December 27 Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
December 27 is the 361st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. (362nd in a leap year). There are 4 days remaining.
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2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and Observances 5 Recorded this date |
Events
- The Abbey Theatre opens.
- 1919 - Beginning of Great Poland Uprising
- 1932 - Radio City Music Hall opens
- 1945 - The World Bank is created with the signing of an agreement by 28 nations.
- 1945 - Korea is divided
- 1947 - Howdy Doody, a children's television program, makes its debut (NBC).
- 1949 - Queen Juliana of the Netherlands grants Indonesia sovereignty.
- 1968 - The long-running radio program The Breakfast Club signs off for the last time (ABC radio).
- 1978 - Spain becomes a democracy after 40 years of dictatorship.
- 1979 - The Soviet Union seizes control of Afghanistan and Babrak Karmal replaces overthrown and executed President Hafizullah Amin.
- 1985 - Palestinian guerrillas kill twenty people inside Rome and Vienna airports.
- 1985 - American naturalist Dian Fossey is found murdered in Rwanda.
- 1996 - Taliban forces retake the strategic Bagram air base which solidifies their buffer zone around Kabul.
- 1997 - Protestant paramilitary leader Billy Wright is assassinated in Northern Ireland.
- 2001 - The People's Republic of China is granted permanent normal trade status with the United States.
- 2002 - Two truck bombs kill 72 and wound 200 at the pro-Moscow headquarters of the Chechen government in Grozny, Chechnya.
Births
- 1571 - Johannes Kepler, astronomer (d. 1630)
- 1654 - Jacob Bernoulli, switzerland mathematician (d. 1705)
- 1717 - Pope Pius VI (d. 1799)
- 1773 - George Cayley, naturalist, physical scientist, engineer, inventor, politician (d. 1857)
- 1822 - Louis Pasteur, French scientist d. 1895)
- 1851 - Percy Gilchrist, metallurgist (d. 1935)
- 1860 - David Hendricks Bergey, bacteriologist (d. 1937)
- 1879 - Sydney Greenstreet, actor (d. 1954)
- 1891 - Sir Mackenzie Bowell, fifth Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1896)
- 1888 - Thea von Harbou, author and actress (d. 1954)
- 1896 - Carl Zuckmayer, author and dramatist (d. 1977)
- 1896 - Louis Bromfield, writer (d. 1956)
- 1900 - Hans Stuck, automobile racer (d. 1978)
- 1901 - Marlene Dietrich, actress and singer (d. 1992)
- 1906 - Oscar Levant, composer, actor (d. 1972)
- 1907 - Sebastian Haffner, publicist (d. 1999)
- 1915 - Louis Masters, sexologist (d. 2001)
- 1925 - Michel Piccolo, actor
- 1927 - Agnes Nixon, soap opera producer, director, writer
- 1934 - Larisa Latynina, Soviet gymnast
- 1939 - John Amos, actor
- 1943 - Cokie Roberts, journalist
- 1948 - Gérard Depardieu, French actor
- 1960 - Maryam d'Abo, actress (The Living Daylights)
- 1965 - Salman Khan, actor, India
- 1973 - Wilson Cruz, actor, My So-Called Life
Deaths
- 1836 - Stephen F. Austin, American pioneer (b. 1793)
- 1896 - John Brown, manufacturer
- 1900 - William George Armstrong, inventor, industrialist and engineer (b. 1810)
- 1914 - Charles Martin Hall, chemist, inventor
- 1938 - Calvin Bridges, geneticist (b. 1889)
- 1950 - Max Beckmann, painter (b. 1884)
- 1953 - Julian Tuwim, Polish poet (b. 1894)
- 1968 - Victor Ernest Shelford, zoologist
- 1972 - Lester B. Pearson, fourteenth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1897)
- 1981 - Hoagy Carmichael, composer, singer (b. 1899)
- 1988 - Hal Ashby, film director (b. 1929)
- 1997 - Billy Wright, Protestant paramilitary leader (b. 1960)
- 2002 - George Roy Hill, film director (b. 1922)
- 2002 - Carla Henius, singer
- 2003 - Alan Bates, British actor (b. 1934)
- 2003 - Ivan Calderon, baseball player (b. 1962)
Holidays and Observances
- The third day of Christmas in Western Christianity.
- Feast of the Holy Innocents, Eastern Orthodox.
