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July 16, 1927

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Smith Beats Maitland's Time to Hawaii 14 Minutes; First Civilian Flier to Make the 2,400-Mile Hop

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GENEVA REATTACKS NAVY LIMIT PROBLEM; British and Japanese Experts, Acting on Gibson Suggestion, Grapple With Cruiser Issue. OPTIMISM BLOSSOMS ANEW Following Futile Open Session, Delegates Renew Resolution to Evolve Limitation Treaty GENEVA REATTACKS NAVY LIMIT PROBLEM

By Wythe Williams, Copyright, 1927, By the New York Times Companyby Wireless To the New York Times.by Wythe Williams

Delegates renew efforts to reach accord on cruiser issue; Viscount Saito confers with Gibson and Bridgeman

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RED RIOTS BATHE VIENNA IN BLOODSHED; 40 TO 100 ARE KILLED AND 500 WOUNDED; SOVIET REPUBLIC THE AIM OF COMMUNISTS; REVOLT SPREADS IN NATION Foreigners Flee or Seek Refuge as Battles Rage in Streets. GENERAL STRIKE IS CALLED Communication Is Broken and Border Towns Hear Reds Have Full Control. ENVOYS URGE FOREIGN AID Seipel Rejects Hungarian and Italian Offer, and Calls Army to Capital.

By Navarre Atkinson, New York Times Correspondent In Vienna, Who Has Crossed the Border Into Czechoslovakia To Send Out the News.copyright, 1927 By the New York Times Company.special Cable To the New York Times

Palace of Justice and other public bldgs stormed and set afire

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Says O'Higgins Died for Ireland.; SUSPECT PLOT HERE IN O'HIGGINS MURDER

By the Associated Press

D N Malloy, Pres of Amer Assn for the Recognition of the Irish Repub, denies implication that Repub Party was involved in assassination of K O'Higgins

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Angry Passenger Causes Collision on B.M.T.; Twenty-nine Persons Hurt

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B M T trains collide when angry passenger pulls emergency cord; 29 hurt

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Notable Births

1927Pierre F. Côté, Canadian lawyer and civil servant (died 2013)^[†]

Pierre-Ferdinand Côté, was a Canadian civil servant and lawyer. Côté served as the first Chief Electoral Officer of Quebec from 1978 until 1997. The Chief Electoral Officer is the official responsible for the administration of the electoral and referendum system in the province of Quebec.

1927Shirley Hughes, English author and illustrator (died 2022)^[†]

Winifred Shirley Hughes was an English author and illustrator. She wrote more than fifty books, which have sold more than 11.5 million copies, and illustrated more than two hundred.

1927Derek Hawksworth, English footballer (died 2021)^[†]

Derek Marshall Hawksworth was a footballer who played in the position of winger for Sheffield United.

Historical Events

1927Augusto César Sandino leads a raid on U.S. Marines and Nicaraguan Guardia Nacional that had been sent to apprehend him in the village of Ocotal, but is repulsed by one of the first dive-bombing attacks in history.^[†]

Ocotal is the capital of the Nueva Segovia Department in Nicaragua, Central America and the municipal seat of Ocotal Municipality.