Top News Stories from 1928
World Events
- Kellogg-Briand Pact, outlawing war, is signed in Paris by 65 nations.
- Richard E. Byrd starts an expedition to Antarctic; returns in 1930.
- The first of Joseph Stalin's Five Year Plans imposes collectivization on agriculture in the Soviet Union.
U.S. Events
U.S. Statistics
President: Calvin Coolidge
Vice President: Charles G. Dawes
Population: 120,509,000
More U.S. Statistics... - The Jones-White Merchant Marine Act passed by Congress (May 22) provides funds to help make the U.S. commercial shipping industry more competitive in the world.
- Former Chicago city council member Oscar DePriest is elected to the 71st U.S. Congress (Nov. 6). He is the first black Representative to be elected in a northern state.
- U.S. voters elect Herbert Hoover president (Nov. 6) over Alfred E. Smith, governor of New York.
Economics
Federal spending: $2.96 billion
Consumer Price Index: $17.1
Unemployment: 4.2%
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.02
Sports
World Series
NY Yankees d. St. Louis Cardinals (4-0)Stanley Cup
NY Rangers d. Montreal MaroonsWimbledon
Women: Helen Wills d. L. de Alvarez (6-2 6-3)Men: Rene Lacoste d. H. Cochet (6-1 4-6 6-4 6-2)
Kentucky Derby Champion
Reigh CountNCAA Football Champions
Georgia Tech (CFRA, NCF, HF) (10-0-0) & USC (DS) (9-0-1) 1928 Summer OlympicsEntertainment
Entertainment Awards
Pulitzer Prizes Drama: Strange Interlude, Eugene O'Neill
Nobel Prize for Literature: Sigrid Undset (Norway)
More Entertainment Awards... Events
- John Baird beams a television image from England to the United States.
- GE introduces a television set with a
3" X 4" screen. - The first television is sold -- a Daven for $75.
- Walt Disney introduces Galloping Gaucho and Steamboat Willie, the first cartoons with sound.
- The Academy Awards are handed out for the first time. Wings wins Best Picture.
Science
Nobel Prizes in Science
Chemistry: Adolf Windaus (Germany), for investigations on constitution of the sterols and their connection with vitamins
Physics: In 1929, the 1928 prize was awarded to Sir Owen Richardson (UK), for work on the phenomenon of thermionics and discovery of the Richardson Law
Physiology or Medicine: Charles Nicolle (France), for work on typhus exanthematicus
Physiology or Medicine: The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder
More Nobel Prizes in 1998... - Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
- The Aschheim-Zondek urine pregnancy test is developed.
- Anthropologist Margaret Mead publishes Coming of Age in Samoa.
