What Happened in 1927
11 historical events, 25 notable births, and 6 notable deaths in 1927.
Major Events
January 1927
1927 — year
1927 South American Championship — 1927 football championship
Petrushka — 1911 ballet by Igor Stravinsky, Michel Fokine and Alexandre Benois, Ballets Russes
1st Chess Olympiad — FIDE chess tournament for national teams
Davisson–Germer experiment — experiment
1927 in film — overview of the events of 1927 in film
World Chess Championship 1927 — chess championship
August 1927
Sacco and Vanzetti — Italian American anarchist duo executed by Massachusetts
Nanchang Uprising — communist rebellion to form the PLA in China
April 1927
Shanghai massacre of 1927 — mass arrests and executions of members of the Chinese Communist Party and some leftists of the Kuomintang by the Nationalist government (1927-1928)
September 1927
Autumn Harvest Uprising — insurrection in China on September 7, 1927