* Mr Robert Menzies ( 20 December 1894 – 1928 )

Robert Menzies, MLC ( 1928 – 1929 )

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.

Menzies established himself in Hollywood with his elaborate settings for The Thief of Bagdad ( 1924 ), The Bat ( 1926 ), The Dove ( 1927 ), Sadie Thompson ( 1928 ), and Tempest ( 1928 ).

* Viveca Lindfors as Dr. Catherine Langford, whose father gave her the amulet depicting the Eye of Ra during the excavation of the Stargate in Giza in 1928.

The Representation of the People Act 1918 gave women householders the vote, but it would not be until 1928 that equal suffrage was achieved.

An earlier military Enigma machine had been captured by Polish Intelligence in 1928 ; Polish intelligence broke the Enigma code in 1932 and gave their findings to Britain and France in 1939, just before the German invasion of Poland.

Under the influence of this doctrine, and of Phenomenology, the Hungarian-born German sociologist Karl Mannheim ( 1893 – 1947 ) gave impetus to the growth of the sociology of knowledge with his Ideologie und Utopie ( 1929, translated and extended in 1936 as Ideology and Utopia ), although the term had been introduced five years earlier by the co-founder of the movement, the German philosopher, phenomenologist and social theorist Max Scheler ( 1874 – 1928 ), in Versuche zu einer Soziologie des Wissens ( 1924, Attempts at a Sociology of Knowledge ).

When Hauser delivered the new instrument Segovia had ordered, Segovia passed his 1928 Hauser to his U. S. representative and close friend Sophocles Papas, who gave it to his classical guitar student, the famous jazz and classical guitarist Charlie Byrd, who used it on several records.

In 1928, Justus P. Seeburg, who was manufacturing player pianos, combined an electrostatic loudspeaker with a record player that was coin operated, and gave the listener a choice of eight records.

They began work on the Mississippi River and Tributaries Flood Control Project in 1928, and the Flood Control Act of 1936 gave the Corps the mission to provide flood protection to the entire country.

The county gave the Republican candidate the highest percentage in the 1928, 1948, 1960, 1976, and 1988 Presidential elections.

In 1928, George Gamow derived what is now called the Gamow factor, a quantum-mechanical formula that gave the probability of bringing two nuclei sufficiently close for the strong nuclear force to overcome the Coulomb barrier.

When H. A. L. Fisher in 1928 gave the Raleigh Lecture on The Whig Historians, from Sir James Mackintosh to Sir George Trevelyan he implied that " Whig historian " was adequately taken as a political rather than a progressive or teleological label ; this put the concept into play.

In 1928 Gurudevan took part in the special meeting of the Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana Yogam at Kottayam and gave away registration certificates to the branch organizations.

" In 1928, the distinguished Italian violinist / composer Remy Principe ( 1889 – 1977 ) gave a recital in Bolzano, and auditioned Giulini ; he invited Giulini to study with him at Italy's foremost conservatory, the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome.

Walburga Stemmer ( March 1892 – October 1928 ) was a fruit-seller living in Weingarten ( Württemberg ) who allegedly had an affair with Erwin Rommel and gave birth to his daughter, Gertrud Stemmer ( later Mrs. Gertrud Pan ), on December 8, 1913.

The Dow Jones Industrial Stock Index had continued its upward move for weeks, and coupled with heightened speculative activities, it gave an illusion that the bull market of 1928 to 1929 would last forever.

In 1928, the park was included in the sale of the whole Grey estate, and was bought by local businessman and British United Shoe Machinery founder Charles Bennion who gave it in perpetuity to the people of Leicestershire.

Between 1928 and 1930, the Alexandru Vaida-Voevod National Peasants ' Party cabinet gave tacit assistance to the Guard, but Iuliu Maniu ( representing the same party ) clamped down on the Legion after July 1930.

His 1920 proof employed the axiom of choice, but he later ( 1922 and 1928 ) gave proofs using König's lemma in place of that axiom.

Milne ( 1928 ), thinking about stars, gave a definition of ' local thermodynamic equilibrium ' in terms of the thermal radiation of the matter in each small local ' cell '.

* Walburga Stemmer ( 1892 – 1928 ), German fruit-seller living in Weingarten ( Württemberg ) who allegedly had an affair with Erwin Rommel and gave birth to his daughter, Gertrud Stemmer ( later Mrs. Gertrud Pan ), on December 8, 1913.

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

Taylor gave $ 1. 5 million in 1928 to Cornell University for the construction of a new building complex for its Cornell Law School and Law Library.

