Notable Historical Events - 1927
1927 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
Communist uprising in West Java |
Jan 1 |
Dodgers announce release of future Hall of Fame Zack Wheat |
Jan 1 |
Turkey adopts the Gregorian calendar: December 18, 1926 (Julian), is immediately followed by January 1, 1927 (Gregorian). |
Jan 5 |
Fox Studios exhibits Movietone |
Jan 5 |
Judge Landis begins 3-day public hearing on charges that 4 games played between Chicago & Detroit in 1917 had been thrown to White Sox |
Jan 6 |
US marines sent to Nicaragua |
Jan 7 |
Commercial transatlantic telephone service inaugurated between NY & London |
Jan 7 |
Harlem Globetrotters play 1st game (Hinckley, Illinois) |
Jan 9 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch' Octet opus 11, premieres in Moscow |
Jan 9 |
Fire in Laurier Palace cinema in Montreal, 78 children died |
Jan 10 |
Fritz Lang's Metropolis premieres |
Jan 11 |
Royale Theater (Golden, CBS Radio Playhouse) opens at 242 W 45th NYC |
Jan 13 |
US & Mexico battle over oil interests |
Jan 14 |
Toronto Maple Leafs 1st hat trick (Hap Day) vs NY Rangers |
Jan 15 |
The Tennessee Supreme Court overturns (on a technicality) John T Scopes' guilty verdict for teaching evolution — but the law itself remains in force |
Jan 19 |
British government decides to send troops to China |
Jan 21 |
1st national opera broadcast from a US opera house (Faust, Chicago) |
Jan 24 |
Director Alfred Hitchcock releases his first film, The Pleasure Garden, in England. |
Jan 26 |
Maxwell Anderson's "Saturday's Children," premieres in NYC |
Jan 28 |
Serbian-Croatian-Slavic government of Oezonowitsj falls |
Jan 29 |
4th German government of Marx forms |
Jan 30 |
Left wins national election in Thuringen |
Jan 31 |
Internationall allied military command in Germany disbands |
Jan 31 |
NL Pres John Heydler rules Rogers Hornsby can't hold stock in the Cardinals & play for the Giants |
Feb 2 |
Harry Tierney/Joseph McCarthy's "Rio Rita," premieres in NYC |
Feb 2 |
Ziegfeld Theater (Loew's Ziegfeld) opens at 6th Ave & 54th St NYC |
Feb 3 |
Uprising against regime of general Carmona in Portugal |
Feb 4 |
KGA-AM in Spokane WA begins radio transmissions |
Feb 5 |
Buster Keaton's movie "The General" released & bombed |
Feb 8 |
Belgian-Swiss treaty signed |
Feb 10 |
Pres Calvin Coolidge asks for 2nd disarmament conference |
Feb 11 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Beatrix Loughran |
Feb 11 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Nathaniel Niles |
Feb 12 |
British expeditionary army lands in Shanghai |
Feb 13 |
Uprising against Portuguese regime of Gen Carmona defeated |
Feb 16 |
Noel Coward's "Marquise," premieres in London |
Feb 16 |
US restores diplomatic relations with Turkey |
Feb 18 |
1st US radio broadcast of "Cities Service Concerts" |
Feb 18 |
US & Canada begin diplomatic relations |
Feb 19 |
General strike against British occupiers in Shanghai |
Feb 20 |
Golfers in SC arrested for violating Sabbath |
Feb 21 |
Franz Lehr's opera "Zarewitsch," premieres |
Feb 22 |
ARC soccer team forms in Alphen on the Rhine |
Feb 22 |
Baruch Spinosa's house of mourning opened as a museum |
Feb 23 |
Pres Calvin Coolidge creates Federal Radio Commission (FRC) |
Feb 24 |
John Golden Theater (Theatre Masque) opens at 252 W 45th St NYC |
Feb 25 |
Gdanks & Polish accord concerning traffic through Polish corridor |
Feb 27 |
For 2nd Sunday in a row golfers in SC arrested for violating Sabbath |
Mar 1 |
Bank of Italy becomes a Natl Bank |
Mar 2 |
Babe Ruth becomes highest paid baseball player ($70,000 per year) |
Mar 5 |
1,000 US marines land in China to protect American property |
Mar 7 |
