News and Events of 1927

World Events

• The German economy collapses.
  
  
• Socialists riot in Vienna; a general strike follows acquittal of Nazis for political murder.
  
  
• Trotsky is expelled from the Russian Communist Party.
  
  
• Charles Lindbergh makes the first nonstop solo transatlantic flight.
  
  

U.S. Events

• Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are electrocuted at Dedham (Mass.) Prison despite worldwide protesting over weak evidence (Aug. 23).
  
  
• The Holland Tunnel opens (Nov. 13) to connect Manhattan and Jersey City, N.J., giving cars a route under the Hudson River and an alternative to ferry boats.
  
  

Economics

Sports

World Series

Stanley Cup

Wimbledon

Kentucky Derby Champion

NCAA Football Champions

Entertainment

Events

• Popular vaudevillian Al Jolson astounds audiences with his nightclub act in The Jazz Singer, the first feature-length talkie.
• The Broadway musical links with opera in Jerome Kern's revolutionary Show Boat.
• Dancer Isadora Duncan dies when her scarf gets caught in the wheel of a moving car.

Science

• Physicist Werner Heisenberg introduces his famous uncertainty principle at age 26.
• Philo T. Farnsworth demonstrates the first all-electronic television.
• Fossil remains of "Peking man" (likely about 350,000 to 400,000 years old) are discovered by Davidson Black.
• Belgian astrophysicist Georges Lemaitre proposes the big bang theory.

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