Biggest Events of the Year 1927

The Top Ten

1 First trans-Atlantic telephone call, from New York to London

2 First full-length "talkie" movie, The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson

3 Trotsky, Zinoviev and followers expelled from Communist Party in USSR. Stalin takes full control

4 The German economy collapses

5 Charles Lindbergh makes first solo non-stop trans-Atlantic flight from New York to Paris

6 Socialists riot in Vienna; a general strike follows acquittal of Nazis for political murder

7 Ford produces the last Model T

8 Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home-runs in a season

It was a baseball no make that a major news event that day September 30 1927, Babe had 59, and was a complete different man than he was in 1925 when he was over weight and over the hill and had the case of too many hot dogs. In the 8th inning with a runner on third, Babe hit his 60th off Tom Zachary of the Washington Senators to set a new world record of 60. That home run was the difference in the 4-2 Yankees win and a place in baseball history.
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9 Philo T. Farnsworth demonstrates the first all-electronic television

10 Australian Parliament moves to Canberra

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