January to June 1927 TimelineJanuary01 - USA Massachusetts becomes the first state to require auto insurance
01 - Communist uprising in West Java.
05 - USA New York, Fox Studios introduces Movietone, which synchronizes motion and sound films
05 - Judge Landis begins 3-day public hearing on charges that 4 games played between Chicago & Detroit in 1917 had been thrown to White Sox.
06 - US marines sent to Nicaragua.
07 - First transatlantic commercial telephone service opens, offering connection between New York and London.
10 - German master film director Fritz Lang + premieres his big-scaled, deco-style futuristic Metropolis, a vision of technology gone awry.
13 - US & Mexico battle over oil interests.
19 - British government decides to send troops to China.
25 - The "Daddy and Peaches +" separation trial begins in New York.
29 - 4th German govt of Marx forms.
31 - Allied military control in Germany ends. It is handed over to the League of Nations.
February03 - Uprising against regime of general Carmona in Portugal.
05 - Buster Keaton's film comedy classic, The General, premieres.
08 - Belgian-Swiss treaty signed.
12 - China British expeditionary army lands in Shanghai.
13 - Uprising against Portuguese regime of Gen Carmona defeated.
16 - Noel Coward's "Marquise," premieres in London.
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16 - US restores diplomatic relations with Turkey.
17 - Colorado Seven-mile-long (11.26 km.), $12 million Moffat Tunnel, carved through James Peak opens.
18 - 1st US radio broadcast of "Cities Service Concerts".
18 - US & Canada begin diplomatic relations.
19 - General strike against British occupiers in Shanghai.
23 - Pres Coolidge creates Federal Radio Commission (FCC).
24 - U.S. Customs official decides that Bird in Space and other abstract works on display in New York City by modernist Romanian master sculptor ConstantinBrancusi are "not art" and are therefore subject to customs duties. A later ruling reverses the decision.
26 - New distance record, 7,287 miles (11,723 km.), established for radio telephone conversation, with successful communication between San Francisco and London.
March01 - U.S. government oversight of radio begins. President Coolidge appoints first Federal Board of Radio Control.
02 - Babe Ruth becomes highest paid baseball player ($70,000 per year).
05 - China 1,000 US marines land in China to protect American property.
07 - U.S. Supreme Court declares unconstitutional Texas law barring blacks from voting in the state's primary election.
07 - Earthquake measuring 8 on Richter scale strikes Tango, Japan.
08 - Pan American Airlines incorporates.
10 - Bavaria lifts ban on Hitler's speeches.
10 - Albania mobilize by threat of Serbian, Croatian & Slovenes.
11 - 1st golden gloves tournament.
11 - 1st armored commercial car hold-up in US, Pittsburgh.
17 - US govt doesn't sign League of Nations disarmament treaty.
19 - The Snyder-Gray+ murder saga begins
19 - Bloody battles between communists & nazis in Berlin.
21 - Guomindang Army conquerors Shanghai as British marines flee.
24 - Cuban chess champ, Jose Capablanca wins 33-day Grand Chess Tournie.
26 - Alfred Hugenberg purchases German film company UFA.
29 - Major H.O.D. Segrave sets world land speed record (auto) at 203.79 mph in the Golden Arrow in Daytona.
31 - Kang Youwei, chinese reformer, dies b.mar 19 1858.
April05 - Sports Johnny Weissmuller set records in 100 & 200 m free style.
07 - Television's first successful long-distance broadcast is publicly demonstrated.On a mechanical television developed by Herbert E. Ives at the A.T. &T. labs, an image of U.S. Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover speaking on the telephone at the Bell Telephone Co. experimental TV station in Whippany, N.J., is seen in New York.
07 - Film French film director Abel Gance's epic masterpiece Napoleon premieres in both France and the U.S. The film was made and projected in three contiguous film strips, making it the first significant widescreen film.
09 - Comedienne Mae West is found guilty of obscenity by a New York City court and sentenced to 10 days in jail for material and suggestive ad libs in her popular Broadway show Sex. Charges were brought as the result of complaints by The Society for the Suppression of Vice.
09 - Italy & US anarchists Sacco & Vanzetti given death sentences.
12 - Gen Chiang Kai-shek begins counter revolution in Shanghai.
15 - Switzerland & USSR agree to diplomatic relations.
15 - Babe Ruth hits 1st of 60 HRs of season (off A's Howard Ehmke).
16 - The worst Mississippi River flooding s.1937 occurs, eventually covering 4.4 million acres and causing $300 million in damage.
18 - Chiang Kai-Shek forms anti-govt in China.
19 - Sports 31st Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar of Mass in 2:40:22.2.
25 - Spain routes 20,000 soldiers to Morocco (uprising Rifkabylen).
May04 - Nicaragua agrees to a US supervised presidential election in 1928.
13 - "Black Friday" on Berlin Stock Exchange.
14 - "Ain't She Sweet?" hits #1 on the pop singles chart by Ben Bernie.
16 - Supreme Court ruled bootleggers must pay income tax.
20 - At 7:40 AM, Lindbergh takes off from NY to cross Atlantic for Paris.
21 - Lindburgh lands in Paris, after 1st solo air crossing of Atlantic.Transatlantic flights had occurred before, first in 1919, but with crews of at least two men.
22 - China An 8.3 magnitude earthquake kills 200,000 in Nan-Shan
22 - The Iron Lung, to help polio victims breathe, is invented by Philip Drinker and Louis Shaw.
26 - Ford Motor Company manufactures its 15 millionth Model T automobile.
27 - Japanese military intervention in Chinese civil war.
27 - Thomas Masaryk elected Czechoslovakia president.
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27 - Ford Motor Company produces last Model T Tin Lizzie.
June02 - Lizzie Borden, accused murderer, dies at 68.
07 - Voikov, Soviet ambassador to Warsaw, murdered.
11 - Charles Lindbergh is awarded the 1st Distinguished Flying Cross.
13 - Ticker-tape parade welcomed Charles A Lindbergh to NYC.
29 - 1st flight from West Coast arrives in Hawaii.
30 - Augusto Cesar Sandino issues his Manifesto Politico.
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