WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO JULY 1927
Find out what all happened April to 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)

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

The Australian Parliament first convenes in Canberra. (9. May 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 Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres. (24. July 1927)

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

Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker-tape parade down 5th Avenue in New York City. (13. 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)

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)

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

Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. (21. May 1927)

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

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

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

The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles. (31. May 1927)

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is founded. (11. May 1927)

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

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

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