1927

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1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar).

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Events

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January-March

January 1 - Cristero War erupts in Mexico when pro-Church rebels attack secular-minded government
January 7 - First transatlantic telephone call - New York City to London
January 9 - Military rebellion crushed in Lisbon
January 14 - Paul Doumer elected president of France
January 19 - Britain sends troops to China
January 30 - Right-wing veterans and the Republican Schutzbund clash in Schattendorf, Burgenland, Austria. One man and a child are killed by gunshots. See July 15.
February 12 - First British troops land in Shanghai
February 14 - Earthquake in Yugoslavia - 700 dead
February 19 - General strike in Shanghai in protest of the presence of the British troops
February 23 - The Federal Radio Commission (later renamed the Federal Communications Commission) begins to regulate the use of radio frequencies.
March 4 - A diamond rush in South Africa includes trained athletes that have been hired by major companies to stake claims
March 6 - In Britain, a 1000 people a week die from influenza epidemic
March 10 - Albania mobilizes in case of an attack of Yugoslavia
March 11 - In New York City, the Roxy Theatre is opened by Samuel Roxy Rothafel.
March 11 - First armoured car robbery, committed by the Flatheads gang.

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April-June

April 1 - First female police officers in Dresden
April 5 - In Britain, Trade Disputes Act forbids strikes of support
April 7 - Bell Telephone Co. transmits an image of Commerce Secretary Hoover which becomes the first successful long distance demonstration of television.
April 12 - The Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927 renames the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The change acknowledges that the Irish Free State is no longer part of the Kingdom.
April 12 - Kuomintang troops kill number of communist-supporting workers in Shanghai
April 18 - Nanking government of China, Kuomintang
April 21 - Banking crisis in Japan
April 22 - May 5 - The Great Mississippi Flood affects 700,000 people in the greatest national disaster in US history.
May - Philo Farnsworth transmits first experimental electronic television pictures
May 7 - Civil war ends in Nicaragua
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 12 - British police raids the office of Soviet trade delegation
May 13 - George V proclaims the change of his style from King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to King of Great Britain and Ireland.
May 14 - Cap Arcona's launching, Blohm & Voss shipyard, in Hamburg.
May 18 - Bombings result in 45 deaths, mostly children, in the Bath School disaster.
May 20 - Saudi Arabia becomes independent of the United Kingdom (Treaty of Jedda).
May 20-21 first solo non-stop Trans-Atlantic flight from New York to Paris by Charles Lindbergh.
May 22 - 8.6 richter scale earthquake in Xining, China kills 200,000
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 24 - Britain severs diplomatic relations with Soviet Union because of revelations of espionage and underground agitation
May 27 - Ford Motor Company ceases manufacturing Ford Model Ts and begins to retool plants to make Ford Model As.
June 4 - Yugoslavia severs diplomatic relations to Albania
June 7 - Peter Voikov, Soviet ambassador to Warsaw, assassinated
June 9 - Soviet Union executes 20 British for alleged espionage
June 13 - Leon Daudet, leader of French monarchists, is arrested in France
June 13 - A ticker-tape parade is held for aviator Charles Lindbergh down 5th Avenue in New York City.

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July-September

July 10 - Kevin O'Higgins, ice president of the Irish Free State, assassinated in Dublin
July 15 - 85 protesters and 5 policemen are dead after left-wing protesters and the Austrian police clash in Vienna. More than 600 people are injured. See Massacre of July 15, 1927.
July 24 - The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres.
August 1 - Formation of the People's Liberation Army during the Nanchang Uprising
August 7 - Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.
August 22 - In Hyde Park, London, 200 people demonstrate against the sentence of Sacco and Vanzetti
August 23 - Sacco and Vanzetti executed.
August 24-25 - Hurricane hits Atlantic shore of Canada causing massive damage - at least 56 dead
September 7 - The University of Minas Gerais is founded in Brazil.
September 14 - underwater earthquake in Japan - over 100 dead

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October-December

October 6 - The Jazz Singer opens and becomes a huge success, marking the end of the silent film era.
October 7 - Mercedes Gleitze is the first Englishwoman to swim the English Channel
October 8 - Murderer's Row New York Yankees complete 4 game sweep of Pittsburgh Pirates
October 9 - Mexican government crushes a rebellion in Vera Cruz
October 27 - Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands opens Meuse-Waal Canal in Nijmegen
October 28 - Pan American Airways first flight took off from Key West to Havana.
November 10 - Unexplained explosions in Canton, Ohio
November 12 - Mahatma Gandhi made his first and last visit to Ceylon.
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.
November 24 - Total solar eclipse over Northern England and Wales
December 2 - Following 19 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Model A as its new automobile.
December 12 - 1600 people hospitalized in London when they had hurt themselves on the icy streets
December 27 - Kern and Hammerstein's Show Boat, based on Edna Ferber's novel, opens on Broadway and goes on to become the first great classic of the American musical theatre.
December 30 - first subway line, the Ginza Line in Tokyo, opens.

