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.

As the anniversary of Confederation, Dominion Day, and later Canada Day, was the date set for a number of important events, such as the first national radio network hookup by the Canadian National Railway ( 1927 ), the inauguration of the CBC's cross-country television broadcast ( 1958 ), the flooding of the Saint Lawrence Seaway ( 1958 ), the first colour television transmission in Canada ( 1966 ), the inauguration of the Order of Canada ( 1967 ), and the establishment of " O Canada " as the country's national anthem ( 1980 ).

Lawrence remained at Yale University as a researcher, working in the photoelectric effect, and he became an assistant professor there in 1927.

* D. H. Lawrence: An Indiscretion ( 1927 )

Harry Crosby and his wife Caresse would establish the Black Sun Press in Paris in 1927, publishing works by such future luminaries as D. H. Lawrence, Archibald MacLeish, James Joyce, Kay Boyle, Hart Crane, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, Dorothy Parker and others.

* Lawrence Singleton ( 1927 – 2001 ), American criminal

In 1927 he made a sketching trip with Jackson to the St. Lawrence in Quebec.

Two of the shows they did for station WENR beginning in 1927, both written by Harry Lawrence, bore traces of what was to come and rank as one of the earliest forms of situation comedy.

The field is named in honor of Captain Lawrence C. Gray, who lost his life during a free balloon flight at the field on November 4, 1927.

Lawrence Kohlberg ( October 25, 1927 – January 19, 1987 ) was a Jewish American psychologist born in Bronxville, New York, he was the son of Alfred Kohlberg, a Jewish man, and of his second wife, Charlotte Albrecht, a Protestant woman.

Abbandando had two sons: Lawrence, born on December 20, 1927 out of wedlock, and Frank Abbandando Jr., on October 17, 1935.

On October 3, 1927, it was reported that a " terrific battle, which started Friday night, continued Saturday night and culminated Sunday when police answered in response to a riot call ," practically wrecked a saloon that was formerly owned by Lawrence Coleman and located at the corner of Milton Avenue and Tompkins Street.

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John Lawrence Ashbery ( born July 28, 1927 ) is an American poet.

Dudley Lawrence, one of the sons of William and Sarah Lawrence, achieved the remarkable feat of constructing three of these buildings in one year ( 1927 – 1926 ).

The President of Harvard, Abbott Lawrence Lowell made a counter offer: immediate promotion to professor, effective September 1, 1927, with a salary of $ 7, 000

They eventually had four children: Spencer LeVan ( 1918 – 2003 ), Olive Beth ( b. 1922 ), Andrew E. ( b. 1927 ), and Edward Lawrence ( b. 1930 ).

In 1927 Lawrence was made a King's Counsel and appointed Attorney General to the Prince of Wales ( later Edward VIII ).

When Lawrence became involved with Wall Street banker Bert Taylor in 1927, Astley proposed marriage, an offer Lawrence refused because she knew Astley would expect her to leave the stage and settle in rural England.

In 1927, back in the U. S., he became the head of the zoology department of the University of Kansas at Lawrence.

" St. Lawrence " was built in 1927, and Quebec and Tadoussac were identical sister ships of 1928.

In 1927, Arlen, feeling ill, joined D. H. Lawrence in Florence, where Lawrence was working on Lady Chatterley's Lover, for which Arlen served as a model for Michaelis.