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The following events occurred inJuly 1927:
Friday, July 1, 1927
[edit]- The first coast-to-coast radio network hookup in Canada was made for the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Dominion.[1]
- The airplaneAmerica,along with CommanderRichard E. Byrdand its crew,Bert Acosta,George O. Novilleand Bert Balchen, crashed into the sea as they attempted to duplicate Charles Lindbergh's flight from New York to Paris. Fortunately, the aviators were within 200 meters of the beach atVer-sur-Merwhen their plane ran out of fuel at 5:45 am, and they survived the ordeal.[2]
- Born:Chandra Shekhar Singh,Prime Minister of India1990–1991, inIbrahimpatti,United Provinces of British India(d. 2007)
Saturday, July 2, 1927
[edit]- Jane Eads, reporter for theChicagoHerald and Examinerbecame the firstairlinepassenger, completing a flight from Chicago to San Francisco, on aBoeing Air TransportModel 40 that was used to transport mail.[3]The airline would later becomeUnited Airlines.
- Henri Cochetwon the Wimbledon finals over fellow FrenchmanJean Borotraafter losing the first two sets, 4–6 and 4–6, then won the next two 6–3, 6–4, and took the match 7–5. The day before, Cochet had made the finals by defeatingBill Tildenin the same come from behind fashion, losing the first 2 sets and winning the other three.Helen Willsbecame the first American player in 20 years to win the women's singles, beating Spanish championLili de Alvarezin straight sets, 6–2, 6–4.[4]
- Lord Norman,Governor of theBank of EnglandandHjalmar Schachtof the GermanReichsbankmet at Long Island with U.S. Undersecretary of the TreasuryOgden L. Millsto make plans to boost the American and world economies.[5]
- Niels Bohrbegan working on his description of space-time in quantum and wave mechanics[6]
- The Western filmThe Last OutlawstarringGary Cooperwas released.
Sunday, July 3, 1927
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- Satchel Paigemade his pro baseball debut in theNegro leagues,pitching for theBirmingham Black Baronsin a game at Detroit. After twenty-one years, Paige would, at 42, become the oldest rookie inMajor League Baseball,joining theCleveland Indiansin 1948 after the integration of baseball. At 59, he would make his final appearance, pitching for theKansas City A's.[7]
- Born:
- Ken Russell,British film director known forWomen in LoveandAltered States;inSouthampton,Hampshire(d. 2011)
- Salome Thorkelsdottir,Icelandic politician and the first woman (from 1991 to 1995) to have served as theSpeaker of the Housein that nation's parliament, theAlthing;inReykjavík(alive in 2024)
Monday, July 4, 1927
[edit]- Sukarno(born Kusno Sosrodihardjo) founded thePerserikatan Nasional Indonesia,seeking independence of theDutch East Indiescolony from the Netherlands. In 1945, he would become the firstPresident of Indonesia.[8]
- TheLockheed Vega,first airplane manufactured by theLockheed Corporation,made its inaugural flight, with Eddie Belande taking the plane up from Mines Field in Los Angeles.[9]
- Joseph Goebbelspublished the first issue of the Nazi newspaper,Der Angriff,which promoted Goebbels' views until its last issue in April 1945.[10]
- Born:
- Neil Simon,American playwright; in theBronx, New York(d. 2018)
- Gina Lollobrigida,Italian and American film actress; inSubiaco(d. 2023)
Tuesday, July 5, 1927
[edit]- TheVerein fur Raumschiffahrt(VfR, or Association for Space Travel) was founded at theGoldenes Zeptertavern inBreslau,Germany, (nowWroclaw,Poland) by various German rocket scientists includingHermann Oberth,Walter HohmannandJohannes Winkler,[11]
- Northwest Airlinesbegan passenger service when businessman Byron Webster bought a ticket to fly fromMinneapolistoChicago.The plane took more than 12 hours to complete its journey, after stops in the Wisconsin cities of LaCrosse, Madison and Milwaukee, and Webster arrived in Chicago the next morning at 2:30. Northwest would become one of the largest airlines in the United States, before being merged into Delta Air Lines in 2010.[12]
- The S.S.Presidente Saavedra,the only ship of theBolivian Naval Force,sank in the harbor outside of Buenos Aires, Argentina.[13]
- Inventor Stanley S. Jenkins applied for the patent for the process that he used to create thecorn dogand otherdeep-friedfoods that could be carried on a stick. Under the title "Combined Dipping, Cooking, and Article Holding Apparatus",[14]Jenkins wrote in his application that his invention was for "an apparatus in which a new and novel edible food product may be deep fried... consisting of an article of food impaled on a stick and coated with batter," and added that "I have discovered that articles of food such, for instance, as wieners, boiled ham, hard boiled eggs, cheese, sliced peaches, pineapples, bananas and like fruit, and cherries, dates, figs, strawberries, etc., when impaled on sticks and dipped in a batter... the resultant food product on a stick for a handle is a clean, wholesome and tasty refreshment." U.S. Patent No. 1,706,491 was granted on March 26, 1929.
