" 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.

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.

At the end of 1928 the Austro-Hungarian rocket engineer Herman Potočnik set out a plan for a breakthrough into space and the establishment of a permanent human presence there.

An important sign of the anti-navalist mood of the country was the Reichstag elections of 1928 where one of the main issues was the " pocket battleship " programme, and the Social Democrats won the largest number of votes on a platform of killing the plan to build " pocket battleships ", and used the money on social programs instead.

When Kyrgyzstan became independent following the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991, there was a popular idea among some Kyrgyz people to make transition to the Latin alphabet ( taking in mind a version closer to the Turkish alphabet, not the original alphabet of 1928 – 1940 ), but the plan was never implemented.

The area is the home of landmark churches including Kirk in the Hills Presbyterian on Long Lake Rd ( Bloomfield Township ) and Christ Church Cranbrook Episcopal, consecrated in 1928 as part of George Booth's plan for the Cranbrook Educational Community.

This failed to respond to Transjordanian demands for a fully sovereign and independent state, a failure that led to widespread disaffection with the treaty among Transjordanians, prompting them to seek a national conference ( 25 July 1928 ), the first of its kind, to examine the articles of the treaty and adopt a plan of political action.

Opened in 1928, Bapst Library was named for the first president of Boston College ( Johannes Bapst, S. J., 1815 to 1887 ) and it was one of the few structures built according to Charles Donagh Maginnis ' original " Oxford in America " master plan.

Roughly adhering to the original plan of 1909, numerous colleges were established: Arts & Science ( 1909 ), Agriculture now called Agriculture and Bioresource ( 1912 ), Engineering ( 1912 ), Law ( 1913 ), Pharmacy now called Pharmacy & Nutrition ( 1914 ), Commerce now the N. Murray Edwards School of Business ( 1917 ), Medicine ( 1926 ), Education ( 1927 ), Home Economics ( 1928 ), Nursing ( 1938 ), Graduate Studies and Research ( 1946 ), Physical Education now called Kinesiology ( 1958 ), Veterinary Medicine ( 1964 ), Dentistry ( 1965 ), and School of Physical Therapy ( 1976 ).

" World conflicts made it impossible to hold to a strict five-year plan, but BWA has held 20 Congresses: London, 1905 ; Philadelphia, 1911 ; Stockholm, 1923 ; Toronto, 1928 ; Berlin, 1934 ; Atlanta, 1939 ; Copenhagen, 1947 ; Cleveland, 1950 ; London, 1955 ; Rio de Janeiro, 1960 ; Miami Beach, 1965 ; Tokyo, 1970 ; Stockholm, 1975 ; Toronto, 1980 ; Los Angeles, 1985 ; Seoul, 1990 ; Buenos Aires, 1995 ; Melbourne, 2000 ; Birmingham, England, 2005 ; and Honolulu, 2010.

The introduction of the first five year plan in 1928 led to a re-examination of the roles of Gosplan and VSNKh, the supreme state organization for management of the economy at this time.

In the end, several buildings and structures were built as part of the plan such as the Government of Ontario Building in 1926, the Princes ' Gates in 1927, and the Electrical and Engineering Building in 1928, but by the 1930s, the Beaux-Arts style faded in popularity.

At the 1928 convention of the ILGWU he first proposed that Sigman resign in favor of Schlesinger – a suggestion seen by many as part of a plan by Dubinsky to become the eventual head of the union.

The plan was altered in 1928 by General Fillonneau, who proposed to concentrate fortifications along potential invasion axes, rather than along a continuous line.

Distracted by a gang war with rival mobster Joe Aiello, a brief exile from Chicago, and the 1928 Republican primary election, Capone had to wait until the spring of 1928 to plan retaliation.

The origins of the plan went back to 1928 when Werner von Fritsch started working on it.

In 1928, Fritsch began work on the plan that became Fall Weiss, the invasion of Poland in 1939.

His first book, The Age of the Gods ( 1928 ), was apparently intended as the first of a set of five tracing European civilization down to the twentieth century ; but this schematic plan was not followed to a conclusion.

As a part of preparation for the Soviet Five-Year Plans in 1928 a Soviet delegation arrived in Cleveland to discuss with American consulting company Arthur G. McKee a plan to set up in Magnitogorsk a copy of the US Steel steel mill in Gary, Indiana.

As Adrian begins to plan the second oratorio The Lamentation of Doctor Faustus, in 1928, his sister's child Nepomuk is sent to live with him.

To counter the threat posed by the massive Soviet arms build-up since 1928, the year Joseph Stalin took power, the French government on 4 July 1930 conceived the plan to form a projection force capable of assisting its allies in the Cordon sanitaire.

* Tennessee Williams ' first published work is the 1928 short story " The Vengeance of Nitocris ", detailing the queen's careful plan for revenge.

In 1928, the company commissioned Patrick Abercrombie to draw up a development plan.

According to Dennis Gabor, the physicist Leó Szilárd tried in 1928 to convince him to build an electron microscope, for which he had filed a patent.

In 1928 Vickers-Armstrongs took over Supermarine as Supermarine Aviation Works ( Vickers ) Ltd and in 1938 all Vickers-Armstrongs aviation interests were reorganised to become Vickers-Armstrongs ( Aircraft ) Ltd, although Supermarine continued to design, build and trade under its own name.

