WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO APRIL 1927
Find out what all happened January to April 1927

A fire at the Laurier Palace movie theatre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, kills 78 children. (9. January 1927)

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

April 12 Incident: Chiang Kai-shek orders the Communist Party of China members executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front. (12. April 1927)

First distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover). (7. April 1927)

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

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

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

The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opens in Alderson, West Virginia, as the first women's federal prison in the United States. (30. April 1927)

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

Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany. (10. January 1927)

Teddy Wakelam gives the first live radio commentary of a football match anywhere in the world, between Arsenal F.C. and Sheffield United at Highbury. (22. January 1927)

Ibn Saud takes the title of King of Nejd. (27. January 1927)

Cardiff City defeat Arsenal in the FA Cup Final, the only time it has been won by a team not based in England. (23. April 1927)

Nanking Incident: Foreign warships bombard Nanjing, China, in defense of the foreign citizens within the city. (24. March 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)

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

The Cristero War begins in Mexico. (1. January 1927)

The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, the most destructive river flood in U.S. history, begins. (15. April 1927)

Angered by the anti-clerical provisions of the Mexican Constitution of 1917, Catholic rebels in Mexico rebelled against the government. (2. January 1927)