The Year 1928 From The People History

Popular Culture 1928

• The cartoon star Mickey Mouse appears on November 18th in Steamboat Willie, an animated 1928 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 for being to explicit in England and the US
  

• The First Yo Yo Factory Opens making YoYo's in Santa Barbara, California.
  

• The House at Pooh Corner by Author A. A. Milne is published in England

• 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 in 1928 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 News 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 following the attacks in China by Japanese

• A major hurricane strikes West Palm Beach in Florida causing the loss of over 500 lives

• Major earthquake destroys the town of Corinth leaving very few buildings standing in Greece

• Ten world famous feminist leaders stormed the gates of the French presidential palace

• The Summer Olympics are held for the first time in the country in Amsterdam, Netherlands

• Italian Dirigible Italia ( Airship ) is lost while trying to reach the North Pole

• The Olympic Winter Games are held for the first time in the country in St. Moritz, Switzerland

• 300,000 face famine after severe hurricane destroys crops in Puerto Rico