1927 in the United Kingdom

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Events from the year 1927 in the United Kingdom.

Contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 References

[edit] Events

• 1 January - The British Broadcasting Company becomes the British Broadcasting Corporation, when it is granted a Royal Charter. Sir John Reith becomes the first Director-General.
• 7 January - First transatlantic telephone call from New York City to London.
• 15 January - First live sports broadcast on the BBC. The rugby international England v Wales is commented on by Teddy Wakelam. A week later the first football match is broadcast.
• 19 January - Britain sends troops to China.
• 4 February - At Pendine Sands, Sir Malcolm Campbell sets a new world land speed record of 174.88 mph (281.44 km/h). ^[1]
• 12 February - First British troops land in Shanghai.
• 19 February - General strike in Shanghai in protest of the presence of the British troops.
• 6 March - 1000 people a week die from an influenza epidemic.
• 5 April - Trade Disputes Act forbids strikes of support.
• 12 April - The Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927 renames the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The change acknowledges that the Irish Free State is no longer part of the Kingdom.
• 12 May - British police raids the office of Soviet trade delegation.
• 13 May - George V proclaims the change of his style from King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to King of Great Britain and Ireland.
• 20 May - Saudi Arabia becomes independent of the United Kingdom (Treaty of Jedda).
• 24 May - Britain severs diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union because of revelations of espionage and underground agitation.
• 9 June - Soviet Union executes 20 British for alleged espionage.
• 7 July - Christopher Stone presents a record programme, becoming the first British disc-jockey.
• 7 September - The Television Society is founded. It will gain Royal patronage in 1966, becoming the Royal Television Society.
• 7 October - Gertrude Ederle is the first Englishwoman to swim the English Channel.
• 24 November - Total solar eclipse over Northern England and Wales.
• 12 December - 1600 people hospitalised in London when they had hurt themselves on the icy streets.

• Nevil Sidgwick publishes The Electronic Theory of Valency, an important work in chemistry.

[edit] Births

• 13 January - Sydney Brenner, biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• 16 February - June Brown, actor
• 29 March - John Robert Vane, pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2004)
• 2 April - Kenneth Tynan, theatre critic (d. 1980)
• 12 June - Al Fairweather, jazz musician (d. 1993)
• 22 September - Gordon Astall, footballer
• 25 September - Colin Davis, conductor
• 14 October - Roger Moore, actor
• 15 November - Gregor Mackenzie, Labour Party politician (d. 1992)
• 7 December - Helen Watts, contralto
• 26 December - Denis Quilley, actor (d. 2003)

[edit] Deaths

• 2 May - Ernest Starling, physiologist (b. 1866)
• 11 June - William Attewell, cricketer (b. 1861)
• 14 June - Jerome K. Jerome, writer (b. 1859)

[edit] References