1927


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Year 1927 () was a (link will display full calendar) of the.

January

 * - erupts in  when pro- rebels attack the government, which had banned the Catholic faith.
 * - First transatlantic call is made:  to.
 * - Military rebellion crushed in.
 * - gives the first sports commentary on.
 * - Britain sends troops to.
 * - Right-wing s and the Republican  clash in, , . One man and a child are killed by gunshots. (See: ).

February

 * - First British troops land in.
 * - in  - 700 dead.
 * - in  in protest of the presence of the British troops.
 * - The  (later renamed the ) begins to regulate the use of  frequencies.

March

 * - A rush in  includes trained athletes that have been hired by major companies to stake claims.
 * - In Britain, 1000 people a week die from epidemic.
 * - mobilizes in case of an attack of Yugoslavia.
 * In, the is opened by.
 * , committed by the.
 * - 's culturally influential debuts.
 * - 's culturally influential debuts.

April

 * - First female police officers in.
 * - In Britain, forbids strikes of support.
 * - Bell Telephone Co. transmits an image of Commerce Secretary Hoover which becomes the first successful long distance demonstration of.
 * The renames the  to the . The change acknowledges that the  is no longer part of the Kingdom.
 * troops kill number of communist-supporting workers in . The incident was called the, or Shanghai Massacre. The Alliance between Kuomintang and the Chinese Communist also ended because of that.
 * - Nanking government of China, Kuomintang.
 * - Banking crisis in Japan.
 * - - The  affects 700,000 people in the greatest national disaster in US history.
 * - - The  affects 700,000 people in the greatest national disaster in US history.

May

 * May - transmits first experimental electronic television pictures.
 * - ends in.
 * - The first convenes in.
 * - The, the "Academy" in "," is founded.
 * - British police raids the office of Soviet.
 * - proclaims the change of his style from  to King of Great Britain and Ireland.
 * - 's launching, Blohm & Voss shipyard, in . In the U.S., University of Chicago's local collegiate organization, Phi Sigma, becomes incorporated under the laws of the State of Illinois as, the National Honorary Classical Fraternity.
 * - Army aviation pioneer, Major, died in the crash of his  plane at Olmstead Field, Pennsylvania
 * - Bombings result in 45 deaths, mostly children, in the in,.
 * - becomes independent of the.
 * - - First solo non-stop Trans-Atlantic flight from to  by.
 * - An 8.6  in, China kills 200,000.
 * - The first demonstration of television before a live audience. Nearly 600 members of the and the  view the demonstration at the Bell Telephone Building in New York.
 * - Britain severs with Soviet Union because of revelations of  and underground.

June

 * - severs diplomatic relations with.
 * -, Soviet ambassador to , assassinated.
 * - Soviet Union executes 20 British for alleged.
 * , leader of French s, is arrested in.
 * A is held for  aviator  down 5th Avenue in.
 * A is held for  aviator  down 5th Avenue in.

July

 * -, vice president of the , assassinated in.
 * - 85 protesters and 5 policemen are dead after left-wing protesters and the n police clash in Vienna. More than 600 people are injured. See.
 * - The  war memorial is unveiled at.

August

 * - Formation of the during the.
 * - opens between  and.
 * - In, 200 people demonstrate against the sentence of.
 * - are executed.
 * - - Hurricane hits Atlantic shore of Canada causing massive damage - at least 56 dead.
 * -Paul R. Redfern leaves Brunswick, Ga flying his Stinson Detroiter "Port of Brunswick" to attempt a solo non-stop flight to Rio de Janeiro, . He later crashes in the Venezuela jungle, the crash site never located.

September

 * - The is founded in.
 * - An underwater earthquake in Japan kills over 100 people.
 * - The Columbia Phonographic Broadcasting System (later known as ) is formed and goes on air with 47 s.
 * - 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

 * - opens and becomes a huge success, marking the end of the  era.
 * -  complete 4 game sweep of.
 * - government crushes a rebellion in.
 * - Queen opens  in.
 * - Pan American Airways first flight took off from Key West to Havana.

