May 1927

Monday 09:

The Australian Parliament first convenes in Canberra.

Wednesday 11:

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is founded.

Saturday 14:

Cap Arcona is launched at the Blohm + Voss shipyard in Hamburg.

Wednesday 18:

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

Friday 20:

At 07:52 Charles Lindbergh takes off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, New York, on the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean, touching down at Le Bourget Field in Paris at 22:22 the next day).

Saturday 21:

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

Friday 27:

The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacturing the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make Ford Model As.

Tuesday 31:

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