
Juliette Gréco born in Montpellier, France.
Ian Walter Brown born in Auckland, New Zealand.
The first contingent of British troops landed in Shanghai to begin 'protection' of British citizens. Within a week, over twenty warships from the US, Britain, Japan, France and Italy had anchored at the Huangpu River. Eric Mason born in Sussex. Alma Mabel Conner born in Little Rock, Arkansas. England and Wales drew three-all in the Home International championship at The Racecourse Ground, Wrexham. Everton's Dixie Dean scored twice on his international debut and set up Billy Walker for England's third. Cardiff's Len Davies scored twice for the hosts with Swansea's Wilf Lewis adding another. Injuries had forced England to make several changes with debuts for Jack Brown of The Wednesday, Burnley duo of George Waterfield and Louis Page and Middlesbrough's Willie Pease make their international debuts along with Dean. Brown was strapped up for the second half of this match after being heavily charged and getting struck in the face. Jimmy Seddon was taken off the pitch for the attention after he was involved in a fortieth minute altercation with Fred Keenor. He returned for the second half. Billy Walker too, was hurt, his nose bleeding badly. It was whilst he was getting attention off the field, that Wales scored their third goal. The highlight of the First Division fixtures was Huddersfield Town's four=three victory over The Wednesday (Bob Kelly socring a hat-trick). Leaders Newcastle United lost for the second week in a row (two-one at Sheffield United) having won six games a row previously. Liverpool won the Merseyside derby one-nil thanks to Harry Chambers goal. There was mayhem in the English Channel in exceptionally dense fog, ten shipping vessels were involved in collisions, resulting in three sinking. Miraculously, however, there were no fatalities. Three days later, with the fog still as thick as a brick, all shipping in the channel was suspended until it cleared.
Jules White's Slippery Silks - starring Linge Conley and Caryl Lincoln - premiered.
Alfred Hitchcock's The Lodger: A Story Of The London Fog premiered. Lois Ruth Hooker born in Kitchener, Ontario.
For the first time in half-a-century, travel across the English Channel came to a halt, as a dense fog continued into its fifth day.
Sir Oliver Lodge conducted an experiment in telepathy on BBC Radio, asking listeners to give their impressions as a team of people concentrated on images on a set of cards. Out of over twenty four thousand responses, as many as one hundred and ninety correctly predicted that a two of clubs had been drawn, but, according to Harry Price: 'it is obvious there was no evidence of anything but pure chance.' Mao Zedong delivered his 'Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan' to the Central Committee of China's fledgling Communist Party. Summing up thirty two days of interviews, Mao predicted that 'Within a short time, hundreds of millions of peasants will rise in Central, South and North China, with the fury of a hurricane. No power, however strong, can restrain them.' June Muriel Brown born in Needham Market, Suffolk.
Werner Heisenberg wrote a fourteen-page letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, describing for the first time a key concept in quantum mechanics which would become known as the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.
Herbert Chapman's Football League Club Worries broadcast. 'A big club in the First Division of the Football League is now a large-scale financial concern, depending for its success primarily on the efficiency of an equally intricate human machine - the team. Managing a team that is to play right through a long, hard season, with such incidental excitements as cup-ties and such complications as transfers and casualties, is a very arduous, expert and responsible job, and one of which Mister Chapman, who is manager of the great London club, The Arsenal, is well qualified to speak.' Also 'a running commentary on the Association Football Match' between Liverpool and Newcastle United 'by Ernest Edwards relayed from Anfield' broadcast on Liverpool 6LV. Newcastle won thanks to two Stan Seymour goals.
Melville W Brown's Her Big Night - starring Laura La Plante and John Roach - premiered.
John Derek Carson-Parker born in Colombo, Ceylon.
Edgar Davis born in Liverpool. Werner Heisenberg, having formulated The Uncertainty Principle at Niels Bohr's institute in Copenhagen while working on the mathematical foundations of quantum mechanics, published Über Den Anschaulichen Inhalt Der Quantentheoretischen Kinematik Und Mechanik ('On the Perceptual Content of Quantum Theoretical Kinematics and Mechanics'). In this, Heisenberg established this expression as the minimum amount of unavoidable momentum disturbance caused by any position measurement.
Bessie Smith & Her Band's recording of 'Muddy Water (A Mississippi Moan)' released on Columbia Records.
Reading beat Swansea Town three-one Second Division FA Cup Sixth Rund tie at The Vetch Field. In the First Division, leaders Newcastle United defeated Everton seven-three thanks to a hat-trick by Hughie Gallagher and additional goals from Tom McDonald, Bobby McKay, Roddy MacKenzie and Stan Seymour. Thirty nine goals were scored in nine top flight matches with big wins for Derby County (four-one against Birmingham City) and Liverpol (three-nil against The Wednesday). Sheffield United and Tottenham drew three-all.
The first episode of Doctor HL Brose's Easy Chats On Einstein broadcast. Jimmie Rodgers, celebrated later as 'The Father of Country Music', recorded his first single, 'The Soldier's Sweetheart'.
Blind Lemon Jefferson's 'The Black Snake Moan'/'Matchbox Blues' released on Okeh Records.
John Keith Patrick Allen born in Nyasaland.
David Turner born in Birmingham.
The first broadcast of The Grand National from Aintree, won by Ted Leader on Sprig. Sylvia Beatrice Thomas born in Camberwell.
Richard Owen born in London.
Ferenc Purczeld born in Budapest.
The first broadcast of The Boat Race. Cambridge won by three lengths. Oxford came second. Kenneth Peacock Tynan born in Birmingham. England beat Scotland two-one in the Home International championship at Hampden Park, their first victory against The Scots since 1920 and their first in Scotland since 1904. Dixie Dean scored twice for the visitors, Alan Morton for the hosts. Blackburn duo Bert Jones and Arthur Rigby, Leicester's Sid Bishop and Arsenal's Joe Hulme all made their England debuts. England's skipper, Jack Hill, needed three stitches in a nasty gash over his left eye following a clash of heads with his team-mate Roy Goodall. In the First Division, even without Hughie Gallacher (on international duty in Scotland), league leaders Newcastle United beat Bury three-one with goals from Bob McKay, Tommy McDonald and Bob Clark. Second-placed Huddersfield Town won two-nil at Arsenal. West Ham United won five-one at Aston Villa and Sheffield United defeated Blackburn Rovers five-three. Forty seven goals were scored in eleven Second Division fixtures (and two of those were goalless draws). Portsmouth won five-four at Clapton Orient, Hull City beat Barnsley five-one, league leaders Middlesbrough had a three-one victory over Oldham Athletic and Wilf Kirkham scored four and Harry Anstiss three in Port Vale's seven-one defeat of Fulham. In the last match of the rugby Five Nations Championship, France beat England for the first time, by three-nil in Paris.