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Unknown dates

The British Broadcasting Corporation is granted a Royal Charter of Incorporation.
The Columbia Phonographic Broadcasting System (later known as CBS) is formed.
Harold Stephen Black invents the feedback amplifier.
Voluntary Committee of Lawyers founded to bring about repeal of prohibition of alcohol in United States.
World population reaches 2 billion

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Births

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January

January 1 - Vernon L. Smith, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
January 1 - Doak Walker, American Footballer (d.1998)
January 10 - Gisele MacKenzie, Canadian-born singer (d. 2003)
January 10 - Johnnie Ray, American singer (d. 1990)
January 13 - Brock Adams, American politician (d. 2004)
January 13 - Sydney Brenner, British biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
January 17 - Eartha Kitt, American actress and singer
January 25 - Antonio Carlos Jobim, Brazilian composer (d. 1994)
January 26 - José Azcona del Hoyo, President of Honduras (d. 2005)
January 28 - Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japanese director
January 29 - Edward Abbey, American environmentalist (d. 1989)
January 29 - Lewis Urry, Canadian inventor (d. 2004)
January 30 - Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1986)

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February

February 2 - Stan Getz, American musician (d. 1991)
February 3 - Val Doonican, Irish singer and entertainer
February 7 - Juliette Greco, French singer and actor
February 7 - Vladimir Kuts, Russian runner (d. 1975)
February 10 - Leontyne Price, American soprano
February 15 - Harvey Korman, American actor and comedian
February 16 - June Brown, British actor
February 16 - Tom Kennedy, American game show host
February 20 - Roy Cohn, American lawyer and anti-Communist (d. 1986)
February 20 - Sidney Poitier, American actor
February 21 - Erma Bombeck, American writer and humorist (d. 1996)
February 21 - Hubert de Givenchy, French fashion designer
February 27 - Lynn Cartwright, American actress (d. 2004)

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March

March 1 - Harry Belafonte, American musician and actor
March 1 - Robert Bork, American law professor
March 6 - Gordon Cooper, astronaut (d. 2004)
March 6 - Wes Montgomery, American musician (d. 1968)
March 11 - Ron Todd, TGWU General Secretary (1985-1992) (d. 2005)
March 13 - Robert Denning, American interior designer (d. 2005}
March 16 - Vladimir Komarov, cosmonaut (d. 1967)
March 16 - Daniel Patrick Moynihan, U.S. Senator from New York (d. 2003)
March 18 - George Plimpton, American writer and actor (d. 2003)
March 21 - Hans-Dietrich Genscher, German politician
March 24 - Martin Walser, German author
March 27 - Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor
March 29 - John Robert Vane, British pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2004)
March 31 - César Chávez, American labor activist (d. 1993)
March 31 - William Daniels, American actor

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April

April 2 - Ferenc Puskás, Hungarian footballer
April 2 - Kenneth Tynan, English theatre critic (d. 1980)
April 6 - Gerry Mulligan, American musician (d. 1996)
April 10 - Marshall Warren Nirenberg, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
April 15 - Robert Mills, American physicist (d. 1999)
April 16 - Pope Benedict XVI
April 16 - Peter Mark Richman, American actor
April 20 - Phil Hill, American race car driver
April 20 - Karl Alexander Müller, Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
April 24 - Alan MacDiarmid, New Zealand chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
April 27 - Coretta Scott King, American civil rights leader (d. 2006)

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May

May 9 - Manfred Eigen, German biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
May 11 - Mort Sahl, Canadian-born comedian, political commentator
May 13 - Herbert Ross, American film director
May 20 - Bud Grant, Canadian and American football coach
May 22 - George Andrew Olah, Hungarian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
May 25 - Robert Ludlum, American author (d. 2001)
May 30 - Clint Walker, American actor