WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO OCTOBER 1927
Find out what all happened May to October 1927

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

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

Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore. (4. October 1927)

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Dole Air Race begins from Oakland, California, to Honolulu, Hawaii, during which six out of the eight participating planes crash or disappear. (16. August 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 Australian Parliament first convenes in Canberra. (9. May 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 Lockheed Vega first flew. (4. July 1927)

Nikola Tesla introduces six new inventions including a motor with onephase electricity (22. October 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 first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in Bombay. (23. July 1927)

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