Editing 1928 (section)

==Events==
===January===
{{Main|January 1928}}
* [[January]] – British [[bacteriologist]] [[Frederick Griffith]] reports the results of [[Griffith's experiment]], indirectly demonstrating that [[DNA]] is the genetic material.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Griffith |first=Fred. |title=The Significance of Pneumococcal Types |journal=Journal of Hygiene |publisher=Cambridge University Press |volume=27 |issue=2 |pages=113–159 |jstor=4626734 |pmid=20474956 |pmc=2167760 |doi=10.1017/S0022172400031879 |date=January 1928}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Downie |first=A. W. |title=Pneumococcal transformation – a backward view: Fourth Griffith Memorial Lecture |journal=[[Microbiology (journal)|Journal of General Microbiology]] |url=http://mic.sgmjournals.org/content/73/1/1.full.pdf |volume=73 |issue=1 |pages=1–11 |year=1972 |doi=10.1099/00221287-73-1-1 |pmid=4143929 |access-date=2011-11-30 |doi-access=free}}</ref>
* [[January 1]] – [[Eastern Bloc emigration and defection]]: [[Boris Bazhanov]], [[Joseph Stalin]]'s personal secretary, crosses the border to [[Iran]] to defect from the [[Soviet Union]].<ref>{{cite book |author=G. Patrick Armstrong |title=Chronology of Soviet History, 1917–1984 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=feQxlmx6H2cC |year=1985 |publisher=Department of National Defence, Canada, Operational Research and Analysis Establishment, Directorate of Strategic Analysis |page=1927}}</ref>
* [[January 17]] – The [[OGPU]] arrests [[Leon Trotsky]] in Moscow; he assumes a status of passive resistance and is exiled with his family.<ref>{{cite book |author=Esther Leslie |title=Walter Benjamin: Overpowering Conformism |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FXUN34lH-jgC&pg=PA15 |date=20 May 2000 |publisher=Pluto Press |isbn=978-0-7453-1568-3 |pages=15}}</ref>
* [[January 26]] – The [[volcanic island]] [[Anak Krakatau]] appears.<ref>{{cite web |title=Anak Krakatoa |url=http://www.todayinsci.com/12/12_29.htm |work=Today in Science History |publisher=Todayinsci |access-date=2012-01-30}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first=Amie Jane |last=Leavitt |title=Anatomy of a Volcanic Eruption |url=https://archive.org/details/anatomyofvolcani0000leav |url-access=registration |publisher=Capstone Press |year=2011}}</ref>

=== February ===
{{Main|February 1928}}
* [[February]] – The [[Ford River Rouge Complex]] at [[Dearborn, Michigan]], an automobile plant begun in [[1917]], is completed as the world's largest integrated factory.<ref>{{cite book|author=Nelson Lichtenstein|title=Walter Reuther: The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m2TIwqhOHRwC&pg=PA13|year=1997|publisher=University of Illinois Press|isbn=978-0-252-06626-9|pages=13}}</ref>
* [[February 8]] – Scottish-born inventor [[John Logie Baird]] broadcasts a transatlantic television signal from London to [[Hartsdale, New York]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Transatlantic Television in 1928|url=http://www.bairdtelevision.com/1928.html|work=Baird Television|access-date=2015-09-29}} Extract from ''[[The New York Times]]'' 1928-02-09.</ref>
* [[February 11]] – [[February 19|19]] – The [[1928 Winter Olympics]] are held in [[St. Moritz]], Switzerland, the first as a separate event.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Olympic Games and Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IitLAAAAYAAJ|year=1996|publisher=International Olympic Committee|page=51}}</ref> [[Sonja Henie]] of Norway wins her first [[gold medal]], in women's [[figure skating]].
* [[February 20]] – The [[1928 Japanese general election|Japanese general election]] produces a hung parliament.<ref>Thomas T Mackie & Richard Rose (1991) ''The International Almanac of Electoral History'', Macmillan, p281</ref>
* [[February 25]] – [[Charles Jenkins Laboratories]] of Washington, D.C., becomes the first holder of a television license from the [[Federal Radio Commission]].<ref>{{cite book|title=The Washingtonian|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6vZNAQAAIAAJ|year=1987|publisher=Washington Magazine, Incorporated|page=9}}</ref>

