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.

* 1927 – Attempting to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight from Paris to New York, French war heroes Charles Nungesser and François Coli disappeared after taking off aboard The White Bird biplane.

Also, while Napier was no longer in racing, their Lion aeroengine was used by several land speed record contestants: Malcolm Campbell's Napier-Campbell Blue Bird of 1927 and Campbell-Napier-Railton Blue Bird of 1931, Seagrave's Golden Arrow of 1929, and John Cobb's Napier-Railton and Railton Mobil Special, which held the record from 1939 – 1964.

On 4 February 1927 Campbell set the land speed record at Pendine Sands, covering the Flying Kilometre ( in an average of two runs ) at and the Flying Mile in, in the Napier-Campbell Blue Bird.

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.

:* In 1948, Supreme recorded in Los Angeles and released A Little Bird Told Me, written by Harvey Oliver Brooks ( 1899 – 1968 ), sang by Paula Watson ( 1927 – 2003 ), who is African American, accompanied by guitarist Mitchell " Tiny " Webb, and others.

An experiment on these lines has been undertaken at Oxford since the founding of the Oxford Bird Census in 1927 [...].

The Edward Grey Institute ( EGI ) was founded in 1938, having grown out of the Oxford Bird Census, itself founded in 1927.

* L ' Oiseau Blanc (" White Bird "), aircraft flown by Charles Nungesser and François Coli which vanished on an attempted transatlantic flight in 1927

It is famous as the landing site for Charles Lindbergh's historic solo transatlantic crossing in 1927 and as the departure point two weeks earlier for the French biplane The White Bird ( L ' Oiseau Blanc ), which took off in its own attempt at a transatlantic flight but then mysteriously disappeared somewhere over the Atlantic ( or possibly the American state of Maine ).

The WWFC followed on the Lease by Ronald Lockley which had run from 1927 but direct involvement commenced two years earlier when in 1946 the Bird Observatory was re-opened after the war.

* The White Bird, a French biplane which disappeared while attempting a transatlantic crossing in 1927

The barrier was decisively broken, and Campbell raised the record to 174. 22 mph ( 280. 38 km / h ) in February 1927 with his second Blue Bird.

* The Gay Old Bird ( 1927 )

Étretat is known for being the last place in France from which the 1927 biplane The White Bird ( L ' Oiseau Blanc ) was seen.

* Early Bird Catches the Worm ( 3 / 14 / 1927 )

It is the second sorority to be founded in the U. S. The founding members were Mary Allen ( 1848 – 1927 ), Ella Stewart ( 1848 – 94 ), Alice Bird ( 1850 – 1926 ), Hattie Briggs ( 1849 – 77 ), Franc Roads ( 1852 – 1924 ), Alice Virginia Coffin ( 1848 – 88 ), and Suela Pearson ( 1851 – 1920 ).

A French attempt had been made in May 1927 aboard The White Bird ( L ' Oiseau Blanc ), but the aircraft disappeared over the Atlantic.

The museum also has the only remaining piece of L ' Oiseau Blanc ( The White Bird ), the 1927 aircraft which attempted to make the first Transatlantic crossing from Paris to New York.