The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 broke the banks and levees of the lower Mississippi River in early 1927, resulting in flooding of millions of acres and leaving 1. 5 million people displaced from their homes.

He died of renal failure in Boulogne-sur-Seine ( Paris ) on May 11, 1927, at the age of 40, leaving a wife, Josette, and a son, Georges.

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

On 9 May 1927, a half-mile wide tornado ripped through Nevada, leaving 27 dead, 75 injured, and property damage exceeding $ 1 million.

De Lempicka painted her only child repeatedly, leaving a striking portrait series: Kizette in Pink, 1926 ; Kizette on the Balcony, 1927 ; Kizette Sleeping, 1934 ; Portrait of Baroness Kizette, 1954-5, etc.

Sidney Evans died in a plane crash on 4 February 1927, leaving her pregnant with their son Peter Vernon Evans, who was adopted by his grandparents.

During the design phase for the Model A in 1927, Henry Ford assured mechanical quality and reliability, leaving it to his son to develop the body design, with the help of designer József Galamb.

He attended the Horace Mann School ( Riverdale, Bronx, New York ), graduating in 1926, and then went to Cornell University from 1927 to 1928 and New York University from 1928 to 1930, leaving without receiving a degree.

Born to a German father and a Swiss mother, Gode studied at the University of Vienna and the University of Paris before leaving for the U. S. and becoming a citizen in 1927.

* 1924: Demetrius Comino joins BTH as an apprentice ( leaving in 1927 ).

Meazza scored two goals on his debut in a 6 – 2 win against Milanese Unione Sportiva in the Coppa Volta in Como, leaving old " Poldo " Conti speechless The " Gazzetta dello Sport ", the day after his official debut in the Italian championship on 12 September 1927, praised his game " intelligent, fresh, quick ", something that didn't happen very frequently during those days.

So, upon leaving school in 1927, he started developing a simulator, an exercise which took him 18 months.

Born in Petersfield, Hampshire, Piggott was educated at Churcher's College and on leaving school in 1927 took up a post as assistant at Reading Museum where he developed an expertise in Neolithic pottery.

After leaving the governorship in 1927, Brandon was appointed Probate Judge of Tuscaloosa County by his onetime political opponent Governor Graves.

" After leaving Goldkette, he and Beiderbecke worked briefly in Adrian Rollini's band, then joined Paul Whiteman in 1927.

The Count died in 1927, leaving the company in the hands of his wife and sons, Domenico, Vincenzo, Mario and Corrado.

In the 1924 election Isaacs lost his seat, but when in 1927 the sitting Labour MP for Southwark North resigned after leaving the party, he was the natural choice to be the new candidate.

It continued in use until the night of 29 October 1927 when the Kepple Cove dam burst during a heavy storm, leaving an wide gap in the earthworks.

Rychlak charged that this had been deliberately in order to give the impression that Pius had just visited Hitler when, in fact, the photo had been taken in 1927 as Pius was leaving a reception held for German President Paul von Hindenburg.

It continued in use until the night of 29 October 1927 when the Kepple Cove dam burst during a heavy storm, leaving an wide gap in the earthworks.

Chessmetrics places him as the third best player in the world from 1927 to 1931, behind Alexander Alekhine and José Capablanca.

But behind the self-publicizing avant-garde antics, Ramón developed not only an extravagant public persona ( megalomaniac some would say ), but also his own equivalent of what Shattuck defines as a ‘ reversal of consciousness ’, deliberately divesting himself of conventional ways of thinking and being in order to adopt a peculiarly innovative, almost phenomenological, way of looking at the world, one which influenced the younger 1927 Generation of poets ( as Luis Cernuda has explained ) and in Ramón ’ s case produced some of the most original and brilliantly creative prose writing of the period.

The auditorium opened on October 20, 1927, about five years behind schedule, after the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake.

The guiding principle behind everything we make at Volvo, therefore, is and must remain, safety ", Assar Gabrielsson and Gustav Larson 1927.

The couple founded a progressive school in 1927 called Beacon Hill School in which they tried to teach children to leave behind superstition and the irrational views of previous generations as they viewed them.

Her reign was the third longest, at 14 years, behind only that of the first women's champion, Vera Menchik, who reigned for 17 years from 1927 until her death in 1944, and that of Gaprindashvili's 16 years.

This short term behind bars was because the Trades Disputes Act of 1927 was used against the supporters of the strike among whom the WIL were prominent.

In late 1927 he started to set up his own sextet or orchestra tipica ( José Pécora and David Abramsky on violin, César Ginzo and Tito Landó on bandoneón and Adolfo Kraus on bass ), directing it from behind the piano that he himself played.

John Edward Bean ( born 7 June 1927, Carshalton, Surrey ) is a long-standing participant in the British far right, who has been active within a number of movements during the course of his life and is the voice behind the BNP election broadcasts.

Leaving these comparatively frivolous entertainments behind, and taking the drama a giant step forward, Show Boat, premiered on December 27, 1927 at the Ziegfeld Theatre, representing a complete integration of book and score, with dramatic themes, as told through the music, dialogue, setting and movement, woven together more seamlessly than in previous musicals.

Most of Model T's produced by Ford between 1908 and 1927 were four and then three-door models ( with drivers sliding behind the wheel from passenger seat ) touring cars, accounting for 6, 519, 643 cars sold out of the 15, 000, 000 estimated Model T's built.

After two triumphs in 1927 and 1935, the third came in 1964, at a time when the cup's importance was gradually falling behind that of other European cups.

In June 1927, Dutch authorities raided the residence of the organization's leaders, searching through their rooms and putting Hatta and other four other Indonesian activists behind bars.

In the 1927 Norwegian parliamentary election he was the fourth ballot candidate for the party National Legion, behind Karl Meyer, Frøis Frøisland and Thorvald Aadahl.

For the 1927 – 1928 season, Harlow Town returned to the expanded East Herts League ; they finished fourth, five points behind champions Hertford Athletic.

He left behind his wife Norma, whom he had married in 1927, and his newly-born daughter.

She won the Soviet Women's Championship four times ( 1927, 1931, 1937 and 1948 ), and was second in the Women's World Chess Championship 1949 – 50, a point behind Lyudmila Rudenko.

Meisl was also behind the launch of the Mitropa Cup, a knockout competition for club teams from the same countries which also began in 1927.

* Focke-Wulf A 21, a photographic survey variant of the 1927 German Focke-Wulf A 17

A platinum print of a photographic portrait of Charles Samuel Keene, made by Horace Harral during the 1860s, was given to the National Portrait Gallery by John A Hipkins in 1927.

In 1994 the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London held an exhibition of Cahun's photographic self-portraits from 1927 – 47, alongside the work of two young contemporary British artists, Virginia Nimarkoh and Tacita Dean, enitled Mise en Scene.

1927 Unnatural Death ( published 1927 ) Bunter ’ s photographic skills provide a vital clue to a double identity.