Timeline December 1927

Events in December 1927 10

• 1857 – 1927 Vladimir Bekhterev (1857-1927) Died 24 December 1927, aged 70 Vladimir Bekhterev was a Russian neurologist who founded the Psychoneurological Institute in Saint Petersburg and did pioneering work on reflexes and brain anatomy. He died suddenly in Moscow, reportedly soon after examining Stalin.
• 1927 – 1929 Posted to India Karachi and Miranshah Two years at remote airfields, partly to get him out of the newspapers. Rumours that he was spying in Afghanistan brought him home again.
• 1927 Ford Model A unveiled Successor to the Model T goes on public display Ford ended Model T production in May after more than 15 million cars had been built. The company shut its plants to retool for a new car. The Model A was shown to the public in December and drew huge crowds across the United States.
• 1927 Duke Ellington opens at the Cotton Club Start of Ellington's Harlem residency Duke Ellington and his orchestra began a long residency at the Cotton Club in Harlem. Regular radio broadcasts from the club gave the band a national audience. The engagement made Ellington one of the leading figures of jazz.
• 1927 – 1931 Duke Ellington's Cotton Club residency Harlem Radio broadcasts from the Cotton Club make his orchestra famous nationwide.
• 1927 – 2024 William Labov (1927-2024) Died 17 December 2024, aged 97 American linguist whose work on regional variation founded the field of sociolinguistics.
• 1927 Guangzhou Uprising Short-lived Canton Commune crushed by Nationalists Communists seized Guangzhou and declared a soviet government. Nationalist forces retook the city within three days and killed thousands of suspected communists afterwards.
• 1927 – 1990 Robert Noyce (1927-1990) Died 3 June 1990, aged 62 Robert Noyce was an American engineer who co-invented the integrated circuit and co-founded both Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel. His work laid the technical foundation for the modern computer industry. He died of a heart attack in Austin, Texas.
• 1927 – 2015 Kim Young-sam (1927-2015) Died 22 November 2015, aged 87 Kim Young-sam was President of South Korea from 1993 to 1998 and the country's first civilian president after decades of military rule. His administration prosecuted two former military presidents for corruption and mutiny. Kim's later term was marked by the Asian financial crisis that struck South Korea in 1997.
• 1927 Show Boat opens on Broadway Kern and Hammerstein musical premieres at the Ziegfeld Theatre Show Boat, by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II and based on Edna Ferber's novel, opened at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York. The musical dealt with racism and joined its songs closely to the plot, which set it apart from earlier revues. Its songs include Ol' Man River.