37 events found for 1927
Kevin O'Higgins TD, Vice-President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State, is assassinated by the IRA.
Massacre of July 15, 1927: Eighty-nine protesters are killed by Austrian police in Vienna.
Augusto César Sandino leads a raid on U.S. Marines and Nicaraguan Guardia Nacional that had been sent to apprehend him…
The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in Bombay.
The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres.
The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Chinese…
The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.
The Dole Air Race begins from Oakland, California, to Honolulu, Hawaii, during which six out of the eight…
Patriarch Sergius of Moscow proclaims the declaration of loyalty of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Soviet Union.
Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti are executed after a lengthy, controversial trial.
Five Canadian women file a petition to the Supreme Court of Canada, asking: "Does the word 'Persons' in Section 24 of…
The first fully electronic television system is achieved by Philo Farnsworth.
The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air.
Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore.
Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent "talkie" movie.
The Imatra Cinema is destroyed in a fire in Tampere, Finland, during showing the 1924 film Wages of Virtue; 21 people…
The Italian luxury liner SS Principessa Mafalda sinks off the coast of Brazil, killing 314.