Vitagraph Studios; from bronchial pneumonia Tuesday, April 26, 1927 Lieutenant Commanders Noel Davis and Stanton H. Wooster, who were aspiring to win the Orteig Prize by becoming the first persons to fly an airplane from New York to Paris, were killed in a test flight of their Keystone Pathfinder monoplane. Unable to climb with its heavy fuel load, the American Legion crashed into trees while attempting a takeoff from Virginia's Langley Field. Wednesday, April 27, 1927 The Carabineros, national police force of Chile, were created by decree of President Carlos Ibáñez del Campo. Born: Coretta Scott King, American civil rights leader following her marriage in 1953 to Martin Luther King Jr.; as Coretta Scott in Marion, Alabama (d. 2006) Died: Albert J. Beveridge, 64, U.S. Senator for Indiana from 1899 to 1911 Thursday, April 28, 1927 In Aba, Japan, three-year-old Chyu Kuryama was struck by a small meteorite, which was later displayed in a museum. Although she was hit in the head, she was not seriously injured. The first reported instance in the United States of a person being hit by a meteorite would be on November 30, 1954, when Mrs. E. Hulitt Hodges of Sylacuga, Alabama, would be hit by an 8-pound stone. The airplane Spirit of St. Louis, piloted by Charles Lindbergh, was flown for the first time, shortly after he had overseen its manufacture in accordance with his specifications. Lindbergh tested the single engine monoplane at the Dutch Flats, near San Diego. On May 20, he would use the craft in an attempt to become the first person to fly an airplane from New York to Paris. Died: Li Dazhao, 39, co-founder of the Chinese Communist Party, was hanged along with 19 other persons arrested at the Soviet Embassy in Beijing. Friday, April 29, 1927 Two parishes in Louisiana were deliberately flooded in order to protect New Orleans, as a dynamite charge blasted the levee at Caernarvon. With the objective of relieving pressure from the Mississippi River on the larger city's floodwalls, Governor Oramel H. Simpson obtained federal approval to evacuate residents, mostly African-American farm families, of the parishes of St. Bernard and Plaquemines and then to destroy the floodwall. Born: Lois Florreich, American female baseball pitcher and AAGPBL star; in Webster Groves, Missouri; in 1949, she had an ERA of 0.67 in 1949 for the Rockford Peaches, and a career ERA of 1.40 (d. 1991) Saturday,