* 1928 – Dan Curtis, American director and producer ( d. 2006 )

* 2006 – Dan Curtis, American television producer and director ( b. 1928 )

Curtis ran for Vice-President with Herbert Hoover as President in 1928.

A widower when elected Vice President in 1928, Curtis had his half-sister " Dolly " Curtis Gann live with him in Washington, DC and act as his hostess for social events.

The country welcomes celebrities of Native American background, such as Will Rogers and Jim Thorpe, and elected a vice president with significant Native American ancestry, Charles Curtis, in 1928.

In 1928 he joined the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.

She took Gian Carlo with her, and in 1928 she enrolled him at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music, but she returned to Italy.

In 1928, Zimbalist began teaching at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.

He was a pupil of Leopold Auer from 1925 and studied at the Curtis Institute of Music from 1928 to 1936, continuing his studies with Efrem Zimbalist after Auer's death in 1930.

From 1928 to 1936, Landi was married to John Cecil Lawrence, and from 1943 to 1948, to Curtis Kinney Thomas ( 1905-2002 ).

* Charles Curtis ( botanist ) ( 1853 – 1928 ), an English botanist who became the first superintendent of the Penang Botanic Gardens

He was elected as a Republican to House of Representatives of the 60th Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation from body of Charles Curtis — who was elevated to the Senate ; Anthony was re-elected in this capacity to the nine succeeding Congresses and served in the House from May 23, 1907 to March 3, 1929 ; well known for co-introducing along with Senator Curtis in December 1923 the first rendition of the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution ; Chairman, Committee on Appropriations in the House during the 70th Congress ; was not a candidate for renomination in 1928 ; resumed his former business pursuits ; died in Leavenworth on August 4, 1931 ; interment in Mount Muncie Cemetery.

In 1928, he was a candidate for the Republican nomination for U. S. Vice President, yet was defeated by Charles Curtis, who would win with Herbert Hoover as President.

All through the teens and twenties, he built the Publix Theatres Corporation, a mighty chain of nearly 2, 000 screens, ran two production studios, and became an early investor in radio, taking a 50 % interest in the new Columbia Broadcasting System in 1928 ( selling it within a few years ; this would not be the last time Paramount and CBS crossed paths, as time proved ).

In 1928 he ran for the United States Senate and was defeated by Republican Otis F. Glenn, receiving 46 % of the vote.

After retirement, Burns promoted some boxing shows and in 1928 moved to New York City where he ran a speakeasy.

* A Broadway play by Patrick Kearney opened on 7 August 1928 at the Playhouse Theatre, where it ran for 48 performances.

In 1928 he again ran for governor, campaigning with the slogan, " Every man a king, but no one wears a crown ," a phrase adopted from Democratic presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan.

* Ignazio Vella ( 1928 – 2011 ) ran the Vella Cheese Company for many years and also served three terms on the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors.

It ran through central Duncan until 1928, when it was shifted to the south side of the tracks in order to eliminate grade-level crossings between Columbus and Grand Island.

Watson retired in 1928, and Curtin ran again, winning on the second count.

* Blackbirds of 1928 Broadway production opened at the Liberty Theatre on May 9 and ran for 518 performances

Dunn ran the Orioles until his death from a heart attack in 1928.

The original 1928 production ran on Broadway for 318 performances.

Nelson unsuccessfully ran for the United States Senate as a Republican in 1928 against Henrik Shipstead ( receiving 33. 4 % of the vote ), but won fourteen years later.

Brown ran as a Republican Party for the State Assembly in 1928, but lost ; he joined the Democratic Party in 1932.

He also wrote a number of books which ran into several editions, including Harry Lauder at Home and on Tour ( 1912 ), A Minstrel in France ( 1918 ), Between You and Me ( 1919 ), Roamin ’ in the Gloamin ’ ( 1928 autobiography ), My Best Scotch Stories ( 1929 ), Wee Drappies ( 1931 ) and

Including the London Bridge to East Croydon route electrified in 1928, by the end of 1929 the Southern operated over route miles () of 3rd rail electrified track and in that year ran 17. 8 million electric train miles.

Movietone News is a newsreel that ran from 1928 to 1963 in the United States, and from 1929 to 1979 in the United Kingdom.

Landes ran for a second term in 1928.

He agreed to support Simmons's favored candidate for Governor in 1924, Angus Wilton McLean, in exchange for Simmons supporting Gardner when he ran for Governor again in 1928.

Several segments of the Evanston Branch itself ran at street level until 1928, when it was elevated onto a concrete embankment between Church Street and the North Shore Channel.

The estate was purchased by the Patrician Brothers, a Roman Catholic teaching order who ran a much-loved school from the estate, and who in 1928 added a wing to the house.

Tolmie was elected leader of the British Columbia Conservative Party in 1926 but continued to sit as a Member of Parliament until the 1928 provincial election, in which he ran and was elected MLA for Saanich.

Andrews ran the Cardiff Road section in 1928, and offered to sell the tramway to Pwllheli Corporation at the end of the season, but they did not take up his offer.

Prior to the Olympiad, she ran the lead leg in the relay in the 1928 Olympic trials.

From there I turned left along Cumhuriyet Cadesi past more hotels and a park on the left, Republic Gardens, and came in a few moments to Taksim Square, one of the hubs of the city, with the Monument of the Republic, erected in 1928, in its center.

Gershwin brought back some Parisian taxi horns for the New York premiere of the composition, which took place on December 13, 1928 in Carnegie Hall, with Walter Damrosch conducting the New York Symphony.

A partial formalization of the concept began with attempts to solve the Entscheidungsproblem ( the " decision problem ") posed by David Hilbert in 1928.

Australia's ageing post-war team broke up after 1926, with Collins, Charlie Macartney and Warren Bardsley all departing, and Gregory breaking down at the start of the 1928 – 29 series.

Iuliu Maniu ( 1873 – 1953 ) was prime minister with an agrarian cabinet from 1928 to 1930, but the Great Depression made proposed reforms impossible.

The modern theory of antimatter began in 1928, with a paper by Paul Dirac.

His best-known discoveries are the enzyme lysozyme in 1923 and the antibiotic substance penicillin from the mould Penicillium notatum in 1928, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain.

On 3 September 1928, Fleming returned to his laboratory having spent August on holiday with his family.

The Assyrian Levies were founded by the British in 1928, with ancient Assyrian military rankings such as Rab-shakeh, Rab-talia and Tartan, being revived for the first time in millennia for this force.

In 1928, the club logo was introduced with the head of the Greek hero Ajax.

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 ).

An important period for the journal was 1928 – 1958 with Solomon Lefschetz as editor.

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.

Until 1928 it was directed by a General Manager, after this time instead by a Governor elected by an internal commission of managers, with a decree from the President of the Italian Republic for a term of 7 years.

" By 1928, Fuller was living in Greenwich Village and spending much of his time at the popular café Romany Marie's, where he had spent an evening in conversation with Marie and Eugene O ' Neill several years earlier.

Until 1928 all notes were " White Notes ", printed in black and with a blank reverse.