Yuesheng began attacks at the Zhabei District. More than 4,000 leftists were killed in Shanghai, and hundreds more elsewhere. Communist leader Zhou Enlai, who would later become the Prime Minister of the People's Republic of China when Chiang's forces were driven out in 1949, was able to escape from the city. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland came into being with the renaming of the Kingdom. At 8:30 in the evening, a tornado destroyed the town of Rocksprings, Texas. Wednesday, April 13, 1927 The Ottawa Senators beat the Boston Bruins, 3–1, to win ice hockey's Stanley Cup. Thursday, April 14, 1927 The first Volvo automobile, the 4-cylinder Volvo ÖV 4 "Jakob", was produced at a factory in Gothenburg in Sweden. A 7.4 magnitude earthquake at Argentina's Mendoza Province killed more than 25 people. Born: Alan MacDiarmid, New Zealand chemist and 2000 Nobel Prize laureate; in Masterton (d. 2007) Friday, April 15, 1927 The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 had begun weeks earlier but this day saw the largest recorded rainfall in American history spreading over a vast area, tremendously increasing what had already been the greatest flood in recorded history. In New Orleans, a record was set with of rain in 18 hours. Thomas Townsend Brown applied for a patent for "A Method of Producing Force or Motion", that used high voltage in capacitors to produce a propulsive force that he thought was anti-gravity. British patent #300,311 was issued in 1928. Brown would later name this force the Biefeld-Brown effect. Born: Robert Mills, American quantum physicist and co-creator of the Yang–Mills theory; in Englewood, New Jersey (d. 1999) Albert Goldman, American author of controversial biographies of Elvis Presley and John Lennon; in Dormont, Pennsylvania (d.1994) Died: Gaston Leroux, 58, French novelist and mystery writer best known for his 1910 novel The Phantom of the Opera Saturday, April 16, 1927 The first break in the flood controlling levee system along the Mississippi River took place at Dorena, Missouri, and other levees soon followed. Eventually, of land in seven states would be underwater, 130,000 homes would be destroyed, and a minimum of 246 people— some estimates place the death toll at well over 1,000— would be dead. Four well-known aviators (Richard E. Byrd, Anthony Fokker, Floyd Bennett, and George O. Norville) were injured in a crash, during the first test-flight, of Admiral Byrd's plane America, which they had intended