1927 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1927?
- 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.
- March 24, 1927 – Nanjing Incident: Foreign warships bombard Nanjing, China, in defense of the foreign citizens within the city.
- April 15, 1927 – The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, the most destructive river flood in U.S. history, begins.
- April 23, 1927 – Turkey becomes the first country to celebrate Children’s Day as a national holiday.
- April 30, 1927 – Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood.
- 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 20, 1927 – Treaty of Jedda: the United Kingdom recognizes the sovereignty of King Ibn Saud in the Kingdoms of Hejaz and Nejd, which later merge to become the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
- 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 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.
- October 22, 1927 – Nikola Tesla exposed his six (6) new inventions including motor with onephase electricity
- November 21, 1927 – Columbine Mine Massacre: Striking coal miners are allegedly attacked with machine guns by a detachment of state police dressed in civilian clothes.
- December 2, 1927 – Following 19 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Model A as its new automobile.
- December 3, 1927 – Putting Pants on Philip, the first Laurel and Hardy film, is released.
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