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- Jan 1 Brooklyn announces release of future Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder Zack Wheat after 18 consecutive seasons with Robins; Wheat hits .324 in final season with Philadelphia A's
- Jan 1 Communist uprising in West Java
Gregory Conquers Julius Caesar
Jan 1 Turkey adopts the Gregorian calendar: December 18, 1926 (Julian), is immediately followed by January 1, 1927 (Gregorian).
- Jan 5 Fox Studios exhibits Movietone
Public Hearing Begins
Jan 5 MLB Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis begins 3-day public hearing on charges that 4 games played between Chicago & Detroit in 1917 had been thrown to White Sox
Octet opus 11
Jan 9 Dmitri Shostakovich' Octet opus 11 premieres in Moscow
- Jan 9 Fire in Laurier Palace cinema in Montreal, 78 children died
- Jan 10 Fritz Lang's silent film "Metropolis" premieres in Berlin
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Jan 11 Louis B. Mayer head of film studio MGM announces creation of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Scopes Guilty Verdict Overturned
Jan 15 Tennessee Supreme Court overturns (on a technicality) John T. Scopes' guilty verdict for teaching evolution in the “Scopes monkey trial”, but the law itself remains in force
- Jan 19 British government decides to send troops to China
- Jan 21 1st national opera broadcast from a US opera house (Faust, Chicago)
- Jan 26 Maxwell Anderson's play "Saturday's Children" premieres in New York City
- Jan 28 Serbian-Croatian-Slavic government of Oezonowitsj falls
- Jan 29 4th German government of Marx forms
- Jan 30 Left wins national election in Thuringen
- Jan 31 Internationall allied military command in Germany disbands
NL Rules on Hornby
Jan 31 NL rules future Baseball Hall of Fame infielder Rogers Hornsby can't hold stock in the St. Louis Cardinals and play for the NY Giants; earns $2,916 dividend on same day
"The General"
Feb 5 "The General", American silent film starring Buster Keaton and Marion Mack, co-directed by Keaton and Clyde Bruckman, premieres in New York City
- Feb 8 Belgian-Swiss treaty signed
Coolidge Requests Disarmament Conference
Feb 10 US President Calvin Coolidge asks for 2nd disarmament conference
- Feb 16 US restores diplomatic relations with Turkey
- Feb 17 Deems Taylor's opera "The King's Henchman", with libretto by Edna St. Vincent Millay, premieres at the Metropolitan Opera, NYC
- Feb 17 Toronto Maple Leafs, in the team's first game since changing name from "St. Patricks", beat the visiting New York Americans, 4-1 at the Mutual Street Arena
- Feb 18 1st US radio broadcast of "Cities Service Concerts"
- Feb 18 US & Canada open diplomatic relations
- Feb 19 General strike against British occupiers in Shanghai
Der Zarewitsch
Feb 21 Franz Lehár's opera "Der Zarewitsch" premieres
- Feb 22 ARC soccer team forms in Alphen on the Rhine
- Feb 22 Baruch Spinosa's house of mourning opened as a museum
- Feb 23 US President Calvin Coolidge creates Federal Radio Commission (FRC)
- Feb 24 John Golden Theater (Theatre Masque) opens at 252 W 45th St NYC
- Feb 25 Gdańsk and Polish accord concerning traffic through Polish corridor
American National Bank
Mar 1 Bank of Italy (later Bank of America) becomes an American National Bank
Bavaria Lifts Hitler Ban
Mar 10 Bavaria lifts ban on Adolf Hitler's speeches
- Mar 11 1st armored commercial car hold-up in US (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
- Mar 11 1st boxing Golden Gloves tournament
Film Release
Mar 11 Samuel Rothafel opens the 5,920 seat Roxy Theater in New York City, with silent film "The Love of Sunya" starring Gloria Swanson; largest movie theatre at the time of construction
