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| 1927 |
| | | English typographer Eric Gill designs a type face without serifs, commissioned by Monotype and to be known as Gill Sans-Serif | |
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| 1927 |
| | | Communists seize power in Jiangxi province and establish the first soviet republic in China | |
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| 1927 |
| | | Austrian director Fritz Lang creates a wildly ambitious silent film, Metropolis, the commercial failure of which bankrupts its studio | |
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| 1927 |
| | | The Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte has his first one-man show, at the Galerie Centaure in Brussels | |
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| 1927 |
| | | French author François Mauriac publishes a novel of marital claustrophobia, Thérèse Desqueyroux | |
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| 1927 |
| | | Mae West is sentenced to eight days in gaol when Sex, written, produced and starred in by herself on Broadway, is judged to be obscene | |
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| 1927 |
| | | Right-wing Chinese army officer Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek) launches an anti-Communist coup in the Canton region | |
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| c. 1927 |
| | | British archaeologist Leonard Woolley discovers the treasures of the royal cemetery at Ur | |
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| 1927 |
| | | Werner Heisenberg publishes his Uncertainty Principle, declaring that it is impossible to define precisely the position and momentum of a sub-atomic particle | |
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| 1927 |
| | | The Australian parliament moves from Melbourne to a temporary Parliament House in the new federal capital at Canberra | |
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