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1927: New York
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The 1927 baseball season ranks at the very top for the New York Yankees ballclub. Other players had a banner year as well. Here are some of the headlines from 1927.
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In 1927, he brought the crashing, clanging show to New York City's Carnegie Hall. It was the musical event of the season, and Antheil, all of 26 years old, was ready to take Manhattan by storm.
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Unusually heavy rains in the central U.S. that persisted from late 1926 through the spring of 1927 caused catastrophic flooding. The Mississippi River grew more than seventy miles wide in some places. The area affected was roughly the size of New England.
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The 20¢ Air Mail stamp rightly belongs with the other "Map" stamps of 1926, but is included here since it was not issued until 1927. This stamp would go on to fill a large need for the one ounce letter uniform air mail rate although the stamps could be legitimately used for any mail matter. First Day sales were at the Philatelic Center in Washington, D.C. and New York City.
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Departing New York City on August 8th, Murderer’s Row embarked on its most grueling stretch of the 1927 schedule: Philadelphia, Washington, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, St. Louis. Back in New York on the 31st – for one game against the Red Sox. Then they would take leave of the Big Apple again for seven more games in Philadelphia and Boston. Talk about living out of suitcases.
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The year was 1927 and a joyous crowd greeted Charles Lindbergh in France after he completed the first trans-Atlantic flight, covering 3,610 miles in thirty-three and a half hours. His reception when he arrived back in the U.S. aboard the “U.S.S. Memphis” was even greater where he was honored in Washington, D.C., and in New York—more than 4 million people lined a parade route to catch a glimpse of the aviator that had taken the world by storm.
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