1927 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1927?
- January 7, 1927 – The first transatlantic telephone service is established – from New York, New York to London, England, United Kingdom.
- 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.
- February 23, 1927 – German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg writes a letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, in which he describes his uncertainty principle for the first time.
- March 11, 1927 – In New York City, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens the Roxy Theatre.
- April 30, 1927 – The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opens in Alderson, West Virginia, as the first women’s federal prison in the United States.
- May 1, 1927 – The first cooked meals on a scheduled flight are introduced on an Imperial Airways flight from London to Paris.
- May 9, 1927 – The Australian Parliament first convenes in Canberra.
- May 18, 1927 – After being founded for 20 years, the Government of the Republic of China approves Tongji University to be among the first national universities of the Republic of China.
- May 21, 1927 – Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world’s first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
- July 15, 1927 – Massacre of July 15, 1927: 89 protesters are killed by the Austrian police in Vienna.
- July 23, 1927 – The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in Bombay.
- July 24, 1927 – The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres.
- September 30, 1927 – Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season.
- October 6, 1927 – Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent talking movie.
- November 12, 1927 – Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin in undisputed control of the Soviet Union.
- December 11, 1927 – Guangzhou Uprising: Communist militia and worker Red Guards launch an uprising in the Chinese city of Guangzhou, taking over most of the city and announcing the formation of a Guangzhou Soviet.
- December 25, 1927 – The Vietnamese Nationalist Party is founded.
- December 27, 1927 – Show Boat, considered to be the first true American musical, opens at the Ziegfeld Theatre on Broadway.
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