===March===
{{Main|March 1928}}
* [[March 15]]
** [[March 15 incident]]: The Japanese government cracks down on socialists and communists, arresting over 1,000 people.<ref>{{cite book|author=Chalmers Johnson|title=An Instance of Treason: Ozaki Hotsumi and the Sorge Spy Ring|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x-aeAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA39|year=1990|publisher=Stanford University Press|isbn=978-0-8047-1767-0|pages=39}}</ref>
** Chinese warlord [[Shi Yousan]] sets fire to the [[Shaolin Monastery]] in [[Henan]], destroying some of its ancient structures and artifacts.<ref>{{cite book |last=Shahar |first=Meir |author-link=Meir Shahar |title=The Shaolin Monastery: History, Religion, and the Chinese Martial Arts |publisher=[[University of Hawaiʻi Press]] |location=Honolulu |year=2008 |isbn=978-0-8248-3349-7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KiNEB0H6S0EC&pg=PA27 |page=27}}</ref>
* [[March 21]] – [[Charles Lindbergh]] is presented with the [[Medal of Honor]] for his first [[transatlantic flight]].<ref>{{cite book|title=U.S. Air Services|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aLo7AAAAMAAJ&pg=RA4-PA33|year=1928|publisher=Air Service Publishing Company|pages=34}}</ref>
*[[March 22]] – The [[Muslim Brotherhood]] is founded in Egypt by [[Islamic studies|Islamic scholar]] and schoolteacher [[Hassan al-Banna]].<ref>{{cite web |title=الإخوان المسلمون: حضور في 52 دولة |url=https://mubasher.aljazeera.net/news/reports/2016/3/21/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A5%D8%AE%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B3%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86-%D8%AD%D8%B6%D9%88%D8%B1-%D9%81%D9%8A-52-%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A9 |website=Al Jazeera Mubasher |access-date=18 October 2021 |language=ar |date=21 March 2016}}</ref>
* [[March 24]] – Excavation work begins after the old [[Canaan]]ite city of [[Ugarit]] is accidentally rediscovered.<ref name="Buck2019">{{cite book|author=Mary E. Buck|title=The Amorite Dynasty of Ugarit: Historical Implications of Linguistic and Archaeological Parallels|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KkSxDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1|date=16 September 2019|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-41511-9|pages=1}}</ref>

===April===
{{Main|April 1928}}
* [[April 10]] – ''[[Pineapple Primary]]'': The United States [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]] primary elections in Chicago are preceded by violence, bombings and assassination attempts (two politicians are killed, Octavius C. Granady and Giuseppe Esposito).
* [[April 12]] – A bomb attack against Italian Fascist leader [[Benito Mussolini]] in Milan kills 17 bystanders.
* [[April 13]] – The [[West Plains, Missouri#West Plains Dance Hall explosion|West Plains, Missouri Dance Hall explosion]] occurs.<ref>Not much is known about the West Plains Dance Hall explosion. Much of this event has been lost in time, and since [[forensic science]] was still developing, the cause was never discovered.</ref>
* [[April 12]] – [[April 14|14]] – The first east–west [[transatlantic flight]] by aeroplane takes place from [[Dublin]], Ireland, to [[Greenly Island, Canada]], using the German [[Junkers W 33]] ''[[Bremen (aircraft)|Bremen]]''.<ref>{{cite book|author=Robert Jackson|title=The Sky Their Frontier: The Story of the World's Pioneer Airlines and Routes, 1920–40|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=om9PAAAAMAAJ|year=1983|publisher=Airlife Pub. Limited|isbn=978-0-906393-28-4|pages=7–11}}</ref>
* [[April 14]] – An [[1928 Chirpan–Plovdiv earthquakes|earthquake occurs in Chirpan]], [[Bulgaria]], followed four days later by another in [[Plovdiv]]. Between them, they destroy more than 21,000 buildings, and kill almost 130 people.<ref>{{cite book|title=Annali di geofisica|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OihQAQAAIAAJ|year=2001|publisher=Istituto nazionale di geofisica|page=546}}</ref>
* [[April 19]] – Publication of the original ''[[Oxford English Dictionary]]'' is completed after 70 years with issue of the last section ("wise – wyze") in [[Oxford]].<ref>''OED'' (1933, 1978 vol. 1, pp. xxv, xxvl).</ref>
* [[April 22]] – An [[List of earthquakes in Greece|Ms 6.0 earthquake]] affects southern Greece with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (''Violent''), leaving 20 dead, and destroying 3,000 homes in [[Corinth]]; a non-destructive tsunami is also observed.<ref>{{citation|title=Search result: Country=Greece|url=https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazel/view/hazards/earthquake/event-data?country=GREECE|author=NGDC|publisher=[[National Geophysical Data Center]], [[National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration|NOAA]]|doi=10.7289/V5TD9V7K|year=1972|type=Data Set}}</ref>
* [[April 28]] – 28&nbsp;inches of snow fall in southern-central Pennsylvania, United States.<ref>{{cite web|first1=Gina|last1=Cherundolo|first2=Carly|last2=Porter|title=Is Winter Finally Over?|url=http://www.accuweather.com/blogs/news/story/26025/is-winter-finally-over.asp|work=AccuWeather.com|date=2010-03-11|access-date=2012-01-30}}</ref>

