* The Fourth Wall or The Perfect Alibi ( 1928 )

He appeared on the West End in 1928 in the play Alibi which had been adapted by Michael Morton from the novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.

He appeared in many West End plays in the following few years and his earliest successes on the stage were as Hercule Poirot in Alibi ( 1928 ); he was the first actor to portray the Belgian detective in this stage adaptation of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, and as William Marble in Payment Deferred, making his Lyceum Theatre ( New York ) debut in 1931.

:* 1928: Alibi adapted from the novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

The book formed the basis of the earliest adaptation of any work of Christie's when the play, Alibi, adapted by Michael Morton, opened at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London on May 15, 1928.

* German: Alibi ( Alibi ) ( since 1937 ), first edition in 1928: Roger Ackroyd und sein Mörder ( Roger Ackroyd and his Murderer )

These were followed by The Blue Train ( 1927 ), Alibi ( 1928, directed by Gerald du Maurier with Charles Laughton as Hercule Poirot ), By Candlelight ( 1928 ), and Journey's End ( 1929 ).

" The 1928 volume was set in the afterworld, " outside Heaven " and dramatised in fantastic form the cultural critique Lewis had developed in his polemical works of the period.

An American in Paris is a symphonic tone poem by the American composer George Gershwin, written in 1928.

In 1928, MGM's art director Cedric Gibbons, one of the original Academy members, supervised the design of the award trophy by printing the design on a scroll.

A partial formalization of the concept began with attempts to solve the Entscheidungsproblem ( the " decision problem ") posed by David Hilbert in 1928.

Winnie-the-Pooh was published in 1926, followed by The House at Pooh Corner in 1928.

* The House at Pooh Corner ( 1928 ) ( illustrated by E. H. Shepard )

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

The modern theory of antimatter began in 1928, with a paper by Paul Dirac.

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.

" When I woke up just after dawn on September 28, 1928, I certainly didn't plan to revolutionise all medicine by discovering the world's first antibiotic, or bacteria killer ," Fleming would later say, " But I suppose that was exactly what I did.

The Assyrian Levies were founded by the British in 1928, with ancient Assyrian military rankings such as Rab-shakeh, Rab-talia and Tartan, being revived for the first time in millennia for this force.

In Major League Baseball history, Ty Cobb had a record 4, 191 hits ( later revised to 4, 189 ) by 1928 in sports | 1928 ; Pete Rose would surpass it 57 years later, and finish with 4, 256 career hits.

The school existed in three German cities ( Weimar from 1919 to 1925, Dessau from 1925 to 1932 and Berlin from 1932 to 1933 ), under three different architect-directors: Walter Gropius from 1919 to 1928, Hannes Meyer from 1928 to 1930 and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe from 1930 until 1933, when the school was closed by its own leadership under pressure from the Nazi regime.

Until 1928 it was directed by a General Manager, after this time instead by a Governor elected by an internal commission of managers, with a decree from the President of the Italian Republic for a term of 7 years.

In 1928, BCG was adopted by the Health Committee of the League of Nations ( predecessor to the WHO ).

Boudica has been the subject of two feature films, the 1928 film Boadicea, where she was portrayed by Phyllis Neilson-Terry, and 2003's Boudica ( Warrior Queen in the US ), a UK TV film written by Andrew Davies and starring Alex Kingston as Boudica.

This Measure again was approved by large majorities in both the Convocations and the Church Assembly ; but a Resolution directing that it should be presented to His Majesty was defeated in the House of Commons on June 14, 1928 by forty-six votes.

Various Governors-General had previously served as governors of an Australian state or colony: Lord Hopetoun ( Victoria 1889 – 95 ); Lord Tennyson ( South Australia 1899 – 1902 ); Lord Gowrie ( South Australia 1928 – 34 ; and New South Wales 1935 – 36 ); Major General Michael Jeffery ( Western Australia 1993 – 2000 ); Quentin Bryce ( Queensland 2003 – 08 ).

* 1928 – Michael Craig, British actor

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.

* Michael Howard ( fencer ) ( born 1928 ), British Olympic fencer

* Joseph Jackson, born in Fountain Hill, 1928, father of the King of Pop Michael Jackson.

It entered into long term relationships with British manufacturers, and sold clothes and food under the " St Michael " brand, that was introduced 1928 ).

He was the brother of director Michael O ' Herlihy ( 1928 – 1997 ) and the father of actor Gavan O ' Herlihy, visual artist Olwen O ' Herlihy, and architect Lorcan O ' Herlihy.

* Lady Chatterley's Lover ( 1928 ), edited by Michael Squires, Cambridge University Press, 1993, ISBN 0-521-22266-4.

* Karl Michael Vogler, an actor, was born in Remscheid in 1928.

It was under this constitutional framework that Michael Hainisch and Wilhelm Miklas assumed office on 9 December 1920 and 10 December 1928, respectively.

In the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, 1st Trinity managed to successfully defend the coxless-fours title ( Richard Beesly, Edward Bevan, John Lander, Michael Warriner ), with the United States getting silver and Italy receiving bronze.

* † Michael Joseph Crane ( 1921 – 1928 )

Veteran MP Timothy Michael Healy was the first Governor-General of the Irish Free State ( 1922 – 1928 ), an enlightened choice to bridge the gap between the old order and the new generation of Cumann na nGaedheal politicians, although highly partisan ( his nephew was Minister for Justice Kevin O ' Higgins ; Healy made a public attack on Fianna Fáil and Éamon de Valera, which led to republican calls for his resignation ).

St Michael was a brand that was owned and used by Marks & Spencer ( M & S ) from 1928 until 2000.

The brand was introduced by Simon Marks in 1928, after his father and co-founder of Marks & Spencer, Michael Marks.

Edward Michael " Mike " Harrington ( February 24, 1928 – July 31, 1989 ) was an American democratic socialist, writer, political activist, political theorist, professor of political science, radio commentator and founder of the Democratic Socialists of America.

Michael Harrington was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on February 24, 1928, to an Irish-American family.

* MacDonagh, Michael: The Life of William O ' Brien, the Irish Nationalist, Ernst Benn London ( 1928 )

* Fergus Michael Claude Bowes-Lyon, 17th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne ( 1928 – 1987 )-grandson of the 14th Earl, first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II and of the 16th Earl

******* Michael R. Paine b. June 25, 1928, NYC, m. Ruth Hyde Paine, Oswald family benefactors in whose garage family friend Lee Harvey Oswald stored his rifle and in whose home Marina Oswald lived

Michael Cottrell Brain ( b. 1928 )

* Michael Nolan, Baron Nolan ( 1928 – 2007 ), Law Lord and first chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life