WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO DECEMBER 1927
Find out what all happened January to 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 Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon, Trolley Troubles, produced by Walt Disney, is released by Universal Pictures. (5. September 1927)

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

Indian revolutionary Rajendra Lahiri is hanged in Gonda jail, Uttar Pradesh, India, two days before the scheduled date. (17. December 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)

Turkey adopts the Gregorian calendar: December 18, 1926 (Julian), is immediately followed by January 1, 1927 (Gregorian). (1. January 1927)

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

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

President Calvin Coolidge signs a bill by Congress establishing the Federal Radio Commission (later replaced by the Federal Communications Commission) which was to regulate the use of radio frequencies in the United States. (23. February 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)

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)

In New York City, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens the Roxy Theatre. (11. March 1927)

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

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

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)

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)

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)

Louis B. Mayer, head of film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), announces the creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, at a banquet in Los Angeles, California. (11. January 1927)