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Use mdy dates|date=March 2011Year dab|1927|the Australian band|1927 (band)Year nav|1927C20 year in topic NOTOC Year 1927 ( Roman numerals|MCMXXVII ) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar .
Events
January
Main|January 1927
January 1 & ndash; The Cristero War erupts in Mexico when pro- Catholic Church|Catholic rebels attack the government, which had banned the Catholic faith.
January 7 & ndash; The first transatlantic telephone call is made via radio from New York City to London, England.
January 9 & ndash; A military rebellion is crushed in Lisbon , Portugal.
January 15 & ndash; Teddy Wakelam gives the first sports commentary on BBC Radio .
January 19 & ndash; Great Britain sends troops to China.
January 30 & ndash; Right-wing veteran s and the Republican Schutzbund clash in Schattendorf , Burgenland , Austria. One man and a child are killed by gunshots (see July 15 ).
February
Main|February 1927
February & ndash; Werner Heisenberg formulates his famous uncertainty principle while employed as a lecturer at Niels Bohr 's Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of Copenhagen .
February 12 & ndash; The first British troops land in Shanghai.
February 14 & ndash; An earthquake in Yugoslavia kills 100.
February 19 & ndash; A general strike in Shanghai protests the presence of British troops.
February 23 & ndash; The U.S. Federal Radio Commission (later renamed the Federal Communications Commission ) begins to regulate the use of radio frequencies.
March
Main|March 1927
March 4 & ndash; A diamond rush in South Africa includes trained athletes that have been hired by major companies to stake claims.
March 7 & ndash; A Richter Scale 7.6 magnitude earthquake kills at least 2,925 at Hyogo Prefecture|Toyooka and Kyoto Prefecture|Mineyama area, western Honshu , Japan.
March 10 & ndash; Albania mobilizes in case of an attack by Yugoslavia.
March 11
* In New York City, the Roxy Theatre (New York City)|Roxy Theater is opened by Samuel Roxy Rothafel .
* The first armored car robbery is committed by the Flatheads Gang near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania .
March 13 & ndash; Fritz Lang 's culturally influential film Metropolis (film)|Metropolis premieres in Germany.
April
Main|April 1927
April 1 & ndash; U.S. Bureau of Prohibition founded (under United States Department of the Treasury|Department of the Treasury ).
April 5 & ndash; In Britain, the Trade Disputes and Trade Union Act 1927 forbids strikes of support.
April 7 & ndash; Bell Telephone Company|Bell Telephone Co. transmits an image of Herbert Hoover (then the Secretary of Commerce), 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.
* Kuomintang troops kill number of communist-supporting workers in Shanghai. The incident is called the April 12 Incident , or Shanghai Massacre. The 1st United Front between the Nationalists and Communist ends, and the Civil War lasting until 1949 begins.
April 14 & ndash; The first Volvo Cars|Volvo car rolls off the production line in Gothenburg , Sweden.
April 18 & ndash; The Kuomintang (Nationalist Chinese) set up a government in Nanking, China.
April 21 & ndash; A banking crisis hits Japan.
April 22 & ndash; May 5 & ndash; The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 strikes 700,000 people in the greatest natural disaster in American history at that time.
April 27
* The Carabineros de Chile ( Chile an national police force and gendarmery ) are created.
* João Ribeiro de Barros becomes the first non-European to make a transatlantic flight, from Genoa, Italy , to Fernando de Noronha , Brazil .
May
Main|May 1927
May & ndash; Philo Farnsworth of the United States transmits his first experimental Electronics|electronic television pictures, as opposed to mechanical TV systems that others had tried before.
May 5 & ndash; The novel To the Lighthouse was finished by Virginia Woolf .
May 7 & ndash; A Civil war ends in Nicaragua .
May 9 & ndash; The Australian Parliament first convenes in Canberra .
May 11 & ndash; The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , the "Academy" in " Academy Awards ", is founded.
May 12 & ndash; The British police raid the office of the Soviet trade delegation.
May 13 & ndash; George V of the United Kingdom|George V proclaims the change of his title from List of British monarchs|King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to King of Great Britain and Northern Ireland .
