Editing 1927 (section)

==Events==
===January===
{{Main|January 1927}}
* [[January 1]] &ndash; The British Broadcasting ''Company'' becomes the [[BBC|British Broadcasting ''Corporation'']], when its Royal Charter of incorporation takes effect. [[John Reith, 1st Baron Reith|John Reith]] becomes the first Director-General.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/historyofthebbc/research/royal-charter|title=BBC Royal Charter archive|website=BBC|access-date=14 December 2020}}</ref>
* [[January 7]]
** The first transatlantic telephone call is made ''via radio'' from New York City, United States, to London, United Kingdom.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/static/programs/national-recording-preservation-board/documents/FIRST%20TRANSATLANTIC%20CALL.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://www.loc.gov/static/programs/national-recording-preservation-board/documents/FIRST%20TRANSATLANTIC%20CALL.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live|title=First Official Transatlantic Telephone Call (January 7, 1927)|publisher=Library of Congress|access-date=14 December 2020}}</ref>
** The [[Harlem Globetrotters]] exhibition [[basketball]] team play their first ever road game in [[Hinckley, Illinois]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Our Story |url=https://www.harlemglobetrotters.com/about |website=The Original Harlem Globetrotters |access-date=January 25, 2020}}</ref>
* [[January 9]] &ndash; The [[Laurier Palace Theatre fire]] at a movie theatre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, kills 78 children.
* [[January 10]] &ndash; [[Fritz Lang]]'s futuristic film ''[[Metropolis (1927 film)|Metropolis]]'' is released in Germany.<ref>{{cite book|author=Constance Penley|title=Close Encounters: Film, Feminism, and Science Fiction|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DeQ-firVQncC&pg=PA165|year=1991|publisher=U of Minnesota Press|isbn=978-0-8166-1912-2|pages=165}}</ref>
* [[January 11]] &ndash; [[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.
* [[January 24]] &ndash; U.S. Marines [[United States occupation of Nicaragua|invade Nicaragua]] by orders of President [[Calvin Coolidge]], intervening in the [[Nicaraguan civil war (1926–27)|Nicaraguan Civil War]], and remaining in the country until [[1933]].

=== February ===
{{Main|February 1927}}
*  [[February]] &ndash; [[Werner Heisenberg]] formulates his famous [[uncertainty principle]], while employed as a lecturer at [[Niels Bohr]]'s Institute for Theoretical Physics at the [[University of Copenhagen]].
* [[February 7]] &ndash; An attempted military coup in [[Lisbon]], Portugal, is successfully put down.<ref>{{cite book|title=Portugal Information|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PNhjnZChOagC|year=1976|publisher=Ministry of Mass Communication, Directorate-General of Diffusion|page=x}}</ref>
* [[February 12]] &ndash; British troops land in [[Shanghai]] as a result of UK government concerns about the safety of residents in the British settlement.<ref>{{cite book|author=Sir James Handyside Marshall-Cornwall|title=Wars and Rumours of Wars: A Memoir|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jasfAAAAMAAJ|year=1984|publisher=L. Cooper|isbn=978-0-436-27322-3|page=72}}</ref>
* [[February 14]] &ndash; A magnitude 6.1 earthquake, with a maximum [[Medvedev–Sponheuer–Karnik scale|MSK]] intensity of VII–VIII (Very strong – Damaging), kills 50 in [[Kingdom of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]].<ref>{{citation|title=International Handbook of Earthquake & Engineering Seismology|series=Part A, Volume 81A|chapter=A List of Deadly Earthquakes in the World: 1500–2000|first=T. R.|last=Utsu|year=2002|publisher=[[Academic Press]]|edition=First|isbn=978-0124406520|page=704}}</ref>
* [[February 19]]
** A [[general strike]] takes place in Shanghai in protest against the presence of British troops.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Chinese Economic Bulletin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_cMYAQAAIAAJ|year=1927|page=191}}</ref>
** In the United States, the [[Silent film|silent]] [[romantic comedy]] film ''[[It (1927 film)|It]]'' starring [[Clara Bow]], is released, popularising the concept of the "[[It girl]]".<ref>{{cite book|author=American Film Institute|title=The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rlLbRAPOgP0C&pg=PA287|year=1997|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-20969-5|pages=388–9}}</ref>
* [[February 23]] &ndash; The U.S. [[Federal Radio Commission]] (later renamed the [[Federal Communications Commission]]) begins to regulate the use of radio frequencies.

