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Eliminated as Chmn of Bd of Directors of Continental Baking Corp
S on subway construction at opening of Times Sq Station of Queensboro extension
Census takers discover village of 152 inhabitants ignorant of outside world
Dist Attys Banton and Dodd advocate legislative measure giving License Comr power to revoke theatre licenses and Dist Atty power to padlock after conviction is obtained; Republicans consider plan as substitute for Jenks bill
1927Christian Marquand, French actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2000)[†]
Christian Henri Marquand was a French actor.
1927Carl Smith, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2010)[†]
Carl Milton Smith was an American country singer. Known as "Mister Country", he was one of the genre's most successful male artists during the 1950s, scoring 30 top-10 Billboard hits. Smith's success continued well into the 1970s, when he had a charting single every year but one. In 1952, Smith married June Carter, with whom he had daughter Carlene; the couple divorced in 1956. His eldest daughter Carlene was also the stepdaughter of fellow late country singer Johnny Cash, who was subsequently married to his ex-wife June Carter. He later married Goldie Hill, and they had three children together. In 2003, he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. According to the Hollywood Walk of Fame website, he was a "drinking companion" to Johnny Cash, his daughter's stepfather.
1927Hector Rason, English-Australian politician, 7th Premier of Western Australia (born 1858)[†]
Sir Cornthwaite Hector William James Rason, better known as Hector Rason, was the seventh Premier of Western Australia.
1927The first Women's Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place on The Isis in Oxford.[†]
The Women's Boat Race is an annual rowing race between Cambridge University Boat Club and Oxford University Women's Boat Club. First rowed in 1927, the race has taken place annually since 1964. Since the 2015 race it has been rowed on the same day and course as the men's Boat Race on the River Thames in London, taking place around Easter, and since 2018 the name "The Boat Race" has been applied to the combined event. The race is rowed in eights and the cox can be of any gender.