1927 (original) (raw)
Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades: 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s - 1920s - 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s
Years: 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 - 1927 - 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932
Events
- January 7 - First transatlantic telephone call - New York City to London
- February 23 - The Federal Radio Commission (later renamed the Federal Communications Commission) begins to regulate the use of radio frequencies.
- March 11 - In New York City, the Roxy Theatre is opened by Samuel Roxy Rothafel.
- April - The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 affects 700,000 people in the greatest national disaster in US history.
- April 7 - Bell Telephone Co. transmits an image of Commerce Secretary Hoover which becomes the first successful long distance demonstration of television.
- May - Philo Farnsworth transmits first experimental electronic television pictures
- 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 14 - Cap Arcona's launching , Blohm & Voss shipyard, in Hamburg.
- May 20 - Saudi Arabia becomes independent of Great Britain (Treaty of Jedda).
- May 20-May 21 Non-stop Trans-Atlantic flight from New York to Paris by Charles Lindbergh.
- 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 27 - Ford Motor Company ceases manufacturing Ford Model Ts and begins to retool plants to make Ford Model As.
- July 24 - The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres.
- August 1 - Formation of the People's Liberation Army during the Nanching Uprising
- August 7 - Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.
- August 23 - Sacco and Vanzetti executed.
- 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.
- December 2 - Following 19 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Model A as its new automobile.
- December 30 - Japan's first subway line, the Ginza Line in Tokyo, opens.
- German economy collapses
- The British Broadcasting Corporation is founded
- The Columbia Phonographic Broadcasting System (later known as CBS) is formed
- Harold Stephen Black invents the feedback amplifier
Year in topic
- 1920 in film
- January 10 - The film Metropolis by Fritz Lang premiers.
- Wings
- October 6 - The first talkie is released - The Jazz Singer starring Al Jolson
- The formation of The Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1927 in literature
- 1927 in music
- 1927 in sports
- January 7 - The Harlem Globetrotters play their first game
- February 11 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Beatrix Loughran.
- February 11 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Nathaniel Niles.
Births
- January 10 - Gisele MacKenzie, singer
- January 10 - Johnnie Ray, singer (+ 1990)
- January 17 - Eartha Kitt, actress, singer
- January 28 - Hiroshi Teshigahara, director
- January 29 - Edward Abbey, environmentalist (+ 1989)
- January 30 - Olof Palme, Swedish prime minister (+ 1986)
- February 2 - Stan Getz, musician (+ 1991)
- February 3 - Val Doonican, Irish singer and entertainer
- February 7 - Juliette Greco, singer and actor
- February 10 - Leontyne Price, lyric soprano
- February 15 - Harvey Korman, actor, comedian
- February 20 - Sidney Poitier, actor
- February 21 - Erma Bombeck, writer, humorist (+ 1996)
- February 21 - Hubert de Givenchy, fashion designer
- March 1 - Harry Belafonte, musician and actor
- March 1 - Robert Bork, law professor
- March 6 - Wes Montgomery, musician
- March 6 - Gordon Cooper, astronaut
- March 10 - Paul Wunderlich, painter, graphic artist, sculptor
- March 10 - Jupp Derwall, football coach
- March 11 - Joachim Fuchsberger, actor
- March 16 - Vladimir Komarov, cosmonaut
- March 16 - Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Senator from New York
- March 18 - George Plimpton, writer
- March 21 - Hans-Dietrich Genscher, politician
- March 24 - Martin Walser, author
- March 27 - Mstislav Rostropovich, conductor, musician
- March 31 - Cesar Chavez, labor activist (+ 1993)
- March 31 - William Daniels, actor
- April 6 - Gerry Mulligan, musician (+ 1996)
- April 20 - Phil Hill, race car driver
- May 9 - Wim Thoelke, show master (+ 1995)
- May 13 - Herbert Ross, director (+ 2001)
- May 20 - Bud Grant, Canadian and American football coach
- May 23 - Dieter Hildebrandt, cabaret artiste
- May 25 - Robert Ludlum, science fiction writer (+ 2001)
- May 30 - Clint Walker, actor
- July 4 - Gina Lollobrigida, actress
- August 23 - Dick Bruna, illustrator
- August 27 - Althea Gibson, African-American tennis pioneer
- August 30 - Geoffrey Beene, fashion designer
- October 16 - G�nter Grass, German novelist
- October 18 - George C. Scott, film and stage actor
- December 8 - Vladimir Shatalov, cosmonaut
- Bob Fosse, choreographer and director
Deaths
- January 18 - Former Empress Carlota of Mexico
- June 1 - Lizzie Andrew Borden, notorious figure, thought to have killed her parents with an axe.
- June 9 - Victoria Woodhull, feminist, suffragette.
- June 14 - Jerome K. Jerome, writer.
- August 23 - Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian anarchists.
- October 10 - Gustave Albin Whitehead, German-American aviation pioneer.
Nobel Prizes
- Physics - Arthur Holly Compton, - Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
- Chemistry - Heinrich Otto Wieland
- Medicine - Julius Wagner-Jauregg
- Literature - Henri Bergson
- Peace - Ferdinand Buisson Ludwig Quidde