WHAT ALL HAPPENED AUGUST TO DECEMBER 1927
Find out what all happened August to December 1927

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

The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York. (7. August 1927)

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

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

The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicle tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City. (13. November 1927)

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

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

Donald Bradman makes his debut in first-class cricket for New South Wales against South Australia. Batting at No. 7, he scores a century. (16. December 1927)

The phrase "Grand Ole Opry" is used for the first time on-air. (10. December 1927)

Columbine Mine Massacre: Striking coal miners are allegedly attacked with machine guns by a detachment of state police dressed in civilian clothes. (21. November 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)

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

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

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

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

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

The Ginza Line, the first subway line in Asia, opens in Tokyo, Japan. (30. 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)

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