* 1927 – Louis B. Mayer, head of film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ( MGM ), announces the creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, at a banquet in Los Angeles, California.

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.

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.

He soon became one of Hollywood's highest paid performers, starring in such classics as The Patent Leather Kid ( 1927 ) and The Noose ( 1928 ); he was nominated for Best Actor at the first Academy Awards for his performance in both these films, and he won a Special Citation for producing The Patent Leather Kid.

Seventh Heaven ( 1927 ) is a silent film and one of the first films to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture ( then called " Best Picture, Production ").

In its first film season, 1927 – 28, this award ( like others such as the acting awards ) was not tied to a specific film ; all of the work by the nominated cinematographers during the qualifying period was listed after their names.

Only three films have won Best Picture without their directors being nominated ( though only one since the early 1930s ): Wings ( 1927 / 28 ), Grand Hotel ( 1931 / 32 ), and Driving Miss Daisy ( 1989 ).

Maurice Hayes ( born 8 July 1927 ) is an Irish politician and was an independent member of the 21st and 22nd Seanads, nominated as a senator by the Taoiseach.

Sorrell and Son ( 1927 ) is a silent film released on December 2, 1927 and nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director in the 1st Academy Awards the following year.

Some of his more noteworthy films were the first movie adaptations of Peter Pan ( 1924 ) and Beau Geste ( 1926 ), Sorrell and Son ( 1927 ) for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director in the 1st Academy Awards, Laugh, Clown, Laugh ( 1928 ) with Lon Chaney, Sr., and The Flying Squad ( 1940 ), his last.

Over the course of his career, he was nominated for an Academy Award eight times, including his work on The Devil Dancer ( 1927 ) with Gilda Gray and Clive Brook.

In 1926 and in 1927 he was nominated for the Nobel prize.

Chessmetrics places him as the third best player in the world from 1927 to 1931, behind Alexander Alekhine and José Capablanca.

In 1927, when Williams moved to OKeh Records, he took Jefferson with him, and OKeh quickly recorded and released Jefferson's " Matchbox Blues " backed with " Black Snake Moan ," which was to be his only OKeh recording, probably because of contractual obligations with Paramount.

Shanghai capitalists did briefly support him out of fear of communism in 1927, but this support eroded in 1928, when Chiang turned his tactics of intimidation on them.

At the International Zoological Congress at Budapest in 1927, Mayr was introduced by Stresemann to banker and naturalist Walter Rothschild, who asked him to undertake an expedition to New Guinea on behalf of himself and the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

Ruth Pitter, a family acquaintance, helped him find lodgings, and by the end of 1927 he had moved into rooms in Portobello Road ;( a blue plaque commemorates his residence there.

However, in 1927 his father became very ill with dementia, and Gardner decided to visit him.

* 1927 – Augusto César Sandino leads a raid on U. S. Marines and Nicaraguan Guardia Nacional that had been sent to apprehend him in the village of Ocotal, but is repulsed by one of the first dive-bombing attacks in history.

In 1927, he travelled to Warsaw and then to Berlin and Munich for a retrospective which finally brought him international recognition.

* Weissenhof Estate – Housing Exhibition coordinated by Mies and with a contribution by him, Stuttgart ( 1927 )

Finally, he appears as an old man with a long beard, short and hunchbacked, in an old torn woolen coat, who carries a club and drives a multitude of beasts before him ( Loomis, 1927 ).

By his arts, he calls a herd of deer to come and graze around him ( Loomis, 1927 ).

" In the Prophetiae Merlini, Niviane confines him in the forest of Brocéliande with walls of air, visible as mist to others but as a beautiful tower to him ( Loomis, 1927 ).

Little information on Steiner is available, but a broadside for a lecture given by him identifies him as " National Sec ' y Rationalist Association " ( presumably the American Rationalist Association, which published his Religious Treason in the American Republic c. 1927 ).

This marked the first time in over five years and 133 races that Nurmi had been defeated at a distance over 1, 000 m. In 1927, Finnish officials barred him from international competition for refusing to run against Eklöf at the Finland-Sweden international, cancelling the Peltzer rematch scheduled for Vienna.

But this reconciliation with the ALP and the electoral system did not prevent him being imprisoned again in 1927 for street demonstrations supporting Sacco and Vanzetti.

He achieves his goal-one of those four hits being Show Boat ( 1927 )-but then the stock market crash of 1929 bankrupts him, forcing Billie to go back on the stage.

Colbert's first film, For the Love of Mike ( 1927 ), had been directed by Frank Capra, and it was such a disaster that she vowed to never make another with him.

Porgy is a novel written by the American author DuBose Heyward in 1925, as well as a play which Dorothy Heyward helped him to write which was premiered in 1927.

This allowed him to attend Harvard University in 1927 – 1928 and then both University of Göttingen and University of Amsterdam the following year.

When Blunden returned to England in 1927, Aki accompanied him and would become his secretary.

In 1927, The Bridge of San Luis Rey brought him commercial success and his first Pulitzer Prize in 1928.

Jane Cheney married Spock in 1927 and assisted him in the research and writing of Dr. Spock's Baby & Child Care, which was published in 1946 by Duell, Sloan & Pearce as The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care.

It was not until 1927 that Chagall made his name in the French art world, when art critic and historian Maurice Raynal awarded him a place in his book Modern French Painters.