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.
- February 2, 1927 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
- April 12, 1927 – April 12 Incident: Chiang Kai-shek orders the Communist Party of China members executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front.
- 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 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.
- May 31, 1927 – The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.
- June 13, 1927 – Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker-tape parade down 5th Avenue in New York City.
- 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.
- August 7, 1927 – The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.
- 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 22, 1927 – Jack Dempsey loses the “Long Count” boxing match to Gene Tunney.
- 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.
- 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 17, 1927 – Indian revolutionary Rajendranath Lahiri was hanged to death in Gonda jail of U.P. in India 2 days before the scheduled date.
- December 19, 1927 – Three Indian revolutionaries viz. Ram Prasad Bismil, Roshan Singh and Ashfaqulla Khan were executed by the British government.
- December 25, 1927 – The Vietnamese Nationalist Party is founded.
- December 30, 1927 – The Ginza Line, the first subway line in Asia, opens in Tokyo, Japan.
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