1927 Fun Facts, Trivia and History |
Quick Facts from 1927: |
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Top Ten Baby Names of 1927: Mary, Dorothy, Betty, Helen, Margaret, Robert, John, William, James, Charles |
US Life Expectancy: (1927) Males: 59.0 years, Females: 62.1 years |
The Stars: Josephine Baker, Clara Bow, Dolores Costello, Marion Davies, Dolores Del Rio, Greta Garbo, Myrna Loy, Mary Pickford, Anna May Wong |
Miss America: Lois Delander (Joliet, IL) |
Time Magazine’s Man of the Year: Charles Lindbergh |
Firsts, Inventions, and Wonders: Pogs (collecting them was a 90s fad) originated from Hawaii as early as 1927. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was founded. The first words spoken in a movie was “Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain’t heard nothin’ yet” in 1927 in the movie The Jazz Singer. National Geographic magazine was the first US publisher to publish underwater color photographs in 1927, the first to print an all-color issue in 1962, and the first to print a hologram in 1984. Southland Corp (7-11) was founded in Dallas, Texas. The earliest known use of the phrase “trick or treat” appeared in a small town in Alberta, Canada in 1927. Pan American Airways took flight. The Big Bang Theory was first proposed by a Catholic Priest in 1927. The first recorded recipe for S’mores can be found in the publication Tramping and Trailing with the Girl Scouts. Felix the Cat was the first giant balloon to ever in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade The first robot depicted in cinema was a gynoid named Maria in the 1927 science fiction film, Metropolis. Mount Rushmore National Memorial began construction. |
The biggest Pop Artists of 1927 include: Gene Austin, Ben Bernie and His Orchestra, Vernon Dalhart, Vaughn DeLeath, Cliff Edwards, Ruth Etting, Gene Goldkette and His Orchestra, Roger Wolfe Kahn and His Orchestra, Irving Kaufman, Gertrude Lawrence, Guy Lombardo, and His Royal Canadians, Nick Lucas, Johnny Marvin, John McCormack, Red Nichols, and His Five Pennies, George Olson and His Orchestra, Nat Shilkret and the Victor Orchestra, Whispering Jack Smith, Fred Waring’s Pennsylvanians, Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra |
Pop Culture News: American Hero, Philo Farmsworth, invented a working television. He beat John Logie Beard, who had a tv-type demonstration in 1925 in London in court for the title and rights. Another American Hero, Charles Lindberg, traveled non-stop on his ‘Spirit of Saint Louis’ flight on May 20-21 from New York’s Long Island to Le Bourget Field in Paris, France. Santa Claus was issued a pilot’s license from the United States government in 1927. |
The first “It Girl” was Clara Bow, who starred in the 1927 film, It. Georgia Tech has a fictional enrolled student named George P. Burdell. He enrolled in 1927, and since then he has received all undergraduate degrees, served on Mad Magazine’s Board of Directors, and was in the running for Time’s Person of the Year in 2001. Garnet Carter built the first public miniature golf course, Tom Thumb Golf, on Lookout Mountain in Tennessee. John W. Hammes made the first garbage disposal unit. Babe Ruth set the sixty home run record in 1927 which was more than any other American League team had combined that year. The world population reached one billion for the first time in 1804. It was another 123 years before it reached two billion in 1927, but it took only 33 years to reach three billion in 1960. Hans Langseth died, along with the world’s longest beard. You can see it (his beard) at the Smithsonian Institute. Former president of Liberia Charles King holds the Guinness World record for the most fraudulent election ever having won the 1927 election with 234,000 votes in a country of 15,000 voters New York City’s Holland Tunnel opened. The Ford Motor Company made 15,000,000 Model T cars since 1908, and productions stopped in 1927. The new Model A Ford went on sale, for $385 each. Founded in Chicago in 1927, the Harlem Globetrotters never played a ‘home’ game in Harlem until 1968. Pacific Rim’s “Gipsy Danger” is not spelled “gypsy” because it’s named after the de Havilland Gipsy, a plane engine invented in 1927. |
School Tragedy: America’s deadliest school massacre was the 1927 bombing of a school in Bath, Michigan which killed 44 people, 38 of them were students |
Nobel Prize Winners: Physics – Arthur Holly Compton, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson Chemistry – Heinrich Otto Wieland Physiology or Medicine – Julius Wagner-Jauregg Literature – Henri Bergson Peace – Ferdinand Buisson, Ludwig Quidde |
Popular and Notable Books From 1927: A Good Woman by Louis Bromfield Doomsday by Warwick Deeping Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis The House on the Cliff (Hardy Boys #2) by Franklin Dixon Jalna by Mazo de la Roche Lost Ecstasy by Mary Roberts Rinehart The Plutocrat by Booth Tarkington Sorrell and Son by Warwick Deeping The Old Countess by Anne Douglas Sedgwick To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf Tomorrow Morning by Anne Parrish The Tower Treasure (Hardy Boys #1) by Franklin Dixon Twilight Sleep by Edith Wharton |
Sports: World Series Champions: New York Yankees Stanley Cup Champs: Ottawa Senators U.S. Open Golf: Tommy Armour U.S. Tennis (Men/Ladies): Rene Lacoste/Helen Wills Wimbledon (Men/Women): Henri Cochet/Helen Wills NCAA Football Champions: Illinois & Yale Kentucky Derby Winner: Whiskery Boston Marathon Winner: Clarence DeMar Time: 2:40:22 |