1 Feb 1927

China
  • Ding Zhipan was promoted to the rank of major general in the Beiyang Army. ww2dbase [Ding Zhipan | CPC]
United States
  • Franklin Roosevelt founded the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation in the United States to further the research of poliomyelitis and for the care of poliomyelitis patients. ww2dbase [Franklin Roosevelt | Warm Springs, Georgia | CPC]

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