===March===
{{Main|March 1927}}
* [[March 4]] &ndash; A [[diamond rush]] in South Africa includes trained athletes, who have been hired by major companies to stake claims.
* [[March 7]] &ndash; [[1927 Kita Tango earthquake]]: A 7.0 {{M|w}} earthquake kills at least 2,925 in the [[Toyooka, Hyōgo|Toyooka]] and [[Kyoto Prefecture|Mineyama]] areas of western [[Honshu]], in Japan.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/world/events/1927_03_07.php|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090930233058/https://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/world/events/1927_03_07.php|url-status=dead|archive-date=2009-09-30|title=Historic Earthquakes: Tango, Japan, 1927 March 07 09:27 UTC, Magnitude 7.6|publisher=[[USGS]]|access-date=April 30, 2021}}</ref>
* [[March 11]] &ndash; In New York City, the [[Roxy Theatre (New York City)|Roxy Theatre]] is opened by [[Samuel Roxy Rothafel]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Performing Arts Annual|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZEbs-K00ZgAC|year=1990|publisher=Library of Congress|pages=47–48}}</ref>
* [[March 14]] &ndash; [[Pan American World Airways]] is founded by [[Juan T. Trippe]].
* [[March 24]] &ndash; [[Nanking incident of 1927|Nanking Incident]]: After six foreigners have been killed in [[Nanking]], and it appears that [[Kuomintang]] and [[Chinese Communist Party]] forces will overrun the foreign consulates, warships of the [[U.S. Navy]] and the British [[Royal Navy]] fire shells and shoot to disperse the crowds.<ref>{{cite news|title=U.S. and British Warships Shell Cantonese Army|newspaper=[[Miami Daily News]]|date=March 24, 1927|page=1}}</ref>
* [[March 29]] &ndash; [[Henry Segrave]] breaks the land speed record, driving the [[Sunbeam 1000 hp]] at Daytona Beach, Florida.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-hampshire-39431234/sunbeam-1000hp-breaks-200mph-land-speed-barrier|title=Sunbeam land speed engine restored|work=BBC News}}</ref>

=== April ===
{{Main|April 1927}}
* [[April 7]] &ndash; [[Bell Telephone Company|Bell Telephone Co.]] transmits an image of [[Herbert Hoover]] (then the Secretary of Commerce), which becomes the first successful long distance demonstration of television.
* [[April 12]]
** The [[Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927]] renames the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland as the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The change acknowledges that the [[Irish Free State]] is no longer part of the Kingdom.
** [[April 12 Incident]] (Shanghai Massacre): [[Kuomintang]] troops kill a number of communist-supporting workers in Shanghai.  The 1st United Front between the Nationalists and Communist ends, and the Civil War lasting until [[1949]] begins.
* [[April 18]] &ndash; The Kuomintang (Nationalist Chinese) set up a government in [[Nanking]], China.
* [[April 21]] &ndash; A banking crisis hits Japan.
* [[April 22]]&ndash;[[May 5]] &ndash; The [[Great Mississippi Flood of 1927]] strikes 700,000 people, in the greatest natural disaster in American history through this time.
* [[April 23]] &ndash; [[Cardiff City F.C.|Cardiff City]] wins the [[FA Cup]], beating [[Arsenal F.C.|Arsenal]] 1–0; it is the only time a team from outside England has won the competition.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/7328650.stm |title=Cup friends reunited |publisher=[[BBC Sport]] |first=Peter |last=Shuttleworth |date=4 January 2009 |access-date=1 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170901205505/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/7328650.stm |archive-date=1 September 2017 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all}}</ref>
* [[April 27]]
** The [[Carabineros de Chile]] ([[Chile]]an national police force and [[gendarmery]]) are created.<ref name="Congress1947">{{cite book|author=Library of Congress|title=Latin American Series|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FbsnAQAAMAAJ|year=1947|publisher=Library of Congress|page=31}}</ref>
** [[João Ribeiro de Barros]] becomes the first non-European to make a transatlantic flight, flying from [[Genoa]], Italy, to [[Fernando de Noronha]], Brazil.

