...Date... AGE Event
1928/--/-- 0 *** Benson, baby Stillborn - Born to Benson, Richard Oscar and Little, Alice Bessie
1928/--/-- 0 *** Benson, baby Stillborn - Died
1928/--/-- 0 - Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the Atlantic.
1928/--/-- 0 - American anthropologist Margaret Mead publishes Coming of Age in Samoa.
1928/--/-- 0 - American comedy team Amos 'n' Andy produce their first radio show.
1928/--/-- 0 - American composer Virgil Thomson writes the opera Four Saints in Three Acts.
1928/--/-- 0 - Arturo Toscanini is made conductor of the New York Philharmonic.
1928/--/-- 0 - Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's play The Front Page is produced.
1928/--/-- 0 - Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill collaborate on the play The Threepenny Opera.
1928/--/-- 0 - British bacteriologist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
1928/--/-- 0 - Chiang Kai-shek captures Peking; the Kuomintang government is established.
1928/--/-- 0 - English novelist Evelyn Waugh publishes Decline and Fall.
1928/--/-- 0 - English physicist Paul Dirac formulates a mathematical description of elementary particles.
1928/--/-- 0 - French composer Maurice Ravel composes the ballet Bolero.
1928/--/-- 0 - Heisenberg's uncertainty principle
1928/--/-- 0 - Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali collaborate on the surrealist film Un Chien andalou.
1928/--/-- 0 - Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca publishes Gypsy Ballads.
1928/--/-- 0 - The Chaco War breaks out between Bolivia and Paraguay over territorial disputes.
1928/--/-- 0 - The Kellog-Briand Pact outlawing war is signed by 15 nations.
1928/--/-- 0 - The first Five-Year Plan for economic reform begins in the Soviet Union.
1928/--/-- 0 - Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse appears in Steamboat Willie, the first sound cartoon.
1928/10/-- 0 - World Series NL ST. LOUIS (0) AL NEW YORK (4)
In 1928 Transportation was by:
Foot
Horse
Bicycle
Train
Steamboat
Balloon
Car & Bus
Propeller airplane
In 1928 Communications was by:
Word of Mouth
Post Office
Telegraph
Telephone
In 1928 Food Preparation was by:
Wood
Gas
In 1928 Entertainment was by:
Social Intercourse
Organized Sports
Travel
Professional Sports
Movies
Radio
Television
Theme parks
Computer
In 1928 Health Care was by:
Operations
Anesthetic
X-Rays
MRI
In 1928 War Making was by:
gun
Artillery
Machine guns
tank
Submarine
Iron Clad ships
TNT
Mines
Chemical agents
Aeroplane
In 1928 Navigation was by:
Stars & Maps
Compass
Radio Signals
from the SFHR database of Duane Bristow 03-13-2021 19:56:42