Fred Guiol's Slipping Wives - starring, Priscilla Dean and, for the first time as a duo, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy - premiered.
Napoléon - directed by Abel Gance and starring Albert Dieudonné - premiered at the Palais Garnier in Paris.
The Second Division went goal crazy with sixty three goals scored in eleven games; Portsmouth had a record nine-one victory over Notts County, Nottingham Forest scored seven against Preston, Barnsley beat South Shields six-one, Oldham defeated Clapham Orient five-two and Grimsby Town and Port Vale shared eight goals. The big winners in the First Division included Sunderland (five-one at home to Arsenal).
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ceased to exist, as the Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act took effect at midnight. In an acknowledgement of the separate Irish Free State, the nation was renamed the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
The Shanghai Massacre which would ultimately claim the lives of four thousand leftists, began weeks after Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang Army took control of Shanghai with the aid of Communist workers in the city.
Naughty Nanette - starring Viola Dana - premiered.
Convicted on obscenity charges, Mae West began serving a nine-day jail sentence, at the Jefferson Market Prison in New York.
Gerald Robert Flood born in Portsmouth.
The first broadcast of The FA Cup Final. It was a memorable one, Cardiff City beating Arsenal by a single goal (to date, the only occasion that a non-English club has won the competition). Hughie Ferguson scored the winner, his shot squirming under Arsenal keeper Dan Lewis's body.
Derek Barton-Chapple born in Mill Hill. John Douglas Roberton born in Newcastle Upon Tyne.
Patricia Margaret Roach Mort born in Swansea.
A tragedy occurred at Bramall Lane where Sheffield United were playing Bury in a First Division match. Five minutes before the interval Sam Wynne the Bury right-back collapsed and died within a few minutes. The match was abandoned. The caused of death was stated to be either pneumonia or a cerebral haemorrhage. It would be the last time a professional footballer died in a game in England for sixty three years (until York City's David Longstaff suffered a heart-attack against Lincoln City).
Raymond Charles Barrett born in Brisbane.
Owen John Scott born in Watford.
Led by thirty six goals from Hughie Gallagher, Newcastle United were First Division championsfor the fourth (and, so far, last) time despite losing their final game two-one at Leicester City. Huddersfield were runner-up with Sunderland third. Leeds United and West Bromwich Albion were relegated. Second Division champions Middlesbrough's George Camsell scored a, then, Football League record of fifty nine goals (sixty three in all competitions). Manchester City's eight-nil victory over Bradford City still wasn't enough to give City promotion from the Second Division. Portsmouth's match had kicked off fifteen minutes late and after the result at Maine Road was known, Portsmouth knew they had to score another goal to gain promotion on goal average, which they did, beating Preston North End five-one (Willie Haines scored four). Aberdare Athletic failed to gain re-election to the Third Division South, replaced by the Southern League's Torquay United.
England beat Belgium nine-one in a friendly international in Brussels. Dixie Dean scored a hat-trick, George Brown and Arthur Rigby two each with further goals from Joe Hulme and Louis Page. Isaac Jeff was charged with the manslaughter of fourteen-year-old, Eric Evers at the Kursaal amusement park at Southend-on-Sea. Evers was working as an assistant at the rifle range and Jeff was firing at a shooting gallery when someone called out to him. As he turned to answer, the gun went off and shot the boy in the chest. However, a verdict of accidental death was returned by the Coroner's jury and the manslaughter charge against the unfortunate Jeff was, subsequently, dropped.
The first episode of Capitals Of Europe broadcast. Under the direction of Scotland Yard, London police raided Arcost Limited, the offices of the Soviet trade delegation. Telephone lines were cut and the building was sealed, with the six hundred employees detained during the subsequent search. Evidence of Russian espionage was found and a break of diplomatic relations followed.
The first broadcast of a cricket match. The Reverend FH Gillingham, himself an ex-Essex player, gave a series of live reports from the touring New Zealanders match against Essex at Leyton. Dennis Arthur Robert Chinnery born in Essex.
At George's: Chance Conversations At A Coffee-Stall broadcast.
Captain Charles Lindbergh became the first man to complete a non-stop trans-Atlantic flight, from New York to Paris. He landed his monoplane, the Spirit Of St Louis, at Le Bourget airfield thirty three hours and twenty nine minutes after taking off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island. He was welcomed by a crowd of one hundred and fifty thousand people and his achievement made him an overnight sensation, winning a twenty five thousand dollar prize. With so much public interest worldwide he was credited with starting a boom in the aviation industry and making air travel popular for thoise that could afford it. England beat Luxembourg five-two in a friendly international in Jeunesse. Dixie Dean scored a hat-trick with further goals from Bob Kelly and Sid Bishop. Justine Kay Kendall McCarthy born in Withernsea, East Yorkshire.
Warwickshire beat Yorkshire by eight wickets at Hull with the Reverend Canon Jack Parsons scoring one hundred and thirty six. This was Yorkshire's first loss in seventy one consecutive matches in the County Championship.
England beat France six-nil in a friendly international in Paris. Dixie Dean and George Brown both scored twice with Arthur Rigby and an own goal adding to the total. Julia Cuthbert Smith born in London.
Cecil Lewis's adaptation of RUR broadcast. The United Kingdom severed diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union following the discovery of 'military espionage and subversive activities' being performed on behalf of the Soviet government. Relations were restored two years later under the new Labour government.
The first broadcast of The Derby from Epsom - won by Charlie Elliott on Call Boy.
A Debate between Major John Hay Beith and Douglas Woodruff (late President Oxford Union Society) on the motion that 'Sport Is A Menace' was broadcast.
Geoffrey Dyson Palmer born in London.
Alan Seymour born in FremantlE, Western Australia.
Vaughan Williams' A Sea Symphony broadcast.
Christopher Magnus Howard Pedler born in London. Harold Reginald Pays born in West Ham.
Fred Guiol's Love 'Em & Weep - starring Laurel and Hardy and, for the first time, their frequent comic foil Jimmy Finlayson - premiered.
Brian George Wilde born in Ashton-Under-Lyne. Paul Victor Ableman born in Leeds.
