WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO JULY 1927
Find out what all happened February to July 1927

The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres. (24. July 1927)

The Union Labor Life Insurance Company is founded by the American Federation of Labor. (1. May 1927)

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

The Lockheed Vega first flew. (4. July 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)

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

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

In New York City, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens the Roxy Theatre. (11. March 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)

Massacre of July 15, 1927: 89 protesters are killed by the Austrian police in Vienna. (15. July 1927)

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

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

The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles. (31. May 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)

President Calvin Coolidge signs a bill by Congress establishing the Federal Radio Commission (later replaced by the Federal Communications Commission) which was to regulate the use of radio frequencies in the United States. (23. February 1927)

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