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Last updated: 2008 April 30.

1927 January 1 Communist uprising in West Java. [1] January 5 Fox Studios exhibits Movietone. [1] January 6 US marines sent to Nicaragua. [1] January 7 Commercial transatlantic telephone service inaugurated between New York and London. [1] January 9 Dmitri Shostakovich's Octet opus 11, premieres in Moscow. [1] Fire in Laurier Palace cinema in Montréal, 78 children died. [1] Houston S Chamberlain British/German race theorist, dies at 71. [1] January 10 August(us) Allebé Dutch painter/lithograph, dies at 88. [1] Fritz Lang's Metropolis premieres. [1] January 11 Royale Theater (Golden, CBS Radio Playhouse) opens at 242 W 45th New York City, New York. [1] January 13 US and Mexico battle over oil interests. [1] January 19 British government decides to send troops to China. [1] Charlotte princess of Belgium/Empress of Mexico (1864-67), dies at 86. [1] January 21 First national opera broadcast from a US opera house (Faust, Chicago). [1] Floris H Verster Dutch painter/cartoonist/etcher, dies at 65. [1] January 26 Maxwell Anderson's "Saturday's Children" premieres in New York City, New York. [1] January 28 Serbian-Croatian-Slavic government of Oezonowitsj falls. [1] January 29 4th German government of Marx forms. [1] January 30 Friedrich Ernst Koch composer, dies at 64. [1] Left wins national election in Thüringen. [1] January 31 International allies military command in Germany disbands. [1] February 2 Harry Tierney/Joseph McCarthy's "Rio Rita" premieres in New York City, New York. [1] Ziegfeld Theater (Loew's Ziegfeld) opens at 6th Ave and 54th Steet New York City, New York. [1] February 3 Uprising against regime of General Carmona in Portugal. [1] February 4 KGA-AM in Spokane Washington begins radio transmissions. [1] Thomas Linnemann Laub composer, dies at 74. [1] February 5 Buster Keaton's movie "The General" released and bombed. [1] February 6 Daniël F Scheurleer Dutch musicologist/banker, dies at 71. [1] February 8 Belgian-Swiss treaty signed. [1] February 10 President Coolidge asks for second disarmament conference. [1] February 12 British expeditionary army lands in Shanghai. [1] February 13 Brooks Adams US philosopher (New Empire), dies at 78. [1] Uprising against Portuguese regime of General Carmona defeated. [1] February 16 Noël Coward's "Marquise" premieres in London. [1] US restores diplomatic relations with Turkey. [1] February 18 First US radio broadcast of "Cities Service Concerts". [1] US and Canada begin diplomatic relations. [1] February 19 General strike against British occupiers in Shanghai. [1] Georg Brandes [Cohen], Danish literary-historian/critic, dies at 85. [1] Robert Fuchs composer, dies at 80. [1] February 21 Franz Lehr's opera "Zarewitsch" premieres. [1] February 22 Baruch Spinosa's house of mourning opened as a museum. [1] February 23 President Coolidge creates Federal Radio Commission (US Federal Communications Commission predecessor). [1] Sveinbjorn Sveinbjornsson composer, dies at 79. [1] February 24 John Golden Theater (Theatre Masque) opens at 252 W 45th Steet New York City. [1] February 25 Gdansk and Polish accord concerning traffic through Polish corridor. [1] March 1 Bank of Italy becomes a National Bank. [1] March 5 1,000 US marines land in China to protect American property. [1] March 7 Earthquake measuring 8 on Richter scale strikes Tango, Japan. [1] March 8 Pan American Airlines incorporates. [1] March 10 Albania mobilize by threat of Serbian, Croatian and Slovenes. [1] Bavaria lifts ban on Hitler's speeches. [1] March 11 First armored commercial car hold-up in US, Pittsburgh. [1] Birth of Raymond Jackson [Jaki], British cartoonist. [1] Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens famous Roxy Theater (New York City, New York). [1] March 17 James Scott Skinner composer, dies at 83. [1] US government doesn't sign league of Nations disarmament treaty. [1] March 19 Bloody battles between communists and Nazis in Berlin. [1] March 