Eye-Witness Account Of The Senior TT Race By Ixion Of The Motor Cycle broadcast.
Paul Clark Eddington born in St John's Wood. Éva Márta Szőke Ivanovics born in Kecskemét, Hungary.
Captain H De A Donisthorpe's The Effect Of The Eclipse On Radio Transmission broadcast.
Yorkshire and England's Wilfred Rhodes became the only person to play in one thousand first-class cricket matches in a career which lasted from 1898 until 1930.
A total eclipse of the sun took place with the Moon's shadow covering the United Kingdom shortly after sunrise. This was the first total eclipse over Great Britain since 1724 and the last until 1999. Maurice Harington Kaufmann born in Gorleston, Norfolk.
The first broadcast of the men's and women's singles finals at Wimbledon - won by Henry Cochet and Helen Wills respectively. Niels Bohr began working on his description of space-time in quantum and wave mechanics.
Henry Kenneth Alfred Russell born in Southampton.
Alan Leslie Freeman born in Melbourne.
Christopher Stone presented the first programme solely dedicated to New Gramophone Records thus, effectively, becoming the world's first radio disc-jockey.
Patricia Ann Jellicoe born in Middlesbrough.
Heather Jean Chasen born in Singapore.
Jack Dempsey knocked out future Heavyweight champion Jack Sharkey in the seventh round at Yankee Stadium in New York. The fight was an elimination bout for a title shot against Gene Tunney. A report in the New York Times some weeks later noted that 'the short-wave [radio] transmission of the fight sent over 2XAF at Schenectady' and picked up in London were 'unusually good.'
The Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing was dedicated in Ypres, as a monument to nearly ninety thousand soldiers of the British Empire who went missing in action in the three Battles of Ypres in World War I.
Richard Keith Johnson born in Upminster.
Peter Richard Nichols born in Bristol.
The Carter Family, led by AP Carter recorded the first of many bestselling records. Their debut 78, recorded in Bristol, Tennessee, was 'Bury Me Beneath the Willow'/'Little Log Cabin By The Sea'.
Jean Margaret Lodge born in Hull.
Robert Archibald Shaw born in Westhoughton, Lancashire..
William Wellman's Wings premiered. Starring Clara Bow, Buddy Rogers and Gary Cooper, the movie was accompanied by recorded sound effects of the various aeroplanes, but no spoken dialogue. It was the first - and only - silent film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
The Proms concert season opened in London. Under the baton of Sir Henry Wood, the opening night's broadcast featured selections from Lizst, Elgar and Wagner.
Astronomer CT Elvey announced from the Yerkes Observatory in Chicago that the Sun could explode 'at any minute.' But, it hasn't. Yet.
Mary Yeomans born in Birmingham.
Yootha Joyce Needham born in Wandsworth.
John Barry Foster born in Beeston. Anthony Francis Steedman born in Warwick.
The possible (though, still disputed) birthdate of Cyril Louis Goldbert in Marseilles.
Lancashire won the cricket county championship title for a second successive year, drawing their final game at Leicester. Second place Nottinghamshire's shock innings defeat against Glamorgan at Swansea three days later - bowled out by Frank Ryan and Jack Mercer - clinched the title for Lancashire. Yorkshire finished third. Douglas Jardine topped the first class batting averages and Harold Larwood the bowling. Gloucester's Wally Hammond was the championship's leading batsman (two thousand five hundred and twenty two). His team-mate Charlie Parker was, again, the top wicket-taker (one hundred and eighty three). Francis Matthews born in York.
Anthony Bate born in Stourbridge.
In the First Division, the reigning champions Newcastle United won seven-one at Old Trafford against Manchester United. Forty nine goals were scored in eleven top flight games.
Louis Golding's The Motley Carpet Of Palestine broadcast.
Gwendoline Watford born in London. Albert James Culliford born in West Ham. Amongst the early pace-setters in the First Division were the champions, Newcastle United, who won seven-one at Manchesater United.
Al Bowlly's version of 'Blue Skies' was recorded. The following day, Bowlly cut 'Ain't She Sweet'.
Frederick Charles Jones born in Dresden, Staffordshire.
Heinrich Himmler issued SS Order Number One, setting out the culture for the elite Nazi unit, the Schutzstaffel. Drawn from the Sturmabteilung, the two hundred member SS group was given its own distinctive uniform and paraded for a full inspection between Party meetings.
In Nice, Isadora Duncan was killed in a freak accident while being chauffeured in a car that she intended to purchase. The dancer was in a car on the Promenade Des Anglais, wearing a long scarf. As Benoit Falchetto began driving down the street, the cloth became entangled in one of the wheels, strangling Duncan, breaking her neck.
Peter Michael Falk born in New York.
Rosemary Ann Harris born in Ashby, Suffolk.
Rachel Roberts born in Llanelli.
David Glover born in London.
All of the lowlands in the principality of Liechtenstein were flooded when the Rhine overflowed its banks at Schaan, ruining most of the nation's farmers. Volunteers from around Europe helped in what was described later as 'one of the first international relief operations in peacetime.'
Alan Bridges born in Liverpool.
The first episode of Sir Oliver Lodge's Pioneers In Astronomy - focusing on Nicolaus Copernicus - broadcast.
Robert Fuest born in London.
Carving began on Mount Rushmore, starting with the head of George Washington, as workers began the blasting of granite until a thin layer remained. The likeness of Washington would be ready for dedication on 4 July 1934.
The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson, was premiered at the Warner Theatre in New York, which had been wired for sound with the Vitaphone system. It was the first 'talkie', with sound synchronised to the film, although much of it was silent, with title cards. The first words heard by the audience were Jolson, as Jakie Rabinowitz, shouting to an orchestra: 'Wait a minute! I tell ya, you ain't heard nothin' yet!' In keeping with the film's theme of a conflict within a Jewish family, the film premiered after sunset on the eve of the Yom Kippur holiday.
Derek Anthony Beckley born in Southampton.
The Second Hundred Years, the first movie in which Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy received top billing as a duo, premiered.
Roger George Moore born in Stockwell.
Leonard Goldberg born in Bow.