- Born:Thomas J. Fleming,American historian and novelist; inJersey City, New Jersey(d. 2017)
- Died:Albrecht Kossel,73, German physician and 1910 Nobel Prize laureate for his determination of the chemical composition ofnucleic acids
Wednesday, July 6, 1927
[edit]- TheChurch of England's governing assembly voted 517–133 in favor of the proposed revision of theBook of Common Prayer.[15]
- The song "My Blue Heaven"was recorded for the first time, byPaul Whitemanand his Orchestra, and became one of the year's top-selling records.[16]
- Born:
- Janet Leigh(stage name for Jeanette Helen Morrison), American film actress known forPsychoandThe Fog;inMerced, California(d. 2004)
- Pat Paulsen,American comedian and perennial presidential candidate; inSouth Bend, Washington(d. 1997)
- Alan Freeman,Australian-born British disc jockey who was the long time host ofPick of the Pops;inMelbourne(d. 2006)
- Dolores Claman,Canadian composer who created the popular theme song for CBC'sHockey Night In Canada;inVancouver(d. 2021)
Thursday, July 7, 1927
[edit]- Portuguese neurosurgeonEgas Monizfirst presented his discovery ofcerebral angiographyarterial encephalography in a paper presented at the Societe de Neurologie in Paris. Moniz had discovered a safe method of detecting brain tumors by injecting contrast into the cervical carotid artery.[17]
- In his weekly magazine,The Dearborn Independent,auto manufacturerHenry Fordpublished an apology, widely reprinted, for his anti-Semitic views. The missive was part of a settlement of a libel lawsuit brought byAaron Sapiro.[18]
- Under pressure from the victorious Allies of World War I, Germany'sReichstagvoted 390–44 to pass a law prohibiting the import or export of war materials.[19]
- Born:
- Doc Severinsen(stage name for Carl Hilding Severinsen), American bandleader and jazz trumpeter who led the NBC Orchestra for Johnny Carson onThe Tonight Show;inArlington, Oregon
- Martin Ransohoff,American film and television producer who founded theFilmwaysproduction company; inNew Orleans(d. 2017)
- Died:Gösta Mittag-Leffler,81, Swedish mathematician known forMittag-Leffler's theorem
Friday, July 8, 1927
[edit]- Charles Lindberghinaugurated theTranscontinental Air Transportairline with the first passenger flight from New York to Los Angeles. The trip would take 48 hours.[20]
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- Ban Johnson,founder of theAmerican Leagueand its president since 1901, was forced to resign by the owners of the eight teams.[21]
- Died:Max Hoffmann,58, German general who led the attack on Russia in World War I
Saturday, July 9, 1927
[edit]- Torrential rains inGermanyswelled theElbe Riverand led to flash floods that killed hundreds inSaxony.In the village ofBerggießhübel,93 people drowned when a 7-foot-high wave swept through the town. At least 200 people were reported to have died.[22]
- TheFederal Trade Commissionoutlawed the practice of "block booking" by film distributors, issuing a cease and desist order toParamount Pictures.Until the FTC order, Paramount required cinemas to rent films as part of a block of movies, usually with the arrangement that a popular film had to be accepted along with several less attractive releases.[23]
- Born:
- Ed Ames(stage name for Edmund Dantes Urick), American singer for theAmes Brothersand white actor known for portraying American Indian characters, most notably on theDaniel Boonetelevision show; inMalden, Massachusetts(d 2023)
- Red Kelly(Leonard Patrick Kelly), Canadian NHL star andHockey Hall of Fameinductee (d. 2019)
- Died:
- John Drew, Jr.,73, American stage actor
- Gregory Kelly,36, American stage actor and husband of actressRuth Gordon,who outlived him by 58 years.
