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 – 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.

Coulton, an expert on Mediaeval monasteries, included her theories in his work, Five Centuries of Religion, Volume One ( 1923 ), as did the novelist John Buchan, who included it into his Witch Wood ( 1927 ).

By April 1927, the Big Five studios ( First National, Paramount, MGM, Universal, and Producers Distributing ) had put the Warner brothers in financial ruin, and Western Electric renewed Warner's Vitaphone contract with terms that allowed other film companies to test sound.

From September to December 1927 the Hot Five Armstrong assembled consisted of Johnny Dodds, Kid Ory, Johnny St. Cyr, Lonnie Johnson, and Baby Dodds.

Red Nichols ' compositions include " Hurricane " with Paul Madeira Mertz, " Five Pennies " ( 1927 ), " That's No Bargain ", " Get With It ", " Hangover " with Miff Mole, " The King Kong ", " Nervous Charlie ", " Trumpet Sobs " ( 1926 ), " The Parade of the Pennies ", " Sugar ", " Overnight Hop ", " Lowland Blues ", and " Meet Miss 8 Beat ".

*" Hurricane ", Red Nichols and His Five Pennies, January 12, 1927

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 ).

When the Savoy Ballroom opened in November 1927, one of the premier attractions was the Savoy Big Five, a basketball team that played exhibitions before dances.

In 1927, McClung and four other women: Henrietta Muir Edwards, Emily Murphy, Louise McKinney and Irene Parlby, who together came to be known as " The Famous Five " ( also called " The Valiant Five "), launched the " Persons Case ," contending that women could be " qualified persons " eligible to sit in the Senate.

* Five Women Around Him ( Kare o meguru gonin no onna ) ( 1927 )

There were two different groups called " Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five ", the first recording from 1925 through 1927 and the second in 1928 ; Armstrong was the only musician in both groups.

In 1927 he began work on a novel, and a third book of poems, Five Saints and an Appendix, came out early the following year.

* Five Saints and an Appendix, London, Holden, 1927.

By April 1927, the Big Five studios ( First National, Paramount, MGM, Universal, and Producers Distributing ) had put the Warners in financial ruin, and Western Electric renewed the Warner's Vitaphone contract with terms that it was no longer exclusive and that other film companies could test sound with Western Electric as well.

* The Five O ' Clock Girl ( 1927 )-musical-composer

* The Five O ' Clock Girl ( 1927 )-lyricist ( music by Harry Ruby )

By April 1927, the Big Five studios ( First National, Paramount, MGM, Universal, and Producers Distributing ) had put the Warners in financial ruin, and Western Electric renewed the Warner's Vitaphone contract with terms that it was no longer exclusive and that other film company's could test sound with Western Electric as well ; the Warners were even forced to sell some of their stock to Harry Cohn, the head of the independent film company Columbia Pictures.

Five Unlikely Stories ( 1927 )

from: 30 / 09 / 1927 till: 04 / 10 / 1927 color: TS text :" Five "

The only cyclone to strike the United States in 1927, Storm Five formed near the central Bahamas on the last day of September and moved generally northwest, reaching its peak intensity of on the afternoon of October 2.

Many Quakers from Oregon, Ohio, and Kansas became alienated from the Five Years Meeting ( later Friends United Meeting ), considering it infected with the kind of theological liberalism that Jones exemplified ; Oregon Yearly Meeting withdrew in 1927.

* Thirty Five Nimzowitsch Games, 1904 – 1927

Courtenay Hughes Fenn, or C. H. Fenn, ( April 11, 1866 – 1927 ) was an American Presbyterian missionary to China, and compiler of The Five Thousand Dictionary, a widely-used basic Chinese-English dictionary that has gone through numerous reprints.