An essay in Knox's Essays in Satire ( 1928 ), " Studies in the Literature of Sherlock Holmes ", was the first of the genre of mock-serious critical writings on Sherlock Holmes and mock-historical studies in which the existence of Holmes, Watson, et al.

Committed now to a weekly time slot on Friday nights, the Players put on The Sign of the Four on November 9, starring Edward Smith as Sherlock Holmes ,< ref > Hartford Courant, “ Radio Radiations, Radio Interests Japanese Public ,” November 9, 1922, p. 14 ; Poughkeepsie Eagle-News, “ In the Air Today ,” November 9, 1928, Case Six ; McLeod, Elizabeth, The WGY Players and the Birth of Radio Drama < www. midcoast. com /~ lizmcl / wgy. html >; King, R. R., The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes and the 1920s Radio Drama, Radio Recall, June 2008 < www. mwotrc. com / rr2008_06 / holmes. htm >.</ ref > and the world ’ s only consulting detective joined the growing number of “ disembodied voices floating through electromagnetic heaven .” The WGY Players did forty-three dramatizations that first season and the series gained national attention.

Andy Warhol ( né Andrej Varchola, Jr .) was born on August 6, 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The family plot of Damon Runyon in Woodlawn Cemetery ( Bronx, New York ) | Woodlawn CemeteryRunyon's marriage to Ellen Egan produced two children ( Mary and Damon, Jr .), and broke up in 1928 over rumors that Runyon had become infatuated with a Mexican girl he had first met while covering the Pancho Villa raids in 1916 and discovered once again in New York, when she called the American seeking him out.

D. David Bourland, Jr. ( 1928 – 2000 ) proposed E-Prime as an addition to Alfred Korzybski's general semantics some years after Korzybski's death in 1950.

* 1928 – Aloyisus Leon Higginbotham, Jr, American civil rights activist ( d. 1998 )

* 1928 – John Forbes Nash, Jr., American mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate

* 2010 – William H. Ginn Jr., American Air Force officer ( b. 1928 )

* 1928 – Hubert Selby, Jr., American author ( d. 2004 )

* John Forbes Nash, Jr. ( born 1928 ), American mathematician, 1994 Nobel Economics laureate, subject of the book and film titled A Beautiful Mind

* 1928 – Roscoe Robinson, Jr., first African American four-star Army general ( d. 1993 )

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.

* April 26 – Hubert Selby, Jr., American writer ( b. 1928 )

George Smith Patton Jr. was born in San Gabriel, California in 1885, to George Smith Patton Sr. ( 1856 – 1927 ) and his wife Ruth Wilson ( 1861 – 1928 ), daughter of Benjamin Davis Wilson.

* William Morrison Robinson, Jr., The Confederate Privateers ( Columbia, S. C .: University of South Carolina Press, 1928 ).

Eric Allan Dolphy, Jr. ( June 20, 1928 – June 29, 1964 ) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, flutist, and bass clarinetist.

Hubert " Cubby " Selby, Jr. ( July 23, 1928 – April 26, 2004 ) was a 20th century American writer.

Hubert Selby Jr. was born in 1928, in Brooklyn, New York City.

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.

John Forbes Nash, Jr. ( born June 13, 1928 ) is an American mathematician whose works in game theory, differential geometry, and partial differential equations have provided insight into the forces that govern chance and events inside complex systems in daily life.

" Bill " Hudspeth, Jr. ( October 13, 1928 — October 24, 2008 ) was a former mayor and water commissioner of Ozark.

Washington was the birthplace of Louisiana Governor Oramel H. Simpson, who served from 1926 until his defeat by the legendary Huey Pierce Long, Jr. in the 1928 Democratic gubernatorial primary.

* John Forbes Nash, Jr. ( born 1928 ), Nobel Prize-winning mathematician who was the subject of the film A Beautiful Mind.

* Alfred M. Gray, Jr. ( born 1928 ) was the twenty-ninth Commandant of the Marine Corps.

His first paper, published in 1928, was written when he was an undergraduate and coauthored by Giovanni Gentile Jr., a junior professor in the Institute of Physics in Rome.

Rockefeller Center was named after John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who leased the space from Columbia University in 1928 and developed it from 1930.

* McIndoe A. H .; Archives of Pathology ; 1928 ; V. 5 ; p. 23 ; Citation count: 260.

* McIndoe A. H .; Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine ; 1928 ; V. 6 ; p. 598 ; Citation count: 20.