Earthquake measuring 8 on Richter scale strikes Tango, Japan |
Mar 8 |
Pan American Airlines incorporates |
Mar 10 |
Albania mobilize by threat of Serbian, Croatian & Slovenes |
Mar 10 |
Bavaria lifts ban on Hitler's speeches |
Mar 11 |
1st armored commercial car hold-up in US, Pittsburgh |
Mar 11 |
1st golden gloves tournament |
Mar 11 |
Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens famous Roxy Theater (NYC) |
Mar 17 |
US government doesn't sign league of Nations disarmament treaty |
Mar 19 |
Bloody battles between communists & nazis in Berlin |
Mar 21 |
Guomindang Army conquerors Shanghai as British marines flee |
Mar 22 |
Federico Garcia Lorca's "El Maleficio" premieres in Madrid |
Mar 24 |
Cuban chess champion Jose Capablanca wins 33-day Grand Chess Tournie |
Mar 24 |
Dutch 1st Chamber condemns Belgian & Netherland's Wielingen Treaty |
Mar 26 |
Alfred Hugenberg purchases German film company UFA |
Mar 26 |
Gaumont-British Film Corporation forms |
Mar 28 |
Majestic Theater opens at 245 W 44th St NYC |
Mar 29 |
Henry O D Seagrave races his Sunbeam to a record 203.79 mph at Daytona |
Apr 1 |
1st automatic record changer introduced by His Master's Voice |
Apr 3 |
Interstate Commerce Comm transfers Ohio to Eastern time zone |
Apr 5 |
Johnny Weissmuller set records in 100 & 200 m free style |
Apr 7 |
Using phone lines TV is sent from Wash DC to NYC |
Apr 9 |
Italy & US anarchists Sacco & Vanzetti given death sentences |
Apr 11 |
Chilean gen Carlos Ibáñez names himself president |
Apr 12 |
Gen Chiang Kai-shek begins counter revolution in Shanghai |
Apr 13 |
Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators beat Boston Bruins, in 2 games & 2 ties |
Apr 14 |
The first Volvo car premieres in Gothenburg, Sweden. |
Apr 15 |
Babe Ruth hits 1st of 60 HRs of season (off A's Howard Ehmke) |
Apr 15 |
Switzerland & USSR agree to diplomatic relations |
Apr 17 |
Japan's Wakarsoeki government falls/Baron Tanaka becomes premier |
Apr 18 |
Chiang Kai-Shek forms anti-government in China |
Apr 19 |
"Vagabond King" opens in London |
Apr 19 |
31st Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar of Mass in 2:40:22.2 |
Apr 22 |
1st performance of Roger Sessions' Symphony in E |
Apr 25 |
Spain routes 20,000 soldiers to Morocco (uprising Rifkabylen) |
Apr 27 |
Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmery) are created. |
Apr 29 |
Construction of Spirit of St Louis is completed |
Apr 30 |
Princess Juliana gets seat in Dutch Council of State |
May 1 |
1st British airliner to serve cooked meals (Imperial Airways) |
May 1 |
Netherlands beats Belgium 3-2 in soccer match in Amsterdam |
May 1 |
Panningen soccer team forms in Panningen |
May 2 |
Intl Economic Conference (52 countries including USSR) opens |
May 2 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to Louis Bromfield (Early Autumn) |
May 4 |
1st balloon flight over 40,000 feet (Scott Field, Ill) |
May 4 |
Nicaragua agrees to a US supervised presidential election in 1928 |
May 5 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch's 1st Symphony premieres in Berlin |
May 7 |
SF Municipal Airport (Mills Field) dedicated |
May 7 |
Angelos Sikelianos organizes the first Delphic Festival in Delphi to celebrate the ancient Greek Delphic ideal. |
May 9 |
53rd Preakness: Whitey Abel aboard Bostonian wins in 2:01.6 |
May 9 |
Canberra replaces Melbourne as the capital of Australia |
May 9 |
The Australian Parliament first convenes in Canberra. |
May 11 |
Belgium beats England 9-1 in soccer |
May 11 |
Louis B Mayer forms Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences |
May 13 |
"Black Friday" on Berlin Stock Exchange |
May 13 |
VVOG soccer team forms in Harderwijk |
