* 1846 – Charles Woodruff, American archer ( d. 1927 )

Great progress was made in the field of aviation during the 1920s and 1930s, such as Charles Lindbergh's solo transatlantic flight in 1927, and Charles Kingsford Smith's transpacific flight the following year.

During late 1927, Warners released The Jazz Singer, which was mostly silent but contained what is generally regarded as the first synchronized dialogue ( and singing ) in a feature film ; but this process was actually accomplished first by Charles Taze Russell in 1914 with the lengthy film The Photo-Drama of Creation.

* 1927 – Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker-tape parade down 5th Avenue in New York City.

* 1927 – Charles Tomlinson, British poet and translator

One of Lord Peter's cars is a 12-cylinder (" double-six ") 1927 Daimler four-seater, which ( like all his cars ) he calls " Mrs. Merdle " after a character in Little Dorrit ( by Charles Dickens ) who " hated fuss ".

* 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.

* 1927 – At 07: 52 Charles Lindbergh takes off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, New York, on the world's first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.

* 1927 – Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.

* 2011 – Charles Jarrott, British film and television director ( b. 1927 )

* 1967 – Charles J. Watters, American Army chaplain, Medal of Honor recipient ( b. 1927 )

On October 10, 1927, Army Chief of Staff General Charles Pelot Summerall directed that a draft bill be sent to Congress " to revive the Badge of Military Merit ".

* Charles Henderson-Padstow Church: Its History and List of Vicars, 1927

* 1953 – Charles de Tornaco, Belgian race car driver ( b. 1927 )

* Charles Jonnart ( 19 May 1913 – 1927 )

By 1927, Charles Mintz had married Margaret Winkler and assumed control of her business.

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* Charles Lindbergh becomes the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean ( May 20 – 21, 1927 ), nonstop from New York to Paris, France.

* November 19 – Charles J. Watters, U. S. Army chaplain, Medal of Honor recipient ( b. 1927 )

* March 15 – Charles Nungesser, French aviator and World War I fighter ace ( d. 1927 )

* Charles J. Shindo, 1927 and the Rise of Modern America ( University Press of Kansas ; 244 pages ; 2010 ).

* March 31 – Charles Doolittle Walcott, American invertebrate paleontologist ( d. 1927 )

Her performances in Seventh Heaven ( the first of twelve movies she would make with actor Charles Farrell ) and both Sunrise, directed by F. W. Murnau, and Street Angel ( in 1927, also with Charles Farrell ) earned her the first Academy Award for Best Actress in 1928.

It had been around a long time and some people began to call it the Lindbergh Hop after 1927, although it didn't last.

On September 17, 1927, Charles Lindbergh attended the official dedication of the new Oakland Airport.

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.

Charles Lindbergh, best known for crossing the Atlantic alone and without stopping in 1927, was fascinated by this eagle.

Lannin provided Lindbergh with a room at his nearby hotel and watched the takeoff from Roosevelt Airfield on May 20, 1927.

* Charles Lindbergh, who flew into Croydon in 1927 shortly after completing the first solo trans-Atlantic flight ;

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

The last significant historic event in Red Lake Falls occurred on August 27, 1927, when the famous aviator, Charles Lindbergh and his wife, landed at the nearby airport during a barnstorming trip through the Upper Midwest and were taken on automobile rides to Huot and Crookston.

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.

In 1927, Charles Lindbergh took off from Roosevelt Field, a couple of hundred yards south of downtown, for the history-making flight to Paris, marking probably the most famous event tied to Westbury.

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

In 1927, Blériot, long retired from flying, was present to welcome Charles Lindbergh when he landed at Le Bourget field completing his transatlantic flight.

Anne and Charles Lindbergh met on December 21, 1927 in Mexico City.

In 1927, Charles Lindbergh refused to include Vancouver in his North American tour because of the lack of a proper airport.

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.

Massey ( right ), William Phillips ( diplomat ) | William Phillips ( left ), and Charles Lindbergh outside Rideau Hall in July 1927

Charles A. Lindbergh, arguably the world's most famous aviator, spent quite a bit of time in Hempstead both before and after his epic solo flight from nearby Roosevelt Field to Le Bourget Field in Paris, France on May 20, 1927.

Charles Lindbergh visited Woodward Field in 1927 drawing many spectators to see The Spirit of St. Louis.