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1928
 
   
In only his third Test match, 20-year-old Australian cricketer Donald Bradman scores a century      
1928
 
     
Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali make Un Chien andalou, a surrealist film specifically designed to shock        
1928
 
     
Le Corbusier and other modernist architects set up the Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM)        
1928
 
    
'Pine Top' Smith records Pinetop's Boogie-Woogie, the first recording to be labelled boogie-woogie       
1928
 
    
Ninette De Valois creates her first ballet, Les Petits Riens, at the Old Vic       
1928
 
    
English psychologist Henry Havelock Ellis completes a thirty-year project, his 7-volume Studies in the Psychology of Sex       
1928
 
    
English sculptor Henry Moore receives his first public commission, for the headquarters of London Underground       
1928
 
    
An Aerial Medical Service is launched in Queensland, Australia, subsequently becoming the Flying Doctor Service       
1928
 
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Alvaro Obregón, the leading figure in Mexico's anti-clerical revolution, is shot by a Roman Catholic assassin      
1928
 
     
Beijing falls to Kuomintang forces, extending the rule of Jiang Jieshi's National Government into the north of China