WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO JUNE 1927
Find out what all happened March to June 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)

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)

The Bath School Disaster: forty-five people are killed by bombs planted by a disgruntled school-board member in Michigan. (18. May 1927)

The Union Labor Life Insurance Company is founded by the American Federation of Labor. (1. May 1927)

The first cooked meals on a scheduled flight are introduced on an Imperial Airways flight from London to Paris. (1. May 1927)

Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker-tape parade down 5th Avenue in New York City. (13. June 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)

The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles. (31. May 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)

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

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

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

Nanking Incident: Foreign warships bombard Nanjing, China, in defense of the foreign citizens within the city. (24. March 1927)

Attempting to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight from Paris to New York, French war heroes Charles Nungesser and François Coli disappear after taking off aboard The White Bird biplane. (8. May 1927)

The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island. (26. June 1927)

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is founded. (11. May 1927)

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

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

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