In 1927 he succeeded Zemlinsky as opera director of the German Theater at Prague.

Since 1927, fewer than a dozen men have made serious runs at Babe Ruth's record and each, in turn, has been thwarted.

The first Academy Awards ceremony was held on May 16, 1929, at the Hotel Roosevelt in Hollywood to honor the outstanding film achievements of the 1927 / 1928 film season.

* Miss Marlow at Play ( 1927 )

* 1927 – Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood.

The 1927 parliamentary Select Committee on Peerages in Abeyance recommended that no abeyance should be considered which is longer in date than 100 years or where the claimant lays claim to at least one third of the dignity.

The Croatian Peasant Party boycotted the government of the Serbian People's Radical Party throughout the period, except for a brief interlude between 1925 and 1927, when external Italian expansionism was at hand with her allies, Albania, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria that threatened Yugoslavia as a whole.

The youngest son of William Edward Parkinson ( 1871 – 1927 ), an art master at North East County School and from 1913 principal of York School of Arts and Crafts, and his wife, Rose Emily Mary Curnow ( born 1877 ), the young Parkinson attended St. Peter's School, York, where in 1929 he won an Exhibition to study history at Emmanuel College at the University of Cambridge.

* In 1927, a feature-length silent film Casey at the Bat was released, starring Wallace Beery, Ford Sterling, and ZaSu Pitts.

Thereafter, censuses were conducted at ten-year intervals in 1907, 1917, 1927 and so on.

He then served as a battalion commander at Fort Benning, Georgia, until 1927.

* 1927 – Show Boat, considered to be the first true American musical, opens at the Ziegfeld Theatre on Broadway.

The name was given in 1927 and refers to the fact that a detachment of dragoons escorted the Prince Royal of Portugal, Pedro I, at the time when he declared Brazilian independence from Portugal, on September 7, 1822.

Vertov lost his job at Sovkino in January 1927, possibly as a result of criticizing a film which effectively preaches the line of the Communist Party.

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.

Sullivan was engaged to champion swimmer Sybil Bauer, but she died of cancer in 1927 at the age of 23.

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

The Labour Charter of 1927, promulgated by the Grand Council of Fascism, stated in article 7: " The corporative State considers private initiative, in the field of production, as the most efficient and useful instrument of the Nation ", then continued in article 9: " State intervention in economic production may take place only where private initiative is lacking or is insufficient, or when are at stakes the political interest of the State.

In 1927, the Soviet Union's Chess Federation established the title of Grandmaster of the Soviet Union, for their own players, since at that time Soviets were not competing outside their own country.

In 1927 he was already experimenting with prefabricated concrete slabs, a very unusual material at that time.

* 1927 film made in Phonofilm at SilentEra

US Fleet at anchor, 1927

The earliest evidence for modern humans in North West Europe is a jawbone discovered in Devon at Kents Cavern in 1927, which was re-dated in 2011 to between 41, 000 and 44, 000 years old.

* 1927 – Prime Minister of Japan Tanaka Giichi leads a conference to discuss Japan's plans for China ; later, a document detailing these plans, the " Tanaka Memorial " is leaked, although it is now considered a forgery.

The All India states people's conference was formed in 1927.

In December 1927 the Polish Ministry of Interior organized a conference of local and regional officials to discuss ways to de-Germanize the region and to obstruct the re-election of the German delegate.

The Treaty of Darin remained in effect until superseded by the Jeddah conference of 1927 and the Dammam conference of 1952 during both of which Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud extended his boundaries past the Anglo-Ottoman Blue Line.

During a naval conference of 1927 in Geneva, negotiations broke down after the United States refused to agree to the British argument that Britain needed a minimum of seventy cruisers to adequately defend the British Empire and its trade and communications.

The original classification dates back to consensus reached at a 1927 archæological conference held in Pecos, New Mexico, which was organized by the United States archaeologist Alfred V. Kidder.

: 1927 – Mount Wilson conference.

He was trusted by the U. S. from his service as a translator to Henry Stimson during the 1927 peace conference, schooling in the U. S., and training under the U. S. Marines ( apparently, as an officer in the National Guard ).

On October 3, 1927, Mao's force reached the town of Ninggang ( 宁冈 ) and held a conference, at which Mao personally vetoed the suggestion to eliminate Yuan and Wang by force.

On October 3, 1927, Mao's force reached the town of Ninggang ( 宁冈 ) and held a conference, at which Mao personally vetoed the suggestion to eliminate Yuan and Wang by force, and quickly established an alliance with Yuan Wencai.

MacManus was able to attend the founding conference of the League Against Imperialism in 1927, but died later in the year.

1995 was the scene of the full refurbishment of the original building, which was built in 1927, including the addition of a computer suite, dark room, a new general office, improved classroom, a conference room, the heritage room and an upgraded canteen and dining area.

The first conference was held in Honolulu in the summer of 1925, followed by another in Honolulu ( 1927 ), then conferences in Kyoto ( 1929 ), Hangzhou and Shanghai ( 1931 ), Banff, Canada ( 1933 ), Yosemite, USA ( 1936 ), and Virginia Beach, USA ( 1939 ).

He was named All-American in both 1927 and 1928 and was a member of Michigan's first back-to-back Western conference champions under E. J. Mather during the 1925 – 26 and 1926 – 27 seasons ( the latter being Michigan's first outright champion and Oosterbaan's first basketball All-American selection ).

In 1927, Chernozemski proposed to the Central Committee of the IMRO to enter the main conference building of the League of Nations in Paris and detonate grenades attached to his person, in order to attract the attention of the world and generate publicity over the question of the Bulgarians in Macedonia, but his proposal was not accepted.

By 1927, dissentions within the KKE made the motion untenable and in March, the KKE conference watered it down, calling for autodetermination of the Macedonians until they join a " Balkan Soviet Socialist Federation " and only for " a section of Macedonia ( Florina area ) inhabited by Slavomacedonians " ( Holevas 1992 ).

Perhaps the most famous conference was the October 1927 Fifth Solvay International Conference on Electrons and Photons, where the world's most notable physicists met to discuss the newly formulated quantum theory.

Fifth conference participants, 1927.