No Man's Law
Release year: 1927
Directed by: Fred Jackman
Starring: Rex the Wonder Horse, Barbara Kent, James Finlayson, Oliver Hardy
May 1927 calendar
Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in May 1927.
The US president was Calvin Coolidge (Republican), the UK Prime Minister was Stanley Baldwin (Conservative), Pope Pius XI was leading the Catholic Church.
But much more happened on May 1927: find out below
Historical Events
Which were the important events of May 1927?
Events
- 01 May 1927 1st British airliner to serve cooked meals
- 02 May 1927 Pulitzer prize awarded to Louis Bromfield
- 04 May 1927 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences forms
- 05 May 1927 The novel ''To the Lighthouse'' was finished by Virginia Woolf.
- 07 May 1927 San Francisco Municipal Airport (Mills Field) dedicated.
- 08 May 1927 Attempting to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight from Paris to New York, French war heroes Charles Nungesser and Francois Coli disappeared after taking off aboard The White Bird biplane.
- 09 May 1927 Canberra replaces Melbourne as the capital of Australia
- 11 May 1927 Belgium beats England 9-1 in soccer
- 12 May 1927 The British police raid the office of the Soviet trade delegation.
- 13 May 1927 VVOG soccer team forms in Harderwijk
- 14 May 1927 53rd Kentucky Derby: Linus McAtee aboard Whiskery wins in 2:06.
- 16 May 1927 New York Yankees' player Bob Meusel steals second, third and home.
- 17 May 1927 Chicago Cubs beat Boston Braves, 4-3, in 22 innings
- 18 May 1927 Ritz Hotel opens in Boston
- 20 May 1927 At 7:40 AM, Lindbergh takes off from New York to cross Atlantic for Paris
- 21 May 1927 Lindburgh lands in Paris, after 1st solo air crossing of Atlantic
- 22 May 1927 Dodgers beat Phillies, 20-4
- 23 May 1927 Nearly 600 members of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and the Institute of Radio Engineers viewed a live demonstration of television at the Bell Telephone Building in New York City. This is just over a year after John Logie Baird of Scotland first demonstrated a ''mechanical television system'' to the members of the Royal Society in London.
- 24 May 1927 Britain severs diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union because of revelations of espionage and underground agitation.
- 25 May 1927 Henry Ford stops producing Model T car
- 26 May 1927 Ford Motor Company manufactures its 15 millionth Model T automobile.
- 27 May 1927 Japanese military intervention in Chinese civil war
- 30 May 1927 Walter Johnson records 113th and last shutout of his career.
- 31 May 1927 Ford Motor Company produces last Tin Lizzie
Famous Birthday
French radio host, he presented his own program "Pop Club" from 1965 to 2005 on the national station France Inter.
French journalist, writer and lyricist.
French journalist, writer and editor.
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American actor.
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Famous Deaths
editor in chief (General Trade 1885-1908), dies.
Belgian novelist of Flemish descent, but writing in French.
Spanish painter and sculptor who lived and worked in France most of his life.
American mass murderer (Born 1872).
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Movies
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His First Flame
Release year: 1927
Directed by: Harry Edwards
Starring: Harry Langdon, Natalie Kingston, Ruth Hiatt, Vernon Dent
Crazy to Act
Release year: 1927
Directed by: Earle Rodney
Starring: Matty Kemp, Mildred June, Oliver Hardy, Sunshine Hart
Night Owl
Release year: 1927
Directed by: Matthew Patrick
Bigger and Better Blondes
Release year: 1927
Directed by: James Parrott
Starring: Charley Chase, Jean Arthur, Mario Carillo, Gale Henry