Ireland beat England two-nil in the Home International championship with a Bert Jones own goal and a further strike from Belfast Celtic's Jack Mahood. Derby County's Tom Cooper, Bolton Wanderers' Harry Nuttall and Bury's Jack Ball made their England debuts. Goalkeeper Ted Hufton broke his arm after twenty minutes, but continued - albeit, in great pain - until half-time, after which he was taken to hospital. Ball took over in goal. Jack Hill was also injured during the first half, playing on with a leg injury. In the First Division, Champions Newcastle were, again, setting the pace. Hughie Gallacher scored the winner in their one-nil victory over Sheffield United. Newcastle were without Charlie Spencer, who was with the England squad in Belfast, whilst Sheffield were without Billy Gillespie, who was leading the line for Ireland. Elsewhere, second placed Everton beat West Ham United seven-nil, Manchester United defeated Derby County five-nil, Cardiff City beat Portsmouth three-one and Tottenham Hotspur defeated Sunderland by the same score. Albert Davies of Chester was acquitted of the murder of his four-year-old daughter, Elsie by drowning her in the bath. His wife had died earlier in the year from tuberculosis and Elsie was also dying from the horrific disease. He had claimed to have killed her to prevent her further suffering and was found not guilty by the jury. James David Grout born in London.
This Week's Good Cause featured 'an appeal by The Right Honourable Winston Churchill on behalf of the Royal Infant Orphanage, Wanstead.' Following an angry public confrontation between Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin, Trotsky and Grigory Zinoviev were expelled from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Perhaps the most famous scientific meeting-of-minds in history occurred at the Fifth Solvay Conference on Electrons and Photons was held from 24 to 29 October, where the world's most notable physicists met to discuss the newly formulated quantum theory. The leading figures included Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Max Planck, Ernest Rutherford, Erwin Schrödinger, Wolfgang Pauli, Werner Hiesenberg, Paul Dirac, Louis De Broglie, Max Born, Paul Langevin and Charles Wilson (inventor of the cloud chamber). Seventeen of the twenty nine attendees were or would subsequently become Nobel Prize winners, including Marie Curie, who alone among them, had won Nobel Prizes in two separate scientific disciplines.
Sam Taylor's My Best Girl - starring Mary Pickford, Buddy Rogers and Sunshine Hart - premiered.
Philip Saville born in London.
Norah Patricia Morris born in Pntypool.
Hoagy Carmichael & His Pals' recording of 'Stardust'/One Night In Havana' released. Sam Taylor's My Best Girl - starring Mary Pickford and Buddy Rogers - premiered.
Kenneth Waller born in Huddersfield.
The first episode of Europe Through The Ages, The Life Of Henry The Fifth and a musical adaptation of AE Housman's The Land Of Lost Content broadcast. Kenneth Arthur Dodd born in Knotty Ash, Liverpool.
Bertie Wyn Hollis born in Fulham.
Show Boat, with music by Jerome Kern and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and PG Wodehouse, was given its first pre-Broadway performance, at the National Theatre in Washington. It would open on Broadway on 27 December. Because the production ran long cuts were required. Legend has it that the most famous number in the show, 'Ol' Man River', was almost removed but reinstated at the last minute.
Fenella Marion Feldman born in Hackney.
John Reginald Surdeval Routh born in Gosport.
The probable broadcasting debut of JB Priestley on Writers Of Today. Ann Jane Wenham Figgins born in Southampton.
Wales beat England two-one at Turf Moor in the Home International championship. Both cpatains, England's Jack Hill and Wales' Fred Keenor scored own goals whilst Wilf Lewis hit the winner. Roy Goodall missed a penalty. For the first time since 1881-82, England had lost their first two matches in a season. Birmingham City's Dan Tremelling, Leicester City's Reg Osborne and Arsenal's Alf Baker made their England debuts. The British Olympic Association agreed to send a team to Amsterdam for the following year's games. The question of whether 'broken time' payments for loss of earnings could be made to athletes who were supposed to be of amateur status was hotly disputed, however and the refusal of the International Olympic Committee to outlaw them completely, eventually led to a British football team not taking part.
Jimmie Rodgers' 'Blue Yodel (T For Texas)' was first recorded.
Blind Willie Johnson made his first recordings in Dallas. Among the songs cut were 'In My Time Of Dying (Jesus Make Up My Dying Bed)', 'It's Nobody's Fault But Mine', 'Mother's Children Have A Hard Time' and 'Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground'.
Duke Ellington & His Orchestra opened at the Cotton Club in Harlem. Ellington proved so popular that he was featured at the club for five years. In 1929, the CBS Radio Network began broadcasting live shows from the club.
Richard Wallace's McFadden's Flats - starring Charles Murray and Edna Murphy - premiered.
Claude Whatham born in Manchester.
Ma Rainey & Her Georgia Band recorded 'Ma Rainey's Black Bottom' for Paramount Records.
David Noel Geeves born in Croydon. Patricia Noel Driscoll born in South Kensington.
Hansel & Gretel - A Fairy Opera In Three Acts, by Adelheid Wette, translated and adapted into English by Constance Bache with music composed by Engelbert Humperdinck (no, the other one) - broadcast. Charles Adolphus Williams born in Royston, West Yorkshire.
An adaptation of the traditional Mummers' Play broadcast.
A Children's Service broadcast.
Pantomimicry - 'a stock-pot of stock plots' - broadcast. Denis Clifford Quilley born in Islington.
England won the first of a five test series against South Africa by ten wickets. Led by Lieutenant-Colonel Rony Stanyforth, the England team included a number of debutants - Ewart Astill, Wally Hammond, Geoffrey Legge, Ian Peebles and Bob Wyatt. The match highlights included a century for Ernest Tyldesley, seven first innings wickets for George Geary and five in South Africa's second innings for Hammond.
Harry Lauder - featuring the popular Scottish singer - broadcast. Simon Arthur Noël Raven born in London.
Why The English Are Misunderstood Abroad broadcast.
CP Bailey's What A Ray Of Light Can Tell Us broadcast.
After more than seventy years, the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, with twenty volumes, was declared finished. First proposed in 1857, the project was to include every word in the English language, the definition, the word's origin and first known usage. At St James' Park, top of the table Huddersfield Town beat reigning First Division champions Newcastle United three-two thanks to a late penalty from Ned Barkas. Earlier, Hughie Gallagher had scored twice for The Magpies. There was controversy as the referee, AE Fogg, inexplicably denied a late penalty claim from the home side for what appeared to be a clear handball. One imagines there would have been a few suitably punning headlines had the group Lindisfarne existed in 1927. Frank Ernest Gatliff born in Melbourne.
Hilda Dederich's performance of Mozart's Tenth Sonata broadcast.
