Geneva Naval Conference came to an end after nine weeks, with no agreement on reduction of warship construction, and an increase in tension between the United States and the United Kingdom. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe received a patent for a process that allowed the mass production of steel chairs that were both lightweight and strong. Born: Harry Markowitz, American economist and 1990 Nobel Prize laureate Died: Manuel Díaz Rodríguez, 56, Venezuelan author of the modernismo movement in Spanish-language literature and former Foreign Minister of Venezuela Thursday, August 25, 1927 Paul R. Redfern left Brunswick, Georgia, at noon, flying his Stinson Detroiter Port of Brunswick to attempt a solo non-stop flight to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He disappeared the next day and was never seen again; his plane is believed to have crashed in a jungle in Venezuela. Born: Althea Gibson, American tennis player and the first African-American to win the Wimbledon championship; in Silver, South Carolina (d. 2003) Albert Uderzo, French cartoonist who illustrated the Asterix comic books (d. 2020) Friday, August 26, 1927 British scientist Frederick Griffith submitted the first paper ever describing the transforming principle in genetics. "The Significance of Pneumococcal Types" was published in the January issue of the Journal of Hygiene. The search for the cause of the transformation of pneumococcal bacteria would yield the identification of DNA. The first radio station in Calcutta (Kolkata), and only the second, after Bombay (Mumbai), in India, began broadcasting. There was not a third station until eight years later. An unexpected and fast-moving hurricane in Nova Scotia killed 184 people, most of them fishermen who had been drowned at sea, but also sank the American racing schooner Columbia off of the coast of Sable Island, along with its entire crew of 22 people. Chinese warlord Sun Chuanfang led an attack on the city of Nanjing, cutting the electric wires and railroad traffic between that city and Shanghai. Sun was later defeated at the Battle of Lung-tan, after radio broadcasting was used to reopen communications. Born: B.V. Doshi, Indian architect, in Pune (d. 2023) Saturday, August 27, 1927 A group of Canadian women who would become known as the "Famous Five" (Emily Murphy, Irene Parlby, Nellie McClung, Louise Crummy McKinney and Henrietta Muir Edwards) petitioned the Supreme Court of Canada for the right of women to serve in the Senate of Canada. Although they were denied by the nation's