1927: Encyclopedia II - 1927 - Events

1927 - Events

1927 - January-March

• January 1 - Cristero War erupts in Mexico when pro-Church rebels attack secular-minded government
• January 7 - First transatlantic telephone call - New York City to London
• January 9 - Military rebellion crushed in Lisbon
• January 14 - Paul Doumer elected president of France
• January 19 - Britain sends troops to China
• January 30 - Right-wing veterans and the Republican Schutzbund clash in Schattendorf, Burgenland, Austria. One man and a child are killed by gunshots. See July 15.
• February 12 - First British troops land in Shanghai
• February 14 - Earthquake in Yugoslavia - 700 dead
• February 19 - General strike in Shanghai in protest of the presence of the British troops
• February 23 - The Federal Radio Commission (later renamed the Federal Communications Commission) begins to regulate the use of radio frequencies.
• March 4 - A diamond rush in South Africa includes trained athletes that have been hired by major companies to stake claims
• March 6 - In Britain, a 1000 people a week die from influenza epidemic
• March 10 - Albania mobilizes in case of an attack of Yugoslavia
• March 11 - In New York City, the Roxy Theatre is opened by Samuel Roxy Rothafel.

1927 - April-June

• April 1 - First female police officers in Dresden
• April 5 - In Britain, Trade Disputes Act forbids strikes of support
• April 7 - Bell Telephone Co. transmits an image of Commerce Secretary Hoover which becomes the first successful long distance demonstration of television.
• April 12 - The Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927 renames the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The change acknowledges that the Irish Free State is no longer part of the Kingdom.
• April 12 - Kuomintang troops kill number of communist-supporting workers in Shanghai
• April 18 - Nanking government of China, Kuomintang
• April 21 - Banking crisis in Japan
• April 22 - May 5 - The Great Mississippi Flood affects 700,000 people in the greatest national disaster in US history.
• May - Philo Farnsworth transmits first experimental electronic television pictures
• May 7 - Civil war ends in Nicaragua
• May 9 - The Australian Parliament first convenes in Canberra.
• May 11 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the "Academy" in "Academy Awards," is founded.
• May 12 - British police raids the office of Soviet trade delegation
• May 13 - George V proclaims the change of his style from King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to King of Great Britain and Ireland.
• May 14 - Cap Arcona's launching, Blohm & Voss shipyard, in Hamburg.
• May 20 - Saudi Arabia becomes independent of the United Kingdom (Treaty of Jedda).
• May 20-21 first solo non-stop Trans-Atlantic flight from New York to Paris by Charles Lindbergh.
• May 22 - 8.6 richter scale earthquake in Xining, China kills 200,000
• May 23 - The first demonstration of television before a live audience. Nearly 600 members of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and the Institute of Radio Engineers view the demonstration at the Bell Telephone Building in New York.
• May 24 - Britain severs diplomatic relations with Soviet Union because of revelations of espionage and underground agitation
• May 27 - Ford Motor Company ceases manufacturing Ford Model Ts and begins to retool plants to make Ford Model As.
• June 4 - Yugoslavia severs diplomatic relations to Albania
• June 7 - Peter Voikov, Soviet ambassador to Warsaw, assassinated
• June 9 - Soviet Union executes 20 British for alleged espionage
• June 13 - Leon Daudet, leader of French monarchists, is arrested in France
• June 13 - A ticker-tape parade is held for aviator Charles Lindbergh down 5th Avenue in New York City.

1927 - July-September

• July 10 - Kevin O'Higgins, vice president of the Irish Free State, assassinated in Dublin
• July 15 - 85 protesters and 5 policemen are dead after left-wing protesters and the Austrian police clash in Vienna. More than 600 people are injured. See Massacre of July 15, 1927.
• July 24 - The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres.
• August 1 - Formation of the People's Liberation Army during the Nanchang Uprising
• August 7 - Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.
• August 22 - In Hyde Park, London, 200 people demonstrate against the sentence of Sacco and Vanzetti
• August 23 - Sacco and Vanzetti executed.
• August 24-25 - Hurricane hits Atlantic shore of Canada causing massive damage - at least 56 dead
• September 7 - The University of Minas Gerais is founded in Brazil.
• September 14 - underwater earthquake in Japan - over 100 dead

1927 - October-December

• October 6 - The Jazz Singer opens and becomes a huge success, marking the end of the silent film era.
• October 7 - Mercedes Gleitze is the first Englishwoman to swim the English Channel
• October 9 - Mexican government crushes a rebellion in Vera Cruz
• October 27 - Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands opens Meuse-Waal Canal in Nijmegen
• October 28 - Pan American Airways first flight took off from Key West to Havana.
• November 10 - Unexplained explosions in Canton, Ohio
• November 12 - Mahatma Gandhi made his first and last visit to Ceylon.
• November 12 - Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin with undisputed control of the Soviet Union
• November 12 - The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicular tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City.
• November 24 - Total solar eclipse over Northern England and Wales
• December 2 - Following 19 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Model A as its new automobile.
• December 12 - 1600 people hospitalized in London when they had hurt themselves on the icy streets
• December 30 - Japan's first subway line, the Ginza Line in Tokyo, opens.

1927 - Unknown dates

• The British Broadcasting Corporation is granted a Royal Charter of Incorporation.
• The Columbia Phonographic Broadcasting System (later known as CBS) is formed.
• Harold Stephen Black invents the feedback amplifier.
• Voluntary Committee of Lawyers founded to bring about repeal of prohibition of alcohol in United States.
• World population reaches 2 billion

Adapted from the Wikipedia article "Events", under the G.N U Free Docmentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki