There is one automobile for every 4.9 Americans. Don Juan , perhaps the first talking picture shown to a public audience, premiers in New York City. May 20, 1927. Charles Lindbergh, a 25 year old pilot, flies 3,600 miles from Roosevelt Field, New York to Le Bourget, France. The solo trip lasted 33.5 hours and made him an international hero.
Women compete for the first time in Olympic field events.
U.S. anthropologist Margaret Mead publishes Coming of Age in Samoa . A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway is published. Literary censorship increases. James Joyce's Ulysses is seized by custom's officials on the grounds that it is obscene. Leon Trotsky's work is banned in Boston.