1927

• Germany's economic system collapses

  Charles A. Lindbergh makes the first solo flight across the Atlantic

• Charles A. Lindbergh makes the first solo flight across the Atlantic
• Harlem Globetrotters organized
• Babe Ruth hits 60 home runs
• 1st miniature golf course
• Henry Ford introduces the Model A
• Thornton Wilder's The Bridge of San Luis Rey
• 1st all-electric jukebox
• Antifreeze invented
• Iron lung introduced
• 1st tape recorder
• Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein's "Show Boat"
• 1st sound movie made: "The Jazz Singer"
• Leontyne Price, Mistislav Rostropovich, Cesar Chavez, Gina Lollabrigida, Neil Simon, Fidel Castro born
• Lizzie Borden dies

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