Dawid Rubinowicz, Polish victim of the Holocaust whose diaries were published, in 1960, nearly 18 years after he was murdered at the Treblinka extermination camp; in Kielce. (d. 1942) Thursday, July 28, 1927 Twenty-seven people, 16 of them children, died when the excursion boat The Favorite, capsized in Lake Michigan, one-half mile after departing Lincoln Park. Born: John Ashbery, American poet; in Rochester, New York (d. 2017). In 1976, he won the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Award and the Pulitzer Prize for his published poetry in Portrait in a Convex Mirror. Friday, July 29, 1927 The Metropolitan Sergei Stragorodsky, Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church since 1925, issued the "Civil Fatherland Declaration", declaring that the clergy should swear allegiance to the Soviet government. The Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Act 1927 came into effect in the United Kingdom. The law put criminal penalties on secondary action (including "sympathy strikes"). The State Bar of California was legally established when the State Bar Act went into effect. Born: Harry Mulisch, Dutch novelist known for The Assault (De aanslag); in Haarlem (d. 2010) Horace Ward, African-American federal judge who, as a student, filed suit to challenge the segregation of the University of Georgia; in LaGrange, Georgia (d. 2016). Saturday, July 30, 1927 The last flight of the U.S. Air Mail Service took place, a year after the agency had begun phasing out in favor of the Postmaster General contracting with independent carriers. The AMS had delivered mail since May 15, 1918. Two future Kings arrived in Quebec, along with British Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin, to honor Canada's Diamond Jubilee. First and second in line for the throne were the Prince of Wales, who would become King Edward VIII, and the Duke of York, who would be King George VI. The party arrived at Quebec at 9:40 am on the liner RMS Empress of Australia to begin a month-long tour of the Dominion. Born: Victor Wong, Chinese-American character actor best known as the wise Grandpa in the 3 Ninjas film series; in San Francisco (d. 2001) Sunday, July 31, 1927 The Madison suburb of Shorewood Hills, Wisconsin, was incorporated from a merger of Shorewood and College Hills. Died: Sir Harry Johnston, 69, British explorer of Africa during the 19th century Walter Travis, 65, Australian-born golfer who won the U.S. Amateur championship in 1900, 1901 and 1903 in the pre-professional era. References