November

 * - and his horse Gypsy Queen return to, having completed a two-year journey of 11,356 miles to all 48 states.
 * - Unexplained explosions in.
 * made his first and last visit to.
 * is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving with undisputed control of the.
 * The opens to traffic as the first  vehicular  linking  to.
 * - The explosion of three storage tanks in the  of,  kills 26 people and causes damages estimated between contemporary totals of $4 million and $5 million.
 * - Total over Northern  and.
 * - Total over Northern  and.

December

 * - Following 19 years of production, the  unveils the  as its new automobile.
 * - 1600 people hospitalized in London when they had hurt themselves on the icy streets.
 * -, 12, is kidnapped in Los Angeles. Her dismembered body is found on prompting the largest manhunt to date on the West Coast for her killer, , who is arrested on  in.
 * - is accidentally rammed and sunk by  destroyer John Paulding off  killing everyone aboard after several unsuccessful attempts to raise sub.
 * - Kern and Hammerstein's musical play , based on Edna Ferber's novel, opens on and goes on to become the first great classic of the American musical theatre.
 * - First Japanese  line, the  in, opens.

Undated

 * The is granted a Royal Charter of Incorporation.
 * The Columbia Phonographic Broadcasting System (later known as ) is formed.
 * invents the.
 * founded to bring about of alcohol in United States.
 * reaches 2 billion.

January-February

 * , Scottish actress
 * , American economist, laureate
 * , American football player (d. )
 * -, American-born Hindu guru who spearheaded a global Hindu renaissance and founder of (d. )
 * , Canadian-born singer (d. )
 * , American singer (d. )
 * , member of the Swiss Federal Council
 * , American politician (d. )
 * , British biologist, recipient of the
 * -, American actress and singer
 * -, Finnish writer and playwright
 * -, Brazilian composer (d. )
 * -, (d. )
 * -, Japanese director
 * , American environmentalist (d. )
 * , Canadian inventor (d. )
 * -, (d. )
 * -, American musician (d. )
 * -, Irish singer and entertainer
 * , French singer and actor
 * , Russian runner (d. )
 * -, American soprano
 * -, British actress (d. )
 * -, American actor and comedian
 * , British actor
 * , American game show host
 * , American lawyer and anti-Communist (d. )
 * , American actor
 * , American writer and humorist (d. )
 * , French fashion designer
 * -, French operatic soprano (d. )
 * -, American conspiracy theorist
 * -, American actress (d. )
 * , American lawyer and anti-Communist (d. )
 * , American actor
 * , American writer and humorist (d. )
 * , French fashion designer
 * -, French operatic soprano (d. )
 * -, American conspiracy theorist
 * -, American actress (d. )
 * -, American actress (d. )

March-April

 * , American musician and actor
 * , American law professor
 * -, member of the Swiss Federal Council
 * , 29th Governor of the U.S. state of Idaho
 * , American actor (d. )
 * , American magician
 * , American tennis player
 * , Colombian author
 * , American astronaut (d. )
 * , American musician (d. )
 * , American soap creator (d. )
 * -, British trade union leader (d. )
 * , American interior designer (d. )
 * , Argentine politician
 * , Russian cosmonaut (d. )
 * , U.S. Senator from New York (d. )
 * -, American writer and actor (d. )
 * -, South African-born British composer
 * -, German politician
 * -, German author
 * -, Canadian hockey player
 * -, Russian cellist and conductor (d. )
 * -, British pharmacologist, laureate (d. )
 * -, game-show host
 * , American labor activist (d. )
 * , American actor
 * , Hungarian footballer (d. )
 * , English theatre critic (d. )
 * -, American musician (d. )
 * -, American scientist, laureate
 * -, American physicist (d. )
 * later to become Pope Benedict XVI
 * , American actor
 * , American race car driver
 * , Swiss physicist, laureate
 * -, New Zealand chemist, laureate
 * -, American civil rights leader (d. )
 * -, American physicist (d. )
 * later to become Pope Benedict XVI
 * , American actor
 * , American race car driver
 * , Swiss physicist, laureate
 * -, New Zealand chemist, laureate
 * -, American civil rights leader (d. )
 * -, New Zealand chemist, laureate
 * -, American civil rights leader (d. )

