Ondes Martenot created by Maurice Martenot, 1928

Bernhardt had an affair with a Belgian nobleman, Charles-Joseph Eugène Henri Georges Lamoral de Ligne ( 1837 – 1914 ), son of Eugène, 8th Prince of Ligne, with whom she had her only child, Maurice Bernhardt ( 1864 – 1928 ).

* May 8 – Maurice Sendak, American author ( b. 1928 )

* Maurice Bloomfield ( 1855 – 1928 ), American philologist and Sanskrit scholar

Among those who can lay claim to fame, and who have either been born or lived in Beckenham or have had some important contribution to make to the town, there are show business people such as Bob Monkhouse ( 1928 – 2003 ); Julie Andrews ( 1935-); David Bowie ( 1947-), who lived at 42 Southend Road, Beckenham from 1969 – 1973 ; Peter Frampton ( 1950-); Wende Snijders ( 1978-), the Dutch singer ; and the actors Maurice Denham ( 1909 – 2002 ), and Simon Ward ( 1941 – 2012 ).

After studying with Maurice Emmanuel, he was awarded first prize for the history of music in 1928.

* Louis Vierne: Trois Improvisations for organ ( Notre-Dame-de-Paris, November 1928 ), transcribed by Maurice Duruflé ( 1954 ):

Maurice Ravel at the piano with Éva Gauthier in 1928 ; George Gershwin listens at right.

*-Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus, 1928

* The songs " Kingsford Smith, Aussie is Proud of You " and " Smithy " by Len Maurice ( 1928 ).

* Maurice E. Connolly ( 1881 – 1935 ), Queens Borough President from 1911 to 1928

Although the first scientific diving expedition in Australia was carried out by Sir Maurice Yonge to the Great Barrier Reef in 1928, most scientific diving did not start until 1952 when the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation began work to understand the pearl beds of northern Australia in 1957.

In 1928, Maurice Spector, while attending the Sixth Congress of the Comintern in Moscow, accidentally got hold of a copy of Trotsky's Critique of the Draft Programme of the Communist International, which criticised the position of Nikolai Bukharin and Joseph Stalin, and especially exposed the anti-Marxist theory of " socialism in one country ".

As a result of his trip to the Comintern Congress in 1928 where James P. Cannon and Maurice Spector accidentally saw Leon Trotsky's thesis criticizing the direction of the Comintern, Cannon became a Trotskyist and decided to organize his faction in support of Trotsky's position.

Maurice Spector, editor of the Communist Party newspaper The Worker, had been a Canadian delegate to the 1928 Comintern Congress in Moscow when he and American James Cannon inadvertently came across the suppressed platform of Trotsky's Left Opposition.

MacDonald supported the expulsion of Maurice Spector for Trotskyism in 1928.

Other members of The Eight were Arthur B. Davies ( 1862 – 1928 ), Ernest Lawson ( 1873 – 1939 ) and Maurice Prendergast ( 1859 – 1924 ), whose work diverged from the Ashcan School in style.

* Boléro, an orchestral work by Maurice Ravel, originally commissioned as a ballet score by danseuse Ida Rubinstein which premiered in 1928

* Emily Southwood Maurice ( ed, 1928 ) Octavia Hill: Early Ideals.

The play Wings over Europe ( 1928 ), with Maurice Browne, was a Broadway hit.

Plays on which he worked included Oscar Wilde's Salome ( 1906 ), Laurence Binyon's Attila ( 1907 ), King Lear ( 1909 ), Bernard Shaw's The Dark Lady ( 1910 ), Arnold Bennett's Judith ( 1916 ), Maurice Maeterlinck's The Betrothal ( 1920 ), Shaw's Saint Joan ( 1924 ), Macbeth ( 1926 ) and John Masefield's The Coming of Christ ( 1928 ).

Des poèmes et des essais ( 1928 ) with Maurice Beerblock, A. Beucler, Pierre Colle, Elie Gothchaux, Robert Honnert, Georges Hugnet, Mercédès de Gournay, Max Jacob, Jean de Menasce, Eugenio d ' Ors, Paul Sabon

* Maurice Bloomfield ( 1855 – 1928 )

The most elaborated plans were: the design of a Mundaneum ( 1928 ) and a World City ( 1929 ) by Le Corbusier in Geneva next to the palace of the League of Nations, by Victor Bourgeois in Tervuren ( 1931 ) next to the Congo Museum, again by Le Corbusier ( in collaboration with Huib Hoste ) on the left bank in Antwerp ( 1933 ), by Maurice Heymans in Chesapeake Bay near Washington ( 1935 ), and by Stanislas Jassinski and Raphaël Delville on the left bank in Antwerp ( 1941 ).

