Illustration by Gilbert Wilkinson of Miss Marple from the December 1927 issue of The Royal Magazine and the first-known image of the character ( See The Thirteen Problems # First publication of stories | The Thirteen Problems )

However, a similar resolution was defeated by thirty-three votes in the House of Commons on December 15, 1927 when the MPs William Joynson-Hicks and Rosslyn Mitchell " reached and inflamed all the latent Protestant prejudices in the House " and argued strongly against it on the grounds that the proposed book was " papistical " and was a restoration of the Roman Mass and implied the doctrine of Transubstantiation.

In a pairing of great political significance, Chiang was Sun's brother-in-law: he had married Soong May-ling, the younger sister of Soong Ching-ling, Sun's widow, on December 1, 1927.

At the 15th Party Congress ( 2 – 19 December 1927 ) the Left Opposition was crushed ; none of its members were elected to the Central Committee.

For the 1927 – 28 season, the Cougars moved into the new Detroit Olympia, which would be their home rink until December 27, 1979.

On December 23, 1927 Hawk's sister Grace died of tuberculosis after Hawk's mother refused to allow medical treatment because of her Christian Science beliefs.

The film was filmed from October to December 1927 and released in February 1928.

Jacques Mayol ( April 1, 1927 – December 22, 2001 ) was the holder of many world records in free diving.

As recounted in the short story " The Adventurous Exploit of the Cave of Ali Baba ", in December 1927 Wimsey faked his own death, supposedly while hunting big game in Tanganyika, in order to penetrate and break up a particularly dangerous and well-organised criminal gang.

Inspired by the Chicago Tunnel Company, it operated from 3 December 1927 until 31 May 2003.

After being sent on a lengthy tour of Europe starting 1927 – including London, Paris and towns in Germany – during which he demonstrated his invention to full audiences, Theremin found his way to the United States, arriving on 30 December 1927 with his first wife Katia.

Following the death of the club's principal benefactor,, in October 1927, the club's finances deteriorated to the extent that Manchester United would likely have gone bankrupt had it not been for James W. Gibson, who, in December 1931, invested £ 2, 000 and assumed control of the club.

Despite the drop-off of work in 1926, 1927 was another busy year, the Court sitting continuously from 15 June to 16 December, handing down 4 orders, 4 judgments and 1 advisory opinion.

Robert Norton Noyce ( December 12, 1927 – June 3, 1990 ), nicknamed " the Mayor of Silicon Valley ", co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel Corporation in 1968.

Noyce was born on December 12, 1927, in Burlington, Iowa.

They married in Shanghai on December 1, 1927.

Their remains were re-interred December 20, 1927, at the newly completed Harding Memorial in Marion, dedicated by President Herbert Hoover on June 16, 1931.

* Robert Smith ( May 18, 1927 – December 7, 1933 )

* December 18 – Turkey converts to the Gregorian calendar, making ' tomorrow ' January 1 1927

* December 17 – Paul César Helleu, French artist ( d. 1927 )

* December 12 – Jack Cassidy, American actor of stage, film, and screen ( b. 1927 )

* December 10 – Susan Cabot, American actress ( b. 1927 )

* December 16 – Austin M. Knight, American admiral ( d. 1927 )

Turandot quickly spread to other venues: Rome ( Teatro Costanzi, April 29, four days after the Milan premiere ), Buenos Aires ( Teatro Colón, June 23 ), Dresden ( September 6, in German ), Venice ( La Fenice, September 9 ), Vienna ( October 14 ; Mafalda Salvatini in the title role ), Berlin ( November 8 ), New York ( Metropolitan Opera, November 16 ), Brussels ( La Monnaie, 17 December, in French ), Naples ( Teatro San Carlo, January 17, 1927 ), Parma ( February 12 ), Turin ( March 17 ), London ( Covent Garden, June 7 ), San Francisco ( September 19 ), Bologna ( October 1927 ), Paris ( March 29, 1928 ), Australia 1928, Moscow ( Bolshoi Theatre, 1931 ).

