May 21, 1927 — Charles Lindbergh completes the first solo non-stop trans-Atlantic flight
In the 1920’s, aviators were heroes. They were bold explorers and experimenters, pushing back the boundaries of the known. And...
July 14, 2019
1927
July 16, 1927 — Henry Ford publicly apologises for his anti-Semitism
Henry Ford, famously the founder of the Ford Motor Company, was also something of an anti-Semite. The kind of something...
July 9, 2019
November 29, 1927 — Alexander Alekhine becomes World Chess Champion
Alekhine had been a grandmaster since 1914 or thereabouts (the title is not a formal one), and he was on...
July 7, 2019
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