Fruit and Nut was introduced as part of the Dairy Milk line in 1928, soon followed by Whole Nut in 1933.

Fruit and Nut was introduced as part of the Dairy Milk line in 1928, soon followed by Whole Nut in 1933.

In 1928, Cadbury's introduced the " glass and a half " slogan to accompany the Dairy Milk

In the first half of the 20th century the Olympic Winter Games were held three times in Alpine venues: the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France ; the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland ; and the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

* Winston ; Robert W. Andrew Johnson: Plebeian and Patriot ( 1928 ) online edition

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

His many plays included Nobody's Widow ( 1910 ), starring Blanche Bates ; Fair and Warmer ( 1915 ), starring Madge Kennedy ( filmed in 1919 ); The Gold Diggers ( 1919 ), starring Ina Claire ( filmed in 1923 as The Gold Diggers, in 1928 as Gold Diggers of Broadway and also as Gold Diggers of 1933 ); Ladies ' Night, 1920, starring Charlie Ruggles ( filmed in 1928 ); the famous mystery play The Bat ( with Mary Roberts Rinehart ), 1920 ( filmed in 1926, 1930 and 1959 ); Getting Gertie's Garter ( with Wilson Collison ), 1921, starring Hazel Dawn ( filmed in 1927 and 1945 ); The Demi-Virgin, 1921, also starring Hazel Dawn ; The Alarm Clock, 1923 ; The Best People ( with David Gray ), 1924 ( filmed in 1925 and as Fast and Loose in 1930 ), the song-farce Naughty Cinderella, 1925, starring Irene Bordoni and The Garden of Eden in 1927 ( filmed in as 1928 ).

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.

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.

The 1928 revised forms of Matrimony and Baptism were quite widely adopted, but those of other rites tended not to be ; the consequence, in practice, being very wide variation in liturgical practice from parish to parish, with very few churchmen adhering consistently to the strict observation of either the 1662 or the 1928 forms of worship.

Andrew R. Cobb also designed University of King's College buildings including the main building and chapel, 1928 ; dormitory, 1931.

Early films, including those from the silent era, which feature the station include Traffic in Souls ( 1913 ), which starred Matt Moore ; The Yellow Passport ( 1916 ), starring Clara Kimball Young ; My Boy ( 1921 ), starring Jackie Coogan ; Frank Capra's The Strong Man ( 1926 ), starring Harry Langdon ; We Americans ( 1928 ), starring John Boles ; The Mating Call ( film ), 1928, co-starring Thomas Meighan and Renée Adorée ; Ellis Island ( 1936 ), starring Donald Cook ; Paddy O ' Day ( 1936 ), starring Jane Withers ; Gateway ( 1938 ), starring Don Ameche ; Exile Express ( 1939 ), which starred Anna Sten ; I, Jane Doe ( 1948 ), starring Ruth Hussey and Vera Ralston, and Gambling House ( 1951 ), starring Victor Mature

# Darkest Hour is Just before the Dawn ( daily strips, October 1927-December 1929 ; Sundays 1928 )

Henderson's biggest hit songs included " That Old Gang of Mine " ( from the entries of Our Gang comedy shorts in the 1930's ), " Annabelle " ( both 1923 ), " Bye Bye Blackbird ", " Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue ", " I'm Sitting on Top of the World " ( all 1925 ), " The Birth of the Blues " ( 1926 ), " The Varsity Drag " ( 1927 ), " You're The Cream In My Coffee " ( 1928 ), " Button Up Your Overcoat ", " You Are My Lucky Star " " I'm A Dreamer, Aren't We All ", " Keep Your Sunny Side Up " ( 1929 ), " The Thrill Is Gone ", and " Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries " ( 1931 ).

Just before leaving for Europe in 1928, Tate described himself to John Gould Fletcher as " an enforced atheist ".

This revival added Kahn / Donaldson songs not in the original 1928 show: " My Baby Just Cares For Me " ( from the 1930 film version ), " Yes, Sir, That's My Baby ", and " You " ( lyrics by Harold Adamson ).

# Just Fakir-Ing It ( India, 1928 ) ( 10 January 1998 )

Just one week after the October 27, 1928, expulsion of Cannon, Shachtman, and Abern from the Communist Party the first issue of a new newspaper called The Militant rolled off the presses.

The group made hundreds of recordings between 1904 – 1928, including popular versions of hits such as " Sweet Adeline ", " By the Light of the Silvery Moon ", " Let Me Call You Sweetheart ", and " I Want A Girl ( Just Like The Girl That Married Dear Old Dad )".