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Year 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.

Events of 1927

January

January 1 - Cristero War erupts in Mexico when pro-Church rebels attack the government, which had banned the Catholic faith.
January 7 - First transatlantic telephone call is made: New York City to London.
January 9 - Military rebellion crushed in Lisbon.
January 15 - Teddy Wakelam gives the first sports commentary on BBC Radio.
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

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 U.S. Federal Radio Commission (later renamed the Federal Communications Commission) begins to regulate the use of radio frequencies.

March

March 4 - A diamond rush in South Africa includes trained athletes that have been hired by major companies to stake claims.
March 7 - At least 2,925 killed, Richter Scale 7.6 magnitude earthquake at Toyooka and Mineyama erea, western Honshu, Japan.
March 10 - Albania mobilizes in case of an attack of Yugoslavia.
March 11

In New York City, the Roxy Theater is opened by Samuel Roxy Rothafel.
First armoured car robbery, committed by the Flatheads gang.

March 13 - Fritz Lang's culturally influential Metropolis (film) debuts.

April

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.
Kuomintang troops kill number of communist-supporting workers in Shanghai. The incident was called the April 12 Incident, or Shanghai Massacre. The 1st United Front between the Nationalists and Communist ended, and the Civil War lasting until 1949 began.

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.
April 27 - Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmery) are created.
April 30 - Cardiff City wins the FA Cup after beating Arsenal 1-0 at Wembley Stadium.

May

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 title 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. In the U.S., University of Chicago's local collegiate organization, Phi Sigma, becomes incorporated under the laws of the State of Illinois as Eta Sigma Phi, the National Honorary Classical Fraternity.
May 17 - Army aviation pioneer, Major Harold Geiger, died in the crash of his Airco DH.4 de Havilland plane at Olmstead Field, Pennsylvania
May 18 - Bombings result in 45 deaths, mostly children, in the Bath School disaster in Bath Township, Michigan.
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 - An 8.6 magnitude 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.

June

June 4 - Yugoslavia severs diplomatic relations with 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.
A ticker-tape parade is held for aviator Charles Lindbergh down 5th Avenue in New York City.

July

July 10 - Kevin O'Higgins, vice president of the Irish Free State, assassinated in Dublin.
July 11 - An earthquake strikes Palestine, killing around 300. The effects are especially severe in Nablus, but damage and fatalities are also reported in many areas of Palestine and Trans-Jordan such as Amman, Salt and Lydda.
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 22 - Italian football club A.S. Roma founded.
July 24 - The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres.

August

August 1 - Formation of the Communist Chinese 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 are executed.
August 24-25 - Hurricane hits Atlantic shore of Canada causing massive damage - at least 56 dead.
August 26-Paul R. Redfern leaves Brunswick, Ga flying his Stinson Detroiter "Port of Brunswick" to attempt a solo non-stop flight to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He later crashes in the Venezuela jungle, the crash site never located.

September

September 7 - The University of Minas Gerais is founded in Brazil.
September 14 - An underwater earthquake in Japan kills over 100 people.
September 18 - The Columbia Phonographic Broadcasting System (later known as CBS) is formed and goes on air with 47 radio stations.
September 27 - 79 are killed and 550 are injured in East St. Louis Tornado. 2nd costliest and at least 24th deadliest tornado in U.S. history.

October

October 6 - The Jazz Singer opens and becomes a huge success, marking the end of the silent film era.
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 - At least 314 killed, Italian steamer ship Principessa Mafalda capsized off Porto Seguro, Brazil.
October 27 - Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands opens Meuse-Waal Canal in Nijmegen.
October 27 - At 5:50 a.m. a ground fault gave way, causing the mine and part of the town of Worthington to collapse into a large chasm located in Ontario, Canada. Nobody was injured in the incident, however, the area was evacuated the night before after a mine foreman noticed abnormal rock shifts in the mine.
October 28 - Pan American Airways first flight took off from Key West to Havana.

November

November 4 - Frank Heath and his horse Gypsy Queen return to Washington, D.C., having completed a two-year journey of 11,356 miles to all 48 states.
November 10 - Unexplained explosions in Canton, Ohio.
November 12

Mahatma Gandhi made his first and last visit to Ceylon.
Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin with undisputed control of the Soviet Union.
The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicular tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City.

November 14 - The Pittsburgh Gasometer Explosion: three Equitable Gas storage tanks in the North Side of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania explode, killing 26 people and causing damage estimated between contemporary totals of $4 million and $5 million.
November 24 - Total solar eclipse over Northern England and Wales.

December

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 15 - Marion Parker, 12, is kidnapped in Los Angeles. Her dismembered body is found on December 19 prompting the largest manhunt to date on the West Coast for her killer, William Edward Hickman, who is arrested on December 22 in Oregon.
December 17 - U.S. submarine S-4 is accidentally rammed and sunk by United States Coast Guard destroyer John Paulding off Provincetown, Massachusetts killing everyone aboard after several unsuccessful attempts to raise sub.
December 27 - Kern and Hammerstein's musical play 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 Japanese metro line, the Ginza Line in Tokyo, opens.

Undated

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.
In Britain, 1000 people a week die from influenza epidemic.