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November 12, 1927

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Notable Births

1927František Šťastný, Czech motorcycle racer and sportscaster (died 2000)[†]

František Šťastný was a Czech Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.

Yutaka Taniyama

1927Yutaka Taniyama, Japanese mathematician and theorist (died 1958)[†]

Yutaka Taniyama was a Japanese mathematician known for the Taniyama–Shimura conjecture.

Historical Events

Leon Trotsky

1927Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin in undisputed control of the Soviet Union.[†]

Lev Davidovich Bronstein, better known as Leon Trotsky, was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician and political theorist. He was a key figure in the 1905 Revolution, October Revolution of 1917, Russian Civil War, and the establishment of the Soviet Union, from which he was exiled in 1929 before his assassination in 1940. Trotsky and Vladimir Lenin were widely considered the two most prominent figures in the Soviet state from 1917 until Lenin's death in 1924. Ideologically a Marxist and a Leninist, Trotsky's ideas inspired a school of Marxism known as Trotskyism.