WORLD HISTORY · 1927 日本語
Events of 1927Showa 2 (Japan) · Year of the Rabbit
What happened in 1927?
In 1927, a financial panic in Japan forced many banks to suspend operations, and Japan's first subway opened between Asakusa and Ueno in Tokyo. Abroad, Charles Lindbergh flew solo across the Atlantic, and Chiang Kai-shek staged a coup in Shanghai.
- Kita-Tango earthquake strikesAsia
- Bank closures spread in Showa financial panicAsia
- Nanjing Incident as Nationalist army enters cityAsia
- Chiang Kai-shek stages Shanghai coupAsia
- Tanaka Giichi cabinet takes officeAsia
- Lindbergh flies solo across the AtlanticNorth America
- First talking feature film releasedNorth America
- Japan's first subway opensAsia
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1927 at a glance
| Japanese era | Showa 2 |
|---|---|
| Chinese zodiac | Year of the Rabbit |
| Age of people born in 1927 | Turn 99 in 2026 |
| Previous / next year | 1926 (Taisho 15 / Showa 1) ／ 1928 (Showa 3) |
| Events | 62 |
| AP World History | Unit 7 (Global Conflict) |
| AP U.S. History | Period 7 |
Famous people born in 1927
Our birthday pages list 566 people born in 1927. Here are some of them.
- Sidney PoitierBorn February 20 · turns 99 this year · Bahamian American actor and director who became the first African American to w…
- Harry BelafonteBorn March 1 · turns 99 this year · American singer, actor, and activist known as the "King of Calypso" for hits li…
- Coretta Scott KingBorn April 27 · turns 99 this year · American civil rights leader who founded the King Center and led the campaign f…
- Althea GibsonBorn August 25 · turns 99 this year · American tennis pioneer who became the first Black player to win Wimbledon, the…
- Tommy LasordaBorn September 22 · turns 99 this year · Hall of Fame baseball manager who led the Los Angeles Dodgers for two decades a…
- George C. ScottBorn October 18 · turns 99 this year · American actor famous for playing General George S. Patton in the 1970 film Pat…
- Porter WagonerBorn August 12 · turns 99 this year
- Doak WalkerBorn January 1 · turns 99 this year
- James ReebBorn January 1 · turns 99 this year
- Maurice BéjartBorn January 1 · turns 99 this year
- Vernon L. SmithBorn January 1 · turns 99 this year
- Barbara RushBorn January 4 · turns 99 this year
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- Paul DesmaraisBorn January 4 · turns 99 this year
- Sivaya SubramuniyaswamiBorn January 5 · turns 99 this year
- Jesse Leonard SteinfeldBorn January 6 · turns 99 this year
- Charles TomlinsonBorn January 8 · turns 99 this year
- Gisele MacKenzieBorn January 10 · turns 99 this year
- Johnnie RayBorn January 10 · turns 99 this year
- Otto StichBorn January 10 · turns 99 this year
- Brock AdamsBorn January 13 · turns 99 this year
- Liz AndersonBorn January 13 · turns 99 this year
- Sydney BrennerBorn January 13 · turns 99 this year
- Zuzana RůžičkováBorn January 14 · turns 99 this year
- Phyllis CoatesBorn January 15 · turns 99 this year
- E. W. SwackhamerBorn January 17 · turns 99 this year
- Eartha KittBorn January 17 · turns 99 this year
- Harlan MathewsBorn January 17 · turns 99 this year
- Thomas Anthony Dooley IIIBorn January 17 · turns 99 this year
- S. BalachanderBorn January 18 · turns 99 this year
- Qurratulain HyderBorn January 20 · turns 99 this year
- Clive ChurchillBorn January 21 · turns 99 this year
- Rudolf KrausBorn January 21 · turns 99 this year
- Joe PerryBorn January 22 · turns 99 this year
- Lou CreekmurBorn January 22 · turns 99 this year
- Fred WilliamsBorn January 23 · turns 99 this year
- Lars-Eric LindbladBorn January 23 · turns 99 this year
- Paula HawkinsBorn January 24 · turns 99 this year
- Antônio Carlos JobimBorn January 25 · turns 99 this year
- Bob NiemanBorn January 26 · turns 99 this year
- Hubert SchiethBorn January 26 · turns 99 this year
Events of 1927 (timeline · 62)
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New Mexican oil legislation goes into effect, leading to the formal outbreak of the Cristero War.
The first transatlantic commercial telephone service is established from New York City to London.
A fire at the Laurier Palace movie theatre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, kills 78 children.
Louis B. Mayer, head of film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), announces the creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, at a banquet in Los Angeles, California.
Teddy Wakelam gives the first live radio commentary of a football match, between Arsenal F.C. and Sheffield United at Highbury.