Sunday, July 10, 1927
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- Irish Vice-President and Minister of JusticeKevin O'Higginswas assassinated while walking to mid-day Mass atBlackrockinDublin.O'Higgins, described as "the Irish Mussolini" and "probably the most respected and at the same time the most hated man in Ireland", had given his bodyguard the day off. A car pulled up beside him and three gunmen jumped out and began firing. Reportedly, he was shot six times, but remained conscious for several hours after being taken back to his home.[24]In response to his murder, the Irish Dail passed legislation that effectively barred the Irish Republican Army from running candidates for office.[25]
- GeneralJosé Sanjurjodeclared the pacification ofSpanish Moroccoand the end of theMoroccan Warafter 18 years.[26]
- Born:David Dinkins,first African-Americanmayor of New York City(1990–1993); inTrenton, New Jersey(d. 2020)
Monday, July 11, 1927
[edit]- The very first7-Elevenconvenience store opened, on Edgefield and 12th Streets in Dallas, Texas, on 7/11/1927, with the new concept of staying open from 7:00 am to 11:00 pm.[27]
- Striking at 2:10 in the afternoon,an earthquakein Palestine (now Israel) killed more than 200 people. Though initial reports set a higher death toll,[28]a later report by the British Secretary of State for the Colonies put the death toll at 200 in Palestine and another eight in the neighboringTrans-Jordan(now Jordan).[29]Hardest hit wereNablus,RamallahandLydda.TheRiver Jordandried up, and remained that way for 21 hours.[30]
- More than a century after her death, a sealed box, owned byJoanna Southcottand said to contain her final prophecies, was opened at Westminster.[31]Inside the container was a pistol, a nightcap, some coins and other personal belongings, but nothing mysterious.[32]
- African-American singer and actressEthel Watersmade her Broadway debut, appearing in the productionAfricana.[33]
- Born:Theodore H. Maiman,American inventor and physicist who developed thelaser,patented in 1960; inLos Angeles(d. 2007)
Tuesday, July 12, 1927
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- Chen Duxiu,who had been the firstGeneral Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party,resigned from that position. In 1925, he had been succeeded as chairman byMao Zedong.[34]
- The convention to create the International Relief Union was adopted at theLeague of Nationsby the 43 states in attendance, and entered into force on December 27, 1932. Intended as a unified organization for disaster relief, the I.R.U. had only limited success in assisting theInternational Red Cross.[35]
- Born:Tom Benson,American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and owner of the NFL'sNew Orleans Saintsand the NBA 'sNew Orleans Pelicans;inNew Orleans(d. 2018)
Wednesday, July 13, 1927
[edit]- French Prime MinisterRaymond Poincaré,who was also the Finance Minister, received a vote of confidence in the Chamber of Deputies and an endorsement of his call to not add further spending to the budget. Informing the legislators that "Messieurs, the whole fate of French finances rests on your decision," Poincaré won his point by a margin of 347 to 200.[36]
- Born:Simone Veil,President of the European Parliament (1979–1982), former French Minister of Health, and survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp during the Holocaust; as Simone Annie Liline Jacob, inNice(d. 2017)
Thursday, July 14, 1927
[edit]- The government ofCzechoslovakiacreated the autonomousSlovak Province(Slovenska Krajina) in response to demands by theSlovak People's Party.[37]
- Born:
- Peggy Parish,American author who created theAmelia Bedeliaseries of books; inManning, South Carolina(d. 1988)
- John Chancellor,American news anchorman forNBC Nightly Newsfrom 1970 to 1982, and a commentator 1982 to 1993; inChicago(d. 1996).
Friday, July 15, 1927
[edit]- Eighty-four protesters were killed in Vienna,and the Austrian capital's Palace of Justice (Justizpalast) was burned down, in the aftermath of a riot that followed the acquittal of three accused murderers. Vienna Police Chief Johannes Schober had ordered his men to fire into the crowd to disperse the mob.[38][39]
- InGreece,the government issued decrees directed against theMacedonianminority ofSlavicdescent. The new rules banned use ofMacedonian languageand decreed that Cyrillic inscriptions were to be removed from churches.[40]
- Born:
- Ann Jellicoe,British playwright; inMiddlesbrough,Yorkshire(d. 2017)
- Carmen Zapata,American stage and film actress; inNew York City(d. 2014)
- Died:Countess Markievicz(Constance Gore-Booth), 69, Irish politician who, in 1918, had become the first woman to be elected to the United Kingdom's House of Commons. After Ireland's independence from the United Kingdom, she was theIrish Free State's firstMinister for Labour.
Saturday, July 16, 1927
[edit]- TheBattle of Ocotalbegan at 1:15 a.m., when several hundred Nicaraguan rebels, led byAugusto César Sandino,attacked a barracks atOcotal,occupied by 38 U.S. Marines and 47 Nicaraguan civil guards. USMC Captain Gilbert Hatfield and his men withstood three charges. At mid-morning, rescue came from MajorRoss E. Rowell,who had gotten word of the attack and led "the first dive-bombing campaign in history".[41]At battle's end, 300 rebels and one U.S. Marine had been killed.[42]
- CartoonistTheodor Geisel,23, was published for the first time under thepen nameinspired by his mother's maiden name, "Seuss", in the July 16, 1927,Saturday Evening Post,effectively beginning his career as illustrator and authorDr. Seuss.[43]
- Germany'sReichstagpassed comprehensiveunemployment insuranceandmaternity leavelaws, by a margin of 356–47.[44]
Sunday, July 17, 1927
[edit]- In furtherance of the Turkishnationalist movement,Turkeydirected the relocation of 1,400 members of theKurdishminority from their homes in the southeast, to the far west. This was followed by deportation of Armenian and Syriac people from the same area.[45]
Monday, July 18, 1927
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- Ty Cobbgot his 4,000th hit (and would finish with 4,191) playing for the Philadelphia A's at Detroit against his former team, the Tigers. As one commentator noted fifty years later, "the event went almost unnoticed".[46]On the same day, future Hall of FamerMel Otthit his first home run, aninside the parkhomer.[47]
- Born:Kurt Masur,East German conductor, who later conducted theLondon Philharmonic Orchestra;inBrieg,Prussia(now Brzeg, Poland) (d. 2015)
Tuesday, July 19, 1927
[edit]- Pan American Airwayswas awarded its first flight route, signing the contract to transport American mail betweenKey WestandHavana.Flights began on October 19, meeting the three-month deadline called for in the agreement.[48]"Pan Am" would grow to become one of the world's largest airlines before going bankrupt in 1991.
- Died:
- SheikhAmadou Bamba,74,SenegaleseMuslim religious leader and founder of the Murid Order
- Zhao Shiyan,26, Chinese Communist official, was executed after being captured by Nationalist forces.
Wednesday, July 20, 1927
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- KingFerdinand of Romania,who had reigned since 1914, died at 2:15 am at his palace inSinaiaafter a battle with cancer. At 6:00 pm, his 5-year-old grandson, was proclaimed as the new monarch,King Michael I.A regency council, headed byPrince Nicholas,was appointed to act on the boy king's behalf during his childhood.[49]
- TheFrench Olympic Committee,lacking funds, voted not to send a team to the1928 gamesscheduled for Amsterdam. French perfume magnateFrançois Cotywould come to the team's rescue by loaning one million francs to the committee.[50]
- Germany and Japan established closer ties by the signing of a trade treaty inTokyobetween the two nations, by AmbassadorWilhelm Solfand Japan's Prime Minister,Baron Tanaka.[51]
- Born:
- Leon C. Hirsch,American inventor of the Auto Suture surgical stapler, and founder of United States Surgical Corporation; inthe Bronx,New York City
- Barbara Bergmann,American economist; inthe Bronx,New York City(d. 2015)
- Lyudmila Alexeyeva,Soviet dissident and Russian human rights activist; inYevpatoria,Crimean ASSR,Soviet Union(d. 2018)
