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| 1928 |
| | | Republican candidate Herbert Hoover wins the US presidential election with the slogan 'a chicken in every pot' | |
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| 1928 |
| | | Norwegian figure-skater Sonja Henie wins the first of three individual Olympic gold medals in successive games | |
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| 1928 |
| | | D.H. Lawrence's new novel, in which Lady Chatterley is in love with her husband's gamekeeper, is privately printed in Florence | |
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| 1928 |
| | | Evelyn Waugh succeeds with a comic first novel, Decline and Fall | |
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| 1928 |
| | | Radclyffe Hall's novel The Well of Loneliness is the first to deal openly with a lesbian subject | |
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| 1928 |
| | | English sculptor Henry Moore has his first solo exhibition, at the Warren Gallery in London | |
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| 1928 |
| | | British inventor John Logie Baird secures a patent for fibreoptic imaging | |
|  | Fibre optic gastroscopy, 1998
Wellcome Library, London
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| 1929 |
| | | The SS, which has evolved from Hitler's personal bodyguard, is put under the command of Heinrich Himmler | |
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| 1929 |
| | | Sartoris is the first of 14 novels by William Faulkner set in his fictional Yoknapatawpha County | |
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| 1929 |
| | | The Tintin comic strip, by Hergé, begins with Tintin in the Land of the Soviets | |
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