===May===
{{Main|May 1928}}
* [[May 3]] – [[Jinan incident]]: An armed conflict between the [[Imperial Japanese Army]] (allied with Northern Chinese warlords) and the [[Kuomintang]]'s southern army occurs in [[Jinan]], China.
* [[May 7]] – Passage of the [[Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Act 1928|Representation of the People Act]] in the United Kingdom lowers the voting age for women from 30 to 21, giving them equal suffrage with men from [[July 2]].<ref name="Pocket On This Day">{{cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-14-102715-0|year=2006}}</ref>
* [[May 10]] – The first regular schedule of television programming begins in [[Schenectady, New York]], by [[General Electric]]'s television station [[W2XB]] (the station is popularly known as WGY Television, after its sister radio station [[WGY (AM)|WGY]]).
* [[May 15]] – The [[Animation|animated short]] ''[[Plane Crazy]]'' is released by [[Walt Disney Pictures|Disney Studios]] in Los Angeles, featuring the first appearances of [[Mickey Mouse|Mickey]] and [[Minnie Mouse]] (in a non-distributed film).
* [[May 23]] – A bomb attack against the Italian consulate in [[Buenos Aires]], Argentina, kills 22 and injures 43.<ref>{{cite book|title=Annual Register|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GhNdAAAAIAAJ|year=1929|publisher=J. Dodsley|page=291}}</ref>
* [[May 24]] – The [[Airship Italia|airship ''Italia'']] crashes at the [[North Pole]]; one of the occupants is Italian general [[Umberto Nobile]]. A rescue expedition leaves for the Pole on [[May 30]]. [[Roald Amundsen]] will be among those who lose their lives in the search for survivors.
* [[May 30]] – Rookie driver [[Louis Meyer]] wins his first [[Indianapolis 500]] (he will win that race again, in [[1933]] and [[1936]]).
[[File:Flag of South Africa (1928–1994).svg|thumb|120px|Flag of South Africa from 1928 to 1994]]
* [[May 31]] – South Africa adopts a [[Flag of South Africa (1928–1994)|new national flag]], based upon the Van Riebeeck flag or Prinsevlag (originally the Dutch flag), to replace the [[Red Ensign]]. It later became infamously known as the "apartheid flag" for being the flag of South Africa under [[Apartheid]] from 1948 to 1994.

