* 1928 – Norman Brooks, Canadian singer ( d. 2006 )

Wallace Beery's notable silent films include Arthur Conan Doyle's dinosaur epic The Lost World ( 1925 ; as Professor Challenger ), Robin Hood with Douglas Fairbanks ( Beery played King Richard the Lionheart in this film and a sequel the following year called Richard the Lion-Hearted ), Last of the Mohicans ( 1920 ), The Round-Up ( 1920 ; with Roscoe Arbuckle ), Old Ironsides ( 1926 ), Now We're in the Air ( 1927 ), The Usual Way ( 1913 ), Casey at the Bat ( 1927 ), and Beggars of Life ( 1928 ) with Louise Brooks.

* Beggars of Life ( 1928 ) with Louise Brooks and Richard Arlen

A satirical presentation of the island's lesbian colony is made in Mackenzie's 1928 novel Extraordinary Women ( unrelated to the Dominican film of the same name ), inspired by the affairs of American painter Romaine Brooks ( in the novel, under the pseudonym of Olimpia Leigh ).

In both 1928 and 1930, Parnell defeated future U. S. Representative Brooks Hays of Little Rock in the Democratic primary.

Brooks Atkinson, the theatre critic for The New York Times, reviewed the 1928 Broadway production, and called it " a gorgeous spectacle " with " long stretches of excellent comedy ".

This mirrored a general growth of interest in poetry by African Americans including Gwendolyn Brooks ( born in 1917 ), Maya Angelou ( born in 1928 ), Ishmael Reed ( born in 1938 ), Vim Karénin, Nikki Giovanni ( born in 1943 ), and Detrick Hughes ( born in 1966 ).

Some of his most famous films concern the plight of women in German society, including The Joyless Street ( 1925 ) with Greta Garbo and Asta Nielsen, Geheimnisse einer Seele ( 1926 ) with Lili Damita, The Loves of Jeanne Ney ( 1927 ) with Brigitte Helm, Pandora's Box ( 1928 ), and Diary of a Lost Girl ( 1929 ), the last two starring American actress Louise Brooks.

On seeing Brooks as a circus performer in the 1928 Howard Hawks ' film A Girl in Every Port, director G. W. Pabst tried to get her on loan from Paramount Pictures.

The Excalibur automobile from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was a car styled after the 1928 Mercedes-Benz SSK by Brooks Stevens for Studebaker.

* Edmund Wright Brooks ( 1834 – 1928 ), Quaker philanthropist

In 1928, during the early years of Laurel and Hardy's partnership, Laurel and first wife Lois had a baby girl, also named Lois, who married actor Rand Brooks.

In the 1928 American children's book Freddy Goes to Florida ( formerly published as To and Again ) by Walter R. Brooks, Hank the farm horse draws an old phaeton that carries the animals and their treasure back from Florida to the Bean farm.

He was commissioned on June 9, 1928, as a second lieutenant of field artillery, then selected the Air Corps as his branch of service, commissioned 2nd lieutenant AC on September 8, 1928, when he entered flight training at Brooks Field, Texas.

Nana's bobbed haircut replicates that made famous by Louise Brooks in the 1928 film Pandora's Box, where the doomed heroine also falls into a life of prostitution and violent death.

The famous names in the ornithology of the Indian subcontinent during this era include Andrew Leith Adams ( 1827 – 1882 ), Edward Blyth ( 1810 – 1873 ), Edward Arthur Butler ( 1843 – 1916 ), Douglas Dewar ( 1875 – 1957 ), N. F. Frome ( 1899 – 1982 ), Hugh Whistler ( 1889 – 1943 ), H. H. Godwin-Austen ( 1834 – 1923 ), Col. W. H. Sykes ( 1790 – 1872 ), C. M. Inglis ( 1870 – 1954 ), Frank Ludlow ( 1885 – 1972 ), E. C. Stuart Baker ( 1864 – 1944 ), Henry Edwin Barnes ( 1848 – 1896 ), F. N. Betts ( 1906 – 1973 ), H. R. Baker, W. E. Brooks ( 1828 – 1899 ), Margaret Cockburn ( 1829 – 1928 ), James A. Murray, E. W. Oates ( 1845 – 1911 ), Ferdinand Stoliczka ( 1838 – 1874 ), Valentine Ball ( 1843 – 1894 ), W. T. Blanford ( 1832 – 1905 ), J. K. Stanford ( 1892 – 1971 ), Charles Swinhoe ( 1836 – 1923 ), Robert Swinhoe ( 1836 – 1877 ), C. H. T. Marshall ( 1841 – 1927 ), G. F. L. Marshall ( 1843 – 1934 ), R. S. P. Bates, James Franklin ( 1783 – 1834 ), Satya Churn Law, Arthur Edward Osmaston ( 1885 – 1961 ), Bertram Beresford Osmaston ( 1868 – 1961 ), Wardlaw Ramsay ( 1852 – 1921 ) and Samuel Tickell ( 1811 – 1875 ).

