page_title: August 1927
section_title: August 10, 1927 (Wednesday)
hierarchical_section_title: August 1927 / August 10, 1927 (Wednesday)
caption_attribution_description: English: Prince_Sisawat
context_page_description: The following events occurred in August 1927:
context_section_description: The upcoming artistic project on Mount Rushmore was dedicated by President Calvin Coolidge, who promised national funding for the carving and praised, as described later, George Washington for founding America, Jefferson for expanding it, Lincoln for preserving it and Roosevelt for reaching out to the world.  Coolidge then handed sculptor Gutzon Borglum a set of drills, and Borglum climbed to the top of the mountain and began drilling where Washington's head would one day be.
  The French Chamber of Deputies repealed a law that had previously taken away French citizenship from women who married foreigners.  There had been no analogous law taking away citizenship of French men with foreign wives.
  Forty minutes before they were scheduled to go to the electric chair, Sacco and Vanzetti, along with Celestino Madeiros, were given a twelve-day reprieve by Governor Fuller.  The Governor had been notified by the Massachusetts Supreme Court that it would announce at noon Thursday whether it would reconsider the case.  The condemned men were informed at 11:27 pm.
  Navy Lieutenants George Covell and R.W. Waggener crashed shortly after takeoff from San Diego, where they had planned to be part of the field for the Dole Air Race.  They were only the first of many casualties associated with the ill-fated competition.
  Born:
  Vainu Bappu, Indian astronomer, and co-discoverer of the Wilson–Bappu effect, which permits the judgment of the absolute magnitude of certain types of stars; in Madras (d. 1982)
  Jimmy Martin, American musician known as "The King of Bluegrass"; in Sneedville, Tennessee (d.2005)
  Died: King Sisowath of Cambodia, 86, monarch of the French protectorate since 1904.  He was succeeded by his son, King Sisowath Monivong
caption: King Sisowath
exif: {}