BACK IN TIME-1928

Popular Culture 1928

U.S.

• The cartoon star Mickey Mouse appears on November 18th in Steamboat Willie, an animated 1928 short film produced by Walt Disney.

UK

• Decline and Fall is published a novel by the English author Evelyn Waugh.

UK

• Lady Chatterley's Lover is banned for being to explicit in England and the US. 

U.S.

• The First Yo Yo Factory Opens making YoYo's in Santa Barbara, California. 

UK

• The House at Pooh Corner by Author A. A. Milne is published in England.

U.S.

• "Diga Diga Doo" by Duke Ellington and His Cotton Club Orchestra.

Born This Year

Anne Sexton News And Events From November 9th
Che Guevara This Day In History June 14th
Shirley Temple News And Events From April 23rd
Ariel Sharon This Day In History February 26th

Technology

U.S.

• Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to successfully pilot an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean.

UK

• Alexander Flemming discovered penicillin in 1928 and changed the world of modern medicines by introducing the age of antibiotics and his discovery of penicillin has, and still, saves millions of people.

France

• Home Pregnancy Test is first introduced which tests for the presence of hCG which doubles every 48 hrs during early pregnancy and is checked using a urine sample. Introduced by Selmar Aschheim and Bernard Zondek.

U.S.

• Iron Lung Philip Drinker and Louis A. Shaw professors at the School Of Public Health at Harvard University invent the Iron Lung.

Inventions, Inventors and Country (or attributed to First Use)
Antibiotics England by Alexander Fleming
Iron Lung USA by Philip Drinker and Louis A. Shaw
Sliced Bread maker USA by Otto Frederick
Bubble Gum first called Double Bubble USA by Walter E Diemer 

What News Events Happened In 1928

U.S.

• The Okeechobee Hurricane or Hurricane San Felipe Segundo was a deadly hurricane that struck the Leeward Islands, Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, and Florida in September.

Japan

• Japan Breaks off relations with China following the attacks in China by Japanese.

U.S.

• A major hurricane strikes West Palm Beach in Florida causing the loss of over 500 lives.

Greece 

• Major earthquake destroys the town of Corinth leaving very few buildings standing in Greece.

France 

• Ten world famous feminist leaders stormed the gates of the French presidential palace.

Netherlands 

• The Summer Olympics are held for the first time in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Italy 

• Italian Dirigible Italia (Airship ) is lost while trying to reach the North Pole.

Switzerland 

• The Olympic Winter Games are held for the first time in the country in St. Moritz, Switzerland.

Puerto Rico 

• 300,000 face famine after severe hurricane destroys crops in Puerto Rico.

U.S.A. 

• St. Francis dam collapses causing a massive wave into the San Francisquito Canyon in California flooding the towns of Castaic Junction, Fillmore, and Bardsdale and killing an estimated 500 plus although the exact number is not known.

Major World Political Leaders

Australia Prime Minister Stanley Bruce 
Brazil President Washington Luís 
Canada Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King 

Italy Prime Minister Benito Mussolini 

Japan Prime Minister Giichi Tanaka 
Mexico President Plutarco Elías Calles until 30 November
Mexico President Emilio Portes Gil From 1 December
Russia/Soviet Union 
General Secretary of the Central Committee Joseph Stalin 
South Africa Prime Minister James Barry Munnik Hertzog 
United States President Calvin Coolidge 
United Kingdom Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin 

Political Elections

United States Presidential Election 1928 Herbert Hoover (Republican) Defeats Al Smith (Democrat).