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 Olympic trials, Nurmi was left third in the 1, 500 m by eventual gold and bronze medalists Harri Larva and Eino Purje, and he decided to concentrate on the longer distances.

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 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 2008 Olympics, Vijender Singh Beniwal won a middleweight ( 75 kg ) bronze medal and Vikas Krishan Yadav boxer from Bhiwani district won a gold medal in the 2010 Asian Games in the Lightweight category.

At the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, Yeats ' painting The Liffey Swim won a silver medal in the arts and culture segment of the Games.

At the age of 15, Nurmi rekindled his interest in athletics after being inspired by the performances of Hannes Kolehmainen, who was said to " have run Finland onto the map of the world " at the 1912 Summer Olympics.

* 1960 – At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Abebe Bikila becomes the first sub-Saharan African to win a gold medal, winning the marathon in bare feet.

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 2008 Summer Olympics, seven of these events were for men while only three were for women.

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

* 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.

At the 1932 Winter Olympics, speed skating events were conducted in the mass start form.

At the 1988 Winter Olympics, held in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, short track was a demonstration sport.

At the 2002 Winter Olympics, she became the inaugural women's skeleton champion.

At the time of the Games food, petrol and building rationing was still in place in Britain ; because of this the 1948 Olympics came to be known as the " Austerity Games ".

At the July 1968 games, Shriver announced the formation of Special Olympics.

At the upper levels, tests for International competitions, including the Olympics, are issued under the auspices of the Federation Equestre Internationale.

At the 1896 and 2004 Summer Olympics, Marathon was the starting point of the marathon races ( for both women and men in 2004 ).

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens the Colosseum was replaced by a depiction of the Panathinaiko Stadium

At the 1900 Summer Olympics, it hosted the rowing, swimming, and water polo events.

At the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, Gabriel performed John Lennon's " Imagine " during the opening of the festivities on 10 February 2006.