1928
Harriman and Company becomes the chief organizer of a huge engineering program that will modernize Soviet heavy Industry. Harriman furnishes securities for all the Soviet purchases in the United States and collects generous commissions for his services.
1928
Henry Ford merges his German assets with those of I.G. Farben. (Sutton)
1928
Pope Pius XI dissolves the missionary society "The Friends of Israel" (Amici Israel), and issues a condemnation of antisemitism. (Lewy)
1928
Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an airplane across the Atlantic Ocean, west to east.
1928
Joseph Goebbels is elected to the Reichstag as a deputy for Berlin.
1928
Chiang Kai-shek captures Peking and the Kuomin-tang government is established in China.
1928
Stalin, who has driven the leftist opposition from most party posts, now, whether for political or economic reasons, adopts a number of leftist programs such as agricultural collectivization and rapid industrialization. He then smashes the party's right, led by the popular Nikolai Bukharin, for opposing measures that Stalin himself had recently attacked.
1928
The first Five-Year Plan for economic reform begins in the Soviet Union.
1928
Oscar De Priest, an Illinois Republican, is elected as the first black Congressman from a northern state.
1928
Huey Long is inaugurated as governor of Louisiana in Baton Rouge..
1928
King George V becomes seriously ill at the end of 1928, and for the rest of his reign has to be extremely careful of his health.
1928 April 13
Hitler attempts to "clarify" the NSDAP program.
1928 April 19
Japanese troops occupy Shantung Province in northern China.
1928 May 15
Mickey Mouse makes his first appearance.
1928 May 20
General elections in Germany give the Nazi Party only three percent of the vote. (Eyes)
1928 June
ONT meetings at the priory of Marienkamp in Hungary
record the investitures of Georg Hauerstein, Jr. and Friedrich Schwickert, an
astrologer an onetime List Society member, as Presbyters. (Roots)
1928 June 17
Amelia Earhart embarks on the trans-Atlantic flight of the Fokker Friendship from Newfoundland. As a passenger on the flight, Earhart will become the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean by air.
1928 June 18
Amelia Earhart, a passenger on the Fokker Friendship, lands in Wales, becoming the first woman to fly across the Atlantic. The flight takes approximately 21 hours and launches her career as an aviator. Shortly afterward, she publishes 20 Hrs. 40 Min., her account of the flight.
1928 June 28
New York Governor Alfred E. Smith is nominated for president at the Democratic
national convention in Houston, Texas.
1928 August 27
The Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact is signed in Paris. Its signatories renounce aggressive war and war as an instrument of national policy. It also provides for the peaceful settlement of disputes; however, no sanctions are provided for violations.
1928 September 6
The Soviet Union concurs with the Kellogg-Briand Pact.
1928 November 25
Communist demonstrations break out in Bucharest.
1928 December
Monsignor Ludwig Kaas, a Catholic priest and former professor of canon law at Trier, is elected Chairman of the Catholic Center Party.
1928 December 23
The National Broadcasting Company sets up a permanent, coast-to-coast U.S. radio network.