When he was three years old, his five-year-old brother, Malcolm Brooks Sousley ( November 24, 1923 – May 30, 1928 ), died due to appendicitis.

It was replaced by the 88th Observation Squadron, which moved from Brooks Field, Texas, to Fort Sill in Sept. 1928.

Brooks also appeared in Compton Mackenzie's Extraordinary Women ( 1928 ), a novel about a group of lesbians on Capri during World War I, as the composer Olympia Leigh.

Weil studied in Paris, Rome and Göttingen and received his doctorate in 1928.

In fact, in 1928 the King and Queen of Afghanistan received honorary degrees from Oxford University.

On May 29, 1928, Edison received the Congressional Gold Medal.

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

Her own Old Rhymes for All Times ( 1928 ) and The Lord of the Rushie River ( 1938 ), a tale about a girl who lives among swans on a riverbank, were critically well received.

Robeson received excellent reviews and, coupled with his performance in the 1928 London production of the musical Show Boat, went on to worldwide fame as one of the great black artists of the twentieth century, while Gilpin faded into obscurity.

Murnau's next two films, the ( now lost ) Four Devils ( 1928 ) and City Girl ( 1930 ), were modified to adapt to the new era of sound film and were not well received.

Dirac received the Nobel Prize for his previous 1928 publication of his Dirac Equation that predicted the existence of positive and negative solutions to the Energy Equation () of Einstein and the existence of the positron, the antimatter analog to the electron, with positive charge and opposite spin.

In 1928, Larsen published Quicksand, a largely autobiographical novel, which received significant critical acclaim, if not great financial success.

The city has received direct or near direct hits from hurricanes in 1928, 1947, 1949, 1964, 1965, 1979, 1992, 1999, 2004, and 2006.

The city charter received at that time was destroyed in the City Hall fire on January 1, 1928.

Though the film was not well received, William Cameron Menzies won the first Academy Award for Best Art Direction in 1928 for this film and Tempest, though the award was then called " Interior Decoration.

In 1928, Dior left school and received money from his father to finance a small art gallery, where he and a friend sold art by the likes of Pablo Picasso.

He did a research project with Linus Pauling as an undergraduate and received his Bachelor of Science degree in 1928 and his Master of Science degree in 1929, both from the California Institute of Technology.

From 1928 to 1930 while still a medical student, he organized and offered a special program to counsel high school students free of charge, with the participation of psychologists such as Charlotte Buhler, and paying special attention at the time when the students received their report cards.

Besserudkjernet was partially drained in 1928, but the hotels, which received their water from the lake, would not allow draining the following years.

In 1928, they found they enjoyed the reception their initial works received, and decided to expand the press to serve other authors, renaming the company the Black Sun Press, following on Harry's obsession on the symbolism of the sun.

In 1927 he received the Honorary Empire Prize for German Art and the Gold Medal of the City of Düsseldorf ; the National Gallery in Berlin acquired his painting The Bark and, in 1928, purchased his Self-Portrait in Tuxedo.

From 1922 to 1928 the British rank title used was that of colonel-commandant, with one crown and three ' pips ', a rank which, although reflecting its modern role in the British Army as a senior colonel rather than a junior general, was not well received and was replaced with brigadier after six years.

In 1928, as he rose in rank, he received the honorary title of Luang from King Prajadhipok and became Luang Phibunsongkhram.

In 1928, Abbandando was convicted of beating a New York City police officer and was sent to reform school in Elmira, New York, where he demonstrated skill at baseball and received the nickname " The Dasher ".

He received a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1928 " for his work on the thermionic phenomenon and especially for the discovery of the law named after him ".

By 1928, Tschaikovsky's claim had received interest and attention in the United States, where Gleb Botkin had published articles in support of her cause.

By 1928 all of China was at least nominally under Chiang's control, and the Nanjing government received prompt international recognition as the sole legitimate government of China.

In 1928 Icelandic authorities received a proposal from the ' Society of the Friends of Iceland ' Verein der Islandsfreunde in Vienna Austria, proposing to produce these stamps as a gift to Iceland for the Millenary celebrations.