The following events occurred in November 1927:
Tuesday, November 1, 1927
The first communist government in China was proclaimed by Peng Pai, encompassing the counties of Haifeng and Lufeng near Hong Kong. The "Haifeng Soviet of Workers, Peasants and Soldiers" was created three weeks later, but Nationalist Chinese troops recaptured the area four months later. The first currency for the British Mandate in Palestine, the "Palestine pound", was introduced. After the creation of Israel and the independence of Jordan, and a redemption offer, the Palestine pound ceased to be legal tender after 1952. Died: Florence Mills, 32, African-American performer, of a burst appendix Karl Plauth, 31, aircraft designer and World War One ace who had downed 17 planes for Germany; in a flying accident;
Wednesday, November 2, 1927
The Soviet Communist Party declared an amnesty for former White Army officers. American native T. S. Eliot became a naturalized British citizen. Born: Steve Ditko, American comic-book writer and artist, co-creator of Spider-Man; in Johnstown, Pennsylvania (d. 2018)
Thursday, November 3, 1927
Rainfall began in Vermont, continuing into the next day, claiming its first victims. Described as the "worst natural disaster in the state's history". The final death toll was 132 people, of which 114 were in Vermont. Forty people were killed at the Sydney Harbour when the steamer Tahiti struck the passenger ferry Greycliffe. The Bridge of San Luis Rey, by Thornton Wilder, was first published in the United States. The first run of 4,500 copies was priced at $2.50 and sold out within a month. The Rodgers and Hart musical A Connecticut Yankee, based on Mark Twain's novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, was first performed, at the Vanderbilt Theater on Broadway. Born: Marius Barnard, South African cardiac surgeon and pioneer in that nation's critical illness insurance (d. 2014) Odvar Nordli, Prime Minister of Norway 1976 to 1981; in Tangen (d. 2018) Peggy McCay, American stage and television actress; in New York City (d. 2018)
Friday, November 4, 1927
A cyclone struck the town of Nellore, northwest of Madras in India, killing almost 300 people. Legalized and state regulated prostitution in Germany, known as the "Bremen System", was abolished.
United States Army Air Corps Captain Hawthorne C. Gray, 38, who had reached a record altitude of in a balloon on May 4, attempted to set an official record. Because his timer failed, he ran out of bottled oxygen while at an altitude of , lost consciousness, and died. His body and the balloon were found in a tree near Sparta, Tennessee, the next day. The 7.3 Lompoc earthquake shook the Central Coast of California with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), causing moderate damage and a non-destructive tsunami. The drama film Uncle Tom's Cabin, based on Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel of the same name and starring Margarita Fischer and Arthur Edmund Carewe was released. Born: Bobby Breen, child movie star and singer, as Robert Borsuk in Montreal (d. 2016)
Saturday, November 5, 1927
The Saturday Evening Post published the article "The Seeing Eye", written by Dorothy Harrison Eustis, introducing Americans to the news from Germany about dogs trained to assist blind veterans. Morris Frank, a 20-year-old blind man in Nashville, wrote back to Eustis, who was inspired to train the first American seeing eye dog in the United States. Frank began using the dog the following April, and training of dogs began in the U.S. in February 1929. A three-story building in Shanghai collapsed during a meeting of female textile workers who were gathering to form a labor union. Reportedly, the women had just elected officers when the third floor collapsed, bringing down the building. Alfredo Jauregui, one of several persons convicted of the assassination in 1917 of Bolivian President José Manuel Pando, was executed by firing squad. He had been chosen, by lottery, to serve as lone conspirator to receive the death penalty. The Ikhwan Revolt began in Saudi Arabia when a party of Berber tribesmen, the Ikhwan attacked and killed foreign construction workers and policemen who had been working on a police post in Busaiya. Born: Kenneth Waller, English TV actor (d. 2000) Died: Marceline Orbes, 53, who, as "Marceline the Clown", was world-renowned during the late 19th and early 20th century; by suicide Augusta Déjerine-Klumpke, 68, pioneering neurologist who had been the first woman to become a member of the Societe de Neurologie
