WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO OCTOBER 1927
Find out what all happened February to October 1927

Five Canadian women file a petition to the Supreme Court of Canada, asking, "Does the word 'Persons' in Section 24 of the British North America Act, 1867, include female persons?" (27. August 1927)

The first Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon, Trolley Troubles, produced by Walt Disney, is released by Universal Pictures. (5. September 1927)

The predecessor to the Philippine Stock Exchange opens. (8. August 1927)

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

Metropolitan Sergius proclaims the declaration of loyalty of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Soviet Union. (19. August 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 Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York. (7. August 1927)

The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air. (18. September 1927)

The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in Bombay. (23. July 1927)

The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacture of the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make the Ford Model A. (27. May 1927)

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

The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opens in Alderson, West Virginia, as the first women's federal prison in the United States. (30. April 1927)

The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Chinese Communist Party. This day is commemorated as the anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army. (1. August 1927)

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

The Bath School Disaster: forty-five people are killed by bombs planted by a disgruntled school-board member in Michigan. (18. May 1927)

Prime Minister of Japan Tanaka Giichi leads a conference to discuss Japan's plans for China; later, a document detailing these plans, the "Tanaka Memorial" is leaked, although it is now considered a forgery. (27. June 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)

The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres. (24. July 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)

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)