WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO OCTOBER 1927
Find out what all happened January to October 1927

Attempting to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight from Paris to New York, French war heroes Charles Nungesser and François Coli disappear after taking off aboard The White Bird biplane. (8. May 1927)

Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany. (10. January 1927)

At 07:52 Charles Lindbergh takes off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, New York, on the world's first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. He touched down at Le Bourget Field in Paris at 22:22 the next day. (20. May 1927)

The Bird of Paradise, a U.S. Army Air Corps Fokker tri-motor, completes the first transpacific flight, from the mainland United States to Hawaii. (29. June 1927)

Ibn Saud takes the title of King of Nejd. (27. January 1927)

Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood. (30. April 1927)

A fire at the Laurier Palace movie theatre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, kills 78 children. (9. January 1927)

The first cooked meals on a scheduled flight are introduced on an Imperial Airways flight from London to Paris. (1. May 1927)

Teddy Wakelam gives the first live radio commentary of a football match anywhere in the world, between Arsenal F.C. and Sheffield United at Highbury. (22. January 1927)

The first transatlantic telephone service is established – from New York, New York to London, United Kingdom. (7. January 1927)

The first fully electronic television system is achieved by Philo Taylor Farnsworth. (7. September 1927)

Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent talking movie. (6. October 1927)

Augusto César Sandino leads a raid on U.S. Marines and Nicaraguan Guardia Nacional that had been sent to apprehend him in the village of Ocotal, but is repulsed by one of the first dive-bombing attacks in history. (16. July 1927)

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is founded. (11. May 1927)

Angered by the anti-clerical provisions of the Mexican Constitution of 1917, Catholic rebels in Mexico rebelled against the government. (2. January 1927)

Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season. (30. September 1927)

Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmery) are created. (27. April 1927)

April 12 Incident: Chiang Kai-shek orders the Communist Party of China members executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front. (12. April 1927)

Metropolitan Sergius proclaims the declaration of loyalty of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Soviet Union. (19. August 1927)

The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island. (26. June 1927)