1927

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Years: 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 - 1927 - 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932

Events

• January 7 - First transatlantic telephone call - New York City to London
• February 23 - The Federal Radio Commission (later renamed the Federal Communications Commission) begins to regulate the use of radio frequencies.
• March 11 - In New York City, the Roxy Theatre is opened by Samuel Roxy Rothafel.
• April - The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 affects 700,000 people in the greatest national disaster in US history.
• April 7 - Bell Telephone Co. transmits an image of Commerce Secretary Hoover which becomes the first successful long distance demonstration of television.
• May - Philo Farnsworth transmits first experimental electronic television pictures
• 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 14 - Cap Arcona's launching , Blohm & Voss shipyard, in Hamburg.
• May 20 - Saudi Arabia becomes independent of Great Britain (Treaty of Jedda).
• May 20-May 21 Non-stop Trans-Atlantic flight from New York to Paris by Charles Lindbergh.
• 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 27 - Ford Motor Company ceases manufacturing Ford Model Ts and begins to retool plants to make Ford Model As.
• July 24 - The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres.
• August 1 - Formation of the People's Liberation Army during the Nanching Uprising
• August 7 - Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.
• August 23 - Sacco and Vanzetti executed.
• 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.
• December 2 - Following 19 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Model A as its new automobile.
• December 30 - Japan's first subway line, the Ginza Line in Tokyo, opens.

• German economy collapses
• The British Broadcasting Corporation is founded
• The Columbia Phonographic Broadcasting System (later known as CBS) is formed
• Harold Stephen Black invents the feedback amplifier

Year in topic

• 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 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 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 30 - Olof Palme, Swedish prime minister (d. 1986)
• 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, lyric soprano
• February 15 - Harvey Korman, actor, comedian
• February 20 - Sidney Poitier, actor
• February 21 - Erma Bombeck, writer, humorist
• February 21 - Hubert de Givenchy, fashion designer
• March 1 - Harry Belafonte, musician and actor
• March 1 - Robert Bork, law professor
• March 6 - Wes Montgomery, musician
• March 6 - Gordon Cooper, astronaut

• 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, conductor, musician
• March 31 - Cesar Chavez, labor activist (d. 1993)
• March 31 - William Daniels, actor
• April 6 - Gerry Mulligan, musician
• April 20 - Phil Hill, race car driver
• April 27 - Coretta Scott King, American civil rights leader
• May 9 - Wim Thoelke, show master
• 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
• July 4 - Gina Lollobrigida, actress
• August 23 - Dick Bruna, illustrator
• August 27 - Althea Gibson, African-American tennis pioneer
• August 30 - Geoffrey Beene, fashion designer
• October 16 - Günter Grass, German novelist
• October 18 - George C. Scott, film and stage actor
• December 8 - Vladimir Shatalov, cosmonaut
• Bob Fosse, choreographer and director

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 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.

Nobel Prizes

• Physics - Arthur Holly Compton, - Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
• Chemistry - Heinrich Otto Wieland
• Medicine - Julius Wagner-Jauregg
• Literature - Henri Bergson
• Peace - Ferdinand Buisson Ludwig Quidde

Heads of state in 1927

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