Fifteen statuettes were awarded, honoring artists, directors and other personalities of the filmmaking industry of the time for their works during the 1927 – 1928 period.

Percy Bysshe Shelley composed a " Hymn of Apollo " ( 1820 ), and the god's instruction of the Muses formed the subject of Igor Stravinsky's Apollon musagète ( 1927 – 1928 ).

* Armstrong Whitworth Atlas, a British military aeroplane manufactured ( 1927 – 1933 )

* Atlas ( 1927 – 1962 ), a LMS Royal Scot Class steam locomotive

Leipzig, 1927 – 1928

* 1927 – Gerry Mulligan, American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, composer, and arranger ( d. 1996 )

* 1927 – April 12 Incident: Chiang Kai-shek orders the Communist Party of China members executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front.

* 1927 – The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opens in Alderson, West Virginia, as the first women's federal prison in the United States.

* 1927 – Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood.

* 1927 – Five Canadian women file a petition to the Supreme Court of Canada, asking, " Does the word ' Persons ' in Section 24 of the British North America Act, 1867, include female persons?

* 1927 – Jimmy C. Newman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

* 1927 – Daniel Keyes, American author

* 1927 – Marvin Minsky, American computer scientist

* 1927 – Robert Shaw, English actor ( d. 1978 )

* 2004 – Nilo Soruco, Bolivian singer-songwriter ( b. 1927 )

* 2010 – Tzannis Tzannetakis, Greek politician, 175th Prime Minister of Greece ( b. 1927 )

* 1927 – The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Communist Party of China.

* 1894 – Ottavio Bottecchia, Italian cyclist ( d. 1927 )

* 1927 – Gordon Scott, American actor ( d. 2007 )

* 2012 – Martin Fleischmann, Czech-English chemist ( b. 1927 )

* 1927 – The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.

* 1927 – Edwin Edwards, American politician

* 1927 – Art Houtteman, American baseball player ( d. 2003 )

* 1927 – Carl Switzer, American actor ( d. 1959 )

* 1927 – The predecessor to the Philippine Stock Exchange opens.

One small packet of ashes was scattered at a 1989 ceremony which unveiled a monument to six unarmed IWW coal miners buried in Lafayette, Colorado, who had been machine-gunned by Colorado state police in 1927 in the Columbine Mine Massacre.

The Columbine Massacre, sometimes called the Columbine Mine Massacre, occurred in 1927, in the town of Serene, Colorado.

* Columbine Mine massacre, a 1927 mine strike and massacre at a coal mine at Serene, Colorado

* The 1927 Columbine Mine massacre of coal miners at the Columbine Mine in Serene, Colorado

The first armored car robbery in the U. S. occurred on March 11, 1927 when a Brinks truck, heading towards the Coverdale Mine about a mile away was attacked.

In 1927 a plan for a central power generating facility was proposed by F. J. Mars, consulting electrical engineer with the Central Mine.

* Love Me and the World Is Mine ( 1927 Universal Pictures )

Henderson's biggest hit songs included " That Old Gang of Mine " ( from the entries of Our Gang comedy shorts in the 1930's ), " Annabelle " ( both 1923 ), " Bye Bye Blackbird ", " Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue ", " I'm Sitting on Top of the World " ( all 1925 ), " The Birth of the Blues " ( 1926 ), " The Varsity Drag " ( 1927 ), " You're The Cream In My Coffee " ( 1928 ), " Button Up Your Overcoat ", " You Are My Lucky Star " " I'm A Dreamer, Aren't We All ", " Keep Your Sunny Side Up " ( 1929 ), " The Thrill Is Gone ", and " Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries " ( 1931 ).

In November 1927 U. S. aircraft succeeded in locating El Chipote, Sandino's remote mountain headquarters east of San Albino Mine.

* Former Canadian federal court judge and MP for the riding of Sarnia, Bud Cullen, was born in Creighton Mine on April 20, 1927.

The Yews Mine and the Langhouse Mine were owned by Charles Bramall, while the Stubbin Mine was owned by the Oughtibridge Silica Firebrick Company and was the last to close in November 1927.

* 1927 – Massacre of July 15, 1927: 89 protesters are killed by the Austrian police in Vienna.

See Massacre of July 15, 1927.

It is possible he had used this same gun in Detroit ’ s Milaflores Massacre on March 28, 1927.

* Sitting Bull at the Spirit Lake Massacre ( 1927 ),

His was one of the few Nationalist units free from serious Communist influence and was therefore employed by Chiang Kai-shek for the Shanghai Massacre of 1927.

His was one of the few Nationalist units free from serious Communist influence and was therefore employed by Chiang Kai-shek in the Shanghai Massacre of 1927.