MEMORIES

In 1927, A Loaf of Bread Cost 9 Cents

Calvin Coolidge is president of the US

The first commercially successful “talkie” The Jazz Singer is released

Georges Lamaitre formulates the “big bang” theory following Hubble’s theory of an expanding universe

Completion of the first non-stop flight from New York to Paris by Captain Charles Lindbergh

NBC becomes the first-ever radio network

Saudi Arabia gains independent from the United Kingdom

The Harlem Globetrotters play their first game

New York Yankees win the World Series

Ottawa Senators win the Stanley Cup

The film Metropolis by Fritz Lang premieres

Class of 1927