===June===
{{Main|June 1928}}
* [[June 4]] – [[Huanggutun incident]]: [[Zhang Zuolin]], a warlord, is killed by Japanese agents in China.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Ruiqing Luo|author2=Zhengcao Lü|author3=Zhengcao Lu|author4=Bingnan Wang|title=Zhou Enlai and the Xi'an Incident: An Eyewitness Account : a Turning Point in Chinese History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ov0vAQAAIAAJ|year=1983|publisher=Foreign Languages Press|isbn=978-0-8351-1053-2|page=25}}</ref>
* [[June 8]] – By seizing [[History of Beijing|Beijing]] and renaming it Běipíng, the [[National Revolutionary Army]] puts an end to the '[[Fengtian clique|Fengtian]] [[Warlord Era|warlords]]' [[Beiyang government]] there.
* [[June 9]] 
** Australian aviator [[Charles Kingsford Smith]] and his crew complete the first flight across the [[Pacific Ocean]], from the mainland United States to Australia, in the [[Fokker F.VII]] aircraft ''[[Southern Cross (aircraft)|Southern Cross]]''. Having left [[Oakland, California]] on [[May 31]], they reach [[Brisbane]] via [[Honolulu]] and [[Fiji]].<ref>{{cite book|author=John William Ransom Taylor|title=A Picture History of Flight|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=THE0AAAAIAAJ|year=1959|publisher=E. Hulton|page=111}}</ref>
** [[Ellis Park Stadium]], a well-known sport venue of [[South Africa]], officially opens in [[Johannesburg]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ellispark.co.za/History.aspx|title=Coca-Cola Park : History|date=2013-01-03|access-date=2017-12-22|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130103162143/http://www.ellispark.co.za/History.aspx|archive-date=2013-01-03}}</ref>
* [[June 14]] – Students take over the medical wing of Rosario University in [[Argentina]].
* [[June 17]] – [[June 18|18]] – Aviator [[Amelia Earhart]] becomes the first woman to make a successful [[transatlantic flight]], as a passenger in a [[Fokker F.VII]]b/3m piloted by [[Wilmer Stultz]], from [[Newfoundland (island)|Newfoundland]] to Wales. 
* [[June 20]] – [[Puniša Račić]] kills three opposition representatives in the [[Yugoslavia]]n Parliament, and injures three others, in a gun attack.
* [[June 24]] – A [[Sweden|Swedish]] aeroplane rescues some survivors of the Italian North Pole expedition, including Umberto Nobile. The Soviet icebreaker ''Krasin'' saves the rest [[July 12]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://italia.tass.com/|title=Italia: the Airship Crash Chronicle|website=italia.tass.com|access-date=March 8, 2021}}</ref>
* [[June 28]]
** The keel of the first 1,000&nbsp;ft (300 m)-long [[ocean liner]], ''[[Oceanic (unfinished ship)|Oceanic]]'', for the British [[White Star Line]], is laid by [[Harland and Wolff]] in [[Belfast]]; construction is delayed, and cancelled on [[23 July]] [[1929]].
** The [[International Railway (New York–Ontario)]] switches to one-man crews for its [[Tram|trolley]]s in [[Canada]].
* [[June 29]] – At the [[1928 Democratic National Convention]] in [[Houston]], [[Governor of New York]] [[Al Smith]] becomes the first [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] nominated by a major political party for President of the United States.

===July===
{{Main|July 1928}}
* [[July 2]] – [[Charles Jenkins Laboratories]]' [[W3XK]] station begins broadcasting on 6.42 [[megahertz|MHz]], using 48 lines.
* [[July 3]] – Scottish inventor [[John Logie Baird]] demonstrates the world's first [[colour television]] transmission in Glasgow.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Hutchinson Factfinder|publisher=Helicon|year=1999|isbn=1-85986-000-1 }}</ref>
* [[July 7]] – The first machine-sliced and machine-wrapped loaf of bread is sold in [[Chillicothe, Missouri]], United States, using [[Otto Frederick Rohwedder]]'s technology.<ref>{{cite book|title=Milling & Baking News|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B6wnAQAAMAAJ|date=March 2008|publisher=Sosland Pub|page=40}}</ref>
* [[July 17]] – [[José de León Toral]] assassinates [[Álvaro Obregón]], president-elect of Mexico.<ref name=Obregon />
* [[July 25]] – The United States recalls its troops from China.
* [[July 28]] – [[August 12]] – The [[1928 Summer Olympics]] are held in [[Amsterdam]],<ref>{{cite book|author=United States Olympic Committee|title=Report: Games of the Olympiad|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MQSCAAAAMAAJ|year=1961|publisher=United States Olympic Committee|page=22}}</ref> opening with the lighting of the [[Olympic flame]]. Women's [[sport of athletics|athletics]] and [[gymnastics]] debut at these games, and [[discus throw]]er [[Halina Konopacka]] of Poland becomes the first female Olympic gold medal winner for a track or field event. [[Coca-Cola]] enters Europe as sponsor of the games.<ref>{{cite book|author=Steinar Bryn|title=The Americanization of Norwegian Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w-8s8AZyZ3MC|year=1993|publisher=University of Minnesota|page=207}}</ref>