At 8:44am in New York City - 1:44pm in London - the first transatlantic telephone call was made. Walter S Gifford of AT&T was connected with Sir G Evelyn V Murray of the Post Office. Philo T Farnsworth, a twenty-year-old American inventor, filed his first of many patent applications, for a method of electronically scanning images and transmitting them as television signals. A US patent was granted in August 1930.
Daniel James Negley Farson born in Kensington. Marcelle Samett born in London.
Fritz Lang's science fiction film Metropolis had its world premiere at the Ufa-Palast am Zoo in Berlin.
Richard Bebb Williams born in London.
The first live sports broadcast by the BBC took place, a rugby union international between England and Wales at Twickenham. England won eleven-nine. In a split decision, the Tennessee Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of Section 49-1922 of the Tennessee Code, which prohibited the teaching of evolution. The Court set aside the order for the fine levied against teacher John Scopes. Chief Justice Grafton Green said, 'All of us agree that nothing is to be gained by prolonging the life of this bizarre case.'
The first radio broadcast of a football match - the First Division clash at Highbury between Arsenal and Sheffield United (a one-all draw). The commentator was Henry Blythe Thornhill Wakelam. The producer, Lance Sieveking, devised a plan of the pitch divided into eight numbered squares, which was published in the Radio Times.
The idea was that the listener at home could follow the play from their armchair using the grid as a guide. Some people believe this to be the origin of the phrase 'Back to Square One' (although opinion is divided on the matter). Live commentary of Newcastle United's one-nil victory over Bolton Wanderers was broadcast, being fed via a telephone line to the BBC in Newcastle and thence transmitted via the local station 5NO. Commentary was provided by Mister WT Bell, the secretary of the Northumberland FA, who was housed 'in a small wooden box, lined with felt and containing a microphone.' Walter Leonard Sparrow born in Eltham. A hurricane swept across the British Isles, killing twenty people and injuring hundreds. Nineteen of the dead were in Scotland, including eight in Glasgow. Frank Hutchinson's adaptation of 'Stackalee' was released on Okeh Records.
The first broadcast of an FA Cup match, George Allison commentating on the Fourth Round clash between Corinthians and Newcastle United at Crystal Palace. Newcastle won three-one.
Malcolm Campbell broke the world's record for the fastest speed in an automobile, driving at nearly one hundred and seventy five miles per hour on the Pendine Sands in Wales in the Napier-Campbell Blue Bird.
Abraham Rakoff born in Toronto.
Juliette Gréco born in Montpellier, France.
Ian Walter Brown born in Auckland, New Zealand.
The first contingent of British troops landed in Shanghai to begin 'protection' of British citizens. Within a week, over twenty warships from the US, Britain, Japan, France and Italy had anchored at the Huangpu River. Eric Mason born in Sussex. Alma Mabel Conner born in Little Rock, Arkansas. England and Wales drew three-all in the Home International championship at The Racecourse Ground, Wrexham. Everton's Dixie Dean scored twice on his international debut and set up Billy Walker for England's third. Cardiff's Len Davies scored twice for the hosts with Swansea's Wilf Lewis adding another. Injuries had forced England to make several changes with debuts for Jack Brown of The Wednesday, Burnley duo of George Waterfield and Louis Page and Middlesbrough's Willie Pease make their international debuts along with Dean. Brown was strapped up for the second half of this match after being heavily charged and getting struck in the face. Jimmy Seddon was taken off the pitch for the attention after he was involved in a fortieth minute altercation with Fred Keenor. He returned for the second half. Billy Walker too, was hurt, his nose bleeding badly. It was whilst he was getting attention off the field, that Wales scored their third goal. The highlight of the First Division fixtures was Huddersfield Town's four=three victory over The Wednesday (Bob Kelly socring a hat-trick). Leaders Newcastle United lost for the second week in a row (two-one at Sheffield United) having won six games a row previously. Liverpool won the Merseyside derby one-nil thanks to Harry Chambers goal. There was mayhem in the English Channel in exceptionally dense fog, ten shipping vessels were involved in collisions, resulting in three sinking. Miraculously, however, there were no fatalities. Three days later, with the fog still as thick as a brick, all shipping in the channel was suspended until it cleared.
Jules White's Slippery Silks - starring Linge Conley and Caryl Lincoln - premiered.
Alfred Hitchcock's The Lodger: A Story Of The London Fog premiered. Lois Ruth Hooker born in Kitchener, Ontario.
For the first time in half-a-century, travel across the English Channel came to a halt, as a dense fog continued into its fifth day.
Sir Oliver Lodge conducted an experiment in telepathy on BBC Radio, asking listeners to give their impressions as a team of people concentrated on images on a set of cards. Out of over twenty four thousand responses, as many as one hundred and ninety correctly predicted that a two of clubs had been drawn, but, according to Harry Price: 'it is obvious there was no evidence of anything but pure chance.' Mao Zedong delivered his 'Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan' to the Central Committee of China's fledgling Communist Party. Summing up thirty two days of interviews, Mao predicted that 'Within a short time, hundreds of millions of peasants will rise in Central, South and North China, with the fury of a hurricane. No power, however strong, can restrain them.' June Muriel Brown born in Needham Market, Suffolk.
Werner Heisenberg wrote a fourteen-page letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, describing for the first time a key concept in quantum mechanics which would become known as the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.
Melville W Brown's Her Big Night - starring Laura La Plante and John Roach - premiered.
John Derek Carson-Parker born in Colombo, Ceylon.
Edgar Davis born in Liverpool. Werner Heisenberg, having formulated The Uncertainty Principle at Niels Bohr's institute in Copenhagen while working on the mathematical foundations of quantum mechanics, published Über Den Anschaulichen Inhalt Der Quantentheoretischen Kinematik Und Mechanik ('On the Perceptual Content of Quantum Theoretical Kinematics and Mechanics'). In this, Heisenberg established this expression as the minimum amount of unavoidable momentum disturbance caused by any position measurement.
Bessie Smith & Her Band's recording of 'Muddy Water (A Mississippi Moan)' released on Columbia Records.
Reading beat Swansea Town three-one Second Division FA Cup Sixth Rund tie at The Vetch Field. In the First Division, leaders Newcastle United defeated Everton seven-three thanks to a hat-trick by Hughie Gallagher and additional goals from Tom McDonald, Bobby McKay, Roddy MacKenzie and Stan Seymour. Thirty nine goals were scored in nine top flight matches with big wins for Derby County (four-one against Birmingham City) and Liverpol (three-nil against The Wednesday). Sheffield United and Tottenham drew three-all.
