Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades: 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s - 1930s - 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s
Years: 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 - 1932 - 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937
Events
- January 3 - British arrest Mohandas Gandhi and Vallabhai Patel[?] and intern[?] them
- January 8 - In Britain archbishop of Canterbury forbids church remarriage of divorcees
- January 12 - Hattie W. Caraway[?] becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate.
- January 15 - Pierre Laval[?] forms a new government in France
- January 15 - About 6 million unemployed in Germany
- January 26 - British submarine M-2 sinks with all 50 hands
- January 28 - Japan occupies Shanghai
- January 29 - Minority government of Karl Mureschi[?] in Austria ends the governmental crisis
- January 31 - Japanese warships arrive in Nanking
- February 2 - General convention of disarmament begins in Geneve[?]
- February 2 - League of Nations again recommends negotiations between China and Japan
- February 4 - Japan occupies Harbin, China
- February 11 - Pope Piux XI[?] meets Benito Mussolini in Vatican
- February 18 - Japan declares Manzhouguo (Japanese name for Manchuria) formally independent from China
- February 27 - Adolf Hitler gains the citizenship of Germany prior to elections
- February 27 - Mäntsälä rebellion[?] in Finland
- March 1 - Charles Lindbergh's baby boy is kidnapped
- March 18 - Peace negotiations between China and Japan begin
- March 19 - Sydney Harbour Bridge opens
- March 20 - Graf Zeppelin[?] begins a regular route to South America
- April 6 - US president Herbert Hoover supports armament limitations
- April 19 - Eamon de Valera elected as the prime minister of Irish Free State
- April 10 - Marshall Hindenburg elected president of Germany. Adolf Hitler receives over 13 million votes.
- April 17 - Haile Selassie announces an anti-slavery law in Abessinia[?]
- May 6 - Paul Gordulof[?] assassinates French president Paul Doumer in Paris - Doumer dies the next day.
- May 10 - Albert Lebrun becomes the new president of France
- May 12 - Ten weeks after his abduction, the infant son of Charles Lindbergh is found dead in Hopewell, New Jersey just a few miles from the Lindbergh's home.
- May 15 - Japanese troops leave Shanghai
- May 16 - Massive riots between hindus and muslims in Bombay - thousands dead and injured.
- May 18 - Assassination of Japanese prime minister Tsuyoshi Inukai
- May 20-21 - Amelia Earhart flies from USA to Londonderry, Northern Ireland in 14 hours 54 minutes
- May 30 - German chancellor Heinrich Brüning resigns. President Hindenburg takes Franz Von Papen[?] to form a new government.
- June - 15,000 World War I veterans march in Washington, DC
- June 4 - Military coup in Chile
- June 14 - Bans against SS and SA overturned in Germany
- June 20 - Benelux customs union negotiated
- June 24 - after a relatively bloodless military rebellion, Siam becomes a constitutional monarchy
- July 5 - António de Oliveira Salazar becomes the fascists prime minister of Portugal (for the next 36 years)
- July 7 - French submarine Sromethee sinks off Cherbourg - 66 dead
- July 17 - Bloody Sunday of Altona in Germany - armed communists attack a national socialist[?] demonstration - 18 dead. Many other political street fights follow.
- August 6 - first Venice Film Festival
- August 18 - Auguste Piccard reaches altitude of 16.500 meters with an air balloon
- August 30 - Herman Göring[?] elected as a chairman of German senate
- September 9 - The Generalitat reinstaurated, Catalonia regains political autonomy inside the 2nd Spanish Republic from September 25
- September 20 - Mohandas Gandhi begins an hunger strike in Poona[?] prison
- September 28 - According to Prussian statistics, 115 people have been killed in political riots during the year
- October 19 - Wedding of the Swedish prince Gustaf Adolf[?] and the princess Sibylla of Sachse-Coburg[?]
