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Events on the year of 1928 in history

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01 Jan 1928 1st US air-conditioned office building opens, San Antonio
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01 Jan 1928 Algemeene Vereeniging Radio Omroep (AVRO) begins broadcasting (Neth)
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01 Jan 1928 Boris Bazhanov defects through Iran. He is the only assistant of Joseph Stalin's secretariat to have defected from the Eastern Bloc.
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06 Jan 1928 Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Mortalium animos (against oecumene)
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10 Jan 1928 G/I Gershwin/Romberg/Wodehouse's musical "Rosalie" premieres in New York City NY
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10 Jan 1928 Soviet Union orders exile of Leon Trotsky
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12 Jan 1928 Philip Barry & Elmer Rice's "Cock Robin" premieres in New York City NY
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17 Jan 1928 1st fully automatic photographic film developing machine patented
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23 Jan 1928 "Abenteuer of brave Soldier Schwejk" premieres in Berlin
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28 Jan 1928 Christopher Hornsrud chosen Prime Minister of Norway at age 101
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30 Jan 1928 Bradman scores 134 not out (225 mins, 13 fours) NSW vs. Vic
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30 Jan 1928 1st radio telephone connection between Netherlands & US
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30 Jan 1928 Bradman scores 134 not out (225 minutes, 13 fours) New South Wales vs Victoria
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30 Jan 1928 Eugene O'Neill's "Strange Interlude" premieres in New York City NY
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31 Jan 1928 Scotch tape 1st marketed by 3-M Company
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07 Feb 1928 1st solo England to Australia flight takes off (Bert Hinkler)
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08 Feb 1928 1st transatlantic TV image received, Hartsdale, New York
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08 Feb 1928 Scottish inventor J Blaird demonstrates color-TV
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11 Feb 1928 2nd Winter Olympics games opens in St Moritz, Switzerland
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19 Feb 1928 Canadian hockey team wins 3rd consecutive gold medal
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19 Feb 1928 2nd Winter Olympics games close at St Moritz, Switzerland
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22 Feb 1928 1st solo England to Australia flight lands (Bert Hinkler)
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25 Feb 1928 Charles Jenkins Laboratories of Washington, D.C. becomes the first holder of a broadcast license for television from the Federal Radio Commission.
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28 Feb 1928 C. V. Raman discovers Raman scattering.
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04 Mar 1928 "Bunion Run" race from LA to NYC begins; It is won by Andy Payne
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11 Mar 1928 Netherlands & Belgium tie 1-1 (soccer match in Amsterdam)
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12 Mar 1928 In California, the St. Francis Dam fails; the resulting floods kill over 600 people.
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13 Mar 1928 450 die in St. Francisquito Valley Dam burst (California)
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13 Mar 1928 Rudolph Friml's musical "Three Musketeers" premieres in New York NY
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15 Mar 1928 Mussolini modifies Italy electoral system (abolishes right to choose)
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19 Mar 1928 "Amos & Andy" debuts on radio (NBC Blue Network-WMAQ Chicago)
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21 Mar 1928 Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight.
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22 Mar 1928 No
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27 Mar 1928 KGB-AM in San Diego CA begins radio transmissions
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27 Mar 1928 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Maribel Vinson
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27 Mar 1928 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Roger Turner
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29 Mar 1928 Yeshiva College (now University) chartered (New York NY)
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07 Apr 1928 44-yr old New York Ranger GM Lester Patrick replaces his injured goaltender in a Stanley Cup game, and beats Montreal Maroons 2-1
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09 Apr 1928 Top-Oss soccer team forms in Oss
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09 Apr 1928 Turkey passes separation of church and state
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12 Apr 1928 The Bremen, a German Junkers W 33 type aircraft, takes off for the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west.
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12 Apr 1928 Assassination attempt on king Victor Emmanuel II of Italy
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13 Apr 1928 1st trans atlantic flight Europe-US (Fitzmaurice-von H
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14 Apr 1928 Maddus Airlines starts 1st regular passenger flights between SF and LA
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14 Apr 1928 Stanley Cup: New York Rangers beat Montreal Maroons, 3 games to 2
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14 Apr 1928 The Bremen, a German Junkers W33 type aircraft, reaches Greenly Island, Canada - the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west.
