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1928
 
     
A second anti-Communist coup enables Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek) to set up a National Government in Nanjing        
1928
 
    
Stephen V. Benét publishes a verse narrative of the Civil War under the title John Brown's Body       
1928
 
    
English sculptor Barbara Hepworth has her first solo exhibition, at the Beaux Arts gallery in London       
Barbara Hepworth, photograph by Ida Kar, 1962
National Portrait Gallery, London

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1928
 
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Jomo Kenyatta becomes the editor of Muigwithania, the newspaper of the Kikuyu Central Association        
1928
 
     
Maurice Ravel writes Boléro as music for a ballet choreographed by Nijinska with designs by Benois        
1928
 
     
The Front Page, by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, has its premiere on Broadway        
1928
 
    
Russian author Mikhail Sholokhov publishes the first section of And Quiet Flows the Don       
1928
 
   
Australian police massacre Aborigines near Coniston in reprisal for a murder      
1928
 
    
Stalin achieves complete personal control in the USSR after removing all his rivals from the Politburo       
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