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April 27

1927

Television is demonstrated for the first time in the United States, when viewers at New York's Bell Labs see Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover in his office in Washington, D.C.

1932

Poet Hart Crane dies.

1934

Home Owners Loan Act

1934

Soil Conservation Service is established.

1937

The nation's first Social Security checks distributed.