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14 Apr 1928 Maddus Airlines starts 1st regular passenger flights between San Francisco & Los Angeles
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14 Apr 1928 Stanley Cup New York Rangers beat Montr
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15 Apr 1928 Alioto's on Fisherman's Wharf (San Francisco) forms
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19 Apr 1928 The 125th and final fascicle of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
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19 Apr 1928 Japanese troops occupies Sjantung-schiereiland
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19 Apr 1928 New York Yankees are out of 1st place for 1st time since May 1926
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24 Apr 1928 Fathometer, which measures underwater depth, patented
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25 Apr 1928 Buddy, a German Shepherd, becomes 1st guide dog for the blind
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26 Apr 1928 Madame Tussaud's waxworks exhibition opens in London
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30 Apr 1928 Cherkess Autonomous Region forms in RSFSR (until 1957)
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30 Apr 1928 Cherkess Autonomous Region is established in RSFSR (until 1957)
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01 May 1928 6 children die and 10 injured by hailstones in Klausenburg, Romania
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01 May 1928 Drunken fascist Erich Wichman attacks VARA-radio transmitter
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01 May 1928 Lei Day begun (a Hawaiian celebration)
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01 May 1928 Pitcairn Airlines (later Eastern) begins service
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02 May 1928 KPQ-AM in Wenatchee WA begins radio transmissions
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03 May 1928 Japanese atrocities in Jinan, China.
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07 May 1928 England lowers age of women voters from 30 to 21
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07 May 1928 Pulitzer prize awarded to Thornton Wilder for (Bridge of San Luis Rey)
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10 May 1928 WGY, Schenectady begins regular TV programming
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11 May 1928 54th Kentucky Derby: Chick Lang aboard Reigh Count wins in 2:10.4
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11 May 1928 56th Preakness: Raymond Sonny Workman aboard Victorian wins in 2:00.2
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11 May 1928 63rd British Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 292 at Royal St George's
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11 May 1928 General Electric opens 1st TV-station (Schenectady NY)
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12 May 1928 Mussolini ends woman's rights in Italy
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12 May 1928 Opium laws enforced
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14 May 1928 John McGraw is knocked down by a taxicab & suffers a broken leg
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15 May 1928 Walt Disney character Mickey Mouse premieres in his first cartoon, Plane Crazy
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15 May 1928 Mickey Mouse made his 1st appearance
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17 May 1928 9th modern Olympic games open in Amsterdam
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19 May 1928 "Firedamp" explodes in Mather Pa coal mine killing 195 of 273 miners
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19 May 1928 Explosion in coal mine in Mather, Pennsylvania, 195 die
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19 May 1928 51 frogs enter 1st annual "Frog Jumping Jubilee" (Angel's Camp CA)
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19 May 1928 54th Kentucky Derby: Chick Lang aboard Reigh Count wins in 2:10.4
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22 May 1928 US Congress accept Jones-White Merchant Naval Act
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23 May 1928 Bomb attack on Italians embassy in Buenos Aires, 22 die
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24 May 1928 Record 12 future Hall of Famers take the field, as Yankees beat A's 9-7
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24 May 1928 Umberto Nobile flies airship over North Pole again
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25 May 1928 Amelia Earhart (as a passenger) is 1st woman to fly Atlantic Ocean
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26 May 1928 A's commit 7 errors & lose to Yankees 7-4
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28 May 1928 Dodge Brothers Inc & Chrysler Corp merged
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29 May 1928 Fritz von Opel reaches 200 kph in experimental rocket car
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31 May 1928 1st aerial cross of the Pacific takes off from Oakland
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31 May 1928 Charlie Hallows scores his 1,000th run of Cricket season
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02 Jun 1928 Velveeta Cheese created by Kraft
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04 Jun 1928 The President of the Republic of China, Zhang Zuolin, is assassinated by Japanese agents.
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08 Jun 1928 1st US-to-Australia flight lands (Sir Charles Kingford)
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08 Jun 1928 Second Northern Expedition: The National Revolutionary Army captures Peking, whose name is changed to Beijing ("Northern Capital").
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09 Jun 1928 60th Belmont: Clarence Kummer aboard Vito wins in 2:33.2
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09 Jun 1928 Charles Kingsford-Smith and Charles Ulm are 1st to fly across the Pacific when they end their flight from California to Brisbane
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09 Jun 1928 Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.
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12 Jun 1928 New York Yankee Lou Gehrig hits 2 triples and 2 HRs to be White Sox 15-7
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14 Jun 1928 Republican National Convention, met in KC, nominated Herbert Hoover
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15 Jun 1928 Ty Cobb, 41, steals home for 50th and final time
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17 Jun 1928 Amelia Earhart leaves Nfld to become 1st woman (passenger) to fly Atlantic (as a passenger in a plane piloted by Wilmer Stultz)
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17 Jun 1928 Amelia Earhart leaves Nfld to become 1st woman to fly the Atlantic
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18 Jun 1928 Amelia Earhart becomes 1st female to fly across Atlantic Ocean
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18 Jun 1928 Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she is a passenger; Wilmer Stultz is the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic).
