At the 1928 Reichstag elections, the Nazis polled less than 2 % of the vote in Berlin compared with 33 % for the Social Democrats and 25 % for the Communists.

At the 1928 Summer Olympics, Nurmi recaptured the 10, 000 m title but was beaten to the gold in the 5, 000 m and the 3, 000 m steeplechase.

At the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam, Nurmi competed in three events.

At the 1928 Olympics, Kazimierz Wierzyński won the lyric gold medal with his poem Olympic Laurel that included a verse on Nurmi.

* June 29 – 1928 Democratic National Convention: At the Democratic National Convention in Houston, New York Governor Alfred E. Smith becomes the first Catholic nominated by a major political party for President of the United States.

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.

At 18, Margaretha answered an advertisement in a Dutch newspaper placed by Dutch Colonial Army Captain Rudolf MacLeod ( 1 March 1856 – 9 January 1928 ) who was living in the then Dutch East Indies ( now Indonesia ) and was looking for a wife.

A short Shakespearian opera, At the Boar's Head, followed quickly, although neither had the immediate popular appeal of A Moorside Suite for brass band of 1928.

At the 1928 Democratic National Convention, she received 31 votes from 10 states for vice president on the first ballot.

At the Sixth Congress in Moscow, Zhou had given figures indicating that, by 1928, fewer than 32, 000 union members remained who were loyal to the Communists, and that only ten percent of Party members were proletarians.

At the 1st Academy Awards ( 1927 / 1928 ), there were two directing awards — one for " Dramatic Direction " and one for " Comedy Direction ".

At that time, 800 m was generally considered too physically demanding for female contestants, and had been removed from the Olympic programme after 1928.

At the same time, Mao Dun participated in Chiang Kai-shek's Northern Expedition ( 1926 – 1928 ), the main purpose was to unite the country.

Harris said of him :" At a time when European archaeologists were preoccupied with regional sites and sequences, it was he who had the vision, the knowledge and the skill to construct the first prehistory of the whole continent ( 1925 ) and the first ordered and comprehensive account of the ancient Near East ( 1928 ).

At the Central Committee meeting held in July 1928, Bukharin and his supporters argued that Stalin's new policies would cause a breach with the peasantry.

At the end of 1928, he published his sole book, Das Problem der Befahrung des Weltraums-der Raketen-Motor ( The Problem of Space Travel-The Rocket Motor ) in Berlin.

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.

At the end of 1928 most of his teeth had to be removed and he began to suffer from the unremitting circulatory trouble which ended his life.

In 1927 and 1928 Tucholsky brought out his essayistic travelogue Ein Pyrenäenbuch (" A book on the Pyrenees "), the collection of articles Mit 5 PS (" At 5 hp ", meaning his name and his four pseudonyms ) and Das Lächeln der Mona Lisa (" Mona Lisa's smile ").

At a 1928 medical conference in Battle Creek, Michigan, Papanicolaou introduced his low-cost, easily performed screening test for early detection of cancerous and precancerous cells.

At birth he was consecrated a bishop by his grandmother in the Solomon's Temple, a congregation of the United House of Prayer For All People, founded by her in her home about 1928 in the Black Bottom section of West Philadelphia, after she had a vision indicating: " A child shall lead you.

At her Pickfair Studios she installed a sound stage in 1928, and began preparing for her first talkie.

( 1928 ) Paris, At the Sign of the Sundial.

At the age of 15 in December 1928, June eloped with Bobby Reed, a dancer in the act, much to her mother's displeasure, going on to a brief career in marathon dancing, which was more profitable than tap dancing at the time.

At one point she was training for a possible Olympic team spot.

At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, she won the Olympic title in the 800 m in a time of 1: 55. 54, a time which remained her personal best.

At the time of the hostage-taking, the 1972 Munich Olympic Games were well into their second week.

At 4: 30 a. m. local time on 5 September, as the athletes slept, eight tracksuit-clad members of Black September carrying duffel bags loaded with AKM assault rifles, Tokarev pistols, and grenades scaled a two-meter chain-link fence with the assistance of unsuspecting athletes who were also sneaking into the Olympic Village.

At the time of the revival of Olympic Games ( 1896 ), pankration was not reinstated as an Olympic event.

At the time, he led Armas Toivonen, the eventual Olympic bronze medalist, by six minutes.

At the 2000 Olympic Games, however, the duet competition was restored and is now featured alongside the team competition.

At the 1914 Olympic Congress, the delegates agreed to include ice speed skating in the 1916 Olympics, after figure skating had featured in the 1908 Olympics.

At the Olympic Games and World Championships qualification is determined by performance at the World Cup Classics events throughout the season.

At the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, she won the bronze medal.

At the 1999 World Championships, she lost the title again, finishing third, but in 2000 she won the only title missing in her career with a gold medal at the Olympic Games in Sydney.

At the 1994 Winter Olympics and the 1996 Summer Olympics, the nations that were part of the Unified Team started to make their Olympic debuts.

At the next Olympic Games, in Paris, France, in 1924, the ' two hands ' press and the ' two hands ' snatch were added to the programme, making a total of five lifts.

At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome she won three Olympic titles: the 100 m, 200 m and the 4 x 100 m relay.

At the Munich Olympic Games, Black September kidnapped and killed eleven Israeli athletes.

* November 6 – At Montevideo, Uruguay, the International Olympic Committee adopts a resolution, whereby Taiwan Olympic and sports teams will participate with the name Chinese Taipei in future Olympics Games and international sports tournaments and championships.

* July 2 – At the International Olympic Committee session in Prague, Vancouver, British Columbia is declared the host city for the XXI Olympic Winter Games in 2010.

At the time, the drug was not specifically listed in the IOC's list of banned substances, but the Olympic rules generally prohibit doping of any kind, in accordance with its charter.

At the Olympic Winter Games and World Championships, all competitions ( for both men and women ) consist of four heats.

At International and Olympic competitions, skaters are placed by gender only.