1927 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1927?
- January 1, 1927 – Turkey adopts the Gregorian calendar: December 18, 1926 (Julian), is immediately followed by January 1, 1927 (Gregorian).
- January 7, 1927 – The first transatlantic telephone service is established – from New York, New York to London, England, United Kingdom.
- February 2, 1927 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
- February 23, 1927 – 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.
- 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 19, 1927 – Mae West is sentenced to 10 days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.
- April 27, 1927 – Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmery) are created.
- 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 18, 1927 – The Bath School Disaster: forty-five people are killed by bombs planted by a disgruntled school-board member in Michigan.
- June 26, 1927 – The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island.
- June 27, 1927 – Prime Minister of Japan Tanaka Giichi leads a conference to discuss Japan’s plans for China; later, a document detailing these plans, the “Tanaka Memorial” is leaked, although it is now considered a forgery.
- July 15, 1927 – Massacre of July 15, 1927: 89 protesters are killed by the Austrian police in Vienna.
- August 23, 1927 – Sacco and Vanzetti are executed.
- 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 Taylor Farnsworth.
- September 22, 1927 – Jack Dempsey loses the “Long Count” boxing match to Gene Tunney.
- October 4, 1927 – Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore.
- November 13, 1927 – The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicle tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City.
- December 25, 1927 – The Vietnamese Nationalist Party is founded.
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