1927

Years: 1924 1925 1926 - 1927 - 1928 1929 1930
Decades: 1890s 1900s 1910s - 1920s - 1930s 1940s 1950s
Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century

1927 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar).

Contents

1 Events

1.1 January-March
1.2 April-June
1.3 July-September
1.4 October-December
1.5 Unknown dates

2 Year in topic

3 Births

3.1 January
3.2 February
3.3 March
3.4 April
3.5 May-June
3.6 July-August
3.7 September-November
3.8 December

4 Deaths

5 Nobel Prizes

Events

January-March

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.

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 - 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.

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 14 - underwater earthquake in Japan - over 100 dead

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
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.

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.

Year in topic

1927 in aviation
1927 in film
- January 10 - The film Metropolis by Fritz Lang premiers.
- Wings
- October 6 - The first talkie is released - The Jazz Singer starring Al Jolson
- The formation of The Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences
1927 in literature
1927 in rail transport
- The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad celebrates its centennial in the Fair of the Iron Horse in Baltimore, Maryland.
1927 in music
1927 in sports
- January 7 - The Harlem Globetrotters play their first game
- February 11 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Beatrix Loughran .
- February 11 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Nathaniel Niles .

Births

January

January 10 - Gisele MacKenzie, singer
January 10 - Johnnie Ray, singer (d. 1990)
January 17 - Eartha Kitt, actress, singer
January 28 - Hiroshi Teshigahara, director
January 29 - Edward Abbey, environmentalist (d. 1989)
January 29 - Lewis Urry, inventor (d. 2004)
January 30 - Olof Palme, Swedish prime minister (d. 1986)

February

February 2 - Stan Getz, musician (d. 1991)
February 3 - Val Doonican , Irish singer and entertainer
February 7 - Juliette Greco, singer and actor
February 7 - Vladimir Kuts, Soviet long-distance runner
February 10 - Leontyne Price, American soprano
February 15 - Harvey Korman, actor, comedian
February 16 - Tom Kennedy, game show host.
February 20 - Sidney Poitier, actor
February 21 - Erma Bombeck, writer, humorist
February 21 - Hubert de Givenchy, fashion designer
February 16 - June Brown, British actor

March

March 1 - Harry Belafonte, musician and actor
March 1 - Robert Bork, law professor
March 6 - Gordon Cooper, astronaut (d. 2004)
March 6 - Wes Montgomery, musician
March 10 - Paul Wunderlich , painter, graphic artist, sculptor
March 10 - Jupp Derwall , football coach
March 11 - Joachim Fuchsberger , actor
March 16 - Vladimir Komarov, cosmonaut
March 16 - Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Senator from New York
March 18 - George Plimpton, writer
March 21 - Hans-Dietrich Genscher, politician
March 24 - Martin Walser, author
March 27 - Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist, conductor
March 31 - César Chávez, labor activist (d. 1993)
March 31 - William Daniels, actor

April

April 2 - Ferenc Puskás, legendary Hungarian football player.
April 2 - Kenneth Tynan, theatre critic (d. 1980)
April 6 - Gerry Mulligan, musician
April 16 - Joseph Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI
April 20 - Phil Hill, race car driver
April 27 - Coretta Scott King, American civil rights leader

May-June

May 9 - Wim Thoelke , show master
May 11 - Mort Sahl, comedian, political commentator
May 13 - Herbert Ross, director
May 20 - Bud Grant, Canadian and American football coach
May 23 - Dieter Hildebrandt , cabaret artiste
May 25 - Robert Ludlum, science fiction writer
May 30 - Clint Walker, actor
June 12 - Al Fairweather, Jazz musician

Deaths

January 18 - Former Empress Carlota of Mexico
March 27 - Joe Start, baseball player
June 1 - Lizzie Borden, notorious figure, thought to have killed her parents with an axe;
June 1 - J. B. Bury, historian
June 9 - Victoria Woodhull, feminist, suffragette.
June 14 - Jerome K. Jerome, writer.
August 23 - Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian anarchists.
October 10 - Gustave Albin Whitehead, German-American aviation pioneer.