May-June

 * -, German biophysicist, recipient of the
 * , Canadian-born comedian, political commentator
 * , American author, explorer, scholar and cleric (d. )
 * -, American film director
 * -, Canadian and American football coach
 * -, Hungarian-born chemist, laureate
 * -, American author (d. )
 * -, American composer and arranger
 * -, American actor
 * -, American saxophone player (d .)
 * -, American comedian and actor
 * -, Scottish jazz musician (d. )
 * -, American politician (d. )
 * -, American choreographer and director (d. )
 * -, American physicist, laureate
 * -, American actor (d. )
 * -, American chemist, laureate
 * -, American chemist, laureate

July-August

 * -, Italian actress
 * , Australian-born broadcaster and disc jockey
 * , American actress (d. )
 * -,  from  through
 * -, Silesian-born conductor
 * -, American actor (d. )
 * -, American tenor (d. )
 * -, American actor (d. )
 * -, baseball player (d. )
 * -, American singer (d. )
 * -, wife of U.S President
 * -, Dutch illustrator
 * -, American economist, laureate
 * -, French cartoonist
 * -, American tennis player (d. )
 * -, American tennis player (d. )

September-October

 * , Sri Lankan broadcaster
 * , American businessman (d. )
 * -, American actor
 * -, English footballer
 * - Sir, English conductor
 * , Canadian businessman and sports team owner (d. )
 * , American poet
 * -, American actor
 * -, Argentine scientist, recipient of the (d. )
 * -, English actor
 * -, German writer, laureate
 * -, American actor (d. )
 * -, American actress
 * -, American actor (d. )
 * -, American actress

November-December

 * -, influential comic book writer and artist, co-creator of Spider-Man
 * -, American singer
 * - . American actor (d. )
 * -, Labour Party (UK) politician (d. )
 * -, American musician (d. )
 * -, American author, artist, and scholar (d. )
 * , Ivorian writer (d. )
 * , Spanish tenor (d. )
 * -, baseball broadcaster
 * -, American actor (d. )
 * -, American singer
 * HMK, King of Thailand
 * , Sri Lanka Maestro
 * -, Welsh contralto
 * -, cosmonaut
 * -, French composer
 * -, British actress
 * -, American poet (d. )
 * -, 25th
 * -, famous American novelist
 * -, baseball player (d. )
 * , American comedian (d. )
 * , British actor (d. )
 * -, American athlete (d. )
 * , American comedian (d. )
 * , British actor (d. )
 * -, American athlete (d. )

January - June

 * - Empress (b. )
 * -, Austrian composer (b. )
 * -, American chemist, discoverer of (b. )
 * -, Latvian politician, first president of Latvian Republic (b. )
 * -, French artist (b. )
 * -, baseball player (b. )
 * -, British physiologist (b. )
 * , American accused murderer (b. )
 * , Irish historian (b. )
 * -, American feminist (b. )
 * -, English cricketer (b. )
 * -, English writer (b. )
 * -, English writer (b. )

July - December

 * -, German physician, recipient of the (b. )
 * -, Japanese poet and writer (b. )
 * , Italian anarchist (executed) (b. )
 * , Italian anarchist (executed) (b. )
 * -, American temperance movement leader (b. )
 * , American dancer (b. )
 * , German poet, founder of Dada (b. )
 * -, Danish painter (b. )
 * -, Dutch inventor, recipient of the (b. )
 * -, Swedish chemist, laureate (b. )
 * -, German-born aviation pioneer (b. )
 * -, n writer (b. )
 * -, German-born aviation pioneer (b. )
 * -, n writer (b. )