Thursday, July 21, 1927
[edit]- Before a crowd of 90,000 at New York's Yankee Stadium, former heavyweight bo xing championJack Dempsey,32, fought withJack Sharkeyto determine who would be the challenger in a September bout against championGene Tunney.Sharkey was winning after six rounds. As the 7th began, Dempsey struck two low body blows to Sharkey, who turned toward referee Jack O'Sullivan to complain of a foul. When Sharkey turned his head, Dempsey struck him in the jaw with a short left hook and knocked him out.[52]
- TheFord Motor Companytook steps toward the creation ofFordlândia,by spending $8,000,000 to buy 1,000,000 hectares (2,470,000 acres or 3,861 square miles) of land inBrazil'sParáState, in return for a 50-year tax exemption and full legal jurisdiction rights.[53]
- The day after his father's death, and the proclamation of his six-year-old son asKing of Romania,former Crown PrinceCarol,who had renounced his right of succession two years earlier, proclaimed from his villa near Paris that he planned to claim the throne.[54]
Friday, July 22, 1927
[edit]- The merger of three clubs (Roman FC, SS Alba-Audace and Fortitudo-Pro Roma SGS) created the Italian soccer football teamA.S. Roma,league champion in 1942, 1983 and 2001
Saturday, July 23, 1927
[edit]- The first regular radio broadcasts inIndiabegan as theIndian Broadcasting Companywent on the air inMumbai(Bombay). A second station began operation on August 26 inKolkata(Calcutta). The privately owned company was bought in 1930 by the publicly funded Indian Broadcasting Service, now All India Radio.[55]
- Born:Elliot See,American astronaut who was killed in a plane crash three months before he was scheduled to have commanded theGemini 9mission; inDallas(d. 1966)
- Died:Brigadier GeneralReginald Dyer,62, British officer whose troops fired into a crowd of protesters, killing hundreds of unarmed civilians during theJallianwala Bagh massacreof 1919; from a cerebral hemorrhage
Sunday, July 24, 1927
[edit]- TheMenin GateMemorial to the Missing was dedicated inYpres,Belgium, as a monument to nearly 90,000 soldiers of the British Empire who wentmissing in actionin the three Battles of Ypres inWorld War I.The names of 54,900 soldiers who were missing in action were engraved on the available space, and another 34,888 were inscribed at a memorial at the nearbyTyne Cotcemetery.The Last Postcontinues to be sounded each evening at 8:00 pm at the monument.[56]
- Died:
- Maurice E. Crumpacker,40, U.S. Representative for Oregon since 1925, killed himself by leaping intoSan Francisco Bay[57]
- Ryūnosuke Akutagawa,35, Japanese short story writer, killed himself with an overdose of barbiturates
Monday, July 25, 1927
[edit]- Centralized traffic control,now in use on railroads worldwide, was first implemented. The system for remote control of railroad signals from a central location was invented by Sedgwick N. Wight, and first used for a 40-mile stretch of theNew York Central RailroadbetweenWalbridgeandBerwick, Ohio.[58]
- July 25, 1927, is the date of the "Tanaka Memorial",purported to be a report by thePrime Minister of Japan,BaronTanaka Giichi,to theEmperor Hirohito,summarizing a plan for world conquest that had been devised during a conference fromJune 27to July 7. "The document," notes one observer, "has never been found and is generally assumed to have been a Chinese forgery, if it ever existed."[59]
Tuesday, July 26, 1927
[edit]- The Central Executive Committee of theKuomintang,China's ruling Nationalist Party, passed a resolution expelling Communists from its membership and calling for the outlawing of theChinese Communist Party.[60]
- The Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party met to plan what would become theNanchang uprising;present at the meeting was V. K. Bliuker, a Soviet representative forComintern,the Communist International organization, which was deciding whether to continue its support ofMao Zedongas the person to lead the spread of communism to China.[61]
- French Army GeneralGeorges Catrouxcalled a press conference to announce that theSyrian revoltby theJabal Druzeminority had been suppressed, and to deny rumors that France would give up on its responsibilities for theMandate for Syria and the Lebanon.[62]
- Born:Danny La Rue(stage name for Daniel Carroll), Irish-born British comedian and impressionist; inCork(d. 2009)
