Editing 1927

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== Events ==
* April 12 - The [[Kuomintang]] carries out the [[1927 Shanghai Massacre]] on the orders of [[Chiang Kai-shek]] in an attempt to suppress the [[Communist Party of China]]. This marks the beginning of the Chinese Civil War.
* May 18 - [[Andrew Kehoe]] perpetrates the Bath School bombing in Bath Township, Michigan by detonating homemade explosives at Bath Consolidated School, killing 42 people and injuring close to 60 others. He would commit suicide later the same day by detonating explosives inside his truck.
* June 24 - The [[Iron Guard]] is founded.
* July 10 - Kevin O'Higgins, Vice-President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State and Minister for Justice, is assassinated in Dublin by the [[Irish Republican Army]].
* September 21 - [[Wang Jingwei]] agrees to dissolve his rival government in Wuhan. 
* November 21 - The [[Columbine Mine Massacre]] takes place.
* December 15 - 12-year old Marion Parker is [[Kidnapping|kidnapped]] from the Bellevue Arms Apartments in Los Angeles and brutally [[murder]]ed by [[William Hickman]], in what is considered to be one of the worst crimes in California history.
* Unknown - End of the Rif War.

== Births ==
=== Villain births ===
* January 14 - [[Clarence Carnes]]
* March 13 - [[Peter Manuel]]
* May 8 - [[Ivar Lovaas]]
* June 8 - [[Brendan Smyth]]
* July 28 - [[Lawrence Singleton]]
* September 18 - [[Gerlando Alberti]]
* September 19 - [[Ali Hassan Abu Kamal]]
* October 13 - [[John Norman]]
* December 10 - [[Harvey Glatman]]

=== Victim births ===
* September 20 - Sultan Ibraimov

== Deaths ==
=== Villain deaths ===
* May 18 - [[Andrew Kehoe]]
* June 1 - [[Lizzie Borden]]
* July 23 - [[Reginald Dyer]]
=== Victim deaths ===
* February 11 - Billy Gaffney
* May 18 - Nellie Price Kehoe
* July 10 - Kevin O'Higgins 
* December 15 - Marion Parker