- Mar 17 US government doesn't sign League of Nations disarmament treaty
- Mar 19 Bloody battles between communists & Nazis in Berlin
- Mar 21 Guomindang Army conquers Shanghai as British marines flee
- Mar 22 Federico Garcia Lorca's first play "El Maleficio" (The Butterfly's Evil Spell) premieres in Madrid
- Mar 24 Dutch 1st Chamber condemns Belgian and Netherlands Wielingen Treaty
- Mar 26 Alfred Hugenberg purchases German film company UFA
- Mar 26 Gaumont-British Film Corporation forms
- Mar 28 Majestic Theater opens at 245 W 44th St, NYC; designed with a modern Spanish exterior and French revival style interior by architect Herbert J. Krapp, it is largest of 3 theater and hotel development cuilt by Irving Chanin
- Mar 29 Henry Segrave races his Sunbeam to a record 203.79 mph at Daytona
- Apr 1 1st automatic record changer introduced by His Master's Voice
- Apr 3 Interstate Commerce Comm transfers Ohio to Eastern time zone
Johnny Weissmuller
Apr 5 Johnny Weissmuller sets world records in both the 100m and 200m free style swimming events
1st Long Distance TV Transmission
Apr 7 First long distance television transmission: An image of Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover sent from Washington, D.C. to NYC by AT&T
- Apr 11 Chilean general Carlos Ibáñez names himself president
Shanghai Massacre
Apr 12 Kuomintang leader Chiang Kai-shek begins a counter revolution by violently suppressing Communist groups
- Apr 13 Stanley Cup Final, Ottawa Auditorium, Ottawa, ON: Ottawa Senators beat Boston Bruins, 3-1 for a 2-0-2 series win
- Apr 14 The first Volvo car premieres in Gothenburg, Sweden
- Apr 15 Switzerland & USSR agree to diplomatic relations
- Apr 15 Yankees slugger Babe Ruth hits #1 of MLB record season 60 HRs; tees off on A's Howard Ehmke in 1st inning of New York's 6-3 win over Philadelphia
- Apr 17 Japan's Wakarsoeki government falls, Baron Tanaka becomes premier
- Apr 18 Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-Shek forms an anti-government in China
- Apr 19 "Vagabond King" opens in London
Mae West Guilty of Obscenity
Apr 19 Actress Mae West found guilty of “obscenity and corrupting the morals of youth” in a New York stage play entitled "Sex". She is sentenced to 10 days in prison and fined $500, the resulting publicity launches her Hollywood career.
- Apr 22 Roger Sessions' 1st Symphony in E premieres with Serge Koussevitzky conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra
- Apr 25 Spain routes 20,000 soldiers to Morocco (uprising Rifkabylen)
- Apr 27 Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmery) created
- Apr 29 Construction of Spirit of St Louis (the monoplane which Charles Lindburgh was to fly across the Atlantic) is completed
Council of State Seats Princess
Apr 30 Princess Juliana gets seat in Dutch Council of State
- May 1 Imperial Airways is the first British airliner to serve cooked meals
- May 2 International Economic Conference (52 countries including USSR) opens
- May 2 Pulitzer prize for a Novel awarded to Louis Bromfield for "Early Autumn"
- May 2 U.S. Supreme Court's "Buck v. Bell", permits forced sterilizations of various "unfits" by states' authorities where such surgeries are practiced for eugenic reasons
- May 4 1st balloon flight over 40,000 feet (Scott Field, Illinois)
- May 4 Nicaragua agrees to a US supervised presidential election in 1928
- May 5 Dmitri Shostakovich's 1st Symphony premieres in Berlin
- May 7 Angelos Sikelianos organizes the first Delphic Festival in Delphi to celebrate the ancient Greek Delphic ideal.
- May 7 SF Municipal Airport (Mills Field) dedicated
- May 9 Canberra replaces Melbourne as the capital of Australia, and the Australian Parliament convenes there for the first time.
