Popular Culture 1928

  • The cartoon star Mickey Mouse appears in Steamboat Willie, an animated short film produced by Walt Disney.
  • Decline and Fall is published a novel by the English author Evelyn Waugh.
  • Lady Chatterley's Lover is banned in England and the US
  • The First Yo Yo Factory Opens in Santa Barbara, California.
  • The House at Pooh Corner by Author A. A. Milne
  • Diga Diga Doo" by Duke Ellington and His Cotton Club Orchestra

Technology

  • Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to successfully pilot an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean
  • Alexander Flemming discovered penicillin and changed the world of modern medicines by introducing the age of antibiotics and his discovery of penicillin has, and still, saves millions of people.
  • Home Pregnancy Test first introduced which tests for the presence of hCG which doubles every 48 hrs during early pregnancy and is checked using a urine sample . Introduced by Selmar Aschheim and Bernard Zondek

What Events Happened in 1928

  • The Okeechobee Hurricane or Hurricane San Felipe Segundo was a deadly hurricane that struck the Leeward Islands, Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, and Florida in September of the 1928
  • Japan Breaks off relations with China
  • Major earthquake destroys the town of Corinth in Greece
  • The Summer Olympics are held in Amsterdam, Netherlands


  • Olympic Winter Games are held in St. Moritz, Switzerland




Inventions Inventors and Country ( or attributed to First Use )
Antibiotics England by Alexander Fleming
Iron Lung USA by Philip Drinker
Sliced Bread maker USA by Otto Frederick
Bubble Gum first called Double Bubble USA by Walter E Diemer