German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg writes a letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, in which he describes his uncertainty principle for the first time.
U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs a bill by Congress establishing the Federal Radio Commission (later replaced by the Federal Communications Commission) which was to regulate the use of radio frequencies in the United States.
The first Women's Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place on The Isis in Oxford.
Nanking Incident: Foreign warships bombard Nanjing, China, in defence of the foreign citizens within the city.
Shanghai massacre of 1927: Chiang Kai-shek orders the Chinese Communist Party members executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front.
Rocksprings, Texas is hit by an F5 tornado that destroys 235 of the 247 buildings in the town, kills 72 townspeople, and injures 205; third deadliest tornado in Texas history.
Cardiff City defeat Arsenal in the FA Cup Final, the only time it has been won by a team not based in England.
Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmerie) are created.
The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opens in Alderson, West Virginia, as the first women's federal prison in the United States.
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.
The Bath School disaster: Forty-five people, including many children, are killed by bombs planted by a disgruntled school-board member in Bath Township, Michigan.
After being founded for 20 years, the Nationalist government approves Tongji University to be among its first national universities.
Charles Lindbergh takes off for Paris from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, N.Y., aboard the Spirit of St. Louis on the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean, landing 33+1⁄2 hours later.
Treaty of Jeddah: The United Kingdom recognizes the sovereignty of King Ibn Saud in the Kingdoms of Hejaz and Nejd, which later merge to become the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
Near Xining, China, an 8.3 magnitude earthquake causes 200,000 deaths in one of the world's most destructive earthquakes.
The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.
The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacture of the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make the Ford Model A.
Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker tape parade up 5th Avenue in New York City.
Prime Minister of Japan Tanaka Giichi convenes an eleven-day conference to discuss Japan's strategy in China. The Tanaka Memorial, a forged plan for world domination, is later claimed to be a secret report leaked from this conference.
The Bird of Paradise, a U.S. Army Air Corps Fokker tri-motor, completes the first transpacific flight, from the mainland United States to Hawaii.
Kevin O'Higgins TD, Vice-President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State, is assassinated by the IRA.
Massacre of July 15, 1927: Eighty-nine protesters are killed by Austrian police in Vienna.
Augusto César Sandino leads a raid on U.S. Marines and Nicaraguan Guardia Nacional that had been sent to apprehend him in the village of Ocotal, but is repulsed by one of the first dive-bombing attacks in history.
The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Chinese Communist Party. This day is commemorated as the anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army.
The Dole Air Race begins from Oakland, California, to Honolulu, Hawaii, during which six out of the eight participating planes crash or disappear.
Patriarch Sergius of Moscow proclaims the declaration of loyalty of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Soviet Union.
Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti are executed after a lengthy, controversial trial.
Five Canadian women file a petition to the Supreme Court of Canada, asking: "Does the word 'Persons' in Section 24 of the British North America Act, 1867, include female persons?"
The Imatra Cinema is destroyed in a fire in Tampere, Finland, during showing the 1924 film Wages of Virtue; 21 people die in the fire and almost 30 are injured.
The Italian luxury liner SS Principessa Mafalda sinks off the coast of Brazil, killing 314.
Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin in undisputed control of the Soviet Union.
The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicle tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City.
Columbine Mine massacre: Striking coal miners are allegedly attacked with machine guns by a detachment of Colorado state police dressed in civilian clothes.
Following 19 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Model A as its new automobile.
Guangzhou Uprising: Communist Red Guards launch an uprising in Guangzhou, China, taking over most of the city and announcing the formation of a Guangzhou Soviet.
Indian revolutionary Rajendra Lahiri is hanged in Gonda jail, Uttar Pradesh, India, two days before the scheduled date.
Three Indian revolutionaries, Ram Prasad Bismil, Roshan Singh and Ashfaqulla Khan, are executed by the British Raj for participation in the Kakori conspiracy.
B. R. Ambedkar and his followers burn copies of the Manusmriti in Mahad, Maharashtra, to protest its treatment of Dalit people.
Kern and Hammerstein's musical play Show Boat, considered to be the first true American musical play, opens at the Ziegfeld Theatre on Broadway.
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FAQ
What year was 1927 in the Japanese calendar?
1927 was Showa 2 in the Japanese era system.
What Chinese zodiac animal is 1927?
1927 is the Year of the Rabbit.
How old is someone born in 1927?
They turn 99 on their birthday in 2026.
What happened in 1927?
In 1927, a financial panic in Japan forced many banks to suspend operations, and Japan's first subway opened between Asakusa and Ueno in Tokyo. Abroad, Charles Lindbergh flew solo across the Atlantic, and Chiang Kai-shek staged a coup in Shanghai.
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