WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO DECEMBER 1927
Find out what all happened April to December 1927

Italian Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti are executed after a lengthy, controversial trial. (23. August 1927)

The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in Bombay. (23. July 1927)

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

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)

Donald Bradman makes his debut in first-class cricket for New South Wales against South Australia. Batting at No. 7, he scores a century. (16. December 1927)

The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York. (7. August 1927)

The Ginza Line, the first subway line in Asia, opens in Tokyo, Japan. (30. December 1927)

The Dole Air Race begins from Oakland, California, to Honolulu, Hawaii, during which six out of the eight participating planes crash or disappear. (16. August 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)

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

Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker-tape parade down 5th Avenue in New York City. (13. June 1927)

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

Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin in undisputed control of the Soviet Union. (12. November 1927)

Three Indian revolutionaries, Ram Prasad Bismil, Roshan Singh and Ashfaqulla Khan were executed by the British Empire. (19. December 1927)

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

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

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

Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent talking movie. (6. October 1927)

The first Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon, Trolley Troubles, produced by Walt Disney, is released by Universal Pictures. (5. September 1927)