Alexis Korner ( 19 April 1928 — 1 January 1984 ) was a blues musician and radio broadcaster, who has sometimes been referred to as " a Founding Father of British Blues ".

The term was first coined by August Derleth, a contemporary correspondent of Lovecraft, who used the name of the creature Cthulhu — a central figure in Lovecraft literature and the focus of Lovecraft's famous short story The Call of Cthulhu ( first published in pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1928 )— to identify the system of lore employed by Lovecraft and his literary successors.

Samson and Delilah, although pre-1950, has been retained by Paramount, as are all the DeMille / Paramount silent films produced before 1928, and all sound films produced after 1950 — television distribution for those films is handled by Trifecta Entertainment & Media.

Kiyoshi Atsumi ( 渥美 清 Atsumi Kiyoshi ), born Yasuo Tadokoro ( 田所 康雄 Tadokoro Yasuo, 10 March 1928 in Tokyo — 4 August 1996 in Tokyo ), was a Japanese film actor.

* September 1928 — A jirga at Paghman, called by King Amanullah, the third loya jirga of his reign ( 1919 – 1929 ) to discuss reforms.

Thomas R. Bruce ( postmaster 1898 – 1928 ) was the first islander to design a postage stamp, the 1922 – 1937 George V ship-design — this significantly contributed to island revenues for several years.

In 1928 Slovenian Herman Potočnik ( 1892 – 1929 ) published his sole book, The Problem of Space Travel — The Rocket Motor ( German: Das Problem der Befahrung des Weltraums — der Raketen-Motor ), a plan for a breakthrough into space and a permanent human presence there.

It was an offshoot of the Communist Party of Peru — Bandera Roja ( red flag ), which in turn split from the original Peruvian Communist Party, a derivation of the Peruvian Socialist Party founded by José Carlos Mariátegui in 1928.

Disney went to New York in February 1928 to negotiate a higher fee per short and was shocked when Mintz told him that not only did he want to reduce the fee he paid Disney per short but also that he had most of his main animators, including Harman, Ising, Maxwell, and Freleng — but not Iwerks, who refused to leave Disney — under contract and would start his own studio if Disney did not accept the reduced production budgets.

Among those whom Jack fired were Rin Tin Tin ( in 1929 ) and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. — who had served as First National's top star since the brothers acquired the studio in 1928 — in 1933.

The knot's association with mountaineering — and with butterflies — originates from a 1928 article in Alpine Journal by C. E. I.

CBS was also hit, though not as severely: Paley's brilliant 1928 affiliate contract which had given CBS first claim on local stations ' air during sponsored time — the network option — came under attack as being restrictive to local programming.

According to the Weimar Republic 1928 Law on Firearms & Ammunition, firearms acquisition or carrying permits were “ only to be granted to persons of undoubted reliability, and — in the case of a firearms carry permit — only if a demonstration of need is set forth .” The Nazis replaced this law with the Weapons Law of March 18, 1938, which was very similar in structure and wording, but relaxed gun control requirements for the general population.

Orwell's Paris street, in the 5th arrondissement of Paris | 5th arrondissement: " tall old-fashioned windows and dark grey leaded roofs ; not far from the École Normale Supérieure — earlier in the twenties, Ernest Hemingway | Hemingway had lived only 500 yards from Orwell's street ; Elliot Paul was then still living in his own ' narrow street ', the Rue de la Huchette, in the same arrondissement down by the river near the Place Saint-Michel ; and once, at the Les Deux Magots | Deux Magots in 1928, Orwell thought he saw James Joyce.

* Italian — Modigliani, Amedeo ( worked mainly in France ): Pierrot ( 1915 ); Severini, Gino: Many works, including The Two Pierrots ( 1922 ), Pierrot ( 1923 ), Pierrot the Musician ( 1924 ), The Music Lesson ( 1928 – 1929 ), The Carnival ( 1955 ).

* French — Alain-Fournier: Le Grand Meaulnes a. k. a. The Wanderer ( 1913 ; Ganache the Pierrot is an important symbolic figure ); Champsaur, Félicien: Lulu ( 1901 ), Le Jazz des Masques ( 1928 ); Gyp: Mon ami Pierrot ( 1921 ); Queneau, Raymond: Pierrot mon ami ( 1942 ); Rivollet, Georges: " The Pierrot " ( 1914 ).

