WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO NOVEMBER 1927
Find out what all happened February to November 1927

First distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover). (7. 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)

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

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

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

Jack Dempsey loses the "Long Count" boxing match to Gene Tunney. (22. September 1927)

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

The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicle tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City. (13. November 1927)

Italian Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti are executed after a lengthy, controversial trial. (23. August 1927)

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

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)

Treaty of Jeddah: the United Kingdom recognizes the sovereignty of King Ibn Saud in the Kingdoms of Hejaz and Nejd, which later merge to become the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. (20. May 1927)

Cardiff City defeat Arsenal in the FA Cup Final, the only time it has been won by a team not based in England. (23. April 1927)

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

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

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

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

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