The first episode of Doctor HL Brose's Easy Chats On Einstein broadcast. Jimmie Rodgers, celebrated later as 'The Father of Country Music', recorded his first single, 'The Soldier's Sweetheart'.
Blind Lemon Jefferson's 'The Black Snake Moan'/'Matchbox Blues' released on Okeh Records.
John Keith Patrick Allen born in Nyasaland.
David Turner born in Birmingham.
The first broadcast of The Grand National from Aintree, won by Ted Leader on Sprig. Sylvia Beatrice Thomas born in Camberwell.
Richard Owen born in London.
Ferenc Purczeld born in Budapest.
The first broadcast of The Boat Race. Cambridge won by three lengths. Oxford came second. Kenneth Peacock Tynan born in Birmingham. England beat Scotland two-one in the Home International championship at Hampden Park, their first victory against The Scots since 1920 and their first in Scotland since 1904. Dixie Dean scored twice for the visitors, Alan Morton for the hosts. Blackburn duo Bert Jones and Arthur Rigby, Leicester's Sid Bishop and Arsenal's Joe Hulme all made their England debuts. England's skipper, Jack Hill, needed three stitches in a nasty gash over his left eye following a clash of heads with his team-mate Roy Goodall. In the First Division, even without Hughie Gallacher (on international duty in Scotland), league leaders Newcastle United beat Bury three-one with goals from Bob McKay, Tommy McDonald and Bob Clark. Second-placed Huddersfield Town won two-nil at Arsenal. West Ham United won five-one at Aston Villa and Sheffield United defeated Blackburn Rovers five-three. Forty seven goals were scored in eleven Second Division fixtures (and two of those were goalless draws). Portsmouth won five-four at Clapton Orient, Hull City beat Barnsley five-one, league leaders Middlesbrough had a three-one victory over Oldham Athletic and Wilf Kirkham scored four and Harry Anstiss three in Port Vale's seven-one defeat of Fulham. In the last match of the rugby Five Nations Championship, France beat England for the first time, by three-nil in Paris.
Fred Guiol's Slipping Wives - starring, Priscilla Dean and, for the first time as a duo, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy - premiered.
Napoléon - directed by Abel Gance and starring Albert Dieudonné - premiered at the Palais Garnier in Paris.
The Second Division went goal crazy with sixty three goals scored in eleven games; Portsmouth had a record nine-one victory over Notts County, Nottingham Forest scored seven against Preston, Barnsley beat South Shields six-one, Oldham defeated Clapham Orient five-two and Grimsby Town and Port Vale shared eight goals. The big winners in the First Division included Sunderland (five-one at home to Arsenal).
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ceased to exist, as the Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act took effect at midnight. In an acknowledgement of the separate Irish Free State, the nation was renamed the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
The Shanghai Massacre which would ultimately claim the lives of four thousand leftists, began weeks after Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang Army took control of Shanghai with the aid of Communist workers in the city.
Naughty Nanette - starring Viola Dana - premiered.
Convicted on obscenity charges, Mae West began serving a nine-day jail sentence, at the Jefferson Market Prison in New York.
Gerald Robert Flood born in Portsmouth.
The first broadcast of The FA Cup Final. It was a memorable one, Cardiff City beating Arsenal by a single goal (to date, the only occasion that a non-English club has won the competition). Hughie Ferguson scored the winner, his shot squirming under Arsenal keeper Dan Lewis's body.
Derek Barton-Chapple born in Mill Hill. John Douglas Roberton born in Newcastle Upon Tyne.
Patricia Margaret Roach Mort born in Swansea.
A tragedy occurred at Bramall Lane where Sheffield United were playing Bury in a First Division match. Five minutes before the interval Sam Wynne the Bury right-back collapsed and died within a few minutes. The match was abandoned. The caused of death was stated to be either pneumonia or a cerebral haemorrhage. It would be the last time a professional footballer died in a game in England for sixty three years (until York City's David Longstaff suffered a heart-attack against Lincoln City).
Raymond Charles Barrett born in Brisbane.
Owen John Scott born in Watford.
Led by thirty six goals from Hughie Gallagher, Newcastle United were First Division championsfor the fourth (and, so far, last) time despite losing their final game two-one at Leicester City. Huddersfield were runner-up with Sunderland third. Leeds United and West Bromwich Albion were relegated. Second Division champions Middlesbrough's George Camsell scored a, then, Football League record of fifty nine goals (sixty three in all competitions). Manchester City's eight-nil victory over Bradford City still wasn't enough to give City promotion from the Second Division. Portsmouth's match had kicked off fifteen minutes late and after the result at Maine Road was known, Portsmouth knew they had to score another goal to gain promotion on goal average, which they did, beating Preston North End five-one (Willie Haines scored four). Aberdare Athletic failed to gain re-election to the Third Division South, replaced by the Southern League's Torquay United.
The first episode of Capitals Of Europe broadcast. Under the direction of Scotland Yard, London police raided Arcost Limited, the offices of the Soviet trade delegation. Telephone lines were cut and the building was sealed, with the six hundred employees detained during the subsequent search. Evidence of Russian espionage was found and a break of diplomatic relations followed.
The first broadcast of a cricket match. The Reverend FH Gillingham, himself an ex-Essex player, gave a series of live reports from the touring New Zealanders match against Essex at Leyton. Dennis Arthur Robert Chinnery born in Essex.
At George's: Chance Conversations At A Coffee-Stall broadcast.
Captain Charles Lindbergh became the first man to complete a non-stop trans-Atlantic flight, from New York to Paris. He landed his monoplane, the Spirit Of St Louis, at Le Bourget airfield thirty three hours and twenty nine minutes after taking off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island. He was welcomed by a crowd of one hundred and fifty thousand people and his achievement made him an overnight sensation, winning a twenty five thousand dollar prize. With so much public interest worldwide he was credited with starting a boom in the aviation industry and making air travel popular for thoise that could afford it. England beat Luxembourg five-two in a friendly international in Jeunesse. Dixie Dean scored a hat-trick with further goals from Bob Kelly and Sid Bishop. Justine Kay Kendall McCarthy born in Withernsea, East Yorkshire.
Warwickshire beat Yorkshire by eight wickets at Hull with the Reverend Canon Jack Parsons scoring one hundred and thirty six. This was Yorkshire's first loss in seventy one consecutive matches in the County Championship.
England beat France six-nil in a friendly international in Paris. Dixie Dean and George Brown both scored twice with Arthur Rigby and an own goal adding to the total. Julia Cuthbert Smith born in London.
