1927 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1927?
- January 2, 1927 – Angered by the anti-clerical provisions of the Mexican Constitution of 1917, Catholic rebels in Mexico rebelled against the government.
- January 7, 1927 – The first transatlantic telephone service is established – from New York, New York to London, England, United Kingdom.
- January 9, 1927 – A fire at the Laurier Palace movie theatre in Montreal, Quebec, kills 78 children.
- 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 14, 1927 – The first Volvo car premieres in Gothenburg, Sweden.
- April 15, 1927 – The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, the most destructive river flood in U.S. history, begins.
- April 27, 1927 – Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmery) are created.
- June 26, 1927 – The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island.
- June 29, 1927 – First test of Wallace Turnbull’s controllable pitch propeller.
- July 15, 1927 – Massacre of July 15, 1927: 89 protesters are killed by the Austrian police in Vienna.
- July 16, 1927 – Augusto César Sandino leads a raid on U.S. Marines and Nicaraguan Guardia Nacional that had been sent to apprehend him in the village of Ocotal, but is repulsed by one of the first dive-bombing attacks in history.
- August 23, 1927 – Sacco and Vanzetti are executed.
- September 7, 1927 – The first fully electronic television system is achieved by Philo Taylor Farnsworth.
- 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 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.
- 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.
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