WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO DECEMBER 1927
Find out what all happened March to December 1927

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

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

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)

In New York City, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens the Roxy Theatre. (11. March 1927)

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

Nikola Tesla introduces six new inventions including a motor with onephase electricity (22. October 1927)

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

First test of Wallace Turnbull's controllable pitch propeller. (29. June 1927)

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

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

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

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

First distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover). (7. April 1927)

The Lockheed Vega first flew. (4. July 1927)

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

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