Cecil Lewis's adaptation of RUR broadcast. The United Kingdom severed diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union following the discovery of 'military espionage and subversive activities' being performed on behalf of the Soviet government. Relations were restored two years later under the new Labour government.
The first broadcast of The Derby from Epsom - won by Charlie Elliott on Call Boy.
A Debate between Major John Hay Beith and Douglas Woodruff (late President Oxford Union Society) on the motion that 'Sport Is A Menace' was broadcast.
Geoffrey Dyson Palmer born in London.
Alan Seymour born in FremantlE, Western Australia.
Vaughan Williams' A Sea Symphony broadcast.
Christopher Magnus Howard Pedler born in London. Harold Reginald Pays born in West Ham.
Fred Guiol's Love 'Em & Weep - starring Laurel and Hardy and, for the first time, their frequent comic foil Jimmy Finlayson - premiered.
Brian George Wilde born in Ashton-Under-Lyne. Paul Victor Ableman born in Leeds.
Eye-Witness Account Of The Senior TT Race By Ixion Of The Motor Cycle broadcast.
Paul Clark Eddington born in St John's Wood. Éva Márta Szőke Ivanovics born in Kecskemét, Hungary.
Captain H De A Donisthorpe's The Effect Of The Eclipse On Radio Transmission broadcast.
Yorkshire and England's Wilfred Rhodes became the only person to play in one thousand first-class cricket matches in a career which lasted from 1898 until 1930.
The first broadcast of the men's and women's singles finals at Wimbledon - won by Henry Cochet and Helen Wills respectively. Niels Bohr began working on his description of space-time in quantum and wave mechanics.
Henry Kenneth Alfred Russell born in Southampton.
Alan Leslie Freeman born in Melbourne.
Christopher Stone presented the first programme solely dedicated to New Gramophone Records thus, effectively, becoming the world's first radio disc-jockey.
Patricia Ann Jellicoe born in Middlesbrough.
Heather Jean Chasen born in Singapore.
Jack Dempsey knocked out future Heavyweight champion Jack Sharkey in the seventh round at Yankee Stadium in New York. The fight was an elimination bout for a title shot against Gene Tunney. A report in the New York Times some weeks later noted that 'the short-wave [radio] transmission of the fight sent over 2XAF at Schenectady' and picked up in London were 'unusually good.'
The Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing was dedicated in Ypres, as a monument to nearly ninety thousand soldiers of the British Empire who went missing in action in the three Battles of Ypres in World War I.
Richard Keith Johnson born in Upminster.
Peter Richard Nichols born in Bristol.
The Carter Family, led by AP Carter recorded the first of many bestselling records. Their debut 78, recorded in Bristol, Tennessee, was 'Bury Me Beneath the Willow'/'Little Log Cabin By The Sea'.
Jean Margaret Lodge born in Hull.
Robert Archibald Shaw born in Westhoughton, Lancashire..
William Wellman's Wings premiered. Starring Clara Bow, Buddy Rogers and Gary Cooper, the movie was accompanied by recorded sound effects of the various aeroplanes, but no spoken dialogue. It was the first - and only - silent film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
The Proms concert season opened in London. Under the baton of Sir Henry Wood, the opening night's broadcast featured selections from Lizst, Elgar and Wagner.
Astronomer CT Elvey announced from the Yerkes Observatory in Chicago that the Sun could explode 'at any minute.' But, it hasn't. Yet.
Mary Yeomans born in Birmingham.
Yootha Joyce Needham born in Wandsworth.
John Barry Foster born in Beeston. Anthony Francis Steedman born in Warwick.
The possible (though, still disputed) birthdate of Cyril Louis Goldbert in Marseilles.
Lancashire won the cricket county championship title for a second successive year, drawing their final game at Leicester. Second place Nottinghamshire's shock innings defeat against Glamorgan at Swansea three days later - bowled out by Frank Ryan and Jack Mercer - clinched the title for Lancashire. Yorkshire finished third. Douglas Jardine topped the first class batting averages and Harold Larwood the bowling. Gloucester's Wally Hammond was the championship's leading batsman (two thousand five hundred and twenty two). His team-mate Charlie Parker was, again, the top wicket-taker (one hundred and eighty three). Francis Matthews born in York.
Anthony Bate born in Stourbridge.
In the First Division, the reigning champions Newcastle United won seven-one at Old Trafford against Manchester United. Forty nine goals were scored in eleven top flight games.
Louis Golding's The Motley Carpet Of Palestine broadcast.
Gwendoline Watford born in London. Albert James Culliford born in West Ham. Amongst the early pace-setters in the First Division were the champions, Newcastle United, who won seven-one at Manchesater United.
Al Bowlly's version of 'Blue Skies' was recorded. The following day, Bowlly cut 'Ain't She Sweet'.
Frederick Charles Jones born in Dresden, Staffordshire.
Heinrich Himmler issued SS Order Number One, setting out the culture for the elite Nazi unit, the Schutzstaffel. Drawn from the Sturmabteilung, the two hundred member SS group was given its own distinctive uniform and paraded for a full inspection between Party meetings.
Peter Michael Falk born in New York.
Rosemary Ann Harris born in Ashby, Suffolk.
Rachel Roberts born in Llanelli.
David Glover born in London.
All of the lowlands in the principality of Liechtenstein were flooded when the Rhine overflowed its banks at Schaan, ruining most of the nation's farmers. Volunteers from around Europe helped in what was described later as 'one of the first international relief operations in peacetime.'
Alan Bridges born in Liverpool.
The first episode of Sir Oliver Lodge's Pioneers In Astronomy - focusing on Nicolaus Copernicus - broadcast.
Robert Fuest born in London.
Carving began on Mount Rushmore, starting with the head of George Washington, as workers began the blasting of granite until a thin layer remained. The likeness of Washington would be ready for dedication on 4 July 1934.
The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson, was premiered at the Warner Theatre in New York, which had been wired for sound with the Vitaphone system. It was the first 'talkie', with sound synchronised to the film, although much of it was silent, with title cards. The first words heard by the audience were Jolson, as Jakie Rabinowitz, shouting to an orchestra: 'Wait a minute! I tell ya, you ain't heard nothin' yet!' In keeping with the film's theme of a conflict within a Jewish family, the film premiered after sunset on the eve of the Yom Kippur holiday.
Derek Anthony Beckley born in Southampton.
The Second Hundred Years, the first movie in which Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy received top billing as a duo, premiered.
Roger George Moore born in Stockwell.