* 1928 — Howard Percy Robertson briefly mentions that Vesto Slipher's redshift measurements combined with brightness measurements of the same galaxies indicate a redshift-distance relation

* 1928 — Otto Diels and Kurt Alder discovered the Diels-Alder cycloaddition reaction for forming ring molecules.

Penicillin, the first natural antibiotic discovered by Alexander Fleming in 1928

After this initial chemotherapeutic compound proved effective, others pursued similar lines of inquiry, but it was not until in 1928 that Alexander Fleming observed antibiosis against bacteria by a fungus of the genus Penicillium.

Alexander Grothendieck (; ; born 28 March 1928 ) is a mathematician and the central figure behind the creation of the modern theory of algebraic geometry.

* 1928 – Alexander Bogdanov, Russian physician and philosopher ( b. 1873 )

In 1928, Alexander Fleming discovered the mold Penicillium.

Alexander was then in February 1928 promoted to colonel ( backdated to 14 May 1926 ) and was the next month appointed Officer Commanding the Irish Guards Regimental District and 140th ( 4th London ) Infantry Brigade in the Territorial Army a post he held until January 1930, when he again returned to study, attending the Imperial Defence College for one year.

In 1928 – 29, Harry Alexander bowled an early form of bodyline at the MCC tourists.

Maria Feodorovna ( 26 November 1847 – 13 October 1928 ), born Princess Dagmar of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, later styled Princess Dagmar of Denmark, was Empress consort of Russia as spouse of Emperor Alexander III.

The discovery of penicillin is attributed to Scottish scientist and Nobel laureate Alexander Fleming in 1928.

Examples are Ashenden or: the British Agent ( 1928 ) by W. Somerset Maugham, about counter-revolutionary British espionage against Bolshevik Russia, and The Mystery of Tunnel 51 ( 1928 ) by Alexander Wilson whose novels conveyed an uncanny portrait of the first head of the Secret Intelligence Service, Mansfield Smith-Cumming, the original ' C '.

* 1908: The term " stem cell " was proposed for scientific use by the Russian histologist Alexander Maksimov ( 1874 – 1928 ) at congress of hematologic society in Berlin.

* November 26 – Dagmar of Denmark, empress of Tsar Alexander III of Russia ( d. 1928 )

Other notable stage performances of Henry V include Charles Kean ( 1859 ), Charles Alexander Calvert ( 1872 ), Walter Hampden ( 1928 ), and Ty Jones ( 2011 ) in an all black cast.

In 1928 Georg, Count von Carlow, morganatic son of Duke George Alexander of Mecklenburg and commoner Natalia Vanljarskaya, became duke of Mecklenburg and heir to his uncle Duke Charles Michael.

* Mackenzie, Catherine C. " Alexander Graham Bell ", Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, p. 226, 1928.

Mach's positivism also influenced many Russian Marxists, such as Alexander Bogdanov ( 1873 – 1928 ).

* 1928 – Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin

* Powell, E. Alexander, Embattled Borders, London, 1928.

Also there, in 1928, Sir Alexander Fleming first isolated penicillin, earning the award of a Nobel Prize.

The hospital has an Alexander Fleming Laboratory Museum where visitors can see Fleming's laboratory, restored to its 1928 condition, and explore the story of Fleming and the discovery and development of penicillin through displays and video.

In 1928, when Stjepan Radić was assassinated in the Yugoslav parliament, a year before king Alexander would establish his dictatorship, Šufflay wrote Hrvatska u svijetlu svjetske historije i politike ( Croatia in the Light of World History and Politics ).

German was knighted in 1928, when the respect in which he was held by fellow-musicians was shown by the number of eminent musicians who attended the celebratory dinner, including Elgar, Sir Alexander Mackenzie, Sir Hugh Allen, Sir Landon Ronald and Lord Berners.

* Brady, Alexander, William Huskisson and liberal reform ; an essay on the changes in economic policy in the twenties of the nineteenth century, Oxford, OUP, 1928.