page_title: 1927
section_title: May
hierarchical_section_title: 1927 / Events / May
caption_attribution_description: Illustration of Spirit of St. via en:Wikipedia, where it was uploaded 17:16, 31 January 2004 byw:User:RadicalBender.
context_page_description: 1927 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1927th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 927th year of the 2nd millennium, the 27th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1920s decade.
context_section_description: May – Philo Farnsworth of the United States transmits his first experimental electronic television motion pictures, as opposed to the electromechanical TV systems that others have used before.
  May 9 – The Australian Parliament convenes for the first time in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. Previously, the Parliament had met in Melbourne, Victoria.
  May 11 – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the "Academy" in "Academy Awards", is founded.
  May 12 – British police officers raid the office of the Soviet trade delegation in London.
  May 13 – King George V proclaims the change of his title, from King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to King of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
  May 17 – U.S. Army aviation pioneer Major Harold Geiger dies in the crash of his Airco DH.4 airplane, at Olmsted Field, Pennsylvania.
  May 18 – Bath School disaster: A series of violent attacks results in 45 deaths, mostly of school children, in Bath Township, Michigan.
  May 20 – By the Treaty of Jeddah, the United Kingdom recognizes the sovereignty of Ibn Saud over the Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd, the future Saudi Arabia.
  May 20–21– Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo, nonstop transatlantic airplane flight, from New York City to Paris, France, in his single-engined aircraft, the Spirit of St. Louis.
  May 22 – The 7.6 Mw  Gulang earthquake affects Gansu in northwest China with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), leaving over 40,000 dead.
  May 23 – Nearly 600 members of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and the Institute of Radio Engineers view a live demonstration of television at the Bell Telephone Building in New York City, just over a year after John Logie Baird of Scotland had first demonstrated an electromechanical television system to the members of the Royal Society in London.
  May 24 – The United Kingdom cuts its diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, due to revelations of espionage and underground agitation.
caption: May 20: Solo flight New York to Paris
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