May 14 |
"Ain't She Sweet?" hits #1 on the singles chart by Ben Bernie |
May 14 |
53rd Kentucky Derby: Linus McAtee aboard Whiskery wins in 2:06 |
May 14 |
Cap Arcona is launched at the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg. |
May 14 |
The University of Chicago's local collegiate organization, Phi Sigma, becomes incorporated under Illinois law as Eta Sigma Phi, the National Honorary Classical Fraternity. |
May 16 |
NY Yankee Bob Meusel steals 2nd, 3rd & home |
May 16 |
Supreme Court ruled bootleggers must pay income tax |
May 17 |
Chicago Cubs beat Boston Braves, 4-3, in 22 innings |
May 17 |
U.S. Army aviation pioneer, Major Harold Geiger, dies in the crash of his Airco DH.4 de Havilland plane at Olmstead Field, Pennsylvania |
May 18 |
"Slide Lake" in Gros Ventre, Wyoming, collapses |
May 18 |
Grauman's Chinese Theater opens in Hollywood Calif |
May 18 |
Ritz Hotel opens in Boston |
May 18 |
Bath School Disaster, Bath MI. Andrew Kehoe blows up Bath Consolidated School killing 38 children, 2 teachers. |
May 20 |
At 7:40 AM, pilot Charles Lindbergh takes off from NY to cross Atlantic for Paris |
May 20 |
Saudi Arabia becomes independent of Great Britain (Treaty of Jedda) |
May 20 |
Charles Lindbergh begins NY flight (Spirit of St Louis) |
May 21 |
Aviator Charles Lindbergh, in the Spirit of St Louis, lands in Paris after first solo air crossing of Atlantic |
May 22 |
8.3 earthquake strikes Nan-Shan China, 200,000 killed |
May 22 |
Dodgers beat Phillies, 20-4 |
May 25 |
Henry Ford announces that he is ending production of the Model T Ford |
May 26 |
Henry Ford and the Ford Motor Company produce the last (and 15th million) Model T Ford / Tin Lizzie |
May 27 |
Japanese military intervention in Chinese civil war |
May 27 |
Thomas Masaryk elected Czechoslovakia president |
May 28 |
Hammond scores his 1,000th cricket run of the season after 22 days |
May 30 |
Walter Johnson records 113th & last shutout of his career |
May 30 |
Indianapolis 500: George Souders wins in 5:07:33.022 (156.983 km/h) |
May 31 |
Tiger 1st baseman Johnny Neun makes an unassisted triple play |
Jun 1 |
Peace Bridge between US & Canada opens |
Jun 4 |
1st Ryder Cup: US beats England, 9½-2½ at Worcester Country Club (Worcester, Massachusetts, US) |
Jun 4 |
Johnny Weissmuller set swim records in 100-yard & 200-yard free-style |
Jun 5 |
3rd French Mens Tennis: R Lacoste beats B Tilden (6-4 4-6 5-7 6-3 11-9) |
Jun 5 |
Johnny Weissmuller sets 100-yard & 200-yard free-style swim record |
Jun 8 |
Tony Lazzeri hits 3 HRs Yanks beat White Sox 12-11 |
Jun 11 |
59th Belmont: Earl Sande riding Chance Shot wins in 2:32.6 |
Jun 11 |
Babe Ruth hits 19th & 20th of 60 HRs |
Jun 11 |
Charles Lindbergh is awarded the 1st Distinguished Flying Cross |
Jun 13 |
Ticker-tape parade welcomes Charles A Lindbergh to NYC |
Jun 16 |
31st US Golf Open: Tommy Armour shoots a 301 at Oakmont CC in Pa |
Jun 18 |
Paavo Nurmi runs world record 2000 m: 5:24.6 |
Jun 23 |
Lou Gehrig hits 3 HRs in 11-4 victory over Red Sox |
Jun 25 |
WVO soccer team forms in Oosterhout |
Jun 26 |
Comet 7P/Pons-Winnecke approaches within 0.0394 AUs of Earth |
Jun 26 |
The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island |
Jun 29 |
1st flight from West Coast arrives in Hawaii |
Jun 29 |
First test of Wallace Turnbull's controllable pitch propeller. |
Jun 30 |
Augusto Cesar Sandino issues his Manifesto Politico |
Jun 30 |
US Assay Office in Deadwood, South Dakota closes |
Jul 2 |
40th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats L de Alvarez (6-2 6-4) |
Jul 2 |
Earthquake hits Palestine |
Jul 3 |
47th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: H Cochet beats Borotra (4-6 4-6 6-3 6-4 7-5) |
