Editing 1927 (section)

=== 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.