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.
- April 15, 1927 – The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, the most destructive river flood in U.S. history, begins.
- April 19, 1927 – Mae West is sentenced to 10 days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.
- 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 1, 1927 – The first cooked meals on a scheduled flight are introduced on an Imperial Airways flight from London to Paris.
- 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 20, 1927 – At 07:52 Charles Lindbergh takes off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, New York, on the world’s first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. He touched down at Le Bourget Field in Paris at 22:22 the next day.
- 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 4, 1927 – First flight of the Lockheed Vega.
- July 24, 1927 – The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres.
- August 1, 1927 – The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Communist Party of China. This day is commemorated as the anniversary of the founding of the People’s Liberation Army.
- August 19, 1927 – Metropolitan Sergius proclaims the declaration of loyalty of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Soviet Union.
- September 5, 1927 – The first Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon, Trolley Troubles, produced by Walt Disney, is released by Universal Pictures.
- September 30, 1927 – Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season.
- October 4, 1927 – Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore.
- October 6, 1927 – Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent talking movie.
- 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 3, 1927 – Putting Pants on Philip, the first Laurel and Hardy film, is released.
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