Jul 4 |
Ir Sukarno forms PNI (Perserikatan Nasional Indonesia) in Batavia |
Jul 4 |
First flight of the Lockheed Vega. |
Jul 9 |
Atty William T Francis named minister to Liberia |
Jul 12 |
Babe Ruth hits 30th of 60 HRs |
Jul 14 |
1st commercial airplane flight in Hawaii |
Jul 15 |
62nd British Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 285 at St Andrews |
Jul 15 |
Massacre in Vienna: 89 protesters are killed by the Austrian police |
Jul 16 |
Augusto Sandino begins 5½ year war against US occupation of Nicaragua |
Jul 18 |
Ty Cobb's 4,000th career hit |
Jul 19 |
Ty Cobb gets his 4,000th hit |
Jul 24 |
The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres. |
Jul 27 |
Mel Ott, 18, hits his 1st league home run (inside the park) |
Jul 29 |
1st iron lung installed (Bellevue hospital, NY) |
Jul 29 |
Phil Mead scores his 100th 100, Hampshire v Northants |
Aug 1 |
Earliest date for a film to be considered for the Academy Awards |
Aug 5 |
Phillies Cy Williams hits for cycle in just 4 at bats |
Aug 7 |
Peace Bridge between US & Canada dedicated |
Aug 7 |
US rum smuggler Horace Alderman kills 3 |
Aug 12 |
"Wings", the only silent film to win an Oscar for best picture, opens |
Aug 16 |
1st HR hit out of Comiskey Park Chicago (NY Yankee Babe Ruth) |
Aug 19 |
Metropolitan Sergius proclaims the declaration of loyalty of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Soviet state. |
Aug 21 |
4th Pan-African Congress meets (NYC) |
Aug 22 |
Babe Ruth hits 40th of 60 homers |
Aug 27 |
Parks College, America's oldest aviation school, opens |
Aug 30 |
41st US Women's Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats Betty Nuthall (61 64) |
Sep 2 |
Rumour starts that Yankee Lou Gehrig will be traded to Tigers |
Sep 4 |
Charles Lindbergh visits Boise, Idaho, on his cross-country tour |
Sep 5 |
Red Sox beat Yankees 12-11 in 18 innings |
Sep 6 |
Buddy DeSylva & Lew Brown's musical "Good News" premieres in NYC |
Sep 6 |
Red Sox beat NY Yankees 12-11 in 18 innings at Fenway Park |
Sep 7 |
Philo Farnsworth demonstrates 1st use of TV in SF |
Sep 7 |
The University of Minas Gerais is founded in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, by GovernorAntônio Carlos. |
Sep 9 |
Tony Lazzeri Day at Yankee Stadium |
Sep 10 |
22nd Davis Cup: France beats USA in Philadelphia (3-2) |
Sep 11 |
After losing 21 in a row to NY, the Browns win their last meeting, 6-2 |
Sep 11 |
Babe Ruth hits 50th of 60 homers |
Sep 12 |
Sigmund Romberg's musical "My Maryland," premieres in NYC |
Sep 13 |
Yanks clinch pennant, Ruth hits 2 HRs (52 en route to 60) |
Sep 13 |
Waite Hoyt became only 20 game winner of 1927 Yankees |
Sep 16 |
Rene Lacoste beats Bill Tilden for US Lawn Tennis Association title |
Sep 17 |
47th US Men's Tennis: Rene Lacoste beats William T Tilden (11-9 6-3 11-9) |
Sep 17 |
Charles Lindbergh visits San Francisco |
Sep 18 |
The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air. with 18 stations (and WOR as NYC affiliate) |
Sep 22 |
Famous "Long count" fight (Dempsey loses to Tunney) |
Sep 22 |
Gene Tunney beats Jack Dempsey in 10 for heavyweight boxing title |
Sep 22 |
Yanks Earle Coombs hits 3 triples |
Sep 24 |
NHL's Toronto St Patricks become Maple Leafs |
Sep 24 |
Yanks set record of 106 victories |
Sep 26 |
St James Theater (Erlanger) opens at 246 W 44th St NYC |
Sep 29 |
Babe Ruth ties record by hitting grand slams in consecutive games |
Sep 29 |
Telephone service begins between US & Mexico |
Sep 29 |
Tornado strikes St Louis Missouri, 85 die |
Sep 30 |
Babe Ruth hits record setting 60th HR (off Tom Zachary) |
Oct 1 |
Pirates clinch NL pennant with a 9-6 win over Reds |
Oct 4 |
Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mt. Rushmore. |
Oct 6 |
"Jazz Singer," 1st movie with a sound track, premieres (NYC) |
Oct 7 |
Yank Herb Pennock retires 1st 22 Pirates in World Series game |
Oct 8 |
NY Yankees sweep Pirates in 24th World Series |
Oct 8 |
Sea battle at Navarino (Greece freed of Ottoman occupation) |
Oct 11 |
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Oct 12 |
Hermann Goerner of Germany raises 24 men weighing 4,123 lbs on a plank with soles of his feet |
Oct 17 |
Ban Johnson, in failing health, retires as AL president |
Oct 23 |
Town of Netanya Israel founded by Nathan Strauss |
Oct 26 |
Duke Ellington sings "Creole Love Song" |
Oct 27 |
Queen Wilhelmina opens Meuse-Waal Canal in Nijmegen |
Oct 28 |
Josip Broz (Tito) begins 7 months jail sentence in Croatia |
Oct 28 |
KLM-plane "Homing Pigeon" leaves Neth-Indies after 1st regular flight |
Nov 3 |
22.3 cm rainfall at Somerset, Vermont (state record) |
Nov 3 |
Rodgers & Hart's musical "Connecticut Yankee" premieres in NYC |
Nov 3 |
Tropical storm flooding kills 84 in Winooski River Valley (Vt) |
Nov 5 |
10th PGA Championship: Water Hagen at Cedar Crest CC Dallas |
Nov 5 |
Walter Hagen beats Joe Turnesa for 4th consecutive PGA title |
Nov 9 |
Giant Panda discovered, China |
Nov 9 |
Pastor of Have begins blessing of motorcars/motors |
Nov 12 |
1st underwater tunnel, Holland Tunnel connecting NY to NJ opens |
Nov 12 |
Notre Dame's Fighting Irish changes blue jerseys for green |
Nov 12 |
Trotsky expelled from Soviet CP; Stalin becomes undisputed dictator |
Nov 13 |
NY-NJ Holland Tunnel, 1st twin-tube underwater auto tunnel, opens |
Nov 14 |
World's largest gas tank in Pittsburgh Penn explodes; 28 die |
Nov 17 |
Tornado hits Washington DC |
Nov 22 |
1st snowmobile patent granted to Carl Eliason (Sayner Wisc) |
Nov 22 |
George Gershwin's "Funny Face" premieres in NYC |
Nov 22 |
Neil Simon Theater (Alvin) opens at 250 W 52nd St NYC |
Nov 26 |
15th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Balmy Beach defeats Hamilton Tigers, 9-6 |
Nov 28 |
J McHugh & D Fields' musical "Delmar's Revels" premieres in NYC |
Dec 2 |
1st Model A Fords sold, for $385 |
Dec 2 |
Paleoanthropologist Davidson Black announces to the Geological Society of China that the ancient human fossils from Zhoukoudian, China are a new species which he has named 'Sinanthropus pekinensis' (now known as 'Homo erectus') |
Dec 4 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch's 2nd Symphony premieres in Moscow |
Dec 4 |
Duke Ellington opens at Cotton Club in Harlem |
Dec 4 |
Pirates Paul Waner wins NL MVP |
Dec 10 |
Grand Ole Opry makes its 1st radio broadcast, in Nashville, TN |
Dec 14 |
Iraq gains independence from Britain, but British troops remain |
Dec 15 |
Ed Hickman kidnaps child he later beheads |
Dec 16 |
Cricket 1st-class debut of Don Bradman, NSW v South Australia |
Dec 17 |
Bradman scores 118 on 1st-class cricket debut, 188 mins 8 fours |
Dec 17 |
US sub 'S-4' sinks after collision kills all 34 aboard |
Dec 17 |
Victoria score 793 against Queensland, Bill Ponsford 437 |
Dec 24 |
Test Cricket debut of Walter Hammond, who scored 51 & took 5-36 v S Af |
Dec 27 |
Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein II's "Show Boat" premieres in NYC |
Dec 27 |
Philip Barry's "Paris Bound" premieres in NYC |
Dec 27 |
Stalin's faction wins All-Union Congress in USSR, Trotsky expelled |
Dec 28 |
George Kaufman & Moss Hart's "Royal Family," premieres in NYC |
Dec 30 |
Japan dedicates 1st subway in Orient (route under 2 miles long) |
Dec 31 |
Ponsford scores 336 against SA, giving him 1146 for month |
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