21 Guomindang Army conquerors Shanghai as British marines flee. [1] March 22 Federico García Lorca's "El Maleficio" premieres in Madrid. [1] March 24 Cuban chess champion, Jose Capablanca wins 33-day Grand Chess Tournie. [1] Dutch first Chamber condemns Belgian and Netherlands' Wielingen Treaty. [1] March 26 Alfred Hugenberg purchases German film company UFA. [1] Gaumont-British Film Corporation forms. [1] March 28 Karl Prohaska composer, dies at 57. [1] Majestic Theater opens at 245 W 44th Steet New York City. [1] March 29 Henry O D Segrave races his Sunbeam to a record 203.79 mph at Daytona; first auto to exceed 200 mph (322 kph). [1] April 1 First automatic record changer introduced by His Master's Voice. [1] April 3 Interstate Commerce Commission transfers Ohio to Eastern time zone. [1] April 7 Using phone lines TV is sent from Washington DC to New York City, New York. [1] April 9 Italy and US anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti given death sentences. [1] April 11 Chilean General Carlos Ibáñez names himself president. [1] April 12 General Chiang Kai-shek begins counter revolution in Shanghai. [1] April 14 In Sweden, Volvo produces its first production line car, the Jakob, in Göteborg. The car has a 28-hp 4-cylinder engine, and costs 4800 kronor. About 200 are produced. The company name was chosen because it means "I roll" in Latin. [7] (April 11 [5]) April 15 Francesco Gaeta Italian poet (Di Giacomo), dies at 47. [1] Switzerland and USSR agree to diplomatic relations. [1] April 17 Japan's Wakarsoeki government falls/Baron Tanaka becomes premier. [1] April 18 Chiang Kai-shek forms anti-government in China. [1] April 19 "Vagabond King" opens in London. [1] April 22 First performance of Roger Sessions' Symphony in E. [1] April 25 Spain routes 20,000 soldiers to Morocco (uprising Rifkabylen). [1] April 29 Construction of the Spirit of Saint Louis is completed. [1] April 30 Princess Juliana gets seat in Dutch Council of State. [1] May 1 First British airliner to serve cooked meals (Imperial Airways). [1] May 2 International Economic Conference (52 countries including USSR) opens. [1] Pulitzer prize awarded to Louis Bromfield (Early Autumn). [1] May 4 First balloon flight over 40,000 feet (Scott Field Illinois). [1] Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences forms. [1] Nicaragua agrees to a US supervised presidential election in 1928. [1] May 5 Charles Boissevain editor in chief (General Trade 1885-1908), dies. [1] Dmitri Shostakovich's first Symphony, premieres in Berlin. [1] May 7 San Francisco Municipal Airport (Mills Field) dedicated. [1] May 9 Australian Parliament first convenes in new capital, Canberra. [1] May 11 General Henry Martyn Robert (Robert's Rules of Order), dies at 90. [1] Juan Gris Spanish cubist painter, dies at 40. [1] Louis B Mayer forms Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. [1] May 13 "Black Friday" on Berlin Stock Exchange. [1] May 14 "Ain't She Sweet?" hits #1 on the pop singles chart by Ben Bernie. [1] May 16 Supreme Court ruled bootleggers must pay income tax. [1] May 18 "Slide Lake" in Gros Ventre Wyoming collapses. [1] Grauman's Chinese Theater opens in Hollywood California. [1] Ritz Hotel opens in Boston. [1] May 20 At 7:40 AM, Lindbergh takes off from New York to cross Atlantic for Paris. [1] Saudi Arabia becomes independent of Great Britain (Treaty of Jedda). [1] May 21 Lindbergh lands in Paris France, after first solo air crossing of Atlantic. [1] May 22 8.3 earthquake strikes Nan-Shan China, 200,000 killed. [1] May 25 Henry Ford stops producing Model T car (begins Model A). [1] May 26 Ford Motor Company manufactures its 15 millionth Model T automobile. [1] May 27 Japanese military intervention in Chinese civil war. [1] Thomas Masaryk elected Czechoslovakian president. [1] May 28 Georges Eekhoud Belgian writer (Belgian Kempen), dies. [1] May 31 Ford Motor Company produces last "Tin Lizzie" (begins Model A). [1] June 11 Babe Ruth hits 19th and 20th of 60 home