===August===
{{Main|August 1928}}
* [[August]] – [[Margaret Mead]]'s influential [[cultural anthropology]] text, ''[[Coming of Age in Samoa]]'', is published in the U.S.<ref>{{cite book|author=Paul Shankman|title=The Trashing of Margaret Mead: Anatomy of an Anthropological Controversy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aPDkYtaZFngC&pg=PA113|date=3 December 2009|publisher=Univ of Wisconsin Press|isbn=978-0-299-23453-9|pages=113}}</ref>
* [[August 2]] – Italy and [[Ethiopia]] sign the [[Italo-Ethiopian Treaty of 1928|Italo-Ethiopian Treaty]].<ref>{{cite book|author=United States. Department of State|title=Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vmRNAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA603|year=1953|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|pages=603}}</ref>
* [[August 16]] – Serial killer [[Carl Panzram]] is arrested in Washington, D.C., for burglary. Later it will be discovered that he has committed multiple murders, rapes and other major crimes.<ref>{{cite book | last = Nash | first = Jay | title = Bloodletters and badmen : a narrative encyclopedia of American criminals from the Pilgrims to the present | publisher = M. Evans and Co | location = New York | year = 1995 | isbn = 9780871317773 |page=502}}</ref>
* [[August 22]] – [[Al Smith]] accepts the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] nomination for the US presidential election, with ''WGY/W2XB'' simulcasting the event on radio and television.
* [[August 26]] – In Scotland, May Donoghue finds the remains of a snail in her [[ginger beer]], leading to the landmark [[negligence]] case ''[[Donoghue v Stevenson]]''.<ref>{{cite book|last=Chapman|first=Matthew|title=The Snail and the Ginger Beer: the story of Donoghue v Stevenson|location=London|publisher=Wildy, Simmons & Hill|year=2010|isbn=978-0-85490-049-7}}</ref>
* [[August 27]] – The [[Kellogg–Briand Pact]] is signed in Paris, the first treaty to outlaw aggressive war.<ref>{{cite book|author=Robert H. Ferrell|title=Peace in Their Time: The Origins of the Kellogg-Briand Pact|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vncBzgEACAAJ|year=1969|publisher=Norton}}</ref>
* [[August 29]] – [[F.C. Motagua]] is founded as an [[Association football]] club in [[Honduras]].

===September===
{{Main|September 1928}}
* [[September 1]] – Ahmet Zogu, President of the [[Albanian Republic]], declares the country to be a constitutional monarchy, the [[Albanian Kingdom (1928–39)|Albanian Kingdom]], with himself as [[Zog I of Albania|King Zog I]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Genc Myftiu|title=Albania, a Patrimony of European Values: A Short Encyclopedia of Albanian History and Cultural Heritage|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xHQtAQAAIAAJ|year=2000|publisher=SEDA|page=30}}</ref>
* [[September 3]] – [[Philo Farnsworth]] demonstrates to the press in [[San Francisco]] the world's first working [[History of television#Electronic television|all-electronic television]] system, employing electronic scanning in both the pickup and display devices.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist10/philo.html|title=Philo Taylor Farnsworth (1906–1971)|work=The Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco|access-date=2011-06-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110622033654/http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist10/philo.html|archive-date=June 22, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Farnsworth|first=Elma G.|year=1989|title=Distant Vision: Romance & Discovery on an Invisible Frontier|location=Salt Lake City|publisher=PemberleyKent|page=[https://archive.org/details/distantvisionrom00farn/page/108 108]|isbn=0-9623276-0-3|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/distantvisionrom00farn/page/108}}</ref>
* [[September 11]] – The first broadcast of a play by television, melodrama ''[[The Queen's Messenger (1928)|The Queen's Messenger]]'', on General Electric's [[W2XAD]] from Schenectady, New York, utilising techniques created by [[Ernst Alexanderson]]. WMAK ([[Kenmore, New York|Kenmore]]) begins broadcasting in [[Buffalo, New York]].
* [[September 12]] – The [[1928 Okeechobee hurricane|Okeechobee hurricane]] hits [[Guadeloupe]], killing 1,200 people.
* [[September 16]] – The [[1928 Okeechobee hurricane|Okeechobee hurricane]] kills at least 2,500 people in [[Florida]].
* [[September 25]] – [[Paul Galvin (businessman)|Paul and Joseph Galvin]] incorporate the Galvin Manufacturing Corporation (later known as [[Motorola]] and [[Freescale]]).
* [[September 28]] – Scottish-born microbiologist [[Alexander Fleming]], at [[St Mary's Hospital, London]], accidentally rediscovers the [[antibiotic]] which he will call [[Penicillin]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Dubey|first=R. C.|title=Text book of Microbiology|publisher=S. Chand & Company Ltd|location=New Delhi|year=1999|isbn=9788121926201|page=579}}</ref><ref>{{cite press release|url=http://www.rsc.org/pdf/pressoffice/2003/penicillin.pdf|publisher=Royal Society of Chemistry|location=London|title=Culture shock will highlight penicillin discovery|date=2003-09-02|access-date=2011-11-30}}</ref>

