page_title: October 1927
section_title: October 15, 1927 (Saturday)
hierarchical_section_title: October 1927 / October 15, 1927 (Saturday)
caption_attribution_description: English: Tadeusz Kościuszko
context_page_description: The following events occurred in October 1927:
context_section_description: Oil was discovered in Iraq at 3:00 am the Baba Gurgur fields 50 miles south of Kirkuk, with a gusher that erupted after drilling had reached a depth of 1,500 feet.  The strike created the first major oil field in the Middle East.
  Mustafa Kemal, later given the honorific Atatürk (Father of the Turks) began the speech called the Nutuk, for six hours a day over six days, "the primary source for the official Turkish version of the history of the resistance movement" 
  Germany's highest court, the Staatsgerichtshof, declared itself to be the "Guardian of the Constitution" of the Weimar republic
  In a drive-by shooting on Manhattan's Norfolk Street, Louis "Lepke" Buchalter assassinated "Little Augie" Orgenstein, industrial racketeer, and wounded "Legs" Diamond.  Lepke and Gurrah Shapiro
  The heart of General Tadeusz Kościuszko (1746–1817), a hero of the American Revolution, was returned to Warsaw in a bronze urn, after having been stored for 90 years in a museum at Rapperswil in Switzerland.
caption: Kosciuszko
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