=== May ===
{{Main|May 1927}}
[[File:Spirit of St. Louis.jpg|thumb|130px|right| [[May 20]]: Solo flight New York to Paris]]
* [[May]] &ndash; [[Philo Farnsworth]] of the United States transmits his first experimental electronic television [[motion picture]]s, as opposed to the [[electromechanical]] TV systems that others have used before.
* [[May 9]] &ndash; The [[Australian Parliament]] convenes for the first time in [[Canberra]], [[Australian Capital Territory]]. Previously, the Parliament had met in [[Melbourne]], [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Manning Clark|title=A History of Australia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ChdzAAAAMAAJ|year=1987|publisher=Melbourne University Press|isbn=978-0-522-84353-8|page=257}}</ref>
* [[May 11]] &ndash; The [[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]], which will create the [[Academy Awards]], is founded in the United States.
* [[May 12]] &ndash; British police officers raid the office of the [[Soviet]] trade delegation in London.
* [[May 17]] &ndash; U.S. Army aviation pioneer Major [[Harold Geiger]] dies in the crash of his [[Airco DH.4]] airplane, at Olmsted Field, [[Pennsylvania]].
* [[May 18]] &ndash; [[Bath School disaster]]: A series of violent attacks by a school official results in 45 deaths, mostly of children, in [[Bath Township, Michigan]], United States.<ref>{{cite book|last=Bernstein|first=Arnie|title=Bath Massacre: America's First School Bombing|date=2009|publisher=[[The University of Michigan Press]] |page=129|location=Ann Arbor, Michigan |isbn=978-0-472-03346-1}}</ref>
* [[May 20]] &ndash; By the [[Treaty of Jeddah (1927)|Treaty of Jeddah]], the United Kingdom recognizes the sovereignty of [[Ibn Saud]] over the [[Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd]], the future [[Saudi Arabia]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Great Britain. Public Record Office|title=List of Foreign Office Records: Various classes, 1914-1938|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EaolAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA223|year=1970|publisher=Kraus Reprint Corporation|pages=223|isbn=9780527039646}}</ref>
* [[May 20]]&ndash;[[May 21|21]] &ndash; [[Charles Lindbergh]] makes the first solo, nonstop transatlantic airplane flight, from New York City to Paris, France, in his single-engined aircraft, the ''[[Spirit of St. Louis]]''.<ref>{{cite book|author=Lindbergh, Charles A.|title=Spirit of St. Louis|location=New York|publisher=Scribners|year=1953|pages=267–8}}</ref>
* [[May 22]] &ndash; The 7.6 {{M|w}} [[1927 Gulang earthquake|Gulang earthquake]] affects [[Gansu]] in northwest China with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (''Extreme''), leaving over 40,000 dead.
* [[May 23]] &ndash; Nearly 600 members of the [[American Institute of Electrical Engineers]] and the [[Institute of Radio Engineers]] view a live demonstration of television at the Bell Telephone Building in New York City, just over a year after [[John Logie Baird]] of Scotland had first demonstrated an electromechanical system to members of the [[Royal Society]] in London.
* [[May 24]] &ndash; The United Kingdom cuts its [[diplomatic relations]] with the [[Soviet Union]] due to revelations of [[espionage]] and underground agitation.

=== June ===
{{Main|June 1927}}
* [[June]] &ndash; The [[volcanic island]] of [[Krakatoa#Anak Krakatau|Anak Krakatau]] begins to form in the [[Sunda Strait]] of [[Indonesia]].
* [[June 4]] &ndash; [[Kingdom of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]] severs diplomatic relations with [[Albanian Republic|Albania]].
* [[June 4]]&ndash;[[June 6|6]] &ndash; [[Clarence Chamberlin]] and [[Charles Albert Levine]] take off from Roosevelt Field, New York, and fly to Eisleben, Germany, in the [[Wright-Bellanca WB-2 Columbia]] aircraft ''Miss Columbia'', two weeks after Charles Lindbergh's historic solo flight.
* [[June 9]] &ndash; The Soviet Union executes 20 people for alleged [[espionage]] in retaliation for the assassination two days earlier of [[Pyotr Voykov]], the Soviet ambassador to Poland, at the railway station in [[Warsaw]]. Voykov had been shot by 19-year-old Boris Kowerda, an exiled Russian, in retaliation for having signed the death warrants in 1918 for [[Tsar Nicholas II]] and the Russian Imperial Family.<ref name="Madeira2014">{{cite book|author=Victor Madeira|title=Britannia and the Bear: The Anglo-Russian Intelligence Wars, 1917-1929|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xNXCAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA241|year=2014|publisher=Boydell & Brewer Ltd|isbn=978-1-84383-895-1|pages=241}}</ref>
* [[June 13]]
** [[Léon Daudet]], the leader of the French [[monarchist]]s, is arrested in France.
** A [[ticker tape parade]] is held for aviator [[Charles Lindbergh]] down Fifth Avenue in New York City.
* [[June 28]] &ndash; Spanish airline [[Iberia (airline)|Iberia]] is established.
* [[June 29]] &ndash; [[Solar eclipse of June 29, 1927]]: A total eclipse of the sun takes place over Wales, northern England, southern Scotland, Norway, northern Sweden, northmost Finland, and the northmost extremes of Russia.
* [[June 29]]&ndash;[[July 1]] &ndash; Commander [[Richard E. Byrd]], [[Bernt Balchen]], George Noville and [[Bert Acosta]] take off from Roosevelt Field, New York, in the [[Fokker Trimotor]] airplane ''America'', and cross the Atlantic to the coast of France, having to ditch there because of bad weather; all four men survive the emergency landing.