- May 11 England's football team beat Belgium 9-1
- May 11 Louis B Mayer forms Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
- May 13 "Black Friday" on Berlin Stock Exchange
- May 13 VVOG soccer team forms in Harderwijk
- May 14 "Ain't She Sweet?" by Ben Bernie hits #1 on the singles chart
- May 14 German ocean liner SS Cap Arcona is launched at the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg
- May 14 The University of Chicago's local collegiate organization, Phi Sigma, becomes incorporated under Illinois law as Eta Sigma Phi, the National Honorary Classical Fraternity
- May 16 NY Yankee Bob Meusel steals 2nd, 3rd & home
- May 16 US Supreme Court ruled bootleggers must pay income tax
- May 17 MLB Chicago Cubs beat Boston Braves, 4-3, in 22 innings, at Braves Field in Boston, Massachusetts
- May 17 U.S. Army aviation pioneer Major Harold Geiger dies in the crash of his Airco DH.4 de Havilland plane at Olmstead Field, Pennsylvania
- May 18 Bath School Disaster: Andrew Kehoe blows up Bath Consolidated School killing 38 children, 2 teachers at Bath, Michigan
- May 18 Grauman's Chinese Theater opens in Hollywood, California
- May 18 One of the largest-known fast-moving landslides forms Lower Slide Lake in Gros Ventre, Wyoming
- May 18 Ritz Hotel opens in Boston, Massachusetts
- May 18 Sid Grauman's Chinese Theatre opens in Hollywood, California, with a stage production followed by the world premiere of Cecil B. DeMille's silent film epic "King of Kings"
Lindbergh Departs NY
May 20 At 7:40 AM, Charles Lindbergh takes off from New York to cross the Atlantic for Paris, aboard Spirit of St Louis in the 1st solo nonstop transatlantic flight
- May 21 Aviator Charles Lindbergh, in the Spirit of St Louis, lands in Paris after the first solo air crossing of Atlantic
- May 22 8.3 Nan-Shan earthquake strikes Tsinghai, China, over 40,900 killed
- May 22 Dodgers beat Phillies, 20-4
Model T Production Ends
May 25 Henry Ford announces that he is ending production of the Model T Ford
The Last Model T
May 26 Henry Ford and the Ford Motor Company produce the last (and 15th million) Model T Ford / Tin Lizzie
- May 27 Japanese military intervenes in Chinese civil war in Shantung to protect Japanese residents there
Masaryk Re-elected President
May 27 Tomáš Masaryk (77) is re-elected President of Czechoslovakia, for the second time
- May 28 Hammond scores his 1,000th cricket run of the season after 22 days
Walter Johnson's Record Shutout
May 30 Walter Johnson records 110th and final shutout of his Baseball HOF career, the most in MLB history; Washington Senators score 3-0 win over Boston Red Sox
1st Ryder Cup
Jun 4 1st Ryder Cup Golf, Worcester CC: US beats Great Britain, 9½-2½; Walter Hagen first American captain; Ted Ray first GB skipper
- Jun 5 Johnny Weissmuller sets 100-yard & 200-yard freestyle swim record
- Jun 11 Charles Lindbergh is awarded the 1st Distinguished Flying Cross
- Jun 11 Future Baseball Hall of Fame slugger Babe Ruth hits 19th & 20th homers of MLB season record 60 HRs in New York's 6-4 win over Cleveland Indians at Yankees Stadium
- Jun 13 Ticker-tape parade welcomes Charles A Lindbergh to NYC
Gehrig Hits 3 HRs
Jun 23 New York future Baseball Hall of Fame first baseman Lou Gehrig hits 3 HRs in Yankees' 11-4 victory over Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park
- Jun 25 WVO soccer team forms in Oosterhout
- Jun 26 Comet 7P/Pons-Winnecke approaches within 0.0394 AUs of Earth
- Jun 26 The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island
- Jun 29 1st flight from West Coast arrives in Hawaii
- Jun 29 First test of Wallace Turnbull's controllable pitch propeller
- Jun 30 Nicaraguan revolutionary Augusto César Sandino issues his Manifesto Politico
- Jun 30 US Assay Office in Deadwood, South Dakota closes
- Jul 2 Jericho Earthquake in Palestine kills about 500
- Jul 4 First flight of the Lockheed Vega, a pilot plus four-passenger monoplane; its 225 HP engine allowed cruising speed of 120 MPH
- Jul 9 William T. Francis named US minister to Liberia
- Jul 12 Yankees slugger Babe Ruth half way to his MLB record of 60 home runs; smacks #30 of Joe Shaute in 9th inning in New York's 7-0 win over Cleveland Indians at Dunn Field
- Jul 14 1st commercial airplane flight in Hawaii
- Jul 15 Massacre in Vienna: 89 protesters are killed by the Austrian police
- Jul 16 Augusto César Sandino begins 5½ year war against US occupation of Nicaragua
- Jul 24 The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres
Carter Family First Records
Aug 1 Influential country music group the Carter Family make their first recording with producer Ralph Peer in Bristol, Tennessee
- Aug 5 Phillies outfielder Cy Williams hits for cycle in just 4 at bats in 9-7 win v Pirates
- Aug 7 Peace Bridge between US and Canada dedicated
- Aug 7 US rum smuggler Horace Alderman kills 3
