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.

In 1927 the family moved to East St. Louis, Illinois.

In 1927 they were joined by the writer Louis Scutenaire.

* Louis de Vogüé ( 4 April 1927 – 1 March 1948 )

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In 1925 and 1927, Mulliken traveled to Europe, working with outstanding spectroscopists and quantum theorists such as Erwin Schrödinger, Paul A. M. Dirac, Werner Heisenberg, Louis de Broglie, Max Born, and Walther Bothe ( all of whom eventually received Nobel Prizes ) and Friedrich Hund, who was at the time Born's assistant.

" East St. Louis Toodle-Oo " ( 1927 )

* 1927: Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield

After the City of Tucson acquired land southeast of town for a runway in 1925, Charles Lindbergh, fresh from his nonstop crossing of the Atlantic Ocean, flew his " Spirit of St. Louis " to Tucson in 1927 to dedicate Davis-Monthan Field, then the largest municipal airport in the United States.

Less than three weeks after the flight the U. S. Post Office Department issued a 10-cent " Lindbergh Air Mail " stamp ( Scott C-10 ) on June 11, 1927 with engraved illustrations of both the Spirit of St. Louis and a map of its route from New York to Paris.

In 1927, aviator Charles Lindbergh performed stunts in his famous plane the Spirit of St. Louis.

Storekeeper Louis Mikulich ( Mikulič ) became the first postmaster in July 1927 and renamed the town after the native Slovene village of many of the settlers, Travnik ( not to be confused with the Bosnian city of Travnik ).

* Archibald Bard Darragh ( 1840 – 1927 ), Member of Congress from 1901 to 1909, lived in St. Louis from 1870 until the time of his death.

In 1927, Lordsburg was one of the stops on Charles Lindbergh's transcontinental " Spirit of Saint Louis " air tour.

Another famous visitor was aviator Charles A. Lindbergh, whose " Spirit of St. Louis " passed low over Salisbury shortly after taking off from Roosevelt Field on his immortal May 1927 solo flight from New York to Paris.

The Byrne Sieberlings ( 1920-30's ) sponsored by the J. P. Byrne Tire Company featured some of Central New York's greatest semi-pro ball players: George & Oscar Dear, Tommy Allen, Andy Burns, Henry " Dutch " Dotterer Sr, Don Miller ( 1927 NY Yankee ), Vic Hanson ( SU All-American ,) " Gotch " Carr, Louis " Doc " Morgan.

Charles Lindbergh flew the Spirit of St. Louis to Evere airfield after his historic 1927 transatlantic flight to Paris.

In 1927, Louis Vierne nominated him as his assistant at Notre-Dame.

Early airplanes with closed cockpits include the 1924 Fokker tri-motor, the 1926 German Junkers W. 34 transport, the 1926 Ford Tri-Motor, the 1927 Lockheed Vega, the Spirit of St. Louis and the passenger aircraft manufactured by the Douglas and Boeing companies during the mid-1930s.

Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux ( 6 May 186815 April 1927 ) was a French journalist and author of detective fiction.

When their parents divorced in 1927, Butch and his sisters stayed with their mother Selma in St. Louis while their father Edward moved to Chicago.

The other eighteen who were awarded this distinction were: Roy Chapman Andrews ; Robert Bartlett ; Frederick Russell Burnham ; George Kruck Cherrie ; James L. Clark ; Merian C. Cooper ; Lincoln Ellsworth ; Louis Agassiz Fuertes ; George Bird Grinnell ; Charles A. Lindbergh ; Donald Baxter MacMillan ; Clifford H. Pope ; George P. Putnam ; Kermit Roosevelt ; Carl Rungius ; Stewart Edward White ; Orville Wright. Byrd Memorial on Mount Victoria, Wellington, New ZealandAlso in 1927, the City of Richmond dedicated the Richard Evelyn Byrd Flying Field, now Richmond International Airport, in Henrico County, Virginia.

At the Fifth Solvay Congress, held in Belgium in October 1927 and attended by all the major theoretical physicists of the era, Louis de Broglie presented his own version of a deterministic hidden-variable theory, apparently unaware of Einstein's aborted attempt earlier in the year.

Bohm unknowingly rediscovered ( and extended ) the idea that Louis de Broglie had proposed in 1927 ( and abandoned ) -- hence this theory is commonly called " de Broglie-Bohm theory ".

Introduced in 1927 in commemoration of Charles Lindbergh's trans-Atlantic flight in the Spirit of St. Louis, Aviator playing cards feature a bordered, monotone back design of predominantly circles.