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===September=== {{Main|September 1928}} * [[September 1]] β Ahmet Zogu, President of the [[Albanian Republic]], declares the country to be a constitutional monarchy, the [[Albanian Kingdom (1928β39)|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]] β [[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 (1906β1971)|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]] β 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]] β The [[1928 Okeechobee hurricane|Okeechobee hurricane]] hits [[Guadeloupe]], killing 1,200 people. * [[September 16]] β The [[1928 Okeechobee hurricane|Okeechobee hurricane]] kills at least 2,500 people in [[Florida]]. * [[September 25]] β [[Paul Galvin (businessman)|Paul and Joseph Galvin]] incorporate the Galvin Manufacturing Corporation (later known as [[Motorola]] and [[Freescale]]). * [[September 28]] β 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>
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