Editing 1927 (section)

=== 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.