Columbia Broadcasting System Goes on Air, September 18, 1927

Prime Minister of Japan Tanaka Giichi convenes an eleven-day conference to discuss Japan's strategy in China. The Tanaka Memorial, a forged plan for world domination, is later claimed to be a secret report leaked from this conference. Date: June 27, 1927 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 27 📅 Events on…

Shanghai massacre of 1927: Chiang Kai-shek orders the Chinese Communist Party members executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front.[citation needed] Date: April 12, 1927 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 12 📅 Events on this day in 1927 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1927Canadian Women File Persons…

The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opens in Alderson, West Virginia, as the first women's federal prison in the United States. Date: April 30, 1927 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 30 📅 Events on this day in 1927 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1927Sunbeam 1000hp Breaks Land…

U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs a bill by Congress establishing the Federal Radio Commission (later replaced by the Federal Communications Commission) which was to regulate the use of radio frequencies in the United States. Date: February 23, 1927 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 23 📅 Events on this day in…

Augusto César Sandino leads a raid on U.S. Marines and Nicaraguan Guardia Nacional that had been sent to apprehend him in the village of Ocotal, but is repulsed by one of the first dive-bombing attacks in history. Date: July 16, 1927 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 16 📅 Events on…

Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. Date: May 21, 1927 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 21 📅 Events on this day in 1927 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1927Columbine Mine Massacre: Coal…