WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO MAY 1927
Find out what all happened January to May 1927

The Cristero War begins in Mexico. (1. 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)

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)

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

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

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

Turkey adopts the Gregorian calendar: December 18, 1926 (Julian), is immediately followed by January 1, 1927 (Gregorian). (1. January 1927)

Mae West is sentenced to 10 days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex. (19. April 1927)

Turkey becomes the first country to celebrate Children's Day as a national holiday. (23. April 1927)

Nanking Incident: Foreign warships bombard Nanjing, China, in defense of the foreign citizens within the city. (24. March 1927)

The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, the most destructive river flood in U.S. history, begins. (15. April 1927)

German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg writes a letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, in which he describes his uncertainty principle for the first time. (23. February 1927)

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

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

Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. (21. May 1927)

The first Volvo car premieres in Gothenburg, Sweden. (14. April 1927)

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

After being founded for 20 years, the Government of the Republic of China approves Tongji University to be among the first national universities of the Republic of China. (18. May 1927)