- Aug 12 "Wings", one of only two silent films - the other being The Artist in 2011 - to win an Oscar for best picture, opens starring Clara Bow (Outstanding Picture 1929)
- Aug 16 Yankees slugger Babe Ruth tees off Tommy Thomas in the 5th inning to hit first HR hit out of Comiskey Park, Chicago; New York beats White Sox, 8-1
- Aug 19 Metropolitan Sergius proclaims the declaration of loyalty of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Soviet state
- Aug 21 4th Pan-African Congress meets (NYC)
- Aug 22 Yankees slugger Babe Ruth hits 40th home run during his MLB record 60 HR season in New York's 9-4 loss to Cleveland Indians at Dunn Field
- Aug 27 Parks College, America's oldest aviation school, opens
- Sep 4 Charles Lindbergh visits Boise, Idaho, on his cross-country tour
- Sep 7 Philo Farnsworth demonstrates the first use of his electronic television in San Francisco
- Sep 7 University of Minas Gerais founded in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, by Governor Antônio Carlos
Tony Lazzeri Day
Sep 9 Tony Lazzeri Day at Yankee Stadium
- Sep 11 After losing 21 in a row to NY, the Browns win their last meeting, 6-2
- Sep 11 Yankees slugger Babe Ruth hits 50th home run during his MLB record 60 HR season in New York's 6-2 loss to St. Louis Browns at Yankee Stadium
- Sep 12 Sigmund Romberg's musical "My Maryland," premieres in NYC
- Sep 13 NY Yankees clinch AL pennant after 5-3 win over Cleveland Indians at Yankee Stadium; Babe Ruth hits HR #52 en route to MLB record 60
- Sep 17 Charles Lindbergh visits San Francisco
- Sep 18 The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air. with 18 stations (and WOR as NYC affiliate)
The Long Count Fight
Sep 22 "The long count" - in a famous boxing rematch, Gene Tunney beats Jack Dempsey by 10-round unanimous decision at Soldiers Field, Chicago to retain world heavyweight title; crowd 104,943; gate $2,858,660
- Sep 22 New York Yankees Earle Coombs hits 3 triples
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Sep 23 "Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans", directed by F. W. Murnau, starring George O'Brien and Janet Gaynor, is released (Academy Awards Unique and Artistic Picture 1927)
- Sep 24 New York Yankees set a record of 106 victories
- Sep 24 NHL's Toronto St Patricks become Maple Leafs
- Sep 26 St James Theater (Erlanger) opens at 246 W 44th St, NYC
- Sep 29 Telephone service begins between US & Mexico
- Sep 29 Tornado strikes St Louis, Missouri, 85 die
- Sep 29 Yankees slugger Babe Ruth ties MLB record by hitting grand slams in consecutive games; New York's 7-4 win v Philadelphia A's and 15-4 rout of Washington Senators
- Sep 30 Yankees slugger Babe Ruth smacks his MLB record 60th home run off Tom Zachary in 8th inning of New York's 4-2 win over Washington Senators at Yankee Stadium
- Oct 1 Pittsburgh Pirates with a team including 5 future Baseball Hall of Famers clinch NL pennant with 9-6 win v Cincinnati Reds; Pirates' last NL pennant until 1960
- Oct 4 Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mt. Rushmore (works on till 1941)
Jazz Singer Sounds Death Knell for Silent Movies
Oct 6 "The Jazz Singer", directed by Alan Crosland, starring Al Jolson and May McAvoy, released, 1st film with a soundtrack (Honorary Academy Award 1928)
1st Laurel and Hardy Film
Oct 8 "The Second Hundred Years" silent short film released starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy - 1st Laurel and Hardy film with them appearing as a team
- Oct 11 New York Yankees first baseman Lou Gehrig is named American League MVP; despite hitting MLB record 60 HR's Babe Ruth as a former winner is not eligible
- Oct 12 Hermann Goerner of Germany raises 24 men weighing 4,123 lbs on a plank with soles of his feet
Ban Johnson Retires
Oct 17 Ban Johnson, in failing health, retires as AL President
- Oct 23 Town of Netanya, Israel founded by Nathan Strauss
Creole Love Song
Oct 26 American jazz vocalist Adelaide Hall makes her 1st recordings - "Creole Love Call" and "Blues I Love to Sing" - with the Duke Ellington Orchestra, for Victor Records in Camden, New Jersey
Maas–Waal Canal
Oct 27 Queen Wilhelmina opens the Maas–Waal Canal between Nijmegen and Heumen
Tito Imprisoned
Oct 28 Josip Broz Tito begins 7 months jail sentence in Croatia
- Oct 28 KLM airmail plane "Homing Pigeon" arrives back in Amsterdam after the first special round trip flight to the Dutch East Indies
- Nov 3 22.3 cm rainfall at Somerset, Vermont (state record)
- Nov 3 Tropical storm flooding kills 84 in Winooski River Valley, Vermont
- Nov 9 Pastor of Have begins blessing of motorcars and motors
Trotsky Expelled
Nov 12 Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, paving the way for Joseph Stalin to consolidate complete power
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