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1927
 
    
DuBose Heyward's novel Porgy, dramatized with a new title by himself and his wife Dorothy, has a great success on Broadway and in London       
1927
 
    
Hermann Hesse publishes a mystical novel, Steppenwolf, based on the concept of a double personality       
1927
 
    
In Being and Time German philosopher Martin Heidegger makes an existentialist case with Dasein ('Being There') as the central theme       
1927
 
   
Anglo-Irish author Elizabeth Bowen publishes her first novel, The Hotel      
1927
 
    
Gutzon Borglum begins the massive task of carving portraits of four US presidents in the rock face at Mount Rushmore       
1927
 
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De Valera and his party, the Fianna Fáil, finally take their seats in the Dáil       
1927
 
     
In spite of widespread protest and grave judicial doubt Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are sent to the electric chair        
1927
 
     
Although not the first film with synchronized sound, The Jazz Singer with Al Jolson in the title role does much to popularize the 'talkies'        
1927
 
    
Virginia Woolf uses a Hebridean holiday as the setting for her narrative in To The Lighthouse       
1927
 
    
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy star together for the first time in the silent film Duck Soup       
1927
 
    
Isadora Duncan dies in Nice when her scarf tangles in the wheel of a Bugatti sports car, breaking her neck       
1927
 
  
William Randolph Hearst by now owns a nation-wide string of some 28 daily newspapers     
1927
 
    
Irish author Frank Harris publishes the fourth and final volume of My Life and Loves       
1927
 
     
The Scottish National War Memorial, designed by Robert Lorimer, is unveiled in Edinburgh Castle        
1927
 
    
Don Marquis publishes archy and mehitabel, the first collection of his sketches about archy the cockroach and mehitabel the alley cat       
1927
 
   
President Coolidge issues a famously terse statement: 'I do not choose to run for President in 1928'      
1927
 
    
11-year-old Yehudi Menuhin gives a sensational performance of the Beethoven Violin Concerto in the Carnegie Hall, conducted by Fritz Busch       
1927
 
    
Austrian zoologist Karl von Frisch demonstrates that bees communicate the whereabouts of food by means of a dance       
1927
 
    
Leos Janacek's Glagolitic Mass has its first performance in his home town, Brno       
1927
 
     
Stuttgart's Weissenhofsiedlung, designed by Mies van der Rohe, le Corbusier, Gropius and others, sets a defining standard for International Modernism        
1927
 
    
Mysterious German author B. Traven writes a novel, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, about three Americans searching for a lost gold mine in Mexico       
1927
 
    
Stanley Spencer begins his murals in the Memorial Chapel for Henry Sandham at Burghclere, in Hampshire       
1927
 
     
Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern open on Broadway with an immensely influential American musical, Show Boat        
1928
 
   
In only his third Test match, 20-year-old Australian cricketer Donald Bradman scores a century      
1928
 
     
Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali make Un Chien andalou, a surrealist film specifically designed to shock        
1928
 
     
Le Corbusier and other modernist architects set up the Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM)        
1928
 
    
'Pine Top' Smith records Pinetop's Boogie-Woogie, the first recording to be labelled boogie-woogie       
1928
 
    
Ninette De Valois creates her first ballet, Les Petits Riens, at the Old Vic       
1928
 
    
English psychologist Henry Havelock Ellis completes a thirty-year project, his 7-volume Studies in the Psychology of Sex       
1928
 
    
English sculptor Henry Moore receives his first public commission, for the headquarters of London Underground       
1928
 
    
An Aerial Medical Service is launched in Queensland, Australia, subsequently becoming the Flying Doctor Service       
1928
 
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Alvaro Obregón, the leading figure in Mexico's anti-clerical revolution, is shot by a Roman Catholic assassin      
1928
 
     
Beijing falls to Kuomintang forces, extending the rule of Jiang Jieshi's National Government into the north of China        
1928
 
    
Gershwin's orchestral work An American in Paris (with parts for four taxi-horns) has its first performance in New York       
1928
 
     
Mickey Mouse makes his first appearance in Walt Disney's short animated film Steamboat Willie        
1928
 
     
George Balanchine creates Apollo for Ballets Russes, to music by Igor Stravinksy