Ravel is perhaps known best for his orchestral work Boléro ( 1928 ), which he considered trivial and once described as " a piece for orchestra without music ".

Ravel at the piano, accompanied by Canadian singer Éva Gauthier, during his American tour, March 7, 1928.

After two months of planning, in 1928 Ravel made a four-month concert tour in North America, for a promised minimum of $ 10, 000 ( approximately $, adjusted for inflation ).

On April 8, 2008, the New York Times published an article suggesting Ravel may have been in the early stages of frontotemporal dementia during 1928, and this might account for the repetitive nature of Boléro.

The first experiments with a vocoder were conducted in 1928 by Bell Labs engineer Homer Dudley, who was granted a patent for it on March 21, 1939.

In general, modern yacht-racing contests are conducted according to the Racing Rules of Sailing, first established in 1928.

In 1928, an early demonstration of a new medium was conducted at the Westinghouse laboratories in East Pittsburgh.

For example, in 1928, Beecham conducted a recording of Messiah with modestly sized forces and controversially brisk tempi, although the orchestration remained far from authentic.

The first near-complete recording of the whole work ( with the cuts then customary ) was conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham in 1928.

He conducted the BNOC frequently over the next two years, and made his debut at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, with Madama Butterfly in 1928.

The San Francisco Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alfred Hertz made a few acoustical recordings early in 1925, then switched to electrical recordings in Oakland and San Francisco, California, continuing until 1928.

Agencies of the Norwegian government have conducted Hydrographic surveys of the waters of Svalbard throughout the 20th century, namely " Norges Svalbard-og Ishavsundersøkelser " since 1928, its successor, the Norwegian Polar Institute since 1948, and the Norwegian Hydrographic Service since 1984.

Except for the occupation by the Germans in World War II when the daily ceremony was conducted at Brookwood Military Cemetery, in Surrey, England, this ceremony has been carried on uninterrupted since 2 July 1928.

After he left Russia, he conducted an evening of his works in Paris in 1928.

From 1924 to 1933 he conducted the Stuttgart Philharmonic, and in 1928, Kurtz was enagaged by Anna Pavlova to accompany her dancing, which he did until her death in 1931.

Prof. D. M. Robinson of Johns Hopkins, under the American School for Classical Studies at Athens, conducted four seasons of work: in 1928, 1931, 1934, and 1939.

Coleridge-Taylor's work was later championed by Malcolm Sargent, who between 1928 and 1939 conducted ten seasons of a costumed ballet version of The Song of Hiawatha at the Royal Albert Hall with the Royal Choral Society ( 600 to 800 singers ) and 200 dancers.

Fairey conducted test flights at Northolt from 1917 until 1928 when the Air Ministry gave the company notice to vacate the aerodrome.

He contributed theories for analyzing social change in Western civilization as a confluence of civilization ( intellectual and technological ), social processes ( organizations ) and culture ( art, religion, and philosophy ). He went to St. Joseph's Convent in Bideford, Maine on 13 April 1928 He conducted empirical and historical analyses of the growth and geographical distribution of cities and capitalism.

He conducted in Riga from 1914 to 1916 and in Königsberg from 1928 to 1933, after which he left Germany in protest at the Nazi regime and worked in Switzerland.

* In 1928, Port Everglades was named through a contest conducted by several area women's groups.

To find a baby face that it believed would represent the new baby food best, the Fremont Canning Company conducted a contest in the summer of 1928.

In 1928, Stravinsky conducted a group of Parisian musicians in a recording of this suite for Columbia Records, which was released on a set of 12-inch 78-rpm discs.

From 1928 to 1933 Fang conducted guerrilla operations, enacted land reforms, established a base area in the border area of Jiangxi and Fujian provinces, and organized a section of the Chinese Red Army.

Ta ‘ ū is where the 23-year-old anthropologist Margaret Mead conducted her dissertation research in Samoa in the 1920s, published in 1928 as Coming of Age in Samoa.

He attended the lectures of Karl Korsch in Berlin in 1928 and conducted research at the Marx-Engels Institute in Moscow in the summer of 1929.

From 1928 to 1932 conducted the Concerts Pasdeloup and briefly held the directorship of the Opera d ’ Alger in 1929.

Vaillant conducted archaeological expeditions in the Southwest from 1921 to 1922 and 1922 to 1925, in Egypt from 1923 to 1924, and in Central America in 1926 and 1928 to 1936.