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Historical Events in February 1927

  • Feb 2 Harry Tierney and Joseph McCarthy's musical "Rio Rita" premieres in NYC
  • Feb 2 Ziegfeld Theater (Loew's Ziegfeld) opens at 6th Ave & 54th St NYC
  • Feb 3 Uprising against regime of general Carmona in Portugal
  • Feb 4 KGA-AM in Spokane WA begins radio transmissions

"The General"

Feb 5 "The General", American silent film starring Buster Keaton and Marion Mack, co-directed by Keaton and Clyde Bruckman, premieres in New York City

  • Feb 8 Belgian-Swiss treaty signed

Coolidge Requests Disarmament Conference

Feb 10 US President Calvin Coolidge asks for 2nd disarmament conference

  • Feb 11 US Female Figure Skating championship won by Beatrix Loughran

Figure Skating History

Feb 11 US Men's Figure Skating championship won by Nathaniel Niles

  • Feb 12 British expeditionary army lands in Shanghai
  • Feb 13 Uprising against Portuguese regime of Gen Carmona defeated

It

Feb 15 Silent film "It" is released in the US starring Clara Bow

Music History

Feb 16 Noël Coward's stage comedy "The Marquise", starring Marie Tempest, opens at the Criterion Theatre, London; runs for 129 performances

  • Feb 16 US restores diplomatic relations with Turkey
  • Feb 17 Deems Taylor's opera "The King's Henchman", with libretto by Edna St. Vincent Millay, premieres at the Metropolitan Opera, NYC
  • Feb 17 Toronto Maple Leafs, in the team's first game since changing name from "St. Patricks", beat the visiting New York Americans, 4-1 at the Mutual Street Arena
  • Feb 18 1st US radio broadcast of "Cities Service Concerts"
  • Feb 18 US & Canada open diplomatic relations
  • Feb 19 General strike against British occupiers in Shanghai

Der Zarewitsch

Feb 21 Franz Lehár's opera "Der Zarewitsch" premieres

  • Feb 22 ARC soccer team forms in Alphen on the Rhine
  • Feb 22 Baruch Spinosa's house of mourning opened as a museum
  • Feb 23 US President Calvin Coolidge creates Federal Radio Commission (FRC)
  • Feb 24 John Golden Theater (Theatre Masque) opens at 252 W 45th St NYC
  • Feb 25 Gdańsk and Polish accord concerning traffic through Polish corridor