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Top Song(s)
• Gene Austin - Bye Bye, Blackbird
• George Olsen - Always
• Jan Garber - Baby Face
• Al Jolson - I'm Sitting On Top of the World
• Paul Whiteman - Valencia
Top Film(s)
• The General
• Faust: A German Folk Legend
• The Adventures of Prince Achmed
• A Page of Madness
• Battling Butler
Best Selling Book(s)
• Winnie-the-Pooh - A.A. Milne
• The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie
• These Old Shades - Georgette Heyer
• Clouds of Witness - Dorothy L. Sayers
• The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
Famous Deaths
• January 21 - Camillo Golgi, Italian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• February 14 – John Jacob Bausch, German-born American optician, co-founder of Bausch & Lomb
• March 26 – Constantin Fehrenbach, German politician and 13th Chancellor of Germany
• April 11 – Luther Burbank, American biologist, botanist and agricultural scientist
• May 22 – Tomás Arejola, Filipino lawyer, legislator, diplomat and writer
• June 9 – Sanford B. Dole, President of Hawaii and 1st Territorial Governor of Hawaii
• July 9 – Mother Mary Alphonsa, American Roman Catholic religious sister, social worker, foundress
• July 26 - Robert Todd Lincoln, American statesman and businessman, son of 16th President Abraham Lincoln
• August 27 – John Rodgers, American naval officer and naval aviation pioneer
• November 19 – Thomas Cusack, American entrepreneur, pioneer and politician
Medical/Science/Technology
• Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.
• Waldo Semon and the B.F. Goodrich Company develop a method of plasticizing polyvinyl chloride.
• Graham Edgar originates the octane rating system for automotive fuel.
• Phencyclidine (PCP, angel dust) is first synthesized.
• Vladimir Vernadsky popularises the concept of the biosphere in a book.
• Roald Amundsen, Umberto Nobile and crew fly over the North Pole in the airship Norge.
• First vaccine for pertussis.
• American biogerontologist Raymond Pearl publishes his book Alcohol and Longevity.
• German engineer Andreas Stihl patents and develops an electric chainsaw.
• Carl Zeiss, Jena, open a planetarium housed in a geodesic dome designed by Walther Bauersfeld.
Political Events
• April 4 – Greek dictator Theodoros Pangalos wins the presidential election, with 93.3% of the vote.
• April 12 – By a vote of 45–41, the United States Senate unseats Iowa Senator Smith W. Brookhart and seats Daniel F. Steck.
• May 20 – The United States Congress passes the Air Commerce Act, licensing pilots and planes.
• June 4 – Ignacy Moscicki becomes president of Poland.
• August 22 – In Greece, Georgios Kondylis ousts Theodoros Pangalos.
• September 25 - The League of Nations Slavery Convention abolishes all types of slavery.
• October 2 – Józef Pilsudski becomes prime minister of Poland.
• November 2 – Bibb Graves is elected the 38th governor of Alabama defeating J. A. Bingham.
• November 11 – The United States Numbered Highway System, including U.S. Route 66, is established.
• December 13 – Miina Sillanpaa becomes Finland's first female government minister.
National Events
• February 1 – Land on Broadway and Wall Street in New York City is sold at a record $7 per sq inch.
• April 30 – African-American pilot Bessie Coleman is killed after falling 2,000 feet from an airplane.
• June 19 – DeFord Bailey is the first African-American to perform on Nashville's Grand Ole Opry.
• June 23 – The College Board administers the first SAT standardized test for university and college admission in the U.S.
• July 1 – Benjamin Franklin Bridge opens.
• July 26 – The National Bar Association incorporates in the United States.
• August 18 – In the United States, a weather map is televised for the first time.
• September 11 – Aloha Tower is officially dedicated at Honolulu Harbor in the Territory of Hawai'i.
• September 18 – A strong hurricane devastates Miami, leaving over 100 dead and causing several hundred million dollars in damage.
• November 27 – In Williamsburg, Virginia, the restoration of Colonial Williamsburg begins.
Worldwide Events
• March 14 – The El Virilla train accident occurs in Costa Rica killing 248 people and injuring 93.
• April 7 – An assassination attempt against Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini fails.
• May 4 – The United Kingdom general strike begins at midnight, in support of a strike by coal miners.
• May 26 – The Rif War ends, when Rif rebels surrender in Morocco.
• July 15 – Bombay Electric Supply and Transport Company in India introduces motor buses.
• September 8 – The German Weimar Republic joins the League of Nations.
• October 14 – A. A. Milne's children's book Winnie-the-Pooh is published in London, featuring the eponymous bear.
• October 20 – A hurricane kills 650 in Cuba.
• November 25 – The death penalty is re-established in Italy.
• December 18 – Turkey converts to the Gregorian calendar, making the next day January 1, 1927.