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| 1928 |
| | | Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming accidentally discovers a mould that selectively kills bacteria, and calls it penicillin | |
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| 1928 |
| | | W.B. Yeats's new volume of poems, The Tower, includes 'Sailing to Byzantium' | |
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| 1928 |
| | | Marcel Breuer, working at the Bauhaus, designs the classic version of his tubular-steel cantilever chair their homesr | |
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| 1928 |
| | | Maxim Gorky returns to the USSR to a rapturous reception after seven years abroad | |
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| 1928 |
| | | Caribbean-born author Jean Rhys publishes her first novel, Postures, based on her affair with the writer Ford Madox Ford | |
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| 1928 |
| | | The age limit for British women to vote is lowered to 21, finally giving them parity with men | |
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| 1928 |
| | | Siegfried Sassoon publishes Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, the first volume of a semi-autobiographical trilogy | |
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| 1928 |
| | | A second anti-Communist coup enables Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek) to set up a National Government in Nanjing | |
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| 1928 |
| | | Stephen V. Benét publishes a verse narrative of the Civil War under the title John Brown's Body | |
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| 1928 |
| | | English sculptor Barbara Hepworth has her first solo exhibition, at the Beaux Arts gallery in London | |
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| 1928 |
| | | Jomo Kenyatta becomes the editor of Muigwithania, the newspaper of the Kikuyu Central Association | |
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| 1928 |
| | | Maurice Ravel writes Boléro as music for a ballet choreographed by Nijinska with designs by Benois | |
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| 1928 |
| | | The Front Page, by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, has its premiere on Broadway | |
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| 1928 |
| | | Russian author Mikhail Sholokhov publishes the first section of And Quiet Flows the Don | |
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| 1928 |
| | | Australian police massacre Aborigines near Coniston in reprisal for a murder | |
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| 1928 |
| | | Stalin achieves complete personal control in the USSR after removing all his rivals from the Politburo | |
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| 1928 |
| | | US anthropologist Margaret Mead makes much of trouble-free sex among natives, in Coming of Age in Samoa, but her findings are subsequently disputed | |
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| 1928 |
| | | The Kellogg-Briand Pact is drawn up by the US and France as a pledge to renounce war | |
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| 1928 |
| | | Ballerina Galina Ulanova graduates from the Leningrad Choreography School and joins the Maryinsky company | |
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| 1928 |
| | | The Threepenny Opera, by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, opens to great acclaim in Berlin | |
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| 1928 |
| | | García Lorca wins fame with his book of poems Gypsy Ballads | |
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| 1928 |
| | | Set in a World War I trench, the play Journey's End reflects the wartime experiences of its British author, R.C. Sherriff | |
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| 1928 |
| | | Eric Fenby devotes himself to Frederick Delius, taking dictation to write down the scores of the blind composer's new works | |
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| 1928 |
| | | Hassan al-Banna, a schoolteacher in Ismailia, founds the Muslim Brotherhood – to campaign for a society based on the Qu'ran with the sharia as its legal system | |
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| 1928 |
| | | Karol Szymanowski's Stabat Mater is performed in Warsaw and brings him international fame | |
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| 1928 |
| | | All non-Fascist political activity is banned in Italy, parliament being replaced with the Fascist Grand Council | |
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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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