In Boston, Massachusetts, a tablet to Yale was erected in 1927 at Scollay Square, near the site of Yale's birth.

Marvin Lee Minsky ( born August 9, 1927 ) is an American cognitive scientist in the field of artificial intelligence ( AI ), co-founder of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's AI laboratory, and author of several texts on AI and philosophy.

Dukakis is also remembered for his 1977 exoneration of Sacco and Vanzetti, two Italian anarchists whose trial sparked protests around the world, and who were electrocuted by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts 50 years earlier in 1927.

* Lizzie Borden ( 1860 – 1927 ) allegedly killed her father and her stepmother with an axe in Fall River, Massachusetts, in 1892.

The first competition proper took place in 1927 at Worcester Country Club, in Massachusetts, USA.

This first official match was held in Worcester, Massachusetts, at the Worcester Country Club, in 1927.

* Amos Leavitt Taylor ( 1877-), Secretary of Massachusetts Republican Party ( 1927 – 1928 ); Massachusetts Republican State Chair ( 1924 – 1949 )

Edmund L. Gettier III ( born 1927 in Baltimore, Maryland ) is an American philosopher and Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, known best for his 1963 paper, " Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?

* Forbush, Edward Howe ( 1927 ): Birds of Massachusetts and Other New England States volume II: 40.

Ferdinando Nicola Sacco ( April 22, 1891 – August 23, 1927 ) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti ( June 11, 1888 – August 23, 1927 ) were anarchists who were convicted of murdering two men during a 1920 armed robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts, United States.

Eventually, in 1927, he accepted a position at the Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, where he remained until his death in 1941.

Finally, in 1927, he came to the U. S. once more, to speak before the Institute of Politics in Williamstown, Massachusetts.

Hans Knappertsbusch and Karl Böhm both conducted it in Munich in 1923, and its first American performance took place at the Smith College of Music in Northampton, Massachusetts, in 1927.

* John Andrew Sullivan ( 1868 – 1927 ), United States Representative from Massachusetts

( 1919 ) is the nation's oldest and largest outdoor musical theatre ; Manhattan Theatre Colony, first started near Peterborough, New Hampshire ( 1927 ) and moved to Ogunquit, Maine ; the Cape Playhouse, Dennis, Massachusetts ( 1927 ); and the Berkshire Playhouse, Stockbridge, Massachusetts ( 1928 ).

The Cape Playhouse in Dennis, Massachusetts opened in 1927 with The Guardsman, starring Basil Rathbone, and has continued through the 2009 season with Hunter Foster and Malcolm Gets.

* 1927 ( 7 ) Metropolitan Open, Shawnee Open, Eastern Open Championship, Massachusetts Open, Pennsylvania Open Championship, Philadelphia Open Championship, Chicago Open Championship

He graduated from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1923 and from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1927.

**** George Cabot Lodge II ( b. 1927 ): Harvard Business School professor, 1962 U. S. Senate candidate from Massachusetts against Edward M. Kennedy

* August 14 – Richard A. Snelling, Governor of Vermont ( b. 1927 )

* November 1 – Templin Potts, American naval officer ; 11th Naval Governor of Guam ( d. 1927 )

Nellie Tayloe Ross ( November 29, 1876 – December 19, 1977 ) was an American politician, the 14th Governor of Wyoming from 1925 to 1927, and director of the United States Mint from 1933 – 1953.

* Gifford Pinchot ( 1865 – 1946 ) was the first Chief of the United States Forest Service ( 1905 – 1910 ) and the Governor of Pennsylvania ( 1923 – 1927, 1931 – 1935 ).

* John W. Griggs ( 1849 – 1927 ), 27th Governor of New Jersey who later served as United States Attorney General.

Borger became so notorious that in the spring of 1927 Texas Governor Dan Moody sent a force of Texas Rangers to rein in the town.

Statement on Irish Free State passport ( 1927 ): We Timothy Healy, Esquire, one of His Majesty's Counsel, Governor General of the Irish Free State, Request and require, in the Name of His Britannic Majesty, all those whom it may concern to allow the bearer to pass freely ... etc.

Leonard Wood ( October 9, 1860 – August 7, 1927 ) was a physician who served as the Chief of Staff of the United States Army, Military Governor of Cuba and Governor General of the Philippines.

He retired from the Army in 1921, and was made Governor General of the Philippines, in which capacity he served from 1921 to 1927.

* Roméo LeBlanc ( 1927 – 2009 ), Canadian Governor General

In 1927 Bilbo was elected Governor again after winning the Democratic primary in a runoff election over Governor Dennis Murphree.

Pinchot served as the first Chief of the United States Forest Service from 1905 until his firing in 1910, and was the 28th Governor of Pennsylvania, serving from 1923 to 1927, and again from 1931 to 1935.

In March 1927, he became Governor of Mississippi after the death of incumbent Henry L. Whitfield and served for about ten months until Theodore G. Bilbo, who defeated Murphree in the Democratic Party primary by 10, 000 votes, was sworn into office in January 1928.

Denied a pardon by Governor Jackson, in 1927 he started talking with reporters of the Indianapolis Times and released a list of elected and other officials in the pay of the Klan.

Thomas ran for office five times in quick succession on the Socialist ticket — for Governor of New York in 1924, for Mayor of New York in 1925 and 1929, for New York State Senate in 1926, for Alderman in 1927.

Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne ( 4 January 1845 – 3 June 1927 ) was a British politician and Irish peer who served successively as the fifth Governor General of Canada, Viceroy of India, Secretary of State for War, and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.

Princes Edward VIII | Edward and Prince George, Duke of Kent | George, along with Governor General of Canada | Governor General Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon | the Earl of Willingdon, outside Rideau Hall's main door, August 1927

In 1927, he assumed the post of Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas and the next year was elevated to the office of governor when John Ellis Martineau resigned to become a federal judge.

John Ellis Martineau ( December 2, 1873 – March 6, 1937 ) was the 28th Governor of Arkansas, having served for less than one term from 1927 to 1928.

Governor Martineau was forced to deal with a major crisis when the Mississippi River broke free of its banks and covered 13 percent of the state during the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927.

George Washington Hays ( September 23, 1863September 15, 1927 ) was the 24th Governor of the U. S. state of Arkansas.

First flown at Fort Riley by Governor Benjamin S. Paulen in 1927 for the troops at Fort Riley and for the Kansas National Guard.