=== July ===
{{Main|July 1927}}
* [[July 1]] &ndash; The [[Food, Drug, and Insecticide Administration]] (FDIA) is established as a United States federal agency.
* [[July 10]] &ndash; [[Timothy Coughlan]], [[Bill Gannon (Irish Republican)|Bill Gannon]] and [[Archie Doyle]], members of the anti-[[Anglo-Irish Treaty|Treaty]] [[Irish Republican Army (1922–69)|Irish Republican Army]], shoot dead [[Kevin O'Higgins]], [[Vice-President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State]] and [[Minister for Justice (Ireland)|Minister for Justice]], as O'Higgins is walking to Mass in [[Dublin]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Caoimhe Nic Dháibhéid|title=Seán MacBride: A Republican Life, 1904-1946|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ReoWDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA81|year=2011|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-1-84631-658-6|pages=81}}</ref>
* [[July 11]] &ndash; The [[1927 Jericho earthquake]] strikes [[Mandatory Palestine|Palestine]], killing around 300 people; it is the largest ever recorded in this part of the Middle East.<ref>{{cite book|author=Ben-Avraham Gat Niemi|title=The Dead Sea: The Lake and Its Setting|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nlWRHnz7zSsC&pg=PA78|year=1997|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-508703-1|pages=78}}</ref> The effects are especially severe in [[Nablus]], but damage and fatalities are also reported in many areas of Palestine and [[Emirate of Transjordan|Transjordan]], such as [[Amman]], [[Salt, Jordan]], and [[Lod|Lydda]].
* [[July 13]] (Wednesday, Tamuz 13, 5687): 12:30 &ndash; [[Rebbe]] [[Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn]] is freed from the imprisonment which began on [[June 15]] (Wednesday, Sivan 15, 5687) at 02:15 in exile, in the Russian town of [[Kostroma]]. 
* [[July 15]] &ndash; [[July Revolt of 1927]]: After police in [[Vienna]] fire on an angry crowd, 85 protesters (mostly members of the [[Social Democratic Party of Austria]]) and 5 policemen are left dead; more than 600 people are injured.
* [[July 24]] &ndash; The [[Menin Gate]] is dedicated as a war memorial at [[Ypres]], Belgium.

===August===
{{Main|August 1927}}
* [[August 1]] &ndash; The Communist Chinese [[People's Liberation Army]] is formed, during the [[Nanchang Uprising]].
* [[August 2]] &ndash; American electrical engineer [[Harold Stephen Black]] invents the [[negative-feedback amplifier]].
* [[August 7]] &ndash; The [[Peace Bridge]] opens between [[Fort Erie, Ontario]], and [[Buffalo, New York]].
* [[August 10]] &ndash; The [[Mount Rushmore]] Park is rededicated in the United States. President [[Calvin Coolidge]] promises national funding for the proposed carving of the presidential figures.<ref>{{cite book|author=United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Library|title=Mount Rushmore National Memorial Commission: Hearing...on H.R. 10462...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L_iua9HUKckC&pg=PA34|year=1938|pages=34}}</ref>
* [[August 22]] &ndash; 200 people demonstrate in [[Hyde Park, London]], against the death sentences on Italian American anarchists [[Sacco and Vanzetti]]. Other protests are held across the world at this time.
* [[August 24]]&ndash;[[August 25|25]] &ndash; The [[1927 Nova Scotia hurricane]] hits the [[Atlantic Provinces]] of Canada, causing massive damage and at least 56 deaths.
* [[August 26]] &ndash; [[Paul Redfern]] leaves [[Brunswick, Georgia]], flying his Stinson Detroiter "Port of Brunswick", to attempt a solo nonstop flight to [[Rio de Janeiro]], Brazil. He later crashes in the [[Venezuela]]n jungle, but the crash site is never found.

