Timeline October 1927

Events in October 1927 8

• 1859 – 1927 Svante Arrhenius (1859-1927) Died 2 October 1927, aged 68 Svante Arrhenius was a Swedish chemist who won the 1903 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his theory of electrolytic dissociation. In 1896 he made one of the first calculations of how carbon dioxide warms the Earth.
• 1927 Carving of Mount Rushmore begins Work starts on the presidential monument in South Dakota Sculptor Gutzon Borglum and a crew of about 400 workers began carving the granite face of Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills. The monument depicts Washington, Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Lincoln. Work continued until 1941.
• 1927 Oil strike at Baba Gurgur Discovery of the Kirkuk oil field The Turkish Petroleum Company struck oil at Baba Gurgur near Kirkuk. The gusher flowed uncontrolled for days. The discovery showed how large the Kirkuk field was and made Iraq a major oil producer.
• 1927 – 2017 Roger Moore (1927-2017) Died 23 May 2017, aged 89 English actor best known for playing James Bond in seven films between 1973 and 1985, the longest tenure of any actor in the role at the time. He also starred in the television series The Saint. Later in life he was a longtime UNICEF goodwill ambassador.
• 1927 – 2015 Günter Grass Writer, sculptor, Nobel laureate, 1927-2015 Günter Grass (1927-2015) — novelist, poet, playwright, sculptor and printmaker. Author of The Tin Drum (1959), the defining work of post-war German literature; winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1999); political activist and speechwriter for Willy Brandt; and, in his final decades, the man who shattered his own image as Germany's moral conscience by revealing his Waffen-SS service sixty years after the fact.
• 1927 Günter Grass born in Danzig Günter Wilhelm Grass is born in Langfuhr, a suburb of the Free City of Danzig (present-day Gdańsk, Poland), to Wilhelm Grass, a Protestant German grocer, and Helene née Knoff, a Catholic Polish-German woman. The family runs a small grocery shop whose customers are often too poor to pay their bills.
• 1927 – 1999 George C. Scott (1927-1999) Died 22 September 1999, aged 71 George C. Scott was an American actor best known for his Academy Award-winning performance as General George Patton in Patton, an award he famously declined. He also starred in Dr. Strangelove. He died of an abdominal aneurysm at his home in California.
• 1927 The Bohr debates begin God does not play dice At the fifth Solvay Conference Einstein produced thought experiment after thought experiment to show quantum mechanics was incomplete, and Bohr answered each one by breakfast. Ehrenfest told Einstein he was behaving toward quantum theory exactly as his critics had behaved toward relativity. Einstein never accepted the standard interpretation.