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April 20, 1927

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HANKOW REDS DECLARE WAR ON CHIANG AND HIS REGIME; ORDER ATTACK ON NANKING; FENG NEW RED COMMANDER But 'Christian General' Is Cut Off From Hankow by Northerners. CHIANG OUTLINES PROGRAM Promises to Restore Principles of Sun Yat-sen, to Oust Reds and Attack Peking. BUT TALK OF DEAL PERSISTS Shanghai Hears He and Northern War Lords Have Agreed -- Fighting Near Pukow.

By Frederick Moore.copyright, 1927, By the New York Times Company.special Cable To the New York Times

"Christian Gen," Feng Yu-hsien, nominated in his place

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Notable Births

1927Bud Cullen, Canadian judge and politician, 1st Canadian Minister of Employment and Immigration (died 2005)[†]

Jack Sydney George "Bud" Cullen, was a Canadian Federal Court judge and politician.

Phil Hill

1927Phil Hill, American race car driver (died 2008)[†]

Philip Toll Hill Jr. was an American racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1958 to 1966. Hill won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1961 with Ferrari, and won three Grands Prix across eight seasons. In endurance racing, Hill was a three-time winner of both the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the 12 Hours of Sebring, all with Ferrari. Upon winning the 24 Hours of Daytona in 1964 with NART, Hill became the first driver to complete the Triple Crown of endurance racing.

K. Alex Müller

1927K. Alex Müller, Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2023)[†]

Karl Alexander Müller was a Swiss physicist and Nobel laureate. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1987 with Georg Bednorz for their work in superconductivity in ceramic materials.

Notable Deaths

Enrique Simonet

1927Enrique Simonet, Spanish painter and educator (born 1866)[†]

Enrique Simonet Lombardo was a Spanish painter.