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List of events
The following lists events that happened during 1927 in Australia .
Incumbents
Stanley Bruce
State premiers
State governors
Events
Parliament House Opening, 1927 1 February – The North Australia Act of 1926 is enforced and the territory of Central Australia is created.
8 February – A cyclone makes landfall north of Cairns , causing flooding at Halifax Bay , Ingham , Innisfail , Tully , Cardwell and Townsville . Thirty-six people are killed, and twenty are missing.
9 April – A general election is held in Victoria .
3 May – The Australasian Council of Trade Unions is formed at the All-Australian Trade Union Congress in Melbourne .
9 May – Parliament House in Canberra is officially opened by the Duke of York .
20 May – Following a swing to the ALP in the Victorian election, Edmond Hogan forms a minority Labor government with Progressive support, and takes over as Premier of Victoria from John Allan .
29 June – Charles Kingsford Smith and his copilot Charles Ulm complete a round-Australia flight in ten days, five-and-a-half hours.
27 October – Melbourne gangster Squizzy Taylor is killed in a shootout with Sydney gangsters (including Snowy Cutmore , who also dies) in Carlton .
3 November – The Sydney ferry Greycliffe RMS Tahiti , killing 40 persons.
Science and technology
Arts and literature
Sport
Births
20 January – Dawn Lake , entertainer (died 2006)
21 January – Clive Churchill , rugby league player (died 1985)
15 April – Bob Ellicott , lawyer, politician and judge
20 March – Wally Grout , cricket player (died 1968)
1 April – Peter Cundall , horticulturist and television presenter
1 May – Michael Charlton , journalist and broadcaster
30 May – Billy Wilson , St George rugby league captain (died 1993)
6 June – Alan Seymour , playwright (died 2015)
10 June – Bede Morris , immunologist (died 1988)[ 2]
13 June – David Kirkpatrick (Slim Dusty) , country and western singer (died 2003)
3 July – Peter Muller , architect
13 July – Ian Reed , discus thrower
16 July – Geoffrey Martin , Australian rules footballer
17 July – Trixie Gardner, Baroness Gardner of Parkes , Australian-English dentist and politician
14 August – Sid Patterson , cyclist (died 1999)
22 September – Hal Nerdal , skier[ 3]
29 October – Frank Sedgman , tennis player
10 November – Richard Connolly , composer and ABC personality
11 November – Jack Absalom , artist, author and adventurer (died 2019)
14 November – Bart Cummings , Australia's Best Racehorse Trainer (12 Melbourne Cup wins) (died 2015)
28 December – Ron Casey , Australian rules football administrator and media personality (died 2000)
Deaths
See also
References
1927 in Oceania
Sovereign states Associated states