On December 22, 1935, he succeeded Benjamin Foulois as Chief of the Air Corps with the accompanying promotion to major general.

Benjamin Delahauf Foulois ( December 9, 1879 – April 25, 1967 ) was a United States Army general who learned to fly the first military planes purchased from the Wright Brothers.

Benjamin " Benny " Delahauf Foulois was born on December 9, 1879, in Washington, Connecticut, to the son of a French veteran of the Franco-Prussian War ( 1870 – 1871 ), and a Boston-born nurse.

In December 1913, assigned to the Signal Corps Aviation School at North Island, San Diego, California, the 1st Aero Squadron was officially constituted as a unit of the Signal Corps, and Foulois became commanding officer of its 1st Company, comprising three Burgess aircraft and 26 enlisted men.

General Foulois retired from active duty December 31, 1935, after 37 years of service.

As it began raining at around eight o'clock on December 26th, I retired into my tent early, somewhat tired and discouraged, my body reacting sluggishly because of the continued exposure.

In December we began to ship our ultra-high-speed stretch yarn machines.

The ill-feeling, influenced by the ravages of members of the Order in Poland, culminated in a war which began in December 1519 and devastated Prussia.

After March it began to pass northwards, a motion quite apparent by the middle of April ; in June it passed at the same distance from the zenith as it did in December ; and in September it passed through its most northerly position, the extreme range from north to south, i. e. the angle between the March and September positions, being 40 ″.

It was revived in 2011 and new episodes began airing on MTV on October 27 and ended on December 29.

In 1929 the Polish mathematician Marian Rejewski, who would solve the German Enigma cipher machine in December 1932, began studying actuarial statistics at Göttingen.

For example the attack on Pearl Harbor that began at 1941-12-07T18: 18Z took place on 7 December according to Hawaii Time ( UTC-10: 30 ), and on 8 December according to Japan Standard Time ( UTC + 09 ).

In August 1966 he began to show symptoms of cholecystitis, for which he underwent surgery on December 12, 1966 when his gallbladder was removed, containing 16 gallstones.

On 14 December 2005, Fiji's Military Commander, Commodore Frank Bainimarama began an official visit to China, at the invitation of the People's Liberation Army.

Even during the Middle Ages, when the numbered Anno Domini year began on March 25 or December 25, the second month was February whenever all twelve months were displayed in order.

However, on 28 December 2005, the leadership of the two factions agreed to submit a single list to voters, headed by Barghouti, who began actively campaigning for Fatah from his jail cell.

In December, the Assembly began to sell the lands to the highest bidder to raise revenue, effectively decreasing the value of the assignats by 25 % in two years.

Kauffman and Crane began developing Friends under the title Insomnia Cafe in November / December 1993.

The First Vatican Council was convoked by Pope Pius IX on 29 June 1868, after a period of planning and preparation that began on 6 December 1864.

The German policy was a success ; an armistice between Germany and the Bolsheviks came into force on 6 December and peace negotiations began on 22 December 1917 at Brest-Litovsk.

This went through a third revision on December 4th, and then yet another on December 28th of that same year before it was met with approval and filming began.

In December 2009, he began a 5-year concert deal with the Encore Hotel and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip.

The Eastern Question began as early as the 2 December 1852 with the Napoleonic coup against the Second Republic of France.

The GÉANT project began in November 2000, entered full production operation in December 2001 ( fully replacing TEN-155 ).

Shooting began on December 7, 1931 at Ascot Motor Speedway and wrapped on February 1, 1932.

The recorded history of Haiti began on 5 December 1492 when the European navigator Christopher Columbus happened upon a large island in the region of the western Atlantic Ocean that later came to be known as the Caribbean.

All stations commenced digital broadcasting during 2003, and in December 2003, a fifth station, TDT, began broadcasting.