had been devised during a conference from June 27 to July 7. "The document," notes one observer, "has never been found and is generally assumed to have been a Chinese forgery, if it ever existed." Tuesday, July 26, 1927 The Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang, China's ruling Nationalist Party, passed a resolution expelling Communists from its membership and calling for the outlawing of the Chinese Communist Party. The Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party met to plan what would become the Nanchang uprising; present at the meeting was V. K. Bliuker, a Soviet representative for Comintern, the Communist International organization, which was deciding whether to continue its support of Mao Zedong as the person to lead the spread of communism to China. French Army General Georges Catroux called a press conference to announce that the Syrian revolt by the Jabal Druze minority had been suppressed, and to deny rumors that France would give up on its responsibilities for the Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon. Born: Danny La Rue (stage name for Daniel Carroll), Irish-born British comedian and impressionist; in Cork (d. 2009) Died: June Mathis, 38, American film executive and screenwriter known for The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and Blood and Sand, died of a heart attack while watching a Broadway play at the 48th Street Theatre. Wednesday, July 27, 1927 Soviet emissary Mikhail Borodin and 30 people left China's Wuhan province in five cars and five trucks to return to the Soviet Union in a two-month overland trip, after General Feng Yuxiang was bribed to guarantee him safe passage. The move came 12 days after Chinese Communists were expelled by Nationalist forces. Borodin had had a bounty of US$29,000 for his capture, and had hidden in the home of Nationalist official and future Chinese Premier T. V. Soong. Borodin finally returned to Moscow on October 6. U.S. President Calvin Coolidge and his wife, Grace Coolidge, narrowly escaped serious injury during a visit to Custer, South Dakota, after a panicked team of horses charged toward their open car, then veered away after coming within 20 feet. The horses panicked during a re-enactment of Custer's Last Stand, and charged through the crowd and out of the amphitheatre where 10,000 had assembled. Miraculously, nobody was hurt in the incident. Born: Yuri Denisyuk, Soviet Russian physicist who helped develop the science of holography, in Sochi, Russian SFSR (d. 2006)