| January 9, 1927 |
WSB joins the National Broadcasting Company. |
| January 17, 1927 |
Juliet Gordon Low, founder of the Girl Scouts, dies from cancer in Savannah. She is interred at Laurel Grove cemetery
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Savannah, Georgia births and deaths |
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Juliette Gordon Low and the Girl Scouts |
| January 27, 1927 |
Kennesaw Mountain Landis issues a decision in the Ty Cobb / Tris Speaker gambling scandal, clearing them of any impropriety and ordering them reinstated by their clubs. |
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Ty Cobb |
| February 8, 1927 |
Ty Cobb signs with the Philadelphia A's |
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Ty Cobb |
| March 28, 1927 |
The state of Georgia accepts a gift of 16 acres near Frogtown (now Neels) Gap. This becomes Vogel State Park.
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| April 1, 1927 |
Franklin Delano Roosevelt returns to Warm Springs, Georgia to greet the first polio patients who arrive at the Warm Springs Foundation. He worked with them, helping to establish an exercise program and share his experiences. The patients referred to him as "Dr. Roosevelt."
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| April 27, 1927 |
Coretta Scott (King) born, Heiberger, AL
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| July 18, 1927 |
Ty Cobb gets his 4,000th career hit
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Ty Cobb |
| July 18, 1927 |
Post Office advertises for bids for the Atlanta-New Orleans route (C. A. M. 23).
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Atlanta, Georgia (1900-2000) |
| August 7, 1927 |
George Busbee born, Vienna, Georgia. |
| August 18, 1927 |
Rosalynn Smith (Carter) born, Plains, Georgia
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Jimmy Carter |
| August 19, 1927 |
St. Tammany - Gulf Coast Air wins C. A. M 23
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| September 27, 1927 |
The Georgia Hardwood Lumber Company is incorporated in the city of Augusta, Georgia. It is now known as Georgia-Pacific. |
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City of Augusta, Georgia
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| October 11, 1927 |
100,000 people watch as "Lucky Lindy" parade's from Atlanta's Candler Field to Georgia Tech's Grant Field, where 20,000 hear him deliver a speech, shortly after his non-stop solo flight to Paris
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| October 18, 1927 |
Post Office calls for bids on Atlanta-Miami route abandoned by Florida Air
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| November 18, 1927 |
Having spent nearly three years in the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, Marcus Garvey's sentence is commuted by President Calvin Coolidge. He is taken to New Orleans, where he is deported.
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Atlanta, Georgia (1900-2000) |
| November 19, 1927 |
Pitcairn Air wins Miami to Atlanta contract
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Atlanta, Georgia (1900-2000) |
