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Working Americans Vol. 12: Our History Through Music

Historical Snapshot 1927

  • The first transatlantic telephone call was made from New York City to London

  • The U.S. Federal Radio Commission began to regulate the use of radio frequencies

  • In New York City, the Roxy Theater was opened by Samuel Roxy Rothafel

  • The first armored car robbery was committed by the Flatheads Gang near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

  • The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 affected 700,000 people in the greatest natural disaster in U.S. history

  • Philo Farnsworth transmitted the first experimental electronic television pictures

  • To The Lighthouse was completed by Virginia Woolf

  • The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was founded

  • Saudi Arabia became independent of the United Kingdom under the Treaty of Jedda

  • Charles Lindbergh completed the first solo non-stop transatlantic flight from New York to Paris in the singleseat, single-engine monoplane Spirit of St. Louis

  • Mount Rushmore was dedicated with promises of national funding for the carving

  • The Columbia Phonographic Broadcasting System, later known as CBS, was formed and went on the air with 47 radio stations

  • A treaty signed at the League of Nations Slavery Convention abolished all types of slavery

  • The Jazz Singer, a movie with sound, ushered in “talkies” in the United States

  • Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin with undisputed control of the Soviet Union

  • The Holland Tunnel opened to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicular tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City

  • After 19 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor Company unveiled the Ford Model A, available in four colors, with a self-starter

  • The musical play Show Boat, based on Edna Ferber’s novel, opened on Broadway—one of 268 plays on Broadway

  • Harold Stephen Black invented the feedback amplifier

  • Sears, Roebuck and Co. distributed 15 million catalogues to American homes

  • Arthur H. Compton won the Nobel prize in physics for his discovery of wavelength change in diffused x-rays

  • The Voluntary Committee of Lawyers was founded to bring about the repeal of Prohibition in the U.S.

  • Hit songs included “Ol’ Man River,” “Can’t Help Loving Dat Man,” “I’m Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover,” “The Best Things In Life Are Free” and “Me And My Shadow”

  • The world population reached two billion

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