===October===
{{Main|October 1928}}
* [[October]] – The women's organisation ''[[Gruaja Shiqiptare]]'' is founded in Albania, with [[Princess Senije]] as its chair.<ref name="SharpStibbe2011">{{cite book|author1=Ingrid Sharp|author2=Matthew Stibbe|title=Aftermaths of War: Women's Movements and Female Activists, 1918–1923|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FN55DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA191|date=14 February 2011|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-18276-9|pages=191}}</ref>
* [[October 1]] – [[Joseph Stalin]] launches the [[First five-year plan (Soviet Union)|first five-year plan]] (1928–1932); the average nonfarm wage falls by 50% in the [[Soviet Union]].<ref>{{cite book|author=James Riordan|title=Sport in Soviet Society: Development of Sport and Physical Education in Russia and the USSR|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MDE8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA120|date=30 June 1980|publisher=CUP Archive|isbn=978-0-521-28023-5|pages=120}}</ref>
* [[October 2]] 
**[[Josemaría Escrivá]] founds [[Opus Dei]].<ref>{{cite book|title=The Irish Catholic Directory|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1xkzAQAAIAAJ|year=1960|publisher=J. Duffy and Company|page=44}}</ref>
**[[Arvid Lindman]] returns as [[Prime Minister of Sweden]], with his right-wing rival [[Ernst Trygger]] as [[Foreign Minister of Sweden]].
* [[October 7]] – [[Haile Selassie]] is crowned king (not yet emperor) of [[Ethiopian Empire|Abyssinia]].<ref>{{cite book|author=David Abner Talbot|title=Haile Selassie I: Silver Jubilee|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mvpyAAAAMAAJ|year=1955|publisher=W.P. van Stockum|page=24}}</ref>
* [[October 8]] – [[Chiang Kai-shek]] is named as [[Generalissimo]] (Chairman of the National Military Council) of the [[Nationalist Government]] of the [[Republic of China (1912–1949)|Republic of China]].
* [[October 12]] – An [[Negative pressure ventilator|iron lung]] respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, [[Boston]].
* [[October 22]] – The [[Phi Sigma Alpha]] fraternity is founded at the [[University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus]].
* [[October 25]] – The [[International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement]] (ICRM) is formally established, with the adoption of the "Statutes of the [[International Red Cross]]" <ref>{{cite book|author=Hans Haug|title=Humanity for All: The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r9cSAQAAMAAJ|year=1993|publisher=P. Haupt|isbn=978-3-258-04719-5|page=424}}</ref>
* [[October 28]] – The Second Youth Congress is held in [[Batavia, Dutch East Indies|Batavia]], [[Dutch East Indies]] by young [[Indonesia]]n nationalists, resulting in the [[Youth Pledge]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Ricklefs|date=1982|title=A History of Modern Indonesia|publisher=Macmillan Southeast Asian|edition=reprint|isbn=0-333-24380-3|page=177}}</ref> The Indonesian national anthem, "[[Indonesia Raya]]", is introduced at the congress.<ref>{{cite book|editor1-last=Funston|editor1-first=John|title=Government & Politics in Southeast Asia|date=2001|publisher=Institute of Southeast Asian Studies|isbn=9789812301345|page=75|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O4zGBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA75|language=en}}</ref>

