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April 7, 1927

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RAID ON SOVIET OFFICES NETS 72 PEKING AGITATORS; MOSCOW TALKS OF BREAK; SOLDIERS ENTER COMPOUND Seize Red Propaganda and Flags, but Avoid Embassy Proper. SEARCH GOES ON ALL DAY Diplomatic Corps Permitted Act Which Soviet Alleges Violates Immunity. TWO AMERICANS DETAINED Woman and Man Are Taken in Hotel for Writings Displeasing to Chang Tso-lin.

By Copyright, 1927, by the New York Times Company.by Wireless To the New York Times

Lodges protest with Chinese Foreign Office against raid on Soviet offices in Embassy compound at Peking

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PINEDO PLANE BURNS ON ROOSEVELT LAKE; WILL GET ANOTHER; Arizona Boy Drops a Lighted Match on Oil and Craft Is Quickly Destroyed. OUR ARMY OFFERS MACHINE But Italian Aviator Plans to Resume Flight in Plane Coming From Rome. CALM OVER THE DISASTER Commander Is Determined to Go Ahead With His Historic Air Voyage. COMMANDER DE PINEDO AND HIS PLANE, WHICH WAS BURNED. PINEDO PLANE BURNS ON ROOSEVELT LAKE

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Pinedo, F de, plane Santa Maria, in which he made transatlantic flight, burned as boy throws lighted match on oil-coated surface of Roosevelt Dam

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Notable Births

Babatunde Olatunji

1927Babatunde Olatunji, Nigerian-American drummer, educator, and activist (died 2003)[†]

Michael Babatunde Olatunji was a Nigerian drummer, educator, social activist, and recording artist.

1927Leonid Shcherbakov, Russian triple jumper (died 2004)[†]

Leonid Mikhailovich Shcherbakov (Russian: Леонид Михайлович Щербаков, was a Russian retired triple jumper who won a silver medal at the 1952 Olympics. He broke the world record in 1953 and won the European title in 1950 and 1954. Domestically he won eight consecutive Soviet titles in 1949–56.

Historical Events

AT&T Corporation

1927AT&T engineer Herbert Ives transmits the first long-distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).[†]

AT&T Corporation, an abbreviation for its former name, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, was an American telecommunications company that provided voice, video, data, and Internet telecommunications and professional services to businesses, consumers, and government agencies.