Important Historical Events of the year 1927, Year 1927 in History
List of 1927 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1927
What happened in the year 1927?
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| January 1, 1927 | A new Mexican oil legislation goes into effect, leading to the formal outbreak of the Cristero War. |
| January 7, 1927 | The first transatlantic commercial telephone service is established from New York City to London. |
| January 9, 1927 | A fire at the Laurier Palace movie theatre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, kills 78 children. |
| January 10, 1927 | Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany. |
| January 11, 1927 | Louis B. Mayer, head of film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), announces the creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, at a banquet in Los Angeles, California. |
| January 22, 1927 | Teddy Wakelam gives the first live radio commentary of a football match, between Arsenal F.C. and Sheffield United at Highbury. |
| January 27, 1927 | Ibn Saud takes the title of King of Nejd. |
| February 3, 1927 | A revolt against the military dictatorship of Portugal breaks out at Oporto. |
| February 23, 1927 | U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs a bill by Congress establishing the Federal Radio Commission (later replaced by the Federal Communications Commission) which was to regulate the use of radio frequencies in the United States. |
| February 23, 1927 | German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg writes a letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, in which he describes his uncertainty principle for the first time. |
| March 11, 1927 | In New York City, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens the Roxy Theatre. |
| March 15, 1927 | The first Women's Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place on The Isis in Oxford. |
| March 24, 1927 | Nanking Incident: Foreign warships bombard Nanjing, China, in defense of the foreign citizens within the city.[39] |
| March 29, 1927 | Sunbeam 1000hp breaks the land speed record at Daytona Beach, Florida. |
| April 7, 1927 | AT&T transmits the first long-distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover). |
| April 12, 1927 | Shanghai massacre of 1927: Chiang Kai-shek orders the Chinese Communist Party members executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front. |
| April 12, 1927 | Rocksprings, Texas is hit by an F5 tornado that destroys 235 of the 247 buildings in the town, kills 72 townspeople and injures 205; third deadliest tornado in Texas history. |
| April 19, 1927 | Mae West is sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex. |
| April 23, 1927 | Cardiff City defeat Arsenal in the FA Cup Final, the only time it has been won by a team not based in England. |
| April 27, 1927 | Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmerie) are created. |
| April 30, 1927 | The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opens in Alderson, West Virginia, as the first women's federal prison in the United States. |
| May 4, 1927 | The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is incorporated. |
| May 8, 1927 | Attempting to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight from Paris to New York, French war heroes Charles Nungesser and François Coli disappear after taking off aboard The White Bird biplane. |
| May 9, 1927 | The Old Parliament House, Canberra, Australia, officially opens. |
| May 18, 1927 | The Bath School disaster: Forty-five people, including many children, are killed by bombs planted by a disgruntled school-board member in Bath Township, Michigan.[6][7][8] |
| May 18, 1927 | After being founded for 20 years, the Nationalist government approves Tongji University to be among the first national universities of the Republic of China. |
| May 20, 1927 | Treaty of Jeddah: The United Kingdom recognizes the sovereignty of King Ibn Saud in the Kingdoms of Hejaz and Nejd, which later merge to become the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. |
| May 20, 1927 | Charles Lindbergh takes off for Paris from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, N.Y., aboard the Spirit of St. Louis on the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean, landing .mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr- |
| May 21, 1927 | Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. |
| May 22, 1927 | Near Xining, China, an 8.3 magnitude earthquake causes 200,000 deaths in one of the world's most destructive earthquakes. |
| May 26, 1927 | The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles. |
| May 27, 1927 | The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacture of the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make the Ford Model A. |
| June 13, 1927 | Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker tape parade up 5th Avenue in New York City. |
| June 26, 1927 | The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island. |
| June 27, 1927 | Prime Minister of Japan Tanaka Giichi convenes an eleven-day conference to discuss Japan's strategy in China. The Tanaka Memorial, a forged plan for world domination, is later claimed to be a secret report leaked from this conference. |
| June 29, 1927 | The Bird of Paradise, a U.S. Army Air Corps Fokker tri-motor, completes the first transpacific flight, from the mainland United States to Hawaii. |
| July 4, 1927 | First flight of the Lockheed Vega. |
| July 10, 1927 | Kevin O'Higgins TD, Vice-President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State is assassinated by the IRA. |
| July 15, 1927 | Massacre of July 15, 1927: Eighty-nine protesters are killed by Austrian police in Vienna. |
| July 16, 1927 | Augusto César Sandino leads a raid on U.S. Marines and Nicaraguan Guardia Nacional that had been sent to apprehend him in the village of Ocotal, but is repulsed by one of the first dive-bombing attacks in history. |
| July 23, 1927 | The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in Bombay. |
| July 24, 1927 | The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres. |
| August 1, 1927 | The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Chinese Communist Party. This day is commemorated as the anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army. |
| August 7, 1927 | The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York. |
| August 16, 1927 | The Dole Air Race begins from Oakland, California, to Honolulu, Hawaii, during which six out of the eight participating planes crash or disappear. |
| August 19, 1927 | Patriarch Sergius of Moscow proclaims the declaration of loyalty of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Soviet Union. |
| August 23, 1927 | Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti are executed after a lengthy, controversial trial. |
| August 27, 1927 | Five Canadian women file a petition to the Supreme Court of Canada, asking: "Does the word 'Persons' in Section 24 of the British North America Act, 1867, include female persons?" |
| September 7, 1927 | The first fully electronic television system is achieved by Philo Farnsworth. |
| September 18, 1927 | The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air. |
| October 4, 1927 | Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore. |
| October 6, 1927 | Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent "talkie" movie. |
| October 23, 1927 | The Imatra Cinema was destroyed in a fire in Tampere, Finland, during showing the 1924 film Wages of Virtue; 21 people died in the fire and almost 30 were injured. |
| October 25, 1927 | The Italian luxury liner SS Principessa Mafalda sinks off the coast of Brazil, killing 314. |
| November 12, 1927 | Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin in undisputed control of the Soviet Union. |
| November 13, 1927 | The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicle tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City. |
| November 21, 1927 | Columbine Mine massacre: Striking coal miners are allegedly attacked with machine guns by a detachment of state police dressed in civilian clothes. |
| December 2, 1927 | Following 19 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Model A as its new automobile. |
| December 11, 1927 | Guangzhou Uprising: Communist Red Guards launch an uprising in Guangzhou, China, taking over most of the city and announcing the formation of a Guangzhou Soviet. |
| December 17, 1927 | Indian revolutionary Rajendra Lahiri is hanged in Gonda jail, Uttar Pradesh, India, two days before the scheduled date. |
| December 19, 1927 | Three Indian revolutionaries, Ram Prasad Bismil, Roshan Singh and Ashfaqulla Khan, are executed by the British Raj for participation in the Kakori conspiracy. |
| December 25, 1927 | B. R. Ambedkar and his followers burn copies of the Manusmriti in Mahad, Maharashtra, to protest its treatment of Dalit people. |
| December 27, 1927 | Kern and Hammerstein's musical play Show Boat, considered to be the first true American musical play, opens at the Ziegfeld Theatre on Broadway. |
| December 30, 1927 | The Ginza Line, the first subway line in Asia, opens in Tokyo, Japan. |