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1928
 
    
'Pine Top' Smith records Pinetop's Boogie-Woogie, the first recording to be labelled boogie-woogie       
1928
 
    
Ninette De Valois creates her first ballet, Les Petits Riens, at the Old Vic       
1928
 
    
English psychologist Henry Havelock Ellis completes a thirty-year project, his 7-volume Studies in the Psychology of Sex       
1928
 
    
English sculptor Henry Moore receives his first public commission, for the headquarters of London Underground       
1928
 
    
An Aerial Medical Service is launched in Queensland, Australia, subsequently becoming the Flying Doctor Service       
1928
 
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Alvaro Obregón, the leading figure in Mexico's anti-clerical revolution, is shot by a Roman Catholic assassin      
1928
 
     
Beijing falls to Kuomintang forces, extending the rule of Jiang Jieshi's National Government into the north of China        
1928
 
    
Gershwin's orchestral work An American in Paris (with parts for four taxi-horns) has its first performance in New York       
1928
 
     
Mickey Mouse makes his first appearance in Walt Disney's short animated film Steamboat Willie        
1928
 
     
George Balanchine creates Apollo for Ballets Russes, to music by Igor Stravinksy