1927

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January 7 - First transatlantic telephone call - New York City to London
February 23 - The Federal Radio Commission (later renamed the Federal Communications Commission) begins to regulate the use of radio frequencies.
March 11 - In New York City, the Roxy Theatre is opened by Samuel Roxy Rothafel.
April 7 - Bell Telephone Co. transmits an image of Commerce Secretary Hoover which becomes the first successful long distance demonstration of television
May - Philo Farnsworth transmits first experimental electronic television pictures
May 20 - Saudi Arabia becomes independent of Great Britain (Treaty of Jedda).
May 20-May 21 Non-stop Trans-Atlantic flight from New York to Paris by Charles Lindbergh.
May 23 - The first demonstration of television before a live audience. Nearly 600 members of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and the Institute of Radio Engineers view the demonstration at the Bell Telephone Building in New York.

Art, Culture & Fashion

1927 in film
- January 10 - The film Metropolis by Fritz Lang premiers.
- Wings
- February 4 - The first talkie is released - The Jazz Singer starring Al Jolson
- The formation of The Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Al Jolson movie The Jazz Singer popularizes sound motion pictures.
1927 in literature
- Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway
- Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
- Smoky the Cowhorse by Will James
- To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
- Aspects of the Novel by E. M. Forster
- The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
- Philosophy and Civilization by John Dewey
1927 in music
1927 in sports
- January 7 - The Harlem Globetrotters play their first game
- February 11 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Beatrix Loughran.
- February 11 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Nathaniel Niles.

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