1927

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 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 7 - Peace Bridge opens, between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo,
     New York.

   * 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
        o January 10 - The film Metropolis by Fritz Lang premiers.
        o Wings
        o February 4 - The first talkie is released - The Jazz Singer
          starring Al Jolson
        o The formation of The Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences
   * 1927 in sports
        o January 7 - The Harlem Globetrotters play their first game
        o February 11 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Beatrix
          Loughran.
        o 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 - GŸnter 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:

   * Physics - Arthur Holly Compton, - Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
   * Chemistry - Heinrich Otto Wieland
   * Medicine - Julius Wagner-Jauregg
   * Literature - Henri Bergson
   * Peace - Ferdinand Buisson Ludwig Quidde

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