Recorded this date
- 1911 "Love Is Mine" (w. Edward Teschemacher m. Clarence G. Gartner)
- Enrico Caruso
- 1917 "'N' Everything" (w.m. Al Jolson, B. G. De Sylva & Gus Kahn)
- Al Jolson
- 1917 "There's A Lump Of Sugar Down In Dixie" (w. Alfred Bryan & Jack Yellen m. Albert Gumble)
- Al Jolson
- 1924 "I'll See You In My Dreams" (w. Gus Kahn m. Isham Jones)
- Irving Kaufman with Ben Bernie & his Orchestra
- 1928 "I Faw Down And Go Boom!" (w.m. James Brockman, Leonard Stevens & B.B.B. Donaldson)
- Bob Borger, Bob Rice, Erwin McGee & Jack Gifford with George Olsen & his Music
- 1928 "Futuristic Rhythm" (w. Dorothy Fields m. Jimmy McHugh)
- Mildred Roselle with Mills' Musical Clowns
- 1932 "Hold Me" (w.m. Jack Little, Dave Oppenheim & Ira Schuster)
- Paul Small with Ben Selvin & his Orchestra
- 1932 "New Orleans" (w.m. Hoagy Carmichael)
- Clarence Hutchinrider with Casa Loma Orchestra
- 1935 "Moon Over Miami" (w. Edgar Leslie m. Joe Burke)
- Dick Robertson
- 1939 "Are You Havin' Any Fun?" (w. Jack Yellen m. Sammy Fain)
- Flanagan & Allen; with O/Ronnie Munro
- 1939 "On The Outside Always Lookin' In" (w.m. Michael Carr)
- Flanagan & Allen
- 1939 "Busy As A Bee" (w.m. Carl Sigman, Bob Russell & Joseph Meyer)
- Helen Forrest with Benny Goodman & his Orchestra
- 1944 "You Was Right Baby" (w.m. Dave Barbour & Peggy Lee)
- Peggy Lee with O/Dave Barbour
- 1944 "What More Can A Woman Do?" (w.m. Dave Barbour & Peggy Lee)
- Peggy Lee with O/Dave Barbour
- 1945 "You Sang My Love Song to Somebody Else" (w.m. Allan Roberts & Doris Fisher)
- Bing Crosby & The Jesters with Bob Haggart & his Orchestra
- 1945 "Sioux City Sue" (w. Ray Freedman m. Dick Thomas)
- Bing Crosby w. Jesters with O/Bob Haggart
- 1947 "Fine Brown Frame" (w.m. Guadalupe Cartiero & J. Mayo Williams)
- Nellie Lutcher & her Rhythm
- 1947 "A Little Imagination" (w.m. Inez James & Sidney Miller)
- Ray Noble & his Orchestra
- 1947 "Ev'ry Day I Love You" (w. Sammy Cahn m. Jule Styne)
- Dick Haymes with O/Vic Schoen
- 1947 "Busy Doing Nothing" (w. Johnny Burke m. James Van Heusen)
- Bing Crosby, William Bendix & Sir Cedric Hardwicke with O/Victor Young
- 1947 "Once And For Always" (w. Johnny Burke m. James Van Heusen)
- Bing Crosby & Ken Darby Choir with O/Victor Young
- 1947 "All Of A Sudden My Heart Sings" (w. (Eng) Harold Rome (Fr) Jean Marie Blanvillain m. Henri Herpin)
- Kathryn Grayson with O/Georgie Stoll
- 1947 "Waltz Serenade" (Earl Brent, Peter Tchaikovsky)
- Kathryn Grayson with O/Georgie Stoll
- 1947 "Four Brothers" (m. Jimmy Giuffre)
- Woody Herman & his Orchestra
- 1947 "Put 'Em In A Box, Tie 'Em With A Ribbon, And Throw 'Em In The Deep Blue Sea" (w. Sammy Cahn m. Jule Styne)
- Frankie Laine with O/Harry Geller
- 1947 "Alexander's Ragtime Band" (w.m. Irving Berlin)
- Andrews Sisters
- 1947 "A Little Imagination(1)" (w.m. Inez James & Sidney Miller)
- Dick Haymes with O/Vic Schoen
- 1947 "The Maharajah Of Magador" (w.m. Lewis Harris & John Jacob Loeb)
- Ziggy Talent with Vaughn Monroe & his Orchestra
- 1947 "It's Magic" (w. Sammy Cahn m. Jule Styne)
- Sarah Vaughan with O/Richard Maltby
- 1948 "No Orchids For My Lady" (w.m. Jack Strachey & Alan Stranks)
- Tony Martin w. Jud Conlon Singers with O/Earle Hagen
- 1948 "So In Love" (w.m. Cole Porter)
- Dinah Shore with O/Harry Zimmerman
- 1948 "Always True To You In My Fashion" (w.m. Cole Porter)
- Dinah Shore & Starlighters with O/Harry Zimmerman
- 1949 "I'll Remember April" (w. Don Raye & Patricia Johnston m. Gene De Paul)
- George Shearing Quintet
- 1953 "Something Cool" (w.m. Bill Barnes)
- June Christy with O/Pete Rugolo
- 1957 "Gigi" (w. Alan Jay Lerner m. Frederick Loewe)
- Bing Crosby with O/Pete King
- 1960 "One Mint Julep" (w.m. Rudolph Toombs)
- Ray Charles
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