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next turn year 1927

events

January[edit] Main article: January 1927 January 1 The Cristero War erupts in Mexico, when Catholic rebels attack the government, which had placed heavy restrictions on the Catholic Church.[1]

The British Broadcasting Company becomes the British Broadcasting Corporation, when it is granted a Royal Charter of incorporation. John Reith becomes the first Director-General.

January 7 The first transatlantic telephone call is made via radio from New York City to London. The Harlem Globetrotters play their first ever road game in Hinckley, Illinois.[2]

January 9 A military rebellion is crushed in Lisbon, Portugal.

A fire at the Laurier Palace movie theatre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, kills 78 children.

January 10 – Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany.[3]

January 11 – Louis B. Mayer, head of film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), announces the creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, at a banquet in Los Angeles, California.

January 15 – Teddy Wakelam gives the first sports commentary on BBC Radio.

January 24 – U.S. Marines invade Nicaragua by orders of President Calvin Coolidge, intervening in the Nicaraguan Civil War, and remaining in the country until 1933.

January 30 – Right-wing veterans and the Republikanischer Schutzbund clash in Schattendorf, Austria, with two fatalities resulting (see also July 15).

February[edit] Main article: February 1927 February – Werner Heisenberg formulates his famous uncertainty principle, while employed as a lecturer at Niels Bohr's Institute for Theoretical Physics, at the University of Copenhagen.

February 12 – The first British troops land in Shanghai.

February 14 – A magnitude 6.1 earthquake, with a maximum MSK intensity of VII–VIII (Very strong – Damaging), kills 50 in serbia.[4] February 19

A general strike takes place in Shanghai, in protest against the presence of British troops.

In the United States, the silent romantic comedy film It starring Clara Bow, is released, popularising the concept of the "It girl".

February 23 – The U.S. Federal Radio Commission (later renamed the Federal Communications Commission) begins to regulate the use of radio frequencies.

March[edit] Main article: March 1927

March 4 – A diamond rush in South Africa includes trained athletes, who have been hired by major companies to stake claims.

March 6 – In Britain, 1,000 people a week die from an influenza epidemic.

March 7 – 1927 Kita Tango earthquake: A 7.0 Mw  earthquake kills at least 2,925 in the Toyooka and Mineyama areas of western Honshu, in Japan.

March 11 In New York City, the Roxy Theatre is opened by Samuel Roxy Rothafel.

The first armored car robbery is committed by the Flatheads Gang, near Pittsburgh.

March 14 – Pan American World Airways is founded by Juan T. Trippe.

March 29 – Henry Segrave breaks the land speed record, driving the Sunbeam 1000 hp at Daytona Beach, Florida.[6]

April[edit] Main article: April 1927 April 1 – The U.S. Bureau of Prohibition is founded (under the Department of the Treasury).

April 5 – In Britain, the Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Act 1927 forbids strikes of support.

April 7 – Bell Telephone Co. transmits an image of Herbert Hoover (then the Secretary of Commerce), which becomes the first successful long distance demonstration of television. April 12

April 14 – The first Volvo automobile rolls off the production line in Gothenburg, Sweden.

April 21 – A banking crisis hits Japan.

April 22–May 5 – The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 strikes 700,000 people, in the greatest natural disaster in American history through this time.

April 23 – Cardiff City wins the FA Cup, beating Arsenal 1–0; as of 2019, this remains the only time a team from outside England has won the competition.

April 27 The Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmery) are created.

João Ribeiro de Barros becomes the first non-European to make a transatlantic flight, flying from Genoa, Italy, to Fernando de Noronha, Brazil.