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| 1928 |
| | | Gershwin's orchestral work An American in Paris (with parts for four taxi-horns) has its first performance in New York | |
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| 1928 |
| | | Mickey Mouse makes his first appearance in Walt Disney's short animated film Steamboat Willie | |
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| 1928 |
| | | George Balanchine creates Apollo for Ballets Russes, to music by Igor Stravinksy | |
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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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