* 1927 – The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.

The Peace Bridge between Buffalo, New York and Fort Erie, Ontario, opened in 1927, commemorates 100 years of peace between the United States and Canada.

Boyd was born on January 23, 1927 in Erie, Pennsylvania.

On August 7, 1927 the Peace Bridge was opened between Fort Erie and Buffalo.

Initial construction of a railroad line into the region had been discussed as early as 1927 as part of the Choctawhatchee and Northern Railroad, though military-use proposals didn't come forward until 1941.

" In February 1927 the Choctawhatchee and Northern Railroad was chartered ' To construct, acquire, maintain, lease, or operate a line of railroad or railroads from a point between Galliver and Crestview on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad in Okaloosa County, to a point in said county on Choctawhatchee Bay, a distance of approximately twenty-eight miles.

During the floods of 1912 and 1927, however, the southern portion of the town, including the main business district, remained dry, as the flood waters to the north and east were held back by the Texas & Pacific Railroad embankment.

In 1887, the line was completed over Siskiyou Summit, and the Southern Pacific Railroad assumed control of the railroad, although it was not officially sold to Southern Pacific until January 3, 1927.

Future hotels constructed by E. M. Statler were located in Cleveland ( 1912 ), Detroit ( 1915 ), St. Louis ( 1917 ), New York ( the Hotel Pennsylvania, built by the Pennsylvania Railroad and leased to Statler and Franklin J. Matchette in 1919 ; later bought by the Hotels Statler Company in 1948 ), a new hotel in Buffalo ( 1923 ; the previous Hotel Statler in Buffalo was renamed the Hotel Buffalo and sold later in the 1920s ), and his last hotel, built in Boston ( 1927 ).

Future hotels constructed by E. M. Statler were located in Cleveland ( 1912 ), Detroit ( 1915 ), St. Louis ( 1917 ), New York ( the Hotel Pennsylvania, built by the Pennsylvania Railroad and leased to Statler and Franklin J. Matchette in 1919 ; later bought by the Hotels Statler Company in 1948 ), a new hotel in Buffalo ( 1923 ; the previous Hotel Statler in Buffalo was renamed the Hotel Buffalo and sold later in the 1920s ), and his last hotel, built in Boston ( 1927 ).

In 1927, Leonor Fresnel Loree, president of the Delaware and Hudson Railroad, had a vision for a new fifth trunk line between the East and West, consisting of the Wabash Railroad, the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway, and the LVRR.

Two years later in 1927 Seaboard Air Line Railroad intercity passenger rail started service at the location, and along with the FEC, continued service through January 23, 1963, when the rail unions went on strike.

The ACL's last major acquisition was the Atlanta, Birmingham and Coast Railroad, which it purchased in 1927, though the AB & C was not merged into the ACL until 1945.

* August 16 – Charles Sanger Mellen, president of Northern Pacific Railway 1897-1903 and New Haven Railroad beginning in 1903 ( d. 1927 ).

Its first installation in 1927 was on a 40-mile stretch of the New York Central Railroad between Stanley and Berwick, Ohio, with the CTC control machine located at Fostoria, Ohio.

: This article is about the former railroad company, merged into the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad in 1927.

On January 1, 1927 the CNE was finally merged into the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, ending its independent operation.

The Castle Peak railway dining car was built in 1927 by American Car and Foundry for the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad.

In 1927, the Delaware and Hudson Railroad built an experimental steam locomotive that was designed to run at 400 psi ( 2. 8 MPa or 28 kgf / cm² ) steam pressure ; this locomotive, road number 1401, was named John B. Jervis.

In 1927 the WM abandoned some of the GC & C track and accessed additional mines in the area through trackage rights on the Cumberland and Pennsylvania Railroad ( C & P ).

In 1927 the WM purchased the Greenbrier, Cheat and Elk Railroad, which ran from Cheat Junction, on the Durbin sub, to Bergoo.

His western novel Whispering Smith – the title character of which was modeled on real-life Union Pacific Railroad detectives Timothy Keliher and Joe Lefors ( though the name of the titular hero was apparently derived from another UPRR policeman, James L. " Whispering " Smith ) – was made into a movie on eight separate occasions, four silent films in 1916, 1917, 1926, and 1927, with later versions in 1930, 1935, 1948 and 1952.

The first, No. 6000 King George V, appeared in 1927 and was sent on a tour of North America, for the Centenary celebrations of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad ( B & O ), where its sleek appearance and smooth performance impressed all who witnessed it.

In July 1912, the Maine Central Railroad leased the old Vermont Division, but on August 1, 1927 the lease was terminated, and a new lease was made on only the part east of St. Johnsbury.

From 1927 to 1946 PVS was controlled by the Texas and Pacific Railroad ( now part of Union Pacific ).

On June 27, 1937, a proposal was made by the city of Newark and the counties of Hudson and Essex to convert the upper level of the span to a roadway after proposing that the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad, now the Port Authority Trans-Hudson, to be moved onto tracks that paralleled New Jersey Route 21, which was assigned in 1927.

In 1927 a short nine-game series took place in Argentina, with the Lions winning all nine encounters ; the tour did however become a financial success for Argentine rugby.

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.

However, in January 1927, Wang Jingwei and his KMT leftist allies took the city of Wuhan amid much popular mobilization and fanfare.

The first World Cycling Championship race took place on 19 June 1927, and the first German Grand Prix a month later.

In 1927, Famous Players-Lasky took on the name Paramount-Famous Lasky Corporation.

Pioneering applications of this in chemistry were performed by Rice and Ramsperger in 1927 and Kassel in 1928, and generalized into the RRKM theory in 1952 by Marcus who took the transition state theory developed by Eyring in 1935 into account.

Kekkonen took a Doctor of Laws degree in 1936 at the University of Helsinki where he was active in the Northern Ostrobothnian student nation and editor-in-chief of the student newspaper Ylioppilaslehti in the period 1927 – 1928.

During that process of gradual independence, the governor general took on an ever expanding role: in 1904, the Militia Act granted permission for the governor general to use the title of Commander-in-Chief of the Canadian militia, in the name of the sovereign and actual Commander-in-Chief, and in 1927 the first official international visit by a governor general was made.

The earlier telecast took place in April 1927, a month before Baird's demonstration.

A reform of the King's title following an Imperial Conference decision and given effect by the Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927, changed the King's royal title so that it took account of the fact that there was no longer a United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

A notable location to one side of Half Dome is the " Diving Board ," where Ansel Adams took his photograph, " Monolith, The Face of Half Dome " on April 10, 1927.

In 1927 Lavrentiev spent half a year in France, collaborating with French mathematicians, and upon returned took up a position with Moscow University.

Having never attended high school, he took entrance examinations to attend the Montana School of Mines ( 1927 – 1928 ), studying to become a mining engineer.

Following a number of extensions to the parliament and departmental buildings and a fire in 1916 that destroyed the Centre Block, Parliament Hill took on its present form with the completion of the Peace Tower in 1927.

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

* Greenville is the home town of the Percy family, including U. S. Senator Le Roy Percy and author William Alexander Percy who took charge of the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 recovery effort and wrote Lanterns on the Levee about the Mississippi Delta.

The first demonstration of long distance television transmission in the United States took place in 1927, with a transmission that went via wire from Washington, D. C., to New York, and from Whippany to New York using radio.

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.

" A city officers ' election took place on October 13, 1927 with Ernest Holekamp elected as Junction's first mayor.

FIDE organised the first Official Olympiad in 1927 which took place in London.

In 1927 the BBC took over the responsibility for the Promenade Concerts, widely known as " the Proms ".

Competition from the railways took much of the canal's traffic by the end of the 19th century, and most of the canal was abandoned in 1927, the remainder in 1941.

At age 17, upon moving to Paris, he took private organ lessons with Charles Tournemire, whom he assisted at Basilique Ste-Clotilde, Paris until 1927.

In 1927, the BBC – later based at Broadcasting House next to the hall – took over the running of the concerts.

The 1982 August Wilson play Ma Rainey's Black Bottom took its title from her song of the same name recorded in December of 1927, which ostensibly refers to the Black Bottom dance of the time.