WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO NOVEMBER 1927
Find out what all happened May to November 1927

The Lockheed Vega first flew. (4. July 1927)

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

The Australian Parliament first convenes in Canberra. (9. May 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 Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres. (24. July 1927)

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

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

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

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

At 07:52 Charles Lindbergh takes off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, New York, on the world's first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. He touched down at Le Bourget Field in Paris at 22:22 the next day. (20. May 1927)

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

Prime Minister of Japan Tanaka Giichi leads a conference to discuss Japan's plans for China; later, a document detailing these plans, the "Tanaka Memorial" is leaked, although it is now considered a forgery. (27. June 1927)

Columbine Mine Massacre: Striking coal miners are allegedly attacked with machine guns by a detachment of state police dressed in civilian clothes. (21. November 1927)

Nikola Tesla introduces six new inventions including a motor with onephase electricity (22. October 1927)

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

Metropolitan Sergius proclaims the declaration of loyalty of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Soviet Union. (19. August 1927)

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

Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. (21. May 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 Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air. (18. September 1927)