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18 Jun 1928 Amelia Earhart is 1st woman (passenger) to cross Atlantic by air
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24 Jun 1928 32nd US Golf Open: Johnny Farrell shoots a 294 at Olympia Fields - Illinois
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25 Jun 1928 New York Giant Fred Lindstrom ties record of 9 hits in a doubleheader
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28 Jun 1928 Alfred E Smith (NY-Gov) nominated for President at Democratic Convention
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28 Jun 1928 Friedrich Schmiedl attempted rocket mail in Austria (unsucessful)
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29 Jun 1928 The Outerbridge Crossing and Goethals Bridge in Staten Island, New York are both opened.
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30 Jun 1928 Radio Service Bulletin lists radio stations call signs that are to be changed to conform with international standards
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30 Jun 1928 Radio Service Bulletin lists radio stations call signs that are
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02 Jul 1928 British parliament accept female sufferage
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03 Jul 1928 1st color TV broadcast in London (John Logic Baird)
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06 Jul 1928 1st all-talking motion picture shown in New York (Lights of NY)
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07 Jul 1928 41st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats L de Alvarez (62 63)
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07 Jul 1928 Sliced bread is sold for the first time (on the inventor's 48th birthday) by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.
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08 Jul 1928 Phillies set record of errorless 25 inning doubleheader
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10 Jul 1928 Senator Milt Gaston hurls record tying 14-hit shutout
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10 Jul 1928 H E Wood discovers asteroid #3300
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12 Jul 1928 1st televised tennis match
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14 Jul 1928 New Vietnam Revolutionary Party is founded in Huế amid providing some of the communist party's most important leaders in its early years.
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19 Jul 1928 King Fuad of Egypt grabs power / disbands parliament
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19 Jul 1928 H E Wood discovers asteroid #1305 Pongola
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21 Jul 1928 1st woman to win an olympic gold medal - Halina Knonpacka of Poland
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21 Jul 1928 H E Wood discovers asteroid #1096 Reunerta
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26 Jul 1928 Gene Tunney TKOs Tom Heeney in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
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26 Jul 1928 Yanks score 11 runs in 12th beating Tigers 12-1
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27 Jul 1928 AVRO, General Vereniging Radio Omroep, forms
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28 Jul 1928 9th Olympic Games open in Amsterdam
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28 Jul 1928 Olympics open at Amsterdam
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29 Jul 1928 Cleveland Indians score 17 in 1st 2 inns to beat Yanks 24-6 at Dunn Field they also set a record with 24 singles in 1 game
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29 Jul 1928 Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie" is released
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30 Jul 1928 George Eastman shows 1st color motion pictures (US)
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30 Jul 1928 George Eastman demonstrates 1st color movie
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01 Aug 1928 Babe Ruth hits HR # 42 and is 4 weeks ahead of his 1927 pace
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02 Aug 1928 Mussolini signs peace treaty with Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
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03 Aug 1928 Ray Barbuti saves US team from defeat in Amsterdam Olympics track events by winning 400 m (47.8 seconds)
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11 Aug 1928 Georges Ronsse becomes world champion cyclists
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12 Aug 1928 9th Olympic Games close in Amsterdam
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13 Aug 1928 Soviet Union Spartacan Games begins
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25 Aug 1928 Tri-City Rugby Football Union forms consisting of Moose Jaw, Regina andWinnipeg
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27 Aug 1928 42nd US Womens Tennis: Helen W Moody beats Helen Hull Jacobs (62 61)
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27 Aug 1928 16 die in a NYC subway's 2nd worst accident
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27 Aug 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact, where 60 nations agree to outlaw war
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30 Aug 1928 Jawaharlal Nehru requests independence of India
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31 Aug 1928 Brecht and Weils "Dreigroschenoper" premieres
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01 Sep 1928 Albania becomes a kingdom, with Zogu I as King
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01 Sep 1928 Ahmet Zogu declares Albania to be a monarchy and proclaims himself king.
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03 Sep 1928 Baseball Hall of Famer Ty Cobb got his 4,191th and final career hit
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06 Sep 1928 USSR signs Briand-Kellogg-pact
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07 Sep 1928 The first Tour de Pologne began.
