1927 - Wikipedia

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 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 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.

German economy collapses
Sacco and Vanzetti[?] executed
The British Broadcasting Corporation is founded
The Columbia Phonographic Broadcasting System (later known as CBS) is formed
Harold Stephen Black invents the feedback amplifier

Art, Culture & Fashion

1927 in film
- January 10 - The film Metropolis by Fritz Lang premiers.
- Wings
- February 4 - 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
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)
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
October 16 - Günter 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 9 - Victoria Woodhull, feminist, suffragist
June 14 - Jerome K. Jerome, writer
Lizzy Borden[?] notorious figure- thought to have killed her parents with an axe

Nobel Prizes: