Editing 1927 (section)

===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]].