Historical Events in 1928
58 curated events dated to this year, and 186 musicalized poets on V2Melody were alive then.
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1928
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Alexander Fleming Discovers Penicillin
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Lawrence publishes Lady Chatterley's Lover
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Claude McKay Publishes 'Home to Harlem'
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Hardy's Heart Buried with Emma, Ashes in Westminster Abbey
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Private Publication of Angels and Earthly Creatures Sonnets
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Publication of 'An Autumn Love Cycle'
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Publication of 'John Brown's Body'
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Publication of 'The House at Pooh Corner'
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Robinson's Second Pulitzer Prize
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Amelia Earhart crosses the Atlantic by aeroplane
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Countee Cullen Marries Yolande Du Bois
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Cullen is awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for study in France
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Death of Edmund William Gosse
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Edward Bernays Publishes 'Propaganda'
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Final Publication: 'The Last Poems'
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Imprisonment of Antonio Gramsci
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Muslim Brotherhood Founded
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Participation in the NAACP
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Publication of 'The Jazz Age'
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Publication of 'The Last of the English'
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Publication of 'The Tower'
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Publication of The Earth for Sale
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Publication of Zalka Peetruza and Other Poems
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Antibiotic Discovery Enhances Hygiene Practices
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CIAM Congress on Modern Architecture
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Cullen sails for France with his father and Harold Jackman
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Divorce from Edwin Pond Parker II
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Elinor Wylie's Final Months and Literary Preparations
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First Airplane Flight Over Antarctica
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First Commercial Use of the Geiger-Müller Counter for Prospecting
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First Flight of the Graf Zeppelin
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Industrial Sliced Bread Introduced
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Magnetic Tape Recording
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Meeting and Affair with George Dillon Inspiring 'Fatal Interview' (1928–1931)
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Relocation to New York City
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South African Old Age Pensions Act Passed
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Taggard Publishes Travelling Standing Still
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Trip to Europe and Work on The Bridge
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Birth of Second Son, Patrick Hemingway
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Coniston Massacre in Australia
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Cullen publishes The Ballad of the Brown Girl
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First Major Play Publication: A Myth of Shakespeare
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Jesse Owens Olympic Laurel by Wierzyński
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Kellogg-Briand Pact
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Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad
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Paradise Parrot Extinction in Australia
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Radburn New Jersey Garden Suburb Development
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Sliced bread invented by Otto Rohwedder in Chillicothe
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'Fishing Blues' First Recorded by Henry Thomas
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Dandridge calls the Cincinnati Post about Easter Sunday
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Fish Rain in Ireland
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Hardy's Brother Henry Dies
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Jaeger-LeCoultre Atmos Clock
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Mather Mine Explosion
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Turkish Language Reform Post-Ottoman
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Charmin Brand Introduction with Feminine Marketing
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First Branded Soft Toilet Paper Marketing
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The Great Earthquake of 1928 in Subukia Valley
Poets alive in 1928
186 poets
Poets in 1928
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