Editing 1928 (section)

===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>