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11 Sep 1928 Ty Cobb last hitting appearance, pops out against Yankees
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11 Sep 1928 1st TV drama-WGY's The Queens Messenger
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12 Sep 1928 Katharine Hepburn's NY stage debut in "Night Hostess"
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13 Sep 1928 KOH-AM in Reno NV begins radio transmissions
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15 Sep 1928 400 kg Fournier-albums (forged postage stamps) burn in Geneva
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15 Sep 1928 Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
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15 Sep 1928 Cards set NL record of 18 men left on base beating Phillies 8-6
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16 Sep 1928 Hurricane hits West Palm Beach-Lake Okeechobee Florida; 3,000 die
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16 Sep 1928 The Okeechobee hurricane strikes southeastern Florida, killing more than 2,500 people. It is the third deadliest natural disaster in United States history, behind the Galveston hurricane of 1900 and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
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17 Sep 1928 48th US Mens Tennis: Henri Cochet beats F T Hunter (46 64 36 75 63)
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17 Sep 1928 Henri Cochet wins US Tennis Open
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17 Sep 1928 Hurricane hits Lake Okeechobee Florida drowning 1,800-2500
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17 Sep 1928 Pitcher Ray Boggs hits 3 batters in 1 inning
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18 Sep 1928 Juan de la Cierva flies 1st helicopter above Channel
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18 Sep 1928 Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro crossing of the English Channel.
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18 Sep 1928 Cards beat Phillies for 20th of 22 games in 1928
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19 Sep 1928 Mickey Mouse's screen debut (Steamboat Willie at Colony Theater NYC)
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21 Sep 1928 "My Weekly Reader" magazine made its debut
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27 Sep 1928 The Republic of China is recognized by the United States.
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27 Sep 1928 US recognizes Nationalist Chinese government
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28 Sep 1928 New York Yanks clinch pennant #6
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28 Sep 1928 Prussia forbids speech from Adolf Hitler
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28 Sep 1928 US acknowledge Chinese government of Chiang Kai-shek
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28 Sep 1928 The U.K. Parliament passes the Dangerous Drugs Act outlawing cannabis.
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28 Sep 1928 Sir Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.
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28 Sep 1928 Juan de la Cierva makes 1st helicopter flight over English Channel
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28 Sep 1928 Yanks clinch pennant #6
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29 Sep 1928 Cardinals win NL pennant with a 3-1 win at Boston
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29 Sep 1928 Yanks (17) Tigers (28) set 9 inning hit record (45)-Tigers win 19-10
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30 Sep 1928 Le Sifflet publishes 1st precursor of Kuifje (Tintin)
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30 Sep 1928 Leon Vanderstuyft of Belgium cycles record 76 mi 604 yds in 1 hr
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01 Oct 1928 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 15m (46:49.6)
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01 Oct 1928 USSR launches its 1st 5 year plan
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01 Oct 1928 The Soviet Union introduces its First five-year plan.
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02 Oct 1928 The "Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of God", commonly known as Opus Dei, is founded by Saint Josemaría Escrivá.
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03 Oct 1928 French sun "Ondine" sinks returning to Toulon, drowning 42
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04 Oct 1928 25th World Series begins, New York Yankees vs. St. Louis Cardinals
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04 Oct 1928 KPD begins petition against Germany building a battle fleet
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06 Oct 1928 11th PGA Championship: Leo Diegel at Five Farms Country Club - Baltimore
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06 Oct 1928 Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek becomes President of China
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06 Oct 1928 Josip Broz (Tito) sentenced to 5 years in jail
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07 Oct 1928 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 10 miles (50:15.0)
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07 Oct 1928 Race Tafari Makonnen crowned King of Abyssinia
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08 Oct 1928 Eastern Soccer League forms in US
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08 Oct 1928 Joseph Szigeti gives the first performance of Alfredo Casella's Violin Concerto.
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09 Oct 1928 New York Yankees become 1st to sweep consecutive World Series
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09 Oct 1928 New York Yankees sweep Cards in 25th World Series, Ruth hits 3 HR in game
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10 Oct 1928 Chiang Kai-shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China.
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12 Oct 1928 An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston
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15 Oct 1928 German dirigible "Graf Zeppelin" lands in Lakehurst, New Jersey
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15 Oct 1928 Walter Johnson signs a 3-year contract to manage the Senators
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15 Oct 1928 The airship, Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States.
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15 Oct 1928 German dirigible "Graf Zeppelin" lands in Lakehurst, NJ
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16 Oct 1928 Mickey Cochrane wins AL MVP honors, edging Heinie Manush by 2 points
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22 Oct 1928 China expels all Russian instructors and civil servants
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22 Oct 1928 President Hoover speaks of "American system of rugged individualism"
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22 Oct 1928 Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity is founded at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus.
