
1928
- Chiang Kai-shek elected President of China
- Stalin becomes Soviet leader
- Herbert Hoover elected President of US
- Scott introduces "Turf Builder" the 1st fertilizer specifically for grass
- 1st Mickey Mouse film
- Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
- 1st color motion pictures
- 1st scheduled television broadcasts - WGY, Schenectady, NY
- 1st bubble gum
- George Gershwin's "An American in Paris"
- Ravel's "Bolero"
- Maurice Sendak, "Che" Guevara, Stanley Kubrick, and Shirley Temple born
- Thomas Hardy dies
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