MultiEducator · The 20th Century Almanac
HistoryCentral Est. 1996
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1927
The 20th Century Almanac · The Twenties

1927

Major Events · Sports · Music · Screen · Prizes

Charles Lindbergh flew the Spirit of St. Louis solo across the Atlantic, The Jazz Singer ushered in the era of talking pictures, and Babe Ruth slugged 60 home runs. The Mississippi River flood devastated the Deep South.

A Year in Review
Best Picture
Nobel · Literature
Bergson
World Series
No. 1 Song
Top TV
Academy · Actor
Emil Jannings

Sports Highlights

Champions of 1927

Champions

Stanley CupFinals by 2 games to 0

Academy Awards

Honoring 1927
Best Director
Frank Borzage
Seventh Heaven" & Lewis Milestone
Best Actor
Emil Jannings
The Way of All Flesh
Best Actress
Janet Gaynor
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Nobel & Pulitzer Prizes

The year in letters & science

Nobel Prizes

Chemistry
WIELAND, HEINRICH OTTO, Germany, Munich University, b. 1877, d. 1957: "for his investigations of the constitution of the bile acids and related substances"
Literature
BERGSON, HENRI, France, b. 1859, d. 1941: "in recognition of his rich and vitalizing ideas and the brillant skill with which they have been presented"
Peace
The prize was divided equally between: BUISSON, FERDINAND E., France, b. 1841, d. 1932: Former Professor at the Sorbonne University, Paris. Founder and President of the Ligue des Droits de l'Homme (League for Human Rights). QUIDDE, LUDWIG,
Physiology or Medicine
WAGNER-JAUREGG, JULIUS, Austria, Vienna University, b. 1857, d. 1940: "for his discovery of the therapeutic value of malaria inoculation in the treatment of dementia paralytica"
Physics
The prize was divided equally between: COMPTON, ARTHUR HOLLY, U.S.A., University of Chicago b. 1892, d. 1962: "for his discovery of the effect named after him"; and WILSON, CHARLES THOMSON REES, Great Britain, Cambridge University, b. 1869

Pulitzer Prizes

Drama
Paul Green ... "In Abraham's Bosom"
Fiction
Louis Bromfield ... "Early Autumn"
History
Samuel Flagg Bemis ... " Pinckney's Treaty"
Public Service
"Canton (OH) Daily News"