- November 1 - San Francisco Opera House[?] opened
- November 8 - Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats Herbert Hoover in the U.S. presidential election
- November 9 - Riots between conservative and socialist supporters in Switzerland - 12 dead, 60 injured
- November 11 - Tornado and huge waves kills about thousand in Santa Crus del Sure[?] in Cuba
- November 19 - Second wife of Josef Stalin is found death in her home
- November 21 - German president Hindenburg begins negotiations with Adolf Hitler about the formation of a new government
- December 3 - Hindenburg names Kurt von Schleicher[?] as a German chancellor
- December 12 - Japan and Soviet Union reform their diplomatic connections
- December 25 - Earthquake in Kansu province in China - 70,000 dead
Sport, Art, Culture & Fashion
Births
- January 3 - Dabney Coleman[?], actor
- January 4 - Carlos Saura[?], director
- January 5 - Umberto Eco, Italian semiotic scholar and author
- January 5 - Umberto Eco, author
- January 5 - Raisa Gorbachev, Soviet political consort, (+ 1999)
- January 16 - Dian Fossey, zoologist (+ 1985)
- January 18 - Robert Anton Wilson, US author
- January 22 - Piper Laurie, actress
- February 3 - Peggy Ann Garner[?], actress (+ 1984)
- February 6 - François Truffaut, French film director (+ 1984)
- February 7 - Gay Talese[?], author
- February 8 - John Williams, composer, conductor
- February 9 - Gerhard Richter[?], painter and graphic artist
- February 11 - Jerome Lowenthal[?], pianist/professor
- February 14 - Alexander Kluge[?], actor and film director
- February 18 - Milos Forman, film director
- February 22 - Edward Kennedy, US politician and brother of John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy
- February 24 - Michel Legrand, composer
- February 25 - Faron Young[?] country music singer (+ 1996)
- February 26 - Johnny Cash, US country music singer
- February 27 - Elizabeth Taylor, US actress
- March 4 - Miriam Makeba[?], singer
- March 12 - Andrew Young, civil rights activist, politician, ambassador to the United Nations
- March 18 - John Updike, US author
- April 1 - Debbie Reynolds, actress
- April 4 - Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian movie director (+ 1986)
- April 4 - Anthony Perkins, US actor (+ 1992)
- April 12 - Tiny Tim, musician
- April 25 - Meadlowlark Lemon[?], basketball star, member of the Harlem Globetrotters
- April 27 - Gian-Carlo Rota, Italian-born American mathematician and philosopher
- May 8 - Sonny Liston, boxer (+ 1970)
- May 8 - Pyllida Law[?], actress
- May 21 - Gabriele Wohmann[?], author
- May 25 - Jeanne Crain, actress
- June 25 - Peter Blake, artist
- July 2 - Dave Thomas - founder of Wendy's International[?]
- July 9 - Donald Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defence (2001-present)
- August 2 - Peter O'Toole, Irish film and stage actor
- August 6 - Howard Hodgkin, painter and print-maker
- August 17 - V. S. Naipaul, writer
- August 18 - William R. Bennett, Premier of British Columbia
- September 18 - Nikolai Rukavishnikov, Soviet cosmonaut
- September 25 - Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist
- September 27 - Oliver E. Williamson , US economist
- November 29 - Jacques Chirac, president of France
- December 28 - Roy Hattersley, British politician
- December 28 - Dorsey Burnette, Rockabilly pioneer (+ 1979)
Deaths
- March 6 - John Philip Sousa, US band leader, conductor, composer
- March 7 - Aristide Briand, diplomat, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (1928)
- March 14 - George Eastman, camera inventor
- April 3 - Wilhelm Ostwald, chemist
- April 20 - Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician
- May 3 - Charles Fort, US researcher of the unusual
- May 7 - Paul Doumer, French president (assassinated)
- May 18 - Tsuyoshi Inukai, Japanese prime minister (assassinated)
Science
Nobel Prizes