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.

This, of course, is baseball's most remarkable mark: The 60 home runs hit in 1927 by the incorrigible epicure, the incredible athlete, George Herman ( Babe ) Ruth of the Yankees.

In 1927 Dunn's widow, Mrs. George Pross ( Dunn had died in 1922 ), sold the team to a syndicate headed by Alva Bradley.

George D. Birkhoff's 1927 book already takes a modern approach to dynamical systems.

The ceremony was first conducted with the Prince of Wales ( the future Edward VIII ) in 1927, then with King George VI in 1939, and last with his daughter, Queen Elizabeth II in 1959 and 1970.

Roosevelt was included with George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln at the Mount Rushmore Memorial, designed in 1927 with the approval of Republican President Calvin Coolidge.

* George Wellington ( 1852 – 1927 ) U. S. Senator from Maryland ( 1897 – 1903 )

* September 22 – George C. Scott, American actor ( b. 1927 )

Not only was he the principal composer for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, but he also collaborated with Picasso ( Pulcinella, 1920 ), Jean Cocteau (, 1927 ) and George Balanchine (, 1928 ).

George Smith Patton Jr. was born in San Gabriel, California in 1885, to George Smith Patton Sr. ( 1856 – 1927 ) and his wife Ruth Wilson ( 1861 – 1928 ), daughter of Benjamin Davis Wilson.

* 1927 Clinton Davisson, Lester Germer, and George Paget Thomson confirm the wavelike nature of electrons

Image: Rose of the Golden West. jpg | Mary Astor and Gilbert Roland starred in George Fitzmaurice's 1927 motion picture Rose of the Golden West, shot on location on the Mission grounds.

# George Daniel Olds, 1924 — 1927

** George Sumner Huntington ( 1861 – 1927 ), American physician

During the 1920s, Fred and Adele appeared on Broadway and on the London stage in shows such as George and Ira Gershwin's Lady Be Good ( 1924 ) and Funny Face ( 1927 ), and later in The Band Wagon ( 1931 ), winning popular acclaim with the theater crowd on both sides of the Atlantic.

Gollancz formed his own publishing company in 1927, publishing works by writers such as Ford Madox Ford and George Orwell ( though Orwell went to Secker and Warburg from Homage to Catalonia on ).

The first radio commentary of the race was broadcast by Meyrick Good and George Allison on the BBC in 1927 ; the first televised coverage was in 1960 with commentary led by Peter O ' Sullevan.

* George Dallas Sherman ( 1844 – 1927 ) Composer of " Salute to Burlington "

It is an adaptation by Angus MacPhail and Ben Hecht of the novel The House of Dr. Edwardes ( 1927 ) by Hilary Saint George Saunders and John Palmer ( writing as " Francis Beeding ").

By the time the 1927 New Jersey state highway renumbering had been implemented and in law, the route was re-designated as State Highway Route S-28, a prefixed spur of State Highway Route 28 in Middlesex, following Raritan Avenue and River Road through Piscataway and Highland Park, joining State Highway Route 27 on a concurrency into New Brunswick, and onto George Street in New Brunswick southward.

George Campbell Scott ( October 18, 1927 – September 22, 1999 ) was an American stage and film actor, director and producer.

* 1927: Huntingtower directed by George Pearson

Route 4 was legislated in 1927 to run from Cape May to the George Washington Bridge.

The Route 4 interchange with New Jersey Route 17 | Route 17 in Paramus, New Jersey | Paramus that underwent a $ 120 million improvement completed in 1999, as viewed from Route 17 south. Route 4 was originally legislated in the 1927 New Jersey state highway renumbering to run from Cape May north to the George Washington Bridge, running through Pleasantville, Toms River, Freehold, Perth Amboy, Rahway, and Paterson.