Leonard Goldberg born in Bow.
Ireland beat England two-nil in the Home International championship with a Bert Jones own goal and a further strike from Belfast Celtic's Jack Mahood. Derby County's Tom Cooper, Bolton Wanderers' Harry Nuttall and Bury's Jack Ball made their England debuts. Goalkeeper Ted Hufton broke his arm after twenty minutes, but continued - albeit, in great pain - until half-time, after which he was taken to hospital. Ball took over in goal. Jack Hill was also injured during the first half, playing on with a leg injury. In the First Division, Champions Newcastle were, again, setting the pace. Hughie Gallacher scored the winner in their one-nil victory over Sheffield United. Newcastle were without Charlie Spencer, who was with the England squad in Belfast, whilst Sheffield were without Billy Gillespie, who was leading the line for Ireland. Elsewhere, second placed Everton beat West Ham United seven-nil, Manchester United defeated Derby County five-nil, Cardiff City beat Portsmouth three-one and Tottenham Hotspur defeated Sunderland by the same score. Albert Davies of Chester was acquitted of the murder of his four-year-old daughter, Elsie by drowning her in the bath. His wife had died earlier in the year from tuberculosis and Elsie was also dying from the horrific disease. He had claimed to have killed her to prevent her further suffering and was found not guilty by the jury. James David Grout born in London.
This Week's Good Cause featured 'an appeal by The Right Honourable Winston Churchill on behalf of the Royal Infant Orphanage, Wanstead.' Following an angry public confrontation between Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin, Trotsky and Grigory Zinoviev were expelled from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Perhaps the most famous scientific meeting-of-minds in history occurred at the Fifth Solvay Conference on Electrons and Photons was held from 24 to 29 October, where the world's most notable physicists met to discuss the newly formulated quantum theory. The leading figures included Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Max Planck, Ernest Rutherford, Erwin Schrödinger, Wolfgang Pauli, Werner Hiesenberg, Paul Dirac, Louis De Broglie, Max Born, Paul Langevin and Charles Wilson (inventor of the cloud chamber). Seventeen of the twenty nine attendees were or would subsequently become Nobel Prize winners, including Marie Curie, who alone among them, had won Nobel Prizes in two separate scientific disciplines.
Sam Taylor's My Best Girl - starring Mary Pickford, Buddy Rogers and Sunshine Hart - premiered.
Philip Saville born in London.
Norah Patricia Morris born in Pntypool.
Hoagy Carmichael & His Pals' recording of 'Stardust'/One Night In Havana' released. Sam Taylor's My Best Girl - starring Mary Pickford and Buddy Rogers - premiered.
Kenneth Waller born in Huddersfield.
Bertie Wyn Hollis born in Fulham.
Show Boat, with music by Jerome Kern and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and PG Wodehouse, was given its first pre-Broadway performance, at the National Theatre in Washington. It would open on Broadway on 27 December. Because the production ran long cuts were required. Legend has it that the most famous number in the show, 'Ol' Man River', was almost removed but reinstated at the last minute.
Fenella Marion Feldman born in Hackney.
John Reginald Surdeval Routh born in Gosport.
The probable broadcasting debut of JB Priestley on Writers Of Today. Ann Jane Wenham Figgins born in Southampton.
Wales beat England two-one at Turf Moor in the Home International championship. Both cpatains, England's Jack Hill and Wales' Fred Keenor scored own goals whilst Wilf Lewis hit the winner. Roy Goodall missed a penalty. For the first time since 1881-82, England had lost their first two matches in a season. Birmingham City's Dan Tremelling, Leicester City's Reg Osborne and Arsenal's Alf Baker made their England debuts. The British Olympic Association agreed to send a team to Amsterdam for the following year's games. The question of whether 'broken time' payments for loss of earnings could be made to athletes who were supposed to be of amateur status was hotly disputed, however and the refusal of the International Olympic Committee to outlaw them completely, eventually led to a British football team not taking part.
Jimmie Rodgers' 'Blue Yodel (T For Texas)' was first recorded.
Blind Willie Johnson made his first recordings in Dallas. Among the songs cut were 'In My Time Of Dying (Jesus Make Up My Dying Bed)', 'It's Nobody's Fault But Mine', 'Mother's Children Have A Hard Time' and 'Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground'.
Duke Ellington & His Orchestra opened at the Cotton Club in Harlem. Ellington proved so popular that he was featured at the club for five years. In 1929, the CBS Radio Network began broadcasting live shows from the club.
Richard Wallace's McFadden's Flats - starring Charles Murray and Edna Murphy - premiered.
Claude Whatham born in Manchester.
Ma Rainey & Her Georgia Band recorded 'Ma Rainey's Black Bottom' for Paramount Records.
David Noel Geeves born in Croydon. Patricia Noel Driscoll born in South Kensington.
Hansel & Gretel - A Fairy Opera In Three Acts, by Adelheid Wette, translated and adapted into English by Constance Bache with music composed by Engelbert Humperdinck (no, the other one) - broadcast. Charles Adolphus Williams born in Royston, West Yorkshire. An adaptation of the traditional Mummers' Play broadcast.
A Children's Service broadcast.
Pantomimicry - 'a stock-pot of stock plots' - broadcast. Denis Clifford Quilley born in Islington.
England won the first of a five test series against South Africa by ten wickets. Led by Lieutenant-Colonel Rony Stanyforth, the England team included a number of debutants - Ewart Astill, Wally Hammond, Geoffrey Legge, Ian Peebles and Bob Wyatt. The match highlights included a century for Ernest Tyldesley, seven first innings wickets for George Geary and five in South Africa's second innings for Hammond.
Harry Lauder - featuring the popular Scottish singer - broadcast. Simon Arthur Noël Raven born in London.
Why The English Are Misunderstood Abroad broadcast.
CP Bailey's What A Ray Of Light Can Tell Us broadcast.
After more than seventy years, the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, with twenty volumes, was declared finished. First proposed in 1857, the project was to include every word in the English language, the definition, the word's origin and first known usage. At St James' Park, top of the table Huddersfield Town beat reigning First Division champions Newcastle United three-two thanks to a late penalty from Ned Barkas. Earlier, Hughie Gallagher had scored twice for The Magpies. There was controversy as the referee, AE Fogg, inexplicably denied a late penalty claim from the home side for what appeared to be a clear handball. One imagines there would have been a few suitably punning headlines had the group Lindisfarne existed in 1927. Frank Ernest Gatliff born in Melbourne.
