WHAT ALL HAPPENED JULY TO DECEMBER 1927
Find out what all happened July to December 1927

Putting Pants on Philip, the first Laurel and Hardy film, is released. (3. December 1927)

Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin in undisputed control of the Soviet Union. (12. November 1927)

The Vietnamese Nationalist Party is founded. (25. December 1927)

The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Chinese Communist Party. This day is commemorated as the anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army. (1. August 1927)

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

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

Following 19 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Model A as its new automobile. (2. December 1927)

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

The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicle tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City. (13. November 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)

Massacre of July 15, 1927: 89 protesters are killed by the Austrian police in Vienna. (15. July 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 Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York. (7. August 1927)

The first Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon, Trolley Troubles, produced by Walt Disney, is released by Universal Pictures. (5. September 1927)

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

Guangzhou Uprising: Communist Red Guards launch an uprising in Guangzhou, China, taking over most of the city and announcing the formation of a Guangzhou Soviet. (11. December 1927)

Three Indian revolutionaries, Ram Prasad Bismil, Roshan Singh and Ashfaqulla Khan were executed by the British Empire. (19. December 1927)

Show Boat, considered to be the first true American musical play, opens at the Ziegfeld Theatre on Broadway. (27. December 1927)

The Brookings Institution, one of the United States' oldest think tanks, is founded through the merger of three organizations that had been created by philanthropist Robert S. Brookings. (8. December 1927)