Fifteen statuettes were awarded, honoring artists, directors and other personalities of the filmmaking industry of the time for their works during the 1927 – 1928 period.

Percy Bysshe Shelley composed a " Hymn of Apollo " ( 1820 ), and the god's instruction of the Muses formed the subject of Igor Stravinsky's Apollon musagète ( 1927 – 1928 ).

Andy Warhol ( August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987 ) was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art.

Leipzig, 1927 – 1928

* 1928 – James D. Watson, American geneticist, Nobel laureate

* 1851 – Edward Walter Maunder, English astronomer ( d. 1928 )

* 1928 – Hardy Krüger, German actor

* 1928 – Jean-François Paillard, French conductor

* 1928 – Hugh Hood, Canadian author ( d. 2000 )

* 1928 – The Kellogg-Briand Pact outlawing war is signed by the first 15 nations to do so.

* 1928 – Péter Boross, Hungarian politician, Prime Minister of Hungary

* 1928 – Mangosuthu Buthelezi, South African politician

* 1928 – Herb Moford, American baseball player ( d. 2005 )

* 1928 – Andy Warhol, American artist ( d. 1987 )

* 1928 – Bob Cousy, American basketball player

* 1928 – Dolores Wilson, American soprano ( d. 2010 )

* 1928 – Camilla Wicks, American concert violinist

Australia's ageing post-war team broke up after 1926, with Collins, Charlie Macartney and Warren Bardsley all departing, and Gregory breaking down at the start of the 1928 – 29 series.

A single Test was held at the Brisbane Exhibition Ground in 1928 – 29.

* 1928 – Malcolm Hilton, English cricketer ( d. 1990 )

* 1986 – Erik Bruhn, Danish ballet dancer, choreographer ( b. 1928 )

Iuliu Maniu ( 1873 – 1953 ) was prime minister with an agrarian cabinet from 1928 to 1930, but the Great Depression made proposed reforms impossible.

* 1928 – Cécile Aubry, French actress ( d. 2010 )

* 1928 – Henning Moritzen, Danish actor ( d. 2012 )

* Friedensreich Hundertwasser ( 1928 – 2000 ): artist and architect

** U. S. presidential election, 1928: Republican Herbert Hoover wins by a wide margin over Democrat Alfred E. Smith.

* August 2 – U. S. President Calvin Coolidge announces, " I do not choose to run for President in 1928.

The area around Bryce Canyon became a U. S. National Monument in 1923 and was designated as a national park in 1928.

* LaFayette L. Patterson ( 1888 – 1987 ), born near Delta, served three terms in the U. S. Congress from 1928 to 1933

* 1928 – Texaco becomes the first U. S. oil company to sell its gasoline nationwide under one single brand name in all 48 states ( 50 states after Alaska and Hawaii joined the Union in 1959 ).

Between 1942 and 1945, Wyler, who became a United States citizen in 1928, served as a major in the United States Army Air Forces and directed two documentaries: The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress ( 1944 ), the story of a Boeing B-17 and its U. S. Army Air Force crew, and Thunderbolt!

When Hauser delivered the new instrument Segovia had ordered, Segovia passed his 1928 Hauser to his U. S. representative and close friend Sophocles Papas, who gave it to his classical guitar student, the famous jazz and classical guitarist Charlie Byrd, who used it on several records.

After Segovia's debut tour in the U. S. in 1928, the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos composed his now well-known Twelve Études ( Douze études ) and later dedicated them to Segovia.

( Note: In Pennsylvania and Ohio, there have been many new 4-lane bypasses constructed on U. S. Route 30, so to follow the 1928 route of the Lincoln Highway, at times it is necessary to travel the old U. S. Route 30 alignments which travel through the center of the cities and towns along the route.

Huey Pierce Long, Jr. ( August 30, 1893 September 10, 1935 ), nicknamed The Kingfish, served as the 40th Governor of Louisiana from 1928 – 1932 and as a U. S. Senator from 1932 to 1935.

In 1928 a herd of bison were brought from the U. S. state of Montana to Big Delta, because they were thought to be threatened with extinction in the continental United States.

* Joseph Taylor Robinson-U. S. Senate Majority leader and Al Smith's running mate on the Democratic Ticket in the 1928 U. S. presidential election.

Wheeler Field was the site of several major historic aviation events prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, including the first nonstop Mainland-Hawai ' i flight in 1927 ; the great Dole Air Race from California to Hawai ' i ; the first trans-Pacific flight from the U. S. to Australia in 1928, and the first Hawai ' i-to-Mainland solo flight in 1935 by Amelia Earhart.

In 1928, the route became U. S. Highway 81.

Upon the advent of the federal numbered highway system in 1928, the Lincoln Highway through Ontario became U. S. Route 30.

* Tom Connally, U. S. Senator from 1928 to 1952 ; chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during World War II ; member of the United States House of Representative from 1918 to 1928

* Former U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson taught public school in Cotulla in 1928 for one year.

Other early Christian radio programs broadcast nationwide in the U. S. beginning in the 1920s – 1930s include ( years of radio broadcast shown ): Bob Jones, Sr. ( 1927 – 1962 ), Ralph W. Sockman ( 1928 – 1962 ), G. E. Lowman ( 1930 – 1965 ), The Lutheran Hour ( 1930 – present ), and Charles E. Fuller ( 1937 – 1968 ).

They include Minnesota v. Barber, 136 U. S. 313, ( 1890 ) ( striking down a Minnesota statute that required any meat sold within the State, whether originating within or without the State, to be examined by an inspector within the State ); Foster-Fountain Packing Co. v. Haydel, 278 U. S. 1 ( 1928 ) ( striking down a Louisiana statute that forbade shrimp to be exported unless the heads and hulls had first been removed within the State ); Johnson v. Haydel, 278 U. S. 16 ( 1928 ) ( striking down analogous Louisiana statute for oysters ); Toomer v. Witsell, 334 U. S. 385 ( 1948 ) ( striking down South Carolina statute that required shrimp fishermen to unload, pack, and stamp their catch before shipping it to another State ); Pike v. Bruce Church, Inc., supra ( striking down Arizona statute that required all Arizona-grown cantaloupes to be packaged within the State prior to export ); South-Central Timber Development, Inc. v. Wunnicke, 467 U. S. 82 ( 1984 ) ( striking down an Alaska regulation that required all Alaska timber to be processed within the State prior to export ).