In 1928, in fear of legal consequences, he gave up moonshining and opened a number of operations.

During heavy fighting on January 25, 1928, Pedroza's horse was killed, and José gave his horse to the general so that the battle could go on.

The " blues ", were founded on 29 August 1928 as an idea of the poet Marco Antonio Ponce and supported by Marco Antonio Rosa, and is a fusion of the disintegrated teams America, Honduras, Atlético and Aguila ; and being inspired by the Motagua River which in those days was being disputed between Guatemala and Honduras, thus gave rise to its name, and is nowadays one of the teams with most achievements, popular and oldest of Honduras.

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.

" When I woke up just after dawn on September 28, 1928, I certainly didn't plan to revolutionise all medicine by discovering the world's first antibiotic, or bacteria killer ," Fleming would later say, " But I suppose that was exactly what I did.

He also set up the School of Statistics in 1928, and, in 1936, the Faculty of Statistical, Demographic and Actuarial Sciences.

The family plot of Damon Runyon in Woodlawn Cemetery ( Bronx, New York ) | Woodlawn CemeteryRunyon's marriage to Ellen Egan produced two children ( Mary and Damon, Jr .), and broke up in 1928 over rumors that Runyon had become infatuated with a Mexican girl he had first met while covering the Pancho Villa raids in 1916 and discovered once again in New York, when she called the American seeking him out.

*, a Chatham-class light cruiser launched in 1912, decommissioned in 1928, and broken up for scrap

In 1928, Warner Brothers followed this up with another Jolson part-talkie, The Singing Fool, which was a blockbuster hit.

It reopened on 31 August 1928 as the Haus Vaterland, offering " The World in One House ," and could now hold up to 8, 000 guests at a time.

NBC set up the first permanent coast-to-coast radio network in the United States by 1928, using dedicated telephone line technology.

Baird then set up the Baird Television Development Company Ltd, which in 1928 made the first transatlantic television transmission, from London to Hartsdale, New York, and the first television programme for the BBC.

Several myths surround the woman, though it seems the first woman in black was actually a publicity stunt cooked up by press agent Russel Birdwell in 1928.

With the engine installation cleaned up, front cockpit faired over and a headrest fitted it flew into 8th place in the 1928 King's Cup race.

Oswald J. Smith ( 1889 – 1986 ), reared in rural Ontario and educated at Moody Church in Chicago, set up The Peoples Church in Toronto in 1928.

It was made as a silent film and given a test screening to a theater audience on May 15, 1928, but failed to pick up a distributor.

A few seasons later Bologna became champions of Italy for the second time in 1928 – 29 giving them a foothold in Italian football, building up a legacy, this was the last time the league was competed in the old system, Serie A was instated the following year.

In 1928 he set up a printing press and lettering workshop in Speen.

In 1928 he accepted a post in Bolivia as adviser to the Bolivian Army where he was given the rank of Lt-Colonel and took up his duties after six months ' acclimatisation and language tutoring.

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.

He grew up in Lamesa and graduated from Lamesa High School in 1928.

Theda Arnold, present ( 1979 ) Post Master has copies of the National Archives Records showing later post masters to include, S. J. Robb, 1889 ; Dement Brown, 1891 ; Martha A. LaGrange, 1892 ; Benjamin F. Yoder, 1893 ; Jerome S. Rice, 1895 ; Wiliam H. Beck, 1899 ; Oscar Yoder, 1901 ; Martha A. LaGrange, 1903 ; Martha A. Miskimins, 1904 ; William R. Kirlin, 1928 ; Verna Bess Coen, 1954 ( acting ); Dale E. Howery, 1956 ; Theda Arnold, 1972, up to present day.

The community got its name from the Little America motel which was purposefully located in a remote location as a haven, not unlike the base camp the polar explorer Richard E. Byrd set up in the Antarctic in 1928.

* David Roberts ( 1859 – 1928 ) the engineer who invented the caterpillar track, grew up in Great Boughton.

Miller then created his own automobiles, which shared the ' Miller ' designation, which, in turn, were powered by supercharged versions of his 2. 0 and 1. 5 liter ( 122 and 91 in³ ) engine single-seaters, winning four more races for the engine up to 1929 ( two of them, 1926 and 1928, in Miller chassis ).

Telford's brother Hugh, who lived in New Zealand, was asked to bid up to 190 guineas at the 1928 Trentham Yearling Sales.

In January 1928, the high school moved to North 23 and B street, leaving the seventh, eighth, and ninth grades to make up the junior high.