- Died:June Mathis,38, American film executive and screenwriter known forThe Four Horsemen of the ApocalypseandBlood and Sand,died of a heart attack while watching a Broadway play at the48th Street Theatre.[63]
Wednesday, July 27, 1927
[edit]- Soviet emissaryMikhail Borodinand 30 people left China'sWuhanprovince in five cars and five trucks to return to the Soviet Union in a two-month overland trip, after GeneralFeng Yuxiangwas bribed to guarantee him safe passage. The move came 12 days after Chinese Communists were expelled by Nationalist forces. Borodin had had a bounty of US$29,000 for his capture, and had hidden in the home of Nationalist official and future Chinese PremierT. V. Soong.[64]Borodin finally returned to Moscow on October 6.[65]
- U.S. PresidentCalvin Coolidgeand his wife,Grace Coolidge,narrowly escaped serious injury during a visit toCuster, South Dakota,after a panicked team of horses charged toward their open car, then veered away after coming within 20 feet. The horses panicked during a re-enactment ofCuster's Last Stand,and charged through the crowd and out of the amphitheatre where 10,000 had assembled. Miraculously, nobody was hurt in the incident.[66]
- Born:
- Yuri Denisyuk,Soviet Russian physicist who helped develop the science ofholography,inSochi,Russian SFSR(d. 2006)
- Dawid Rubinowicz,Polish victim of the Holocaust whose diaries were published, in 1960, nearly 18 years after he was murdered at theTreblinka extermination camp;inKielce.(d. 1942)
Thursday, July 28, 1927
[edit]- Twenty-seven people, 16 of them children, died when the excursion boatThe Favorite,capsized inLake Michigan,one-half mile after departingLincoln Park.[67]
- Born:John Ashbery,American poet; inRochester, New York(d. 2017). In 1976, he won the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Award and the Pulitzer Prize for his published poetry inPortrait in a Convex Mirror.
Friday, July 29, 1927
[edit]- The Metropolitan Sergei Stragorodsky,Patriarch of theRussian Orthodox Churchsince 1925, issued the "Civil Fatherland Declaration", declaring that the clergy should swear allegiance to the Soviet government.[68]
- TheTrade Disputes and Trade Unions Act 1927came into effect in theUnited Kingdom.The law put criminal penalties onsecondary action(including "sympathy strikes" ).[69]
- TheState Bar of California,the largest state professional association of lawyers in the United States, was legally established to set standards for licensing and discipline among attorney, after the State Bar Act went into effect.
- Born:
- Harry Mulisch,Dutch novelist known forThe Assault(De aanslag); inHaarlem(d. 2010)
- Horace Ward,African-American federal judge who, as a student, filed suit to challenge the segregation of the University of Georgia; inLaGrange, Georgia(d. 2016).
Saturday, July 30, 1927
[edit]- The last flight of theU.S. Air Mail Servicetook place, a year after the agency had begun phasing out in favor of the Postmaster General contracting with independent carriers. The AMS had delivered mail since May 15, 1918.[70]
- Two future Kings arrived in Quebec, along with British Prime Minister,Stanley Baldwin,to honorCanada'sDiamond Jubilee.First and second in line for the throne were thePrince of Wales,who would become King Edward VIII, and theDuke of York,who would be King George VI. The party arrived at Quebec at 9:40 am on the linerRMSEmpress of Australiato begin a month-long tour of the Dominion.[71]
- Born:Victor Wong,Chinese-American character actor best known as the wise Grandpa in the3 Ninjasfilm series; inSan Francisco(d. 2001)
Sunday, July 31, 1927
[edit]- The Madison suburb ofShorewood Hills, Wisconsin,was incorporated from a merger of Shorewood and College Hills.[72]
- Died:
- SirHarry Johnston,69, British explorer of Africa during the 19th century
- Walter Travis,65, Australian-born golfer who won the U.S. Amateur championship in 1900, 1901 and 1903 in the pre-professional era.
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- ^"BYRD CRASHES; SAFE!",Milwaukee Sentinel,July 1, 1927, p1; "How They Beat That Night of Terror – By Fearless Bert Acosta",Milwaukee Sentinel,July 2, 1927, p. 1
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- ^"Whole Bolivia Navy Sunk! It's One Ship",Milwaukee Sentinel,July 6, 1927, p. 1
- ^U.S. Patent No. 1,706,491
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