Nanking Incident: After six foreigners have been killed in Nanking, and it appears that Kuomintang and Chinese Communist Party forces will overrun the foreign consulates, warships of the U.S. Navy and the British Royal Navy fire shells and shoot to disperse the crowds. March 29 – Henry Segrave breaks the land speed record, driving the Sunbeam 1000 hp at Daytona Beach, Florida. April April 7 – Bell Telephone Co. transmits an image of Herbert Hoover (then the Secretary of Commerce), which becomes the first successful long distance demonstration of television. April 12 The Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927 renames the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland as the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The change acknowledges that the Irish Free State is no longer part of the Kingdom. April 12 Incident (Shanghai Massacre): Kuomintang troops kill a number of communist-supporting workers in Shanghai. The 1st United Front between the Nationalists and Communist ends, and the Civil War lasting until 1949 begins. April 14 – The first Volvo automobile rolls off the production line in Gothenburg, Sweden. April 14 - 1927 Mendoza earthquake. A magnitude 7.1 earthquake kills 3 people in Argentina's Mendoza Province. April 18 – The Kuomintang (Nationalist Chinese) set up a government in Nanking, China. April 21 – A banking crisis hits Japan. April 22–May 5 – The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 strikes 700,000 people, in the greatest natural disaster in American history through this time. April 23 – Cardiff City wins the FA Cup, beating Arsenal 1–0; as of 2019, this remains the only time a team from outside England has won the competition. April 27 The Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmery) are created. João Ribeiro de Barros becomes the first non-European to make a transatlantic flight, flying from Genoa, Italy, to Fernando de Noronha, Brazil. May May – Philo Farnsworth of the United States transmits his first experimental electronic television motion pictures, as opposed to the electromechanical TV systems that others have used before. May 9 – The Australian Parliament convenes for the first time in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. Previously, the Parliament had met in Melbourne, Victoria. May 11 – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which will create the Academy Awards, is founded in the United States. May 12 – British police officers raid the office of the Soviet trade delegation in