===September===
{{Main|September 1927}}
* September &ndash; The [[Autumn Harvest Uprising]] occurs in China.
* [[September 7]] &ndash; The first fully electronic television system is achieved by [[Philo Farnsworth]].
* [[September 18]] &ndash; The Columbia Phonographic Broadcasting System (later known as ''[[CBS]]'') is formed in the United States, and goes on the air with 47 [[radio station]]s.
* [[September 25]] &ndash; A treaty signed by the [[League of Nations]] Slavery Commission abolishes all types of [[slavery]].
* [[September 29]] &ndash; The [[Tornado outbreak of September 29, 1927|East St. Louis Tornado]] kills 79 people and injures 550, the 2nd costliest and at least 24th deadliest tornado in U.S. history.

===October===
{{Main|October 1927}}
* [[October]] &ndash; [[Niels Bohr]] presents his theoretical principle of [[Complementarity (physics)|complementarity]] at the [[Solvay Conference#Fifth Conference|Fifth Solvay Conference on Physics]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Jagdish Mehra|author2=Helmut Rechenberg|author-link1=Jagdish Mehra |author-link2=Helmut Rechenberg |title=The Probability Interpretation and the Statistical Transformation Theory, the Physical Interpretation, and the Empirical and Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics 1926–1932|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CuOtQ4WjCP0C&pg=PA165|date=25 August 2000|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-0-387-98971-6|pages=165}}</ref>
* [[October 4]] &ndash; Carving of the sculptures at [[Mount Rushmore]], [[South Dakota]], begins.
* [[October 6]] &ndash; ''[[The Jazz Singer]]'', starring [[Al Jolson]], premieres at the Warner Theater in New York City. Although not the first [[sound film]], and containing very little recorded speech, it is the first to become a box-office hit, popularizing "talkies" (although silent films continue to be made for some time).<ref name="Bryson2013">{{cite book|author-link=Bill Bryson|first=Bill|last=Bryson|title=One Summer: America, 1927|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780767919401|url-access=registration|date=October 1, 2013|publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-385-53782-7}}</ref>
* [[October 9]] &ndash; The Mexican government crushes a rebellion in [[Veracruz (city)|Veracruz]].
* [[October 18]] &ndash; The first flight of [[Pan American Airways]] takes off from [[Key West, Florida]], bound for [[Havana, Cuba]].
* [[October 25]] &ndash; The Italian [[ocean liner]] ''[[SS Principessa Mafalda|Principessa Mafalda]]'' capsizes off [[Porto Seguro]], Brazil; at least 314 people are killed.<ref>{{cite book|author=Karl Baarslag|title=Famous Sea Rescues Formerly Titled: SOS to the Rescue|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6mYSXhDAIzQC|year=1948|publisher=Grosset & Dunlap|page=175}}</ref>

===November===
{{Main|November 1927}}
* [[November 1]] &ndash; [[İsmet İnönü]] forms a new government in [[Turkey]] (the 5th government).
* [[November 3]]&ndash;[[November 4|4]] &ndash; [[Great Vermont Flood of 1927]]: Floods devastating Vermont cause the "worst natural disaster in the state's history".<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.erh.noaa.gov/btv/events/27flood.shtml |title=National Weather Service - Burlington, VT - the Flood of 1927 |access-date=March 25, 2009 |archive-date=November 14, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151114175039/http://www.erh.noaa.gov/btv/events/27flood.shtml |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[November 4]] &ndash; Frank Heath and his horse ''Gypsy Queen'' return to Washington, D.C., having completed a two-year journey of 11,356 miles to all 48 of the states of the U.S. (of this time).
* [[November 12]]
** [[Mahatma Gandhi]] makes his only visit to [[Ceylon]].
** [[Leon Trotsky]] is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving [[Joseph Stalin]] with undisputed control of the [[Soviet Union]].
** The [[Holland Tunnel]] opens to traffic, as the first vehicular tunnel under the [[Hudson River]], linking [[New Jersey]] with New York City.
* [[November 14]] &ndash; [[Pittsburgh gasometer explosion]]: Three ''Equitable Gas'' storage tanks in the [[North Side (Pittsburgh)|North Side]] of [[Pittsburgh]] explode, killing 26 people and causing damage estimated between $4.0&nbsp;million and $5.0&nbsp;million.
* [[November 21]] &ndash; The [[Columbine Mine massacre]]: Colorado state police open fire on 500 rowdy but unarmed miners during a strike, killing 6.