runs. [1] June 13 Ticker-tape parade welcomed Charles A Lindbergh to New York City. [1] June 29 Wallace Turnbull's variable-pitch propeller is first tested. [5] First flight from West Coast arrives in Hawaii. [1] June 30 Augusto Cesar Sandino issues his Manifesto Politico. [1] US Assay Office in Deadwood, South Dakota closes. [1] July 2 First American to win Wimbeldon in 20 years (Helen Wills Moody). [1] July 9 Atty William T Francis named minister to Liberia. [1] July 10 Kevin O'Higgins Irish Free State Vice President, assassinated. [1] July 12 Babe Ruth hits 30th of 60 home runs. [1] July 16 Augusto Sandino begins 5.5-year war against US occupation of Nicaragua. [1] July 18 Ty Cobb's 4,000th career hit. [1] July 19 Ty Cobb gets his 4,000th hit. [1] August 4 Peace Bridge between US and Canada opened. [1] August 7 Peace Bridge between US and Canada dedicated. [1] August 21 4th Pan-African Congress meets (New York City). [1] August 22 Babe Ruth hits 40th of 60 homers. [1] August 23 Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti executed in Massachusetts. [1] August 27 Parks College, America's oldest aviation school, opens. [1] September 4 Charles Lindbergh visits Boise, Idaho, on his cross-country tour. [1] September 5 Universal Pictures releases the Oswald the Lucky Rabbit film Trolley Troubles to theaters in the USA. This is the first Oswald film release, a series created by the Walt Disney film studio. [6] September 7 The first fully electronic television system is achieved by Philo Taylor Farnsworth. [1] [5] September 11 Babe Ruth hits 50th of 60 homers. [1] September 14 Isadora Duncan dies as her scarf became entangled in her car's wheel. [1] September 17 Charles Lindbergh visits San Francisco. [1] September 18 Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air (16 radio stations). [1] [5] September 29 Tornado strikes Saint Louis Missouri. [1] October 6 Warner Brothers releases The Jazz Singer to theaters in New York City, the first motion picture with sound. [1] [6] October 12 Hermann Gorner of Germany raises 24 men weighing 4,123 pounds on a plank with the soles of his feet. [1] October 23 City of Netanya, Israel founded. [1] November 1 Florence Mills dancer/singer, dies at 32 in New York City. [1] November 3 Tropical storm flooding kills 84 in Winooski River Valley (Vt). [1] November 9 Giant Panda discovered, China. [1] November 12 Notre Dame's Fighting Irish changes blue jerseys for green. [1] Trotsky expelled from Soviet CP; Stalin becomes undisputed dictator. [1] November 13 The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicular tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City. [1] [5] November 17 Tornado hit Washington DC. [1] December 2 First Model A Fords sold, for $385. [1] December 4 Dmitri Shostakovich's second Symphony, premieres in Moscow. [1] Duke Ellington opens at the Cotton Club in Harlem. [1] December 10 Grand Ole Opry makes its first radio broadcast, in Nashville Tennessee. [1] December 12 Heinrich Reitsch composer, dies at 67. [1] December 14 Iraq gains independence from Britain, but British troops remain. [1] December 15 Ed Hickman kidnaps child he later beheads. [1] December 16 Hugh Archibald Clarke composer, dies at 88. [1] December 17 US submarine 'S-4' sinks after collision kills all 34 aboard. [1] Victoria score 793 against Queensland, Bill Ponsford 437. [1] December 25 Sergei D Sazonov Russian Foreign minister (1910-16), dies at 66. [1] December 27 Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein II's "Show Boat" premieres at the Ziegfeld Theater (New York City, New York). [1] Philip Barry's "Paris Bound" premieres in New York City, New York. [1] Stalin's faction wins All-Union Congress in USSR, Trotsky expelled. [1] December 28 George Kaufman and Moss Hart's "Royal Family" premieres in New York City, New York. [1] December 30 Japan dedicates first subway in the Orient (route under two miles long). [1] December 31 Ponsford scores 336 against South Africa, giving him 1146 for month. [1]