One small packet of ashes was scattered at a 1989 ceremony which unveiled a monument to six unarmed IWW coal miners buried in Lafayette, Colorado, who had been machine-gunned by Colorado state police in 1927 in the Columbine Mine Massacre.

In 1927, the Belgian Roman Catholic priest Georges Lemaître independently derived the Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker equations and proposed, on the basis of the recession of spiral nebulae, that the universe began with the " explosion " of a " primeval atom "— which was later called the Big Bang.

* In 1927, Vsevolod Frederiks devised the electrically switched light valve, called the Fréedericksz transition, the essential effect of all LCD technology.

Other American-made variants include the mandolinetto or Howe-Orme guitar-shaped mandolin ( manufactured by the Elias Howe Company between 1897 and roughly 1920 ), which featured a cylindrical bulge along the top from fingerboard end to tailpiece ; the Army-Navy style with a flat back and top ; and the Vega mando-lute ( more commonly called a cylinder-back mandolin manufactured by the Vega Company between 1913 and roughly 1927 ), which had a similar longitudinal bulge but on the back rather than the front of the instrument.

The first complete mathematical formulation of this approach is generally credited to John von Neumann's 1932 book Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, although Hermann Weyl had already referred to Hilbert spaces ( which he called unitary spaces ) in his 1927 classic paper and book.

File: Lemaitre. jpg | Georges Lemaître ( 1894-1966 ): first person to propose the theory of the expansion of the Universe, first to derive what is now known as Hubble's law, made the first estimation of what is now called the Hubble constant which he published in 1927 ( two years before Hubble's article ), proposed the Big Bang theory of the origin of the Universe

Widescreen was first widely used in the late 1920s in some short films and newsreels, including Abel Gance's film Napoleon ( 1927 ) with a final widescreen sequence in what Gance called Polyvision.

Sandburg also wrote Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years, a two-volume biography in 1926, The American Songbag ( 1927 ), and a book of poems called Good Morning, America ( 1928 ) in Elmhurst.

These formulae are variously called the Plemelj formulae, the Sokhotsky-Plemelj formulae, or sometimes ( mainly in German literature ) the Plemelj-Sokhotsky formulae, after the Russian mathematician Yulian Vasilievich Sokhotski ( Юлиан Карл Васильевич Сохоцкий ) ( 1842 – 1927 ).

On February 22, police were called to the scene of a garage fire on Wood Street where a 1927 Cadillac Sedan was found disassembled and partially burned.

Although widely attributed to Edwin Hubble, the law was first derived from the General Relativity equations by Georges Lemaître in a 1927 article where he proposed that the Universe is expanding and suggested an estimated value of the rate of expansion, now called the Hubble constant .< ref >

Under Fascism with the Podestà Genoese-Zerbi, in 1927 the city became an administrative centre for the surrounding municipalities and was called Grande Reggio (‘ Greater Reggio ’), but because of its strategic military position, it suffered a devastating air raid by the British 8th Army in 1943.

Distracted by fighting with the NRA and defections from his army, Sun reduced his forces in Shanghai, and the Communists, whose party headquarters was located in Shanghai, made three attempts to seize control of the city, later called " the three Shanghai Uprisings ", in October 1926, February 1927, and March 1927.

Dee Stadium was originally called the Amphidrome, before it was severely damaged in a 1927 fire.

The film, completed with a budget of $ 2 million, was the first film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture ( then called " Best Picture, Production ") for the film year 1927 / 1928, and won a second Academy Award for Engineering Effects.

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 1927, Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari wrote a verismo opera called Sly, or The Legend of the Sleeper Awoken, based on the prologue of the play, with a libretto by Giovacchino Forzano.

The first known modern strike to a human was on the April 28, 1927 in Aba, Japan, to the head of the five-year-old daughter of Mrs. Kuriyama ; a bean-sized stone was found resting on her headband and now resides in a museum, called the Aba stone.

The Sorrell building on Franklin Street ( Chapel Hill ) | Franklin Street has always housed a movie theater ( currently called The Varsity Theatre ) since its construction in 1927.

In 1887, van Gogh painted Mand met viooltjes, and, in 1926, Georgia O ' Keeffe created a painting of a black pansy called simply, Pansy and followed it with White Pansy in 1927.

The new style can be heard in the series of works called Kammermusik ( Chamber Music ) from 1922 to 1927.

In 1927, Route 24 was designated along this route between the Phillipsburg area and Penwell in Mansfield Township while a spur of Route 24 called Route S24 replaced pre-1927 Route 12 between Penwell and U. S. Route 46 in Hackettstown.

River Park — Also called " Community Park " and perched directly by the Elkhorn River, this was built on land purchased by the city of Wisner in 1927.

In 1927, SW of Marshall, an oil field was found called Roxanna.

In 1927 his father's business collapsed, and, rather than go bankrupt, Mercer senior turned his firm over to a bank for liquidation.

I heard the Classical Symphony for the first time when Koussevitzky conducted it in Paris in 1927.

Rain of near cloudburst proportions had fallen for three full days and it was still raining on the morning of Friday, November 4, 1927, when officials of the Post Office Department's Railway Mail Service realized that their distribution system for Vermont had been almost totally destroyed overnight.

With these aids, and a pair of skiis substituting for wheels on the Waco, Bob Fogg made the first landing on what is now part of the Barre-Montpelier Airport on November 21, 1927.

But now, for the first time since Lou Gehrig ( with 47 home runs ) spurred Ruth on in 1927, two men playing for the same team have zeroed in on 60.

Fifteen statuettes were awarded, honoring artists, directors and other personalities of the filmmaking industry of the time for their works during the 1927 – 1928 period.

* 1927 – The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opens in Alderson, West Virginia, as the first women's federal prison in the United States.

* 1927 – Mae West is sentenced to 10 days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.

An early by-product, however, was the Mahagonny-Songspiel, sometimes known as Das kleine Mahagonny, a concert work for voices and small orchestra commissioned by the Deutsche Kammermusik Festival in Baden-Baden and premiered there on 18 July 1927.

Founded by a merger arranged by the Fascist regime in 1927, Roma have participated in the top-tier of Italian football for all of their existence but one season in the early 50s ( 1951 – 52 ).

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 Fuller resolved to think independently which included a commitment to " the search for the principles governing the universe and help advance the evolution of humanity in accordance with them ... finding ways of doing more with less to the end that all people everywhere can have more and more.

The Heralds four Pulitzer Prizes for editorial writing, in 1924, 1927, 1949 and 1954, are among the most awarded to a single newspaper in the category.

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 Trades Disputes Act 1927 was repealed, and a Dock Labour Scheme was introduced in 1947 to put an end to the casual system of hiring labour in the docks, Wages for members of the police force were significantly increased.

As the anniversary of Confederation, Dominion Day, and later Canada Day, was the date set for a number of important events, such as the first national radio network hookup by the Canadian National Railway ( 1927 ), the inauguration of the CBC's cross-country television broadcast ( 1958 ), the flooding of the Saint Lawrence Seaway ( 1958 ), the first colour television transmission in Canada ( 1966 ), the inauguration of the Order of Canada ( 1967 ), and the establishment of " O Canada " as the country's national anthem ( 1980 ).

* 1927 – The phrase " Grand Ole Opry " is used for the first time on-air.

He directed the Association from 1930 to 1931, and was a member of its Consultative Counsel for Linguistic Research from 1927 to 1938.

He published his first article in The New Yorker magazine in 1925, then joined the staff in 1927 and continued to contribute for around six decades.

After the war he worked for the agriculture ministry as secretary of the Farmers ' Association and became director of the Lower Austrian Chamber of Agriculture in 1927.

Moreover, the 1927 Films Act was up for renewal.

The commercial and critical success of Sternberg's silent Underworld in 1927 was largely responsible for spurring a trend of Hollywood gangster films.