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=== February === {{Main|February 1928}} * [[February]] β 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]] β 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]] β [[February 19|19]] β 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]] β 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]] β [[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>
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