News and Events of 1928

World Events

• Kellogg-Briand Pact, outlawing war, is signed in Paris by 65 nations.
  
  
• Richard E. Byrd starts an expedition to Antarctic; returns in 1930.
  
  
• The first of Joseph Stalin's Five Year Plans imposes collectivization on agriculture in the Soviet Union.
  
  

U.S. Events

• The Jones-White Merchant Marine Act passed by Congress (May 22) provides funds to help make the U.S. commercial shipping industry more competitive in the world.
  
  
• Former Chicago city council member Oscar DePriest is elected to the 71st U.S. Congress (Nov. 6). He is the first black Representative to be elected in a northern state.
  
  
• U.S. voters elect Herbert Hoover president (Nov. 6) over Alfred E. Smith, governor of New York.
  
  

Economics

Sports

World Series

Stanley Cup

Wimbledon

Kentucky Derby Champion

NCAA Football Champions

1928 Summer Olympics

1928 Winter Olympics

Entertainment

Events

• John Baird beams a television image from England to the United States.
• GE introduces a television set with a 3" X 4" screen.
• The first television is sold -- a Daven for $75.
• Walt Disney introduces Galloping Gaucho and Steamboat Willie, the first cartoons with sound.
• The Academy Awards are handed out for the first time. Wings wins Best Picture.

Science

• Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
• The Aschheim-Zondek urine pregnancy test is developed.
• Anthropologist Margaret Mead publishes Coming of Age in Samoa.

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