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House of Delegates of Amer Medical Assn adopts resolution to reconsider medical use
Britain breaks relations with Hankow govt, recalling B Newton, repr at Hankow, because Minister Chen shirked responsibility for Nanking incident
Prisoners strike as protest against underdone beans
Civil War
1927Richard Body, English politician (died 2018)[†]
Sir Richard Bernard Frank Stewart Body was an English politician. He was Conservative Member of Parliament for Billericay from 1955 to 1959, for Holland with Boston from 1966 to 1997, and for Boston and Skegness from 1997 until he stood down at the 2001 general election. He was a long-standing member of the Conservative Monday Club, and came second in its 1972 election for chairman. A prominent eurosceptic, Body also served as president of the Anti-Common Market League.
1927Ray Nagel, American football player and coach (died 2015)[†]
Raymond Robert Nagel was an American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He was the head football coach at the University of Utah from 1958 to 1965 and the University of Iowa from 1966 to 1970, compiling a career college football coaching record of 58–71–3 (.455). After coaching, Nagel was the athletic director at Washington State University from 1971 to 1976 and the University of Hawaii at Manoa from 1976 to 1983. From 1990 to 1995, he was the executive director of the Hula Bowl, a college football invitational all-star game in Hawaii.
1927The Bath School disaster: Forty-five people, including many children, are killed by bombs planted by a disgruntled school-board member in Bath Township, Michigan.[†]
The Bath School disaster, also known as the Bath School massacre, was a series of violent attacks perpetrated by Andrew Kehoe upon the Bath Consolidated School in Bath Township, Michigan, United States, on May 18, 1927. The attacks killed 38 children and 6 adults and injured at least 58 other people. Prior to the explosions at the school, Kehoe had murdered his wife, Nellie Price Kehoe, and set fires using timed devices at his farm. Arriving at the site of the school explosion, Kehoe died when he set off explosives concealed in his truck.
1927After being founded for 20 years, the Nationalist government approves Tongji University to be among the first national universities of the Republic of China.[†]
The Nationalist government, Nationalist regime and Nationalist China, officially the National Government of the Republic of China, refer to the government of the Republic of China from 1 July 1925 to 20 May 1948, led by the nationalist Kuomintang (KMT) party.