1927

1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday in the Gregorian calendar.

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1927 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	1927 MCMXXVII
Ab urbe condita	2680
Armenian calendar	1376 ԹՎ ՌՅՀԶ
Assyrian calendar	6677
Bahá'í calendar	83–84
Balinese saka calendar	1848–1849
Bengali calendar	1334
Berber calendar	2877
British Regnal year	17 Geo. 5 – 18 Geo. 5
Buddhist calendar	2471
Burmese calendar	1289
Byzantine calendar	7435–7436
Chinese calendar	丙寅年 (Fire Tiger) 4623 or 4563 — to — 丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit) 4624 or 4564
Coptic calendar	1643–1644
Discordian calendar	3093
Ethiopian calendar	1919–1920
Hebrew calendar	5687–5688
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1983–1984
- Shaka Samvat	1848–1849
- Kali Yuga	5027–5028
Holocene calendar	11927
Igbo calendar	927–928
Iranian calendar	1305–1306
Islamic calendar	1345–1346
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 2 (昭和２年)
Javanese calendar	1857–1858
Juche calendar	16
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4260
Minguo calendar	ROC 16 民國16年
Nanakshahi calendar	459
Thai solar calendar	2469–2470
Tibetan calendar	མེ་ཕོ་སྟག་ལོ་ (male Fire-Tiger) 2053 or 1672 or 900 — to — མེ་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་ (female Fire-Hare) 2054 or 1673 or 901

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Events

The Hardy Boys mystery series for children is launched.
January 1 – Cristero War erupts in Mexico when pro-Church rebels attack secular-minded government
January 7 – First transatlantic telephone call – New York City to London
January 9 – Military rebellion crushed in Lisbon
January 14 – Paul Doumer elected president of France
January 19 – Britain sends troops to China
January 30 – Right-wing veterans and the Republican Schutzbund clash in Schattendorf, Burgenland, Austria. One man and a child are killed by gunshots. See July 15.
February 12 – First British troops land in Shanghai
February 14 – Earthquake in Yugoslavia – 700 dead
February 19 – General strike in Shanghai in protest of the presence of the British troops
February 23 – The Federal Radio Commission (later renamed the Federal Communications Commission) begins to regulate the use of radio frequencies.
March 4 – A diamond rush in South Africa includes trained athletes that have been hired by major companies to stake claims
March 6 – In Britain, a 1000 people a week die from influenza epidemic
March 10 – Albania mobilizes in case of an attack of Yugoslavia
March 11 – In New York City, the Roxy Theatre is opened by Samuel Roxy Rothafel.
March 11 – First armoured car robbery, committed by the Flatheads gang.

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March 6 – Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian writer, journalist and Nobel Prize in Literature (d. 2014)
March 17 - Patrick Allen, English actor (d. 2006)
March 31 – Cesar Chavez, American labor union leader (d. 1993)

October 14 – Roger Moore, English actor (d. 2017)
October 16 – Günter Grass, German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, and sculptor (d. 2015)
October 18 - George C. Scott, American actor (d. 1999)