WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO OCTOBER 1927
Find out what all happened April to October 1927

Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent talking movie. (6. October 1927)

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

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

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)

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

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

Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season. (30. September 1927)

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

The Australian Parliament first convenes in Canberra. (9. May 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)

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)

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

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

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

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

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