===November===
{{Main|November 1928}}
* [[November 1]] – [[Turkey]] passes a law switching the country from the [[Arabic alphabet|Arabic]] to the [[Latin]]-based modern [[Turkish alphabet]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Jacob M. Landau|title=Atatürk and the Modernization of Turkey|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8_n93Kq5PwMC&pg=PA201|year=1984|publisher=BRILL|isbn=90-04-07070-2|pages=201}}</ref>
* [[November 6]] – [[1928 United States presidential election]]: [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] [[Herbert Hoover]] wins by a wide margin, over [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] New York Governor [[Al Smith]].
* [[November 9]] – [[November 16|16]] – [[Radclyffe Hall]]'s novel ''[[The Well of Loneliness]]'' (published on 27 July by [[Jonathan Cape]] in London, England)<ref>{{cite book|first=Lovat|last=Dickson|title=Radclyffe Hall at The Well of Loneliness: A Sapphic Chronicle|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KrFaAAAAMAAJ|year=1975|publisher=Collins|isbn=978-0-00-211235-2|page=145}}</ref> is tried and convicted on the grounds of [[obscenity]] due to its theme of [[lesbian]] love, following a newspaper campaign.<ref>{{cite book|last=Baker|first=Michael|title=Our Three Selves: A Life of Radclyffe Hall|publisher=GMP Publishers|year=1985|location=London|isbn=0-85449-042-6}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Foster|first=Jeanette H.|title=Sex Variant Women in Literature: A Historical and Quantitative Survey|url=https://archive.org/details/sexvariantwomeni00fost|url-access=registration|publisher=Vantage Press|year=1956|location=New York}}</ref>
* [[November 10]] – The enthronement ceremony of [[Emperor of Japan]] [[Hirohito]] is held, two years after he actually took the imperial throne on [[December 26]], [[1926]], following the death of [[Emperor Taishō]].
* [[November 12]] – Liner {{SS|Vestris}} develops a severe starboard list, is abandoned and sinks approximately 200 miles off [[Hampton Roads, Virginia]]; estimated deaths range from 110 to 127.
* [[November 17]] 
** [[1928 Australian federal election]]: [[Stanley Bruce]]'s [[Nationalist Party of Australia|Nationalist]]/[[National Party of Australia|Country]] [[Coalition (Australia)|Coalition]] [[Second Bruce Ministry|Government]] is re-elected with a decreased majority, defeating the [[Australian Labor Party|Labor Party]] led by [[James Scullin]].
** [[Boston Garden]] opens in [[Boston, Massachusetts]].
* [[November 18]] – [[Mickey Mouse]] appears in ''[[Steamboat Willie]]'', the third Mickey Mouse cartoon released, but the first [[sound film]] and the first such film to be generally distributed.<ref>{{cite book|title=The New Yorker|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2RUnAQAAIAAJ|year=1988|publisher=F-R Publishing Corporation|page=85}}</ref>
* [[November 22]] – The one-movement ballet ''[[Boléro]]'' (music by [[Maurice Ravel]],  choreography by [[Bronislava Nijinska]]) premières at the [[Palais Garnier|Paris Opéra]], to a commission by [[Ida Rubinstein]].
* [[November 28]] – [[Persija Jakarta]] [[Association football]] club is founded as Voetbalbond Indonesische Jacatra.

===December===
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* [[December 3]] – In [[Rio de Janeiro]], a [[seaplane]] sent to greet [[Alberto Santos-Dumont]] crashes, killing all on board. The pilot had tried to avoid another plane which came too close.<ref>{{cite book|title=Flying Magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=30Na8oTxFOYC&pg=PA14|date=June 1931|pages=14}}</ref>
* [[December 4]] – [[Cosmo Gordon Lang]] is enthroned as the [[Archbishop of Canterbury]], the first bachelor to be appointed in 150 years.<ref name= Time1928>{{cite magazine|title= Religion:York to Canterbury|magazine=Time|publisher=Time Inc.|location= New York|date= 6 August 1928|url= http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,787459,00.html|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20101121035432/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,787459,00.html|url-status= dead|archive-date= 21 November 2010}} {{subscription required}}</ref>
* [[December 6]] – 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.
* [[December 21]] – The [[United States Congress]] approves the construction of Boulder Dam, later renamed [[Hoover Dam]].

===Date unknown===
* The women's organisation ''[[Anjuman-i Himayat-i-Niswan]]'' is founded in Afghanistan.<ref>{{cite book|author=Fahima Rahimi|title=Women in Afghanistan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A7Rl2gyAARIC|year=1986|publisher=Stiftung Bibliotheca Afghanica|page=42}}</ref>