Austrian capital's Palace of Justice (Justizpalast) was burned down, in the aftermath of a riot that followed the acquittal of three accused murderers. Vienna Police Chief Johannes Schober had ordered his men to fire into the crowd to disperse the mob. In Greece, the government issued decrees directed against the Macedonian minority of Slavic descent. The new rules banned use of Macedonian language and decreed that Cyrillic inscriptions were to be removed from churches. Born: Ann Jellicoe, British playwright; in Middlesbrough, Yorkshire (d. 2017) Carmen Zapata, American stage and film actress; in New York City (d. 2014) Died: Countess Markievicz (Constance Gore-Booth), 69, Irish politician who, in 1918, had become the first woman to be elected to the United Kingdom's House of Commons. After Ireland's independence from the United Kingdom, she was the Irish Free State's first Minister for Labour. Saturday, July 16, 1927 The Battle of Ocotal began at 1:15 a.m., when several hundred Nicaraguan rebels, led by Augusto César Sandino, attacked a barracks at Ocotal, occupied by 38 U.S. Marines and 47 Nicaraguan civil guards. USMC Captain Gilbert Hatfield and his men withstood three charges. At mid-morning, rescue came from Major Ross E. Rowell, who had gotten word of the attack and led "the first dive-bombing campaign in history". At battle's end, 300 rebels and one U.S. Marine had been killed. Cartoonist Theodor Geisel, 23, was published for the first time under the pen name inspired by his mother's maiden name, "Seuss", in the July 16, 1927, Saturday Evening Post, effectively beginning his career as illustrator and author Dr. Seuss. Germany's Reichstag passed comprehensive unemployment insurance and maternity leave laws, by a margin of 356–47. Sunday, July 17, 1927 In furtherance of the Turkish nationalist movement, Turkey directed the relocation of 1,400 members of the Kurdish minority from their homes in the southeast, to the far west. This was followed by deportation of Armenian and Syriac people from the same area. Monday, July 18, 1927 Ty Cobb got his 4,000th hit (and would finish with 4,191) playing for the Philadelphia A's at Detroit against his former team, the Tigers. As one commentator noted fifty years later, "the event went almost unnoticed". On the same day, future Hall of Famer Mel Ott hit his first home run, an inside the park homer. Born: Kurt Masur, East German conductor, who later conducted the London Philharmonic Orchestra; in Brieg, Prussia (now