| The World - Kellogg-Briand Pact, outlawing war, is signed in Paris by 65 nations.
- Richard E. Byrd starts an expedition to Antarctic; returns in 1930.
The US
President: Calvin Coolidge
Vice President: Charles G. Dawes
Population: 120,509,000
Federal spending: $2.96 billion
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.02
Headlines
- U.S. voters elect Herbert Hoover president (Nov. 6) over Alfred E. Smith, governor of
New York.
- Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
- The Ascheim-Zondek urine pregnancy test is developed.
- Anthropologist Margaret Mead publishes Coming of Age in Samoa.
- 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.
- World Series: NY Yankees d. St. Louis Cardinals (4-0)
1928 Oscars: (First Year for the Oscars)
Outstanding Picture: Wings (Paramount Famous Lasky)
Best Actor: Emil Jannings, The Last Command & The Way of All Flesh
Best Actress: Janet Gaynor, 7th Heaven, Street Angel & Sunrise
Special Awards: To Warner Bros. for producing The Jazz Singer, the
outstanding pioneer talking picture, which has revolutionized the industry and to Charles
Chaplin for versatility and genius in writing, acting, directing and producing The Circus
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