LIFE 1927
Historical Highlights from 1927 :
- Charles Lindbergh makes the first nonstop solo transatlantic flight.
- The Jazz Singer, the first feature-length talkie movie is released.
- Physicist Werner Heisenberg introduces his famous uncertainty principle.
- Philo T. Farnsworth demonstrates the first all-electronic television.
- The Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Model A as its new automobile.
- World population reaches 2 billion.
- Actress-playwright Mae West is sentenced to ten days incarceration for “corrupting the morals of youth” for her comedy-drama “Sex” AFTER 375 performances on Broadway.
- Pan American Airways’ first flight takes off from Key West, bound for Havana.
- Kern and Hammerstein’s musical play Show Boat opens on Broadway.
- Erma Bombeck, American humorist who wrote the column “At Wit’s End,” is born.
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