1927

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1890s  1900s  1910s  – 1920s –  1930s  1940s  1950s
Years:	1924 1925 1926 – 1927 – 1928 1929 1930

Events

• January 1 – Cristero War erupts in Mexico when pro-Church rebels attack secular-minded government
• January 7 – First transatlantic telephone call – New York City to London
• January 9 – Military rebellion crushed in Lisbon
• January 14 – Paul Doumer elected president of France
• January 19 – Britain sends troops to China
• January 30 – Right-wing veterans and the Republican Schutzbund clash in Schattendorf, Burgenland, Austria. One man and a child are killed by gunshots. See July 15.
• February 12 – First British troops land in Shanghai
• February 14 – Earthquake in Yugoslavia – 700 dead
• February 19 – General strike in Shanghai in protest of the presence of the British troops
• February 23 – The Federal Radio Commission (later renamed the Federal Communications Commission) begins to regulate the use of radio frequencies.
• March 4 – A diamond rush in South Africa includes trained athletes that have been hired by major companies to stake claims
• March 6 – In Britain, a 1000 people a week die from influenza epidemic
• March 10 – Albania mobilizes in case of an attack of Yugoslavia
• March 11 – In New York City, the Roxy Theatre is opened by Samuel Roxy Rothafel.
• March 11 – First armoured car robbery, committed by the Flatheads gang.

Nobel prizes

• Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian doctor, won the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, (b. 1857) (d. 1940)

Births

• April 10  – Marshall Warren Nirenberg, American biochemist, won the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, (d. 2010)
• April 16 – Pope Benedict XVI
• September 16  – Peter Falk, American actor, (d. 2011)
• November 7 – Hiroshi Yamauchi, Japanese businessman, 3rd president of Nintendo
• December 25 – Ram Narayan, Indian musician

Deaths

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