1927 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1927?
- January 22, 1927 – First live radio commentary of a football match anywhere in the world, between Arsenal F.C. and Sheffield United at Highbury.
- February 2, 1927 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
- March 24, 1927 – Nanjing Incident: Foreign warships bombard Nanjing, China, in defense of the foreign citizens within the city.
- April 7, 1927 – First distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
- April 12, 1927 – April 12 Incident: Chiang Kai-shek orders the Communist Party of China members executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front.
- May 1, 1927 – The Union Labor Life Insurance Company is founded by the American Federation of Labor.
- May 8, 1927 – Attempting to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight from Paris to New York, French war heroes Charles Nungesser and Francois Coli disappeared after taking off aboard The White Bird biplane.
- May 9, 1927 – The Australian Parliament first convenes in Canberra.
- May 18, 1927 – The Bath School Disaster: forty-five people are killed by bombs planted by a disgruntled school-board member in Michigan.
- 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.
- May 31, 1927 – The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.
- June 13, 1927 – Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker-tape parade down 5th Avenue in New York City.
- July 15, 1927 – Massacre of July 15, 1927: 89 protesters are killed by the Austrian police in Vienna.
- 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 – Metropolitan Sergius proclaims the declaration of loyalty of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Soviet Union.
- September 30, 1927 – Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season.
- November 12, 1927 – Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin in undisputed control of the Soviet Union.
- December 8, 1927 – The Brookings Institution, one of the United States’ oldest think tanks, is founded through the merger of three organizations that had been created by philanthropist Robert S. Brookings.
- December 19, 1927 – Three Indian revolutionaries viz. Ram Prasad Bismil, Roshan Singh and Ashfaqulla Khan were executed by the British government.
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