May 17 & ndash; The U.S. Army aviation pioneer Major Harold Geiger dies in the crash of his Airco DH.4 de Havilland plane, at Olmsted Field, Pennsylvania .
May 18 & ndash; Bath School disaster : Criminal bombings result in 45 deaths, mostly of children, in Bath Township, Michigan .
May 20 & ndash; Saudi Arabia becomes independent of the United Kingdom by the Treaty of Jedda .
May 20 & ndash; May 21 & ndash; Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight, from New York City to Paris in his single-seat, single-engine monoplane , the Spirit of St. Louis .
May 22 & ndash; An 8.6 magnitude earthquake in Xining , China kills 200,000.
May 23 & ndash; Nearly 600 members of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and the Institute of Radio Engineers viewed a live demonstration of television at the Bell Telephone Building in New York City. This is just over a year after John Logie Baird of Scotland first demonstrated a mechanical television system to the members of the Royal Society in London.
May 24 & ndash; Britain severs diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union because of revelations of espionage and underground agitprop|agitation .
June
Main|June 1927
June 4 & ndash; Yugoslavia severs diplomatic relations with Albania .
June 7 & ndash; Peter Voikov , the Soviet ambassador to Poland, is murdered.
June 9 & ndash; The Soviet Union executes 20 Britons for alleged espionage .
June 13
* Léon Daudet , the leader of the French monarchist s, is arrested in France.
* A ticker-tape parade is held for aviator Charles Lindbergh down 5th Avenue in New York City.
June 29 & ndash; A solar eclipse of June 29, 1927|total eclipse of the sun took place over Wales, northern England, southern Scotland, Norway, northern Sweden, northmost Finland, and the northmost extremes of Russia. This eclipse barely missed the southern edge of Ireland.
July
Main|July 1927
July 1 & ndash; The Food, Drug, and Insecticide Administration (FDIA) is established.
July 10 & ndash; Kevin O'Higgins , the Vice-President of the Irish Free State , is assassinated in Dublin .
July 11 & ndash; An earthquake strikes Palestine , killing around 300 people. The effects are especially severe in Nablus , but damage and fatalities are also reported in many areas of Palestine and Trans-Jordan such as Amman , Salt, Jordan , and Lod|Lydda .
July 15 & ndash; 85 protesters and five policemen are left 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 & ndash; The Menin Gate Memorial|Menin Gate War Memorial is dedicated at Ypres , Belgium.
August
Main|August 1927
August 1 & ndash; The Communist Chinese People's Liberation Army is formed during the Nanchang Uprising .
August 2 & ndash; U.S. President Calvin Coolidge announces, "I do not choose to run for President in 1928."
August 7 & ndash; The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York .
August 10 & ndash; The Mount Rushmore Park is rededicated. President Calvin Coolidge promises national funding for the proposed carving of the Presidential figures.
August 22 & ndash; In Hyde Park, London , 200 people demonstrate against the death sentencing of Italian immigrant anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti .
August 23 & ndash; Sacco and Vanzetti are executed.
August 24 & ndash; August 25 & ndash; The 1927 Nova Scotia hurricane hits the Atlantic Provinces of Canada, causing massive damage and at least 56 deaths.
August 26 & ndash; Paul R. Redfern leaves Brunswick, Georgia , flying his Stinson Detroiter "Port of Brunswick" to attempt a solo non-stop flight to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil . He later crashes in the Venezuela n jungle, but the crash site was never found.
September
Main|September 1927
September & ndash; Autumn Harvest Uprising in China.
September 7 & ndash; The UFMG|University of Minas Gerais is founded in Brazil.
September 14 & ndash; An underwater earthquake in Japan kills over 100 people.
September 18 & ndash; The Columbia Phonographic Broadcasting System (later known as CBS ) is formed and goes on the air with 47 radio station s.
September 25 & ndash; A treaty signed by the League of Nations Slavery Commission abolished all types of slavery .
September 27 & ndash; 79 are killed and 550 are injured in the East St. Louis Tornado, the 2nd costliest and at least 24th deadliest tornado in U.S. history.
October
Main|October 1927
October & ndash; The Solvay_Conference#Fifth_conference|Fifth Solvay Conference held in the latter half of the month establishes the acceptance of the Copenhagen interpretation .