Raeder did not care for the " pocket battleships " programme that had been launched in 1928, and much preferred to build large capital ships.

In 1928 the Cierva Autogiro Company contracted Parnall to design and build two machines to be designated C10 and C11 in the Cierva series, the C11 was later called the Parnall Gyroplane.

President Harry H. Flagler, of the Symphony Society, will be president of the merger. At the first joint board meeting in 1928, the chairman, Clarence Mackay, expressed the opinion that " with the forces of the two Societies now united ... the Philharmonic-Symphony Society could build up the greatest orchestra in this country if not in the world.

In 1928 the company started to build S8 and G14 models with eight-cylinder engines.

Some other improvements were to build a social area in 1928 and expand the stadium space with cement material in 1938.

Looking to move into automobile manufacturing, BMW bought the Automobilwerk Eisenach in 1928 and, with it, the rights to build the Dixi car.

The College of Liberal Arts admitted its first class of 12 students in 1928, after the trustees of the Drew Theological Seminary voted to accept a gift of $ 1. 5 million from brothers Arthur and Leonard Baldwin to build and endow such an institution, and to change the name of the institution to Drew University.

Stones from the bridge were used to build a monument in Wellington, New Zealand, to Paddy the Wanderer, a dog that roamed the wharves from 1928 to 1939 and was befriended by seamen, watersiders, Harbour Board workers and taxi drivers.

He was one of the commissioners appointed to build the state capitol 1874 ; in 1867 appointed clerk of Westchester County, but resigned after a short service ; made immigration commissioner by New York Legislature in 1870, but declined to serve ; member of boundary commission of the state of New York in 1875 ; had also been commissioner of quarantine and president of Court of Claims of New York City and commissioner of taxes and assessments for the city and county of New York ; defeated for Lieutenant Governor of New York on the Liberal Republican-Democratic ticket in 1872 ; candidate for U. S. Senator from New York in 1881, but withdrew after the 41st ballot ; declined nomination as a senator in 1885 ; but elected to the U. S. Senate in 1899, and re-elected in 1905, and served from March 4, 1899, to March 4, 1911 ; stumped the state of New York for John C. Frémont in 1856 and for Abraham Lincoln in 1860 ; delegate-at-large to Republican National conventions 1888-1904 and delegate to all following conventions, including 1928, being elected the day before he died ; made the nomination speeches for Harrison in 1892, Governor Morton in 1896, and Fairbanks in 1904 ; at the convention in 1888 received ninety-nine votes for the presidential nomination, and in 1892 declined an appointment as Secretary of State in Harrison's cabinet ; Adjutant of the 18th Regiment, New York National Guard, which served in the American Civil War, and later Colonel and Judge Advocate of the 5th Division, on the staff of Major General James W. Husted of the New York Guard, trustee of Peekskill Military Academy ; president of New York State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, of the Pilgrims Society from 1918 until his death, of the St. Nicholas Society, and of the Union League for seven years ( member since 1868 and elected honorary life member at the close of his presidency ); an officer of the French Légion d ' honneur ; vice president of New York Chamber of Commerce 1904-08 ( member since 1885 ).

" The Islamic Center of Polish Tatars " in New York City until recently had its own mosque in Brooklyn ( 106 Powers Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211 USA, originally build in 1928 ).

The Hotels Statler Company went on to build several other hotels after Statler's death in 1928.

The Hotels Statler Company went on to build several other hotels after Statler's death in 1928.

Amilcar Italiana manufactured some French Amilcar automobile models in Italy from 1925 to 1928 under licence granted in 1925 to Compagnia Generale Automobili S. A., of Rome to build cyclecars and in 1927 to Societa Industriale Lombardo Veneta Automobili of Verona.

Her attempts to build the library ’ s Braille collection were frustrated by the high price of the books and the difficulty of transporting them, but by 1928 the Library had a collection of six thousand Braille texts.

It was bought by the Liverpool Corporation in 1928 for £ 200, 000 ; the Corporation's intention was to build a complete self-contained satellite town ( this was at a time when the garden city movement was underway ).

In 1924 construction started to build an ' English seaside style ' amusement pier at Coogee Beach, on 24 July 1928, the pier was officially opened, reaching 180 meters out into the sea complete with a 1400 seat theatre, a 600 capacity ballroom, a 400 seat restaurant upstairs, small shops and a penny ( machine ) arcade.

The aircraft company was created in 1928 by British de Havilland Aircraft Company to build Moth aircraft for the training of Canadian airmen, and subsequently after the Second World War, designed and produced indigenous designs.

Monnette ’ s intention was to build capital for national expansion ; however in 1928 Monnette was approached by Amadeo Giannini, founder of the Bank of Italy, ( San Francisco, California ) who was interested in pursuing a merger with BoA.

Monnette ’ s intention was to build capital for national expansion ; however in 1928 Monnette was approached by Amadeo Giannini, founder of the Bank of Italy ( San Francisco, California ), who was interested in pursuing a merger with BoA.

They were welcomed into the Archdiocese of Detroit in 1928, where they able to build their first monastery in the country in 1938, now called St. Benedict of Oxford Priory.

In the 1920s the city of Akron purchased 800 acres ( 3. 2 km² ) of land at Botzum to build a sewage treatment plant, which opened in 1928 and remains there to this day.