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28 Oct 1928 Bradman scores 131 NSW vs. Queensland, 212 mins, 14 fours
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28 Oct 1928 Indonesian child laws enfoced in Bahasa Indonesia
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28 Oct 1928 Declaration of the Youth Pledge in Indonesia, the first time Indonesia Raya, now the national anthem, was sung.
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01 Nov 1928 Graf Zeppelin sets airship distance record of 6384 km
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01 Nov 1928 The Law on the Adoption and Implementation of the Turkish Alphabet, replacing the version of the Arabic alphabet previously used with the Latin alphabet, comes into force in Turkey.
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03 Nov 1928 Turkey switches from Arabic to Roman alphabet
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04 Nov 1928 Jose Moncada elected President of Nicaragua
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06 Nov 1928 Clevelanders vote to build a stadium with city bonds
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06 Nov 1928 Herbert Hoover (R) beats Alfred E Smith (D) for President
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06 Nov 1928 Jacob Schick patents 1st electric razor
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07 Nov 1928 Herbert Hoover (R) elected President
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10 Nov 1928 Hirohito ascended throne as Emperor of Japan
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11 Nov 1928 KXO-AM in El Centro CA begins radio transmissions
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11 Nov 1928 WGL-AM in Fort Wayne IN begins radio transmissions
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11 Nov 1928 WMT-AM in Cedar Rapids IA begins radio transmissions
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11 Nov 1928 WOL-AM in Washington DC begins radio transmissions
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12 Nov 1928 British steamer "Vestris" capsizes and sinks off Virginia, kills 110
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17 Nov 1928 Boston Garden officially opens
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17 Nov 1928 Notre Dame finally lost a football game after nearly 25 years
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18 Nov 1928 Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse debuts in NY in "Steamboat Willie"
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19 Nov 1928 1st issue of Time magazine, Japanese Emperor Hirohito on cover
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20 Nov 1928 Boston Gardens opens, Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins, 1-0
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20 Nov 1928 WGH-AM in Newport News VA begins radio transmissions
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22 Nov 1928 "Bolero" by Maurice Ravel, 1st performed publicly (Paris)
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01 Dec 1928 CFL Grey Cup: Ham Tigers beats Regina, 30-0 at Hamilton
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01 Dec 1928 Railroad museum opens in Utrecht Neth
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02 Dec 1928 Cardinals 1B Jim Bottomley is voted NL MVP
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05 Dec 1928 England defeats Australia by record 675 runs at Brisbane
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05 Dec 1928 MW Miklas elected President of Austria
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06 Dec 1928 The government of Colombia sends military forces to suppress a month-long strike by United Fruit Company workers, resulting in an unknown number of deaths.
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11 Dec 1928 Buenos Aires police thwart an attempt on President-elect Herbert Hoover
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11 Dec 1928 National League President John Heydler proposes designated hitter for pitchers
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12 Dec 1928 Nichols / Brownes "Wings over Europe, " premieres in New York City
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13 Dec 1928 George Gershwin's "An American In Paris" premieres (New York NY)
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13 Dec 1928 Clip-on tie designed
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14 Dec 1928 2nd Test Cricket Australia vs England starts with Bradman 12th man
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17 Dec 1928 Indian revolutionaries Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar and Shivaram Rajguru assassinate British police officer James Saunders in Lahore, Punjab, to avenge the death of Lala Lajpat Rai at the hands of the police. The three were executed in 1931.
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17 Dec 1928 John McGraw backs National League president John Heydler's designated hitter idea
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19 Dec 1928 1st autogiro (predecessor of helicopter) flight in US
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20 Dec 1928 Ethel Barrymore Theater opens at 243 W 47th St, New York City
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20 Dec 1928 1st international dogsled mail leaves Minot ME for Montr
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23 Dec 1928 NBC sets up a permanent, coast-to-coast radio network
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24 Dec 1928 George Abbott Theater (Adelphi, 54 St) opens at 152 W 54th St, New York City
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25 Dec 1928 Christmas Day attendance at cricket MCG (Victoria vs New South Wales) 14,887
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25 Dec 1928 New South Wales (v Victoria) go from 8-74 to 9-113 to be 9-367 at stumps
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26 Dec 1928 Johnny Weissmuller announces his retirement from amateur swimming
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26 Dec 1928 World record 10th wicket stand 307 (Kippax / Hooker) New South Wales vs Victoria
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28 Dec 1928 Last recording of Ma Rainey, "Mother of the Blues, " made
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28 Dec 1928 Louis Armstrong makes 78 recording of "West End blues"
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