1928 TIMELINE
Unsorted 1928 Events [Bottom]
January
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06 - Chaplin's ?¢ The Circus
12 - Adulteress and murderer Ruth Snyder ? + is executed in the
electric chair at New York's Sing Sing prison.
30 - Eugene O'Neill's Strange Interlude premieres on Broadway.
February
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00 - Mississippi John Hurt records the first 8 of his 13 famous country
blues sides, which came to be known as the "1928 Sessions," in Memphis, Tenn.
The last 5 sides were made in dec in New York City.
15 - Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith dies.
March
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10 - Legion of the Condemned with Gary Cooper opens
28 - Record trading on Wall Street--4,796,270 shares
29 - The Dodge Victory Hour allows the public to hear their stars for
the first time.
April
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21
- |DENMARK| Austere film masterpiece
The Passion of Joan of Arc, directed by Carl Dreyer, premieres.
May
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09 - The electron microscope is invented by Max Knoll and Ernst Ruska.
11 - General Electric begins first regularly scheduled television
broadcasts, three days a weeks for two hours each, at station WGY in Schenectady, N.Y.
12 - Fascist Italy restricts suffrage only to men over 21 who are paying
a special, high taxes.
15 - Mickey Mouse premieres in Plane Crazy, a silent cartoon
parody, of the Lindberg craze.
15 - In the wake of the 1927 Mississippi River
flooding, the U.S. government adopts the Flood Control Act, a $325 million,
10-year program to control floods with dams built by army engineers.
15 - MGM, Paramount, United Artists get licenses to use MovieTone for
sound films
16 - Record trading on Wall Street--4,826,840 shares
17 - Shakespeare ?*'s
The Tempest * opens on Broadway
June
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17-18 - Amelia Earhart is first woman to fly an across the Atlantic.
28 - Louis Armstrong records "West End Blues," a seminal jazz ? track of
the twenties, for Okeh in Chicago.
July
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00 - Women's events are featured for the first time at the Amsterdam
summer Olympic Games.
03 - Television sets, manufactured by the Daven Corp. in the U.S., go
on sale for the first time.
06 - First completely talking feature-length picture,
The Lights of New York, from Warner Brothers, premieres.
11 - Big Stock Drop--avg of 4.41 of leading issues.
30 - The Dodge Bros. merge with Chrysler Corp. in a $160 million
deal. The Plymouth model appears. The De Soto follows in aug.
AUGUST
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00 - Olympics in Amsterdam--U.S. wins overall with 437 points
02 - Ethiopia and Italy sign treaty of friendship, ostensibly for
20 years. (Later broken with Italy's invasion of Ethiopia).
03 - Lilac Time with Gary Cooper and Collen Moore opens in
New York
27 - The Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact, a universal renunciation of war,
is signed by 15 nations, including the United States, in Paris. The Pact is named for U.S.
secretary of state Frank B. Kellogg and french foreign minister Aristide Briand.
31 - Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera) by composer
Kurt Weill and playwright Bertolt Brecht premieres in Berlin. The play masterfully captures
the decadence and spirit of the days of the Weimar Republic.
SEPTEMBER
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15 - Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin in London.
19 - Al Jolson stars in The Singing Fool
OCTOBER
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01 - Joseph Stalin's first five-year plan is announced, calling for
development of heavy industry, seizure of farms, and collectivization of all workers.
15 - Germany's Graf Zeppelin dirigible arrives at Lakehurst, N.J.
NOVEMBER
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06 - Hoover wins Presidency, defeating Al Smith
12 - The British steamer Vestris sinks in a storm off Virginia,
killing 113. The U.S. press hypes the story sensationally.
16 - S.B Eielson And Sir George Hubert Wilkens make the first airplane
flight in Antartica.
18 - The world's first fully synchronized sound cartoon, Walt Disney's
Steamboat Willy, starring Mickey Mouse, premieres at the Colony Theatre in New York City.
DECEMBER
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08 - Wall Street Stock Maket takes 22-pt plunge
21 - Boulder Dam Act approved by U.S. Congress for construction of the
massive dam in Nevada.
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