1927 - What happened in 1927 ?

January 1927

Friday 07:

The Harlem Globetrotters play their first game.

Monday 10:

The film Metropolis by Fritz Lang premiers.

Monday 24:

Young director Alfred Hitchcock released his first film, The Pleasure Garden, in England.

February 1927

Friday 04:

The Jazz Singer starring Al Jolson.

Wednesday 23:

The Federal Radio Commission (later renamed the Federal Communications Commission) begins to regulate the use of radio frequencies.

March 1927

Friday 11:

In New York City, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens the Roxy Theatre.

April 1927

Thursday 07:

First long distance public television broadcast (Washington, DC to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).

Friday 15:

Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford and Norma and Constance Talmadge become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in cement at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood.

Tuesday 19:

Mae West is sentenced to 10 days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.

Saturday 30:

The Federal Industrial Institute for Women, opens in Alderson, West Virginia, as the first women's federal prison in the United States.

May 1927

Monday 09:

The Australian Parliament first convenes in Canberra.

Wednesday 11:

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is founded.

Wednesday 18:

The Bath School Disaster: Forty-five people are killed by bombs planted by a disgruntled school-board member in Michigan.

Saturday 21:

Charles Lindbergh touchs down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.

Tuesday 31:

The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.

June 1927

Monday 13:

A ticker-tape parade is held for aviator Charles Lindbergh down 5th Avenue in New York City.

Wednesday 29:

First test of Wallace Turnbull's variable-pitch propeller.

July 1927

Monday 04:

First flight of the Lockheed Vega.

Friday 15:

Massacre of July 15, 1927: 89 protesters are killed by the Austrian police in Vienna.

Wednesday 20:

Michael I becomes King of Romania at age five upon the death of his grandfather Ferdinand I.

Sunday 24:

The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres.

August 1927

Monday 01:

The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Communist Party of China. This day is commemorated as the anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army.

Sunday 07:

Peace Bridge opens, between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.

Tuesday 23:

Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti are executed in Boston, Massachusetts.

September 1927

Wednesday 07:

The University of Minas Gerais is founded in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, by Governor Antônio Carlos.

Saturday 10:

France had its first Davis Cup win, though it had competed since 1905.

Sunday 18:

Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air.

Thursday 22:

Jack Dempsey loses the "Long Count" boxing match to Gene Tunney.

October 1927

Thursday 06:

Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent talking movie.

Friday 07:

Yankee Herb Pennock retires the first 22 Pirates in World Series game.

Friday 14:

The California Court of Appeals, in upholding a sodomy conviction, rules that corroborative evidence could be circumstantial in nature.

November 1927

Saturday 12:

The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicular tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City.

Monday 21:

Columbine Mine Massacre: 500 striking coal miners, some with their families, were attacked with machine guns by a detachment of state police dressed in civilian clothes

December 1927

Friday 02:

Following 19 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Model A as its new automobile.

Sunday 11:

Start of the Guangzhou Uprising.

Friday 30:

The Ginza Line, the oldest subway line in Asia, opened in Tokyo.