Editing 1928 (section)

===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]].