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July 1, 1927

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Creek in South Dakota Is Named for Mrs. Coolidge

By Unknown Author

S D Legis names Grace Coolidge Creek for her

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Airplane Reported Smashed.

By the Associated Press

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BRITISH RECOGNITION OF OUR PARITY RIGHT BRINGS NAVY ACCORD; In Atmosphere of Harmony at Geneva Experts Agree to Limit Destroyers to 1,500 Tons.

By Wythe Williams

British recognition of U S right to parity brings accord on destroyers; Amer delegate, H S Gibson, may agree to unofficial discussion of capital ships; statement by W C Bridgeman, British delegate, to Associated Press; reactions in Wash; Sec Kellogg confers with Adm Eberle, Sec Wilbur and Capt. W Baggaley

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Commander Byrd's Own Story Tomorrow, in The Times Only

By Unknown Author

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The Long Hours of Doubt and Waiting.

By Copyright, 1927, by the New York Times Company

PARIS, Friday, July 1, 6:30 A.M. -- For nearly six hours Commander Byrd and his three companions and machine have been lost in a rainstorm somewhere near Paris. After they had not been heard from for two hours a new S O S was heard at Le Bourget Airfield at 3 o'clock [10 P.M. New York time] saying the airmen were lost in the rain and fog.

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Notable Births

1927Alan J. Charig, English paleontologist and author (died 1997)^[†]

Alan Jack Charig was an English palaeontologist and writer who popularised his subject on television and in books at the start of the wave of interest in dinosaurs in the 1970s.

1927Winfield Dunn, American politician, 43rd Governor of Tennessee (died 2024)^[†]

Bryant Winfield Culberson Dunn was an American businessman and politician who served as the 43rd governor of Tennessee from 1971 to 1975. He was the state's first Republican governor in fifty years. Dunn was an unsuccessful candidate for a second term in 1986, losing to Democrat Ned McWherter. He remained active in the Republican Party and the medical field from the end of his term as governor until his death.

1927Joseph Martin Sartoris, American bishop (died 2025)^[†]

Joseph Martin Sartoris was an American Catholic prelate who served as an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles in California from 1994 to 2002.

1927Chandra Shekhar, 8th Prime Minister of India (died 2007)^[†]

Chandra Shekhar, also known as Jananayak, was an Indian politician and the prime minister of India, between 10 November 1990 and 21 June 1991. He headed a minority government of a breakaway faction of the Janata Dal with outside support from the Indian National Congress. He was the first Indian Prime Minister who had never held any prior government office.