Gisèle MacKenzie was a Canadian-American singer, actress, and commercial spokesperson, best known for her performances on the US television program Your Hit Parade.

1927Johnnie Ray, American singer-songwriter and pianist (died 1990)^[†]

John Alvin Ray was an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Highly popular for most of the 1950s, Ray has been cited by critics as a major precursor to what became rock and roll, for his jazz and blues-influenced music, and his animated stage personality. Tony Bennett called Ray the "father of rock and roll", and historians have noted him as a pioneering figure in the development of the genre.

1927Otto Stich, Swiss lawyer and politician, 140th President of the Swiss Confederation (died 2012)^[†]

Otto Anton Stich was a Swiss professor and politician. He served as a member of the Swiss Federal Council from 1984 to 1995 and held the Swiss presidency in 1988 and 1994.

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1927Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany.^[†]

Friedrich Christian Anton Lang, better known as Fritz Lang, was an Austrian film director, screenwriter, and producer who worked in Germany and later the United States. One of the best-known émigrés from Germany's school of Expressionism, he was dubbed the "Master of Darkness" by the British Film Institute. He has been cited as one of the most influential filmmakers of all time.

Headlines from January 10, 1927

Theatre Owner Is Held With Four Employes

ONE KILLED, 22 HURT AS LIMITEDS CRASH; Boston-Bound Section of 20th Century Plunges Into Stalled New York Train IN A FOG NEAR SYRACUSE Engineer, Disregarding Signals, Dies at His Post -- Passengers Escape Serious Injury. ONE KILLED, 22 HURT AS LIMITEDS CRASH

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Radio Telephone Links Canada and England; Marconi Beam System Transmits a Sermon

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