===December===
{{Main|December 1927}}
* [[December]] &ndash; The [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Communist Party]] Congress condemns all ''deviation from the general party line'' in the [[USSR]].
* [[December 1]] &ndash; [[Chiang Kai-shek]] marries [[Soong Mei-ling]] in [[Shanghai]].
* [[December 2]] &ndash; Following 19 years of [[Ford Model T]] production, the [[Ford Motor Company]] unveils the [[Ford Model A (1927–1931)|Ford Model A]] as its new automobile in the United States.
* [[December 3]] &ndash; ''[[Putting Pants on Philip]]'', the first Laurel and Hardy film, is released.
* [[December 11]] &ndash; Gamma Sigma Fraternity becomes the first high school fraternity to become international with Alpha Zeta chapter in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.
* [[December 14]] &ndash; [[Kingdom of Iraq|Iraq]] gains independence from the United Kingdom.
* [[December 15]] &ndash; [[Marion Parker]], 12, is kidnapped in Los Angeles. Her dismembered body is found on [[December 19]], prompting the largest manhunt to date on the West Coast for her killer, [[William Edward Hickman]], who is arrested on [[December 22]] in [[Oregon]].
* [[December 17]]
** [[United States Navy]] submarine {{USS|S-4|SS-109|2}} is accidentally rammed and sunk by [[United States Coast Guard]] cutter ''John Paulding'' off [[Provincetown, Massachusetts]], killing everyone aboard despite several unsuccessful attempts to raise the submarine.
** Australian [[cricket]]er [[Bill Ponsford]] makes 437 runs to break his own world record for the highest [[first-class cricket]] score at [[Melbourne Cricket Ground]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/16427610|title=W. H. Ponsford scores 437: record for first class cricket|date=December 19, 1927|access-date=February 5, 2020|work=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]]|page=11}}</ref>
* [[December 19]] &ndash; Three members of the [[revolutionary movement for Indian independence]] &ndash; Pandit [[Ram Prasad Bismil]], Thakur [[Roshan Singh]] and [[Ashfaqulla Khan]] &ndash; are executed by the [[British Raj]]. [[Rajendra Nath Lahiri]] had been executed two days before.
* [[December 20]] &ndash; [[Letalski center Maribor]] is established in [[Maribor]]; it will be the oldest surviving operating major [[flying club]] in the [[Balkans]].
* [[December 27]] &ndash; Kern and Hammerstein's musical play, ''[[Show Boat]]'', based on [[Show Boat (novel)|Edna Ferber's novel]], opens on [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] and then goes on to become the first great classic of the American musical theater.<ref>{{cite book|author=Steven Suskin|title=Show Tunes: The Songs, Shows, and Careers of Broadway's Major Composers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z_usBBxC_TQC&pg=PA35|year=2000|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-512599-3|pages=35}}</ref>
* [[December 29]] &ndash; Eruption of the Perboewatan and Danan undersea volcanoes near [[Krakatoa]], create the foundation for Anak Krakatau Island.<ref>{{cite book|first=Amie Jane|last=Leavitt|title=Anatomy of a Volcanic Eruption|url=https://archive.org/details/anatomyofvolcani0000leav|url-access=registration|publisher=Capstone Press|year=2011}}</ref>  
* [[December 30]] &ndash; The first Asian [[Rapid transit|commuter metro line]], the [[Tokyo Metro Ginza Line]], opens in [[Japan]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Japan. Gaimushō. Jōhō Bunkakyoku|title=Information Bulletin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aVcMAQAAIAAJ|year=1978|publisher=Public Information Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs|page=40}}</ref>