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.

Although this transoceanic flight had been attempted by many others, most notably by the unfortunate participants in the 1927 Dole Air Race which had reversed the route, her trailblazing flight had been mainly routine, with no mechanical breakdowns.

Wheeler Field was the site of several major historic aviation events prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, including the first nonstop Mainland-Hawai ' i flight in 1927 ; the great Dole Air Race from California to Hawai ' i ; the first trans-Pacific flight from the U. S. to Australia in 1928, and the first Hawai ' i-to-Mainland solo flight in 1935 by Amelia Earhart.

In 1927, the announcement of the Dole prize for a flight from California to Hawaii combined with the fanfare of the Spirit of St. Louis flight provided the incentive to purchase 680 acres in April 1927 for the airport.

For example, seven lives were lost in August 1927 in the Orteig Prize-inspired $ 25, 000 Dole Air Race to fly from San Francisco to Hawaii.

* Dole Air Race, ill-fated 1927 air race named for sponsor James Dole ( see below )

* Charles Fletcher Dole ( 1845 – 1927 ), Unitarian minister and author

( Navy Commander John Rodgers had set a non-stop seaplane record from San Francisco in 1925 and had fallen short of the mark for Honolulu, landing off the Island of Kauai ), The famous Dole flight also took place in 1927, with Art Goebel and Lt. W. V. Davis, USN, the only fliers completing the flight to Hawaii.

The Dole Air Race, also known as the Dole Derby, was a tragic air race across the Pacific Ocean from northern California to the Territory of Hawaii in August 1927.

1927 Dole Air Derby

A trim green and silver-painted craft only 22-1/2 feet long, the Waco was entered to compete in the `` On-to-Spokane '' Air Derby of 1927.

* 1927 – The Bird of Paradise, a U. S. Army Air Corps Fokker tri-motor, completes the first transpacific flight, from the mainland United States to Hawaii.

The rapid increase in aviation activities meant a move in 1927 to the site which is now Davis – Monthan Air Force Base.

Pan American Airways, Incorporated ( PAA ) was founded as a shell company on March 14, 1927 by Air Corps Majors Henry H. " Hap " Arnold, Carl A. Spaatz, and John H. Jouett as a counterbalance to the German-owned Colombian carrier SCADTA, operating in Colombia since 1920.

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.

A member of the Army Air Corps during World War I, he returned to Willows to found the Nolta and later Willows Flying Service in 1927.

Although it was closed in 1922, it was reopened in 1927 and eventually became a full Air Force base.

Travel Air, with Walter Beech at the helm, grew to over 600 employees and operated from a huge factory complex constructed a few miles outside the city from 1927 to 1929.

Wallace Beery's notable silent films include Arthur Conan Doyle's dinosaur epic The Lost World ( 1925 ; as Professor Challenger ), Robin Hood with Douglas Fairbanks ( Beery played King Richard the Lionheart in this film and a sequel the following year called Richard the Lion-Hearted ), Last of the Mohicans ( 1920 ), The Round-Up ( 1920 ; with Roscoe Arbuckle ), Old Ironsides ( 1926 ), Now We're in the Air ( 1927 ), The Usual Way ( 1913 ), Casey at the Bat ( 1927 ), and Beggars of Life ( 1928 ) with Louise Brooks.

* Now We're in the Air ( 1927 ) with Louise Brooks ( lost film )

: Fairfield Air Depot ( Reservation ), 22 June 1927

Colonel John Richard Boyd ( January 23, 1927 – March 9, 1997 ) was a United States Air Force fighter pilot and Pentagon consultant of the late 20th century, whose theories have been highly influential in the military, sports, and business.

Arnold made the best of his exile and in May 1927, his participation in war games at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, impressed Maj. Gen. James E. Fechet, successor to Patrick as Chief of the U. S. Army Air Corps.

Reporting to the battleship Arizona ( BB-39 ) in February 1927, Bristol served as executive officer of that dreadnought until April of the following year, and then moved to the Naval Air Station ( NAS ), San Diego, California for aviation instruction.

The first scheduled commercial passenger flights were initiated by Colonial Air Transport between Boston and New York City in 1927.

After the British won in 1927, Trenchard continued to use Air Ministry funds to support the race, including purchasing two Supermarine S. 6 aircraft which won the race in 1929.

On 1 January 1927, Trenchard was promoted from air chief marshal to marshal of the Royal Air Force, becoming the first person to hold the RAF's highest rank.

Boeing Air Transport ( a predecessor of United Airlines ) began scheduled flights to Oakland in December 1927.

When General Motors in 2008 made a list of their top ten cars, the Saab 92 came in first followed by the Pontiac GTO ( 1964 ), the Chevrolet Corvette ( 1953 ), the EV1 ( 1996 ), the Opel Olympia ( 1936 ), the LaSalle ( 1927 ), the Chevrolet Bel Air ( 1955 ), the Cadillac V16 ( 1930 ), the Cadillac Model 30 ( 1910 ) and the Cadillac ( 1912 )