October 4 & ndash; The actual carving begins at Mount Rushmore , South Dakota .
October 6 & ndash; The Jazz Singer (1927 film)|The Jazz Singer opens in the United States and it becomes a huge success, although it would be a while before silent films are completely gone.
October 8 & ndash; '' Murderer's Row : The New York Yankees complete a four-game sweep of the Pittsburgh Pirates in the World Series.
October 9 & ndash; The Mexican government crushes a rebellion in Veracruz, Veracruz|Vera Cruz .
October 27
* The Italian steamer ship Principessa Mafalda capsizes off Porto Seguro , Brazil. At least 314 people are killed.
* Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands opens the Meuse-Waal Canal in Nijmegen , Holland
* At 5:50 a.m. a ground fault gives way, causing the mine and part of the town of Walden, Ontario#Worthington|Worthington to collapse into a large chasm located in Ontario . Nobody is injured in the incident, but the area had been evacuated the night before after a mine foreman noticed abnormal rock shifts in the mine.
October 28 & ndash; The first flight of Pan American Airways takes off from Key West, Florida , bound for Havana, Cuba .
November
Main|November 1927
November 1 & ndash; Ismet Inönü forms the new government in Turkey (The 5th government).
November 3 & ndash; November 4 & ndash; Floods devastating Vermont cause the "worst natural disaster in the state's history". http://www.erh.noaa.gov/btv/events/27flood.shtml
November 4 & ndash; Frank Heath and his horse Gypsy Queen return to Washington, D.C., having completed a two-year journey of 11,356 miles to all 48 of the states (of that time).
November 12
* Mahatma Gandhi makes his first and last visit to Ceylon .
* Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin with undisputed control of the Soviet Union .
* The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first vehicular tunnel under the Hudson River linking New Jersey with New York City.
November 14 & ndash; The Pittsburgh Gasometer Explosion : Three Equitable Gas storage tanks in the Northside (Pittsburgh)|North Side of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania explode, killing 26 people and causing damage estimated between $4.0 million and $5.0 million.
November 21 & ndash; The Columbine Mine massacre|Colorado state police open fire on 500 rowdy but unarmed miners during a strike, killing six of them.
December
Main|December 1927
December & ndash; Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Communist Party congress condemns all deviation from the general party line in the USSR .
December 2 & ndash; Following 19 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Model A (1927)|Ford Model A as its new automobile.
December 15 & ndash; MarionParker , 12, is kidnapped in Los Angeles. Her dismembered body is found on December 19 , prompting the largest manhunt to date on the West Coast for her killer, Edward Hickman|William Edward Hickman , who is arrested on December 22 in Oregon .
December 17 & ndash; The USS S-4 (SS-109)|U.S. submarine S-4 is accidentally rammed and sunk by the United States Coast Guard cutter John Paulding off Provincetown, Massachusetts , killing everyone aboard despite several unsuccessful attempts to raise the submarine.
December 19 & ndash;3 Indian Revolutionaries viz Pandit Ram Prasad Bismil , Thakur Roshan Singh and Ashfaqulla Khan were executed by the British Empire 4th Rajendra Nath Lahiri had been executed two day's before i.e. on December 17
December 27 & ndash; Kern and Hammerstein's musical play, Show Boat , based on Show Boat (novel)|Edna Ferber's novel , opens on Broadway theater|Broadway and then goes on to become the first great classic of the American musical theater.
December 30 & ndash; The first Japanese rapid transit|commuter metro line , the Ginza Line in Tokyo, opens.
Date unknown
The British Broadcasting Corporation is granted a Royal Charter of Incorporation.
Harold Stephen Black invents the feedback amplifier .
The Voluntary Committee of Lawyers is founded to bring about the repeal of prohibition of alcohol in United States.
World population reaches two billion.
In Britain, 1,000 people a week die from an influenza epidemic.
Births
January& ndash;February
January 1
* Pat Heywood , Scottish actress
* Vernon L. Smith , American economist, Nobel Prize in Economics|Nobel Prize laureate
* Doak Walker , American football player (d. 1998 )
January 5 & ndash; Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami , American-born Hindu guru (d. 2001 )
January 10
* Gisele MacKenzie , Canadian-born singer (d. 2003 )
