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.

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.

Percy Bysshe Shelley composed a " Hymn of Apollo " ( 1820 ), and the god's instruction of the Muses formed the subject of Igor Stravinsky's Apollon musagète ( 1927 – 1928 ).

Leipzig, 1927 – 1928

His many plays included Nobody's Widow ( 1910 ), starring Blanche Bates ; Fair and Warmer ( 1915 ), starring Madge Kennedy ( filmed in 1919 ); The Gold Diggers ( 1919 ), starring Ina Claire ( filmed in 1923 as The Gold Diggers, in 1928 as Gold Diggers of Broadway and also as Gold Diggers of 1933 ); Ladies ' Night, 1920, starring Charlie Ruggles ( filmed in 1928 ); the famous mystery play The Bat ( with Mary Roberts Rinehart ), 1920 ( filmed in 1926, 1930 and 1959 ); Getting Gertie's Garter ( with Wilson Collison ), 1921, starring Hazel Dawn ( filmed in 1927 and 1945 ); The Demi-Virgin, 1921, also starring Hazel Dawn ; The Alarm Clock, 1923 ; The Best People ( with David Gray ), 1924 ( filmed in 1925 and as Fast and Loose in 1930 ), the song-farce Naughty Cinderella, 1925, starring Irene Bordoni and The Garden of Eden in 1927 ( filmed in as 1928 ).

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.

* Qu Qiubai, General Secretary 1927 – 1928

In 1927 and 1928, King Amanullah Khan and his wife Soraya Tarzi visited Europe.

Other early synthesizers included Thaddeus Cahill's Dynamophone or Telharmononium ( before 1907 ), Jorg Mager's Spherophone ( 1924 ) and Partiturophone, the Theremin ( 1927 ), which was marketed by RCA, Taubmann's similar Electronde ( 1933 ), the Ondes Martenot ( 1928 ), Trautwein's Trautonium ( 1930 ).

The following year in 1927, Wray was signed to a contract with Paramount Pictures In 1928, director Erich von Stroheim cast Wray as the main female lead in his film The Wedding March, released under Paramount, a film noted for its high budget and production values.

Shearer's first marriage to writer John Ward was unhappy and she and Hawks began dating throughout 1927 until Shearer asked Ward for a divorce in 1928.

Although finished in August 1927, the film was not released until June 1928.

The film was filmed from October to December 1927 and released in February 1928.

The line became available for the Christmas parcel post in 1927 and letters were carried from February 1928.

Between the Christian Center and Murrah Hall, which houses the Else School of Management, is the tomb of Major Millsaps and the " M " Bench, erected by the classes of 1926, 1927, and 1928.

Molecular orbitals were first introduced by Friedrich Hund and Robert S. Mulliken in 1927 and 1928.

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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.

Gordon in 1927 and 1928, had been enjoying a comeback, appearing on Broadway as Bobby in Maxwell Anderson's Saturday's Children, performing in a serious role after having been typecast for years as a " beautiful, but dumb " character.

Supposedly, when his mother was found, her dress was covering her face, an image that has been suggested as the source of several of Magritte's paintings in 1927 – 1928 of people with cloth obscuring their faces, including Les Amants.

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

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

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.

The evidence was compiled by W de Sitter ( 1927 ) who wrote " If we accept this hypothesis, then the ' astronomical time ', given by the earth's rotation, and used in all practical astronomical computations, differs from the ' uniform ' or ' Newtonian ' time, which is defined as the independent variable of the equations of celestial mechanics ".

* 1927 – German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg writes a letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, in which he describes his uncertainty principle for the first time.

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.

Shooting began in late February 1930, about the same time that Howard Hughes was finally finishing his epic World War I aviation epic Hell's Angel's after being in production since September 1927.

The Nature of Existence ( 1927 ) contained his arguments that space, time, and matter cannot possibly be real.

It had been around a long time and some people began to call it the Lindbergh Hop after 1927, although it didn't last.

During this time Theremin was also working on a wireless television with 16 scan lines in 1925, improving to 32 scan lines and then 64 using interlacing in 1926, and he demonstrated moving, if blurry, images on 7 June 1927.

Henri Bergson ( 1859 – 1941 ), on the other hand, emphasized the difference between scientific, clock time and the direct, subjective, human experience of time His work on time and consciousness " had a great influence on twentieth-century novelists ," especially those modernists who used the stream of consciousness technique, such as Dorothy Richardson, Pointed Roofs, ( 1915 ), James Joyce, Ulysses ( 1922 ) and Virginia Woolf ( 1882 – 1941 ) Mrs Dalloway ( 1925 ), To the Lighthouse ( 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.

The Bradbury family lived in Tucson, Arizona, in 1926 – 1927 and 1932 – 1933 as the father pursued employment, each time returning to Waukegan, but eventually settled in Los Angeles in 1934, when Bradbury was 14.

During 1927 and 1928 Frisch published a series of articles on the statistics of time series.

In econometrics he worked on time series ( 1927 ) and linear regression analysis ( 1934 ).

By this time, the balance had tilted to the Italians ' side, and in January 1927 they began to attack with a massive force, capturing Iskushuban, at the heart of the Majeerteen.

By the time the series ended in 1927, its focus was more on the animated characters and in particular a cat named Julius who resembled Felix the Cat, rather than the live-action Alice.

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* April 22 – May 5 – The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 strikes 700, 000 people in the greatest natural disaster in American history at that time.