Discovery of Vitamin F
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1928 in United States of America
Explore 32 historical events and records for United States of America in 1928.
Historical records for United States of America in 1928
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February
April
Birth of James Garner
Birth of James Garner
Helen Dukas Becomes Assistant
Employs Helen Dukas as his secretary and assistant, beginning a long professional association.
May
Birth of Burt Bacharach
Birth of Burt Bacharach
July
Birth of Vera Rubin
Birth of Vera Rubin
August
Kellog-Briand Pact
65 states including Russia & the USA sign the Kellog-Briand Pact
Kellog-Briand Pact
Under the terms of the Kellog-Briand Pact war is outlawed & disputes must be settled peacefully. Devised by Frank Kellog & Aristride Briand. 65 states including Russia & the USA sign the Kellog-Briand Pact
Kellog-Briand Pact
Under the terms of the Kellog-Briand Pact war is outlawed & disputes must be settled peacefully
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Signs the pact renouncing war as an instrument of policy.
Legislation
War is outlawed & disputes must be settled peacefully
Pact between Kellogg-Briand Signatory Nations
65 states including Russia & the USA sign the Kellog-Briand Pact
September
Kellogg-Briand Pact
An act formulated by the League of Nations embodying the Pact is signed by 23 nations
Kellogg-Briand Pact
The Pact in implemented by the League of Nations
League of Nations
An act formulated by the League of Nations embodying the Pact is signed by 23 nations
Legislation
An act formulated by the League of Nations embodying the Pact is signed by 23 nations
November
Election
Wins 444 electoral votes to 87 for Alfred Smith. Elected President of the USA, wins 58% of the popular vote
President of USA
Elected President of the USA, wins 58% of the popular vote
Other events (month unknown)
Academy Award
Winner of the Academy Award for, "Two Arabian Nights"
Academy Award
Winner of the Oscar for Best Actor
Distant Parallelism Geometry
Introduces a geometry that preserves distant parallelism, adopting teleparallel structures as a new mathematical basis for attempts to unify gravity and electromagnetism.
Doctorate Under Karl Jaspers
Arendt completed her doctorate at Heidelberg under Karl Jaspers.
Einstein-Szilard Refrigerator Patent
Patent work with Leo Szilard advances an absorption refrigerator using electromagnetic pumping concepts.
Election
Supports the presidential nomination of Herbert Hoover
Hells Angels
Writes & directs "Hells Angels", the most expensive movie of its time at a cost of $3.8 million
Little America
Establishes the Little America base on the Ross Ice Shelf for the first Byrd Antarctic expedition
Marriage
Wallis Simpson marries Ernest Aldrich Simpson
Novae or Temporary Stars
Hubble publishes an Astronomical Society of the Pacific leaflet on novae, explaining the observational importance of temporary stars for the study of stellar systems and external nebulae.
Republican Ticket
Not renominated for Vice President when Charles Curtis joins Herbert Hoover's ticket.
Teleparallel Unified Field Programme
Develops the teleparallel unified-field programme, replacing ordinary Riemannian geometry with tetrad-based structures intended to encompass gravitation and electromagnetism together.
Teleparallel Unified Field Theory
Develops a unified-field approach using distant parallelism, also called teleparallel geometry.
USA announces that it will build the most powerful cruiser fleet
The USA announces that it will build the most powerful cruiser fleet in the World
Warren Easton High School Graduation
Shaw graduated from Warren Easton High School in New Orleans in 1928.
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