1927 History, Trivia and Fun Facts

• Transportation: After 15 Million were sold, Ford's Model T ended production, replaced by the Model A.
• Influential Songs include: My Blue Heaven by Gene Austin and Singin' The Blues by Frankie TrumBauer
• The Big Movies included The Jazz Singer, Wings and Metropolis
• Price of a pound of butter in 1927: 55 cents
• The World Population was ~ 2,063,000,000
• Sliced Bread was invented in 1927. Actually, a amchine to slice bread was invented, by Otto Frederick Rohwedder. 1927 also brought us the Jukebox and early home televisions.
• And... Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published the The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, his final Sherlock stories.

The earliest known use of the phrase "trick or treat" appeared in a small town in Alberta, Canada in 1927.

William Wellman used his military experience as a WWI pilot to direct the war drama Wings (1927), the first to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.

The Jazz Singer, was the first film to use synchronized sound and picture, although the entire film was not an all-sound movie. There were just two scenes with talking, and ten songs that Mr. Jolson sang. It was based on Samson Raphaelson's 1921 short story The Day of Atonement. It was about a Jewish cantor's son who wanted to get into showbiz. Al Jolson was a cantor's son who got into showbiz BTW.

An experiment was begun to show that solid pitch was actually a liquid by Professor Thomas Parnell. It is listed as the longest running lab experiment by Guinness World Records. It drops about every eight/nine years.

The first robot depicted in cinema was a gynoid named Maria in the science fiction film, Metropolis. The 1927 classic will remain copyrighted until 2023, over 95 years after its release.

Felix the Cat was the the first giant balloon to ever in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

American Hero, Philo Farmsworth, invented a working television. He beat John Logie Beard, who had a tv-type demonstration in 1925 in London in court for the title and rights.

Another American hero, Charles Lindberg, travelled non-stop on his 'Spirit of Saint Louis' flight on May 20-21from New York's Long Island to Le Bourget Field in Paris, France.

It was a Roman Catholic priest, Father Georges Lemaitre, that first proposed the Big Bang Theory, in 1927.

The Magazine Cover: National Geographic magazine was the first US publisher to establish a color photo lab in 1920, the first to publish underwater color photographs in 1927, the first to print an all-color issue in 1962 and the first to print a hologram in 1984.

The idea that foil hats can protect you from mind reading first came from a 1927 novel The Tissue-Culture King.

Thomas Edison, Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone each contributed $25,000 to front a botanic research corporation in order to discover a domestic way to naturally produce rubber In 1927. Thier lab and equipment is still intact and the research was never fully completed.

Penicillin was discovered in 1928 by Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming.

Santa Claus was issued a pilot's licence from the United States government in 1927.

The first recorded recipe for S'mores can be found in the publication "Tramping and Trailing with the Girl Scouts" from 1927. #whatwasthefirstonecalled?

A tough, durable kind of plastic, polystyrene, was invented.

In 1804, the world's populationed to reach 1 billion. The next billion came only 123 years later, in 1927. Three billion in 1960.

1990's Pogs craze was single handedly started by a 5th grade teacher in Hawaii. She showed the game she used to play as a little girl to her class in 1991. Pogs originated from Hawaii as early as 1927.

When Walt Disney tried to get MGM studios to distribute Mickey Mouse in 1927 he was told that the idea would never work, because a giant mouse on the screen would terrify women.

Edwin Perkins devised a method of removing the liquid from Fruit Smack so the remaining powder could be re-packaged in envelopes under a new name to be called Kool-Ade.

Having been founded in Chicago in 1927, the Harlem Globetrotters never played a 'home' game in Harlem until 1968

The silent horror film The Unknown (1927) was missing for many years in the archives of Cinematheque Francaise because they had hundreds of film cans marked "unknown".

George P. Burdell who received all undergrad degrees from Georgia Tech, served in the military and on Mad magazine's board of directors, and led Time's poll for Person of the Year, also he Is completely made up. He was created in 1927, when Ed Smith received 2 enrollment forms.

In 1927 Pez candy was created to help people quit cigarettes. In 1948 the dispenser was created to mimic a lighter. It wasn't until the 50s that it was made into a children's toy.

Several million people in the United States sent over 100,000 petitions urging Congress to adopt the metric system. It is still under consideration.

Calvin Coolidge walked outside of his vacation home to waiting reporters, handed them a slip of paper that said, "I do not choose to run for President in nineteen-twenty-eight.", took no questions, and went back inside.

Garnet Carter built the first public miniature golf course, Tom Thumb Golf, on Lookout Mountain in Tennessee.

Charles D. B. King won the presidential election in Liberia when he got 234,000 votes against the opponents 9,000. There were 15,000 registered voters in Liberia at the time. The Guinness Book of Records recognizes the presidential election of 1927 in Liberia as the most fraudulent election reported in history.

Hans Langseth died, along with the world's longest beard. You can see it at the Smithonian Institute.

The Ford Motor Company made 15,000,000 Model T cars since 1908, and productions stopped in 1927.

Metal Radio Flyer wagons

John W. Hammes made the first garbage disposal unit.

Southland Corp (7-11) was founded in Dallas, Texas.