by another group of marchers demonstrating against First Secretary Joseph Stalin. Government police broke up the protests, and Leon Trotsky, Grigory Zinoviev, and Lev Kamenev were condemned for organizing an opposition. Pope Pius XI, answering the request of an American Roman Catholic bishop, gave his blessing for marriages performed in airplanes. A spokesman for the Vatican quoted the Pope as saying, "Provided other ecclesiastical formalities are complied with, there is no reason to prohibit these marriages." Born: Hiroshi Yamauchi, Japanese entrepreneur who became president of Nintendo, a playing card manufacturing company, and transformed it into a multibillion-dollar creator of video games; in Kyoto (d. 2013) Tuesday, November 8, 1927 The membership of the Simon Commission, chaired by Sir John Simon to review India's fitness for self-government, was announced, and, as one Indian author would later note, "in an incredible act of racial arrogance the British government had decided that all seven would be whites", on the recommendation of the Viceroy, Lord Irwin. In addition to Simon were Viscount Burnham, Lord Strathcona, Edward Cadogan, Clement Attlee, Vernon Hartshorn and Colonel George Lane-Fox. After having been banned from public speaking since his attempted "Beer Hall Putsch", German politician Adolf Hitler was allowed to speak at the Bürgerbräukeller in Munich. Born: Patti Page, American singer, known for "Tennessee Waltz" and "(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?", as Clara Ann Fowler in Claremore, Oklahoma (d. 2013); Ken Dodd, English comedian and singer; in Liverpool (d. 2018) Si Newhouse, American publishing magnate, in New York City; (d. 2017) Chris Connor, American jazz singer, as Mary Loutsenhizer in Kansas City, Missouri (d. 2009); Lal Krishna Advani, the last Deputy Prime Minister of India (2002–04) and opposition leader in the Lok Sabha (2004–09), in Karachi, British India Wednesday, November 9, 1927 An uprising broke out in Lithuania at the city of Taurage, led by citizens dissatisfied with the regime of President Antanas Smetona. Ultimately, 209 people would be convicted of charges arising from the insurrection, and eleven executed. Thursday, November 10, 1927 General Motors declared the largest dividend in history up to that time, paying a total of $3.75 per share on each of its 17,400,000 shares for a total of $65,250,000 to its investors. The money paid represented the regular quarterly dividend of $1.25, plus an additional $2.50." The gunboat USS Panay and the submarine USS Argonaut were both launched. The Panay would be