1927 in radio

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The Soviet mineralogist Leonid A. Kulik leads a groundbreaking scientific expedition to the difficult of access Tunguska region in Siberia, to investigate the effects of the Tunguska - 1908 logged item and documented.
20-21. Mai - The American Charles Lindbergh succeed the first solo crossing of the Atlantic non-stop. Bertolt Brecht two years later, dedicated to the sensational event his radio opera The ocean air.
July 15 - In the wake of violent clashes with nearly a hundred dead during a demonstration against what they saw as unfair Schattendorf judgment there is in Vienna to fire the Palace of Justice.
August 23 - In Charlestown, Massachusetts Sacco and Vanzetti were executed.

January 2nd - In Paris, the first religious radio program goes (L' Evanglie par dessus les toits ) over the airwaves.
February 23 - U.S. President Calvin Coolidge is based in the U.S., the Federal Radio Commission, the predecessor of today's Federal Communications Commission.
( " Turkish Wireless Telephone Company " about ) the first regular radio operating on Turkey - May 6 In Istanbul, Türk Anonim Şirketi Telsiz phone takes. However, the programs can be received only from about 2,000 available in the country radios.

April 7 - The Bell Laboratories transmitted a speech by U.S. Secretary of Commerce ( and later President ) Herbert Hoover to a distance of 200 miles ( 321 km ) by means of telephone cables. This is the first successful long-distance transmission of a television signal.
May 24 - The Scottish television pioneer John Logie Baird transmits a television signal via telephone cable between London and Glasglow.
September 7 - The American inventor and television pioneer Philo Farnsworth succeeds with the help of a cathode ray tube under laboratory conditions, the demonstration of the transfer of an image on a purely electronic way.

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