( Still another song in `` Strike Up The Band '' -- `` I've Got A Crush On You '' -- was retrieved from a 1928 failure, `` Treasure Girl ''.

The first Academy Awards ceremony was held on May 16, 1929, at the Hotel Roosevelt in Hollywood to honor the outstanding film achievements of the 1927 / 1928 film season.

The original Oscar mold was cast in 1928 at the C. W.

Andy Warhol ( August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987 ) was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art.

Andy Warhol ( né Andrej Varchola, Jr .) was born on August 6, 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Winnie-the-Pooh was published in 1926, followed by The House at Pooh Corner in 1928.

A single Test was held at the Brisbane Exhibition Ground in 1928 – 29.

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

The stadium " Tivoli ", opened in 1928, served as the venue for the team's home games and was well known for its incomparable atmosphere throughout the whole of the second division.

After this initial chemotherapeutic compound proved effective, others pursued similar lines of inquiry, but it was not until in 1928 that Alexander Fleming observed antibiosis against bacteria by a fungus of the genus Penicillium.

The Africa Alphabet ( also International African Alphabet or IAI alphabet ) was developed in 1928 under the lead of Diedrich Westermann.

He was the third of the four children of farmer Hugh Fleming ( 1816 – 1888 ) from his second marriage to Grace Stirling Morton ( 1848 – 1928 ), the daughter of a neighbouring farmer.

In 1918 he returned to St Mary's Hospital, where he was elected Professor of Bacteriology of the University of London in 1928.

" 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.

Their work was published in 1928 after Carnegie's death in Hill's book The Law of Success ( ISBN 0-87980-447-5 ) and in 1937, Think and Grow Rich ( ISBN 1-59330-200-2 ).

In 1924 he was elected to the Bavarian state parliament for another party, in which he served as vice-president until 1928.

The novel was first published in November and December 1928 in the German newspaper Vossische Zeitung and in book form in late January 1929.

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

Alexis Korner ( 19 April 1928 — 1 January 1984 ) was a blues musician and radio broadcaster, who has sometimes been referred to as " a Founding Father of British Blues ".

James Avery Hopwood ( May 28, 1882-July 1, 1928 ), was the most successful playwright of the Jazz Age, having four plays running simultaneously on Broadway in 1920.

Angus was historically a county ( known officially as Forfarshire from the 18th century until 1928, when it reverted to its ancient name ) until 1975 when it became a district of the Tayside Region.

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

The school existed in three German cities ( Weimar from 1919 to 1925, Dessau from 1925 to 1932 and Berlin from 1932 to 1933 ), under three different architect-directors: Walter Gropius from 1919 to 1928, Hannes Meyer from 1928 to 1930 and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe from 1930 until 1933, when the school was closed by its own leadership under pressure from the Nazi regime.

An American in Paris is a symphonic tone poem by the American composer George Gershwin, written in 1928.

In 1928, MGM's art director Cedric Gibbons, one of the original Academy members, supervised the design of the award trophy by printing the design on a scroll.

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

* The House at Pooh Corner ( 1928 ) ( illustrated by E. H. Shepard )

* 1928 Alibi ( dramatised by Michael Morton from the novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd )

He appeared on the West End in 1928 in the play Alibi which had been adapted by Michael Morton from the novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.

* 1928 – The Kellogg-Briand Pact outlawing war is signed by the first 15 nations to do so.

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

Penicillin, the first natural antibiotic discovered by Alexander Fleming in 1928

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 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.

In 1928, BCG was adopted by the Health Committee of the League of Nations ( predecessor to the WHO ).

Boudica has been the subject of two feature films, the 1928 film Boadicea, where she was portrayed by Phyllis Neilson-Terry, and 2003's Boudica ( Warrior Queen in the US ), a UK TV film written by Andrew Davies and starring Alex Kingston as Boudica.

This Measure again was approved by large majorities in both the Convocations and the Church Assembly ; but a Resolution directing that it should be presented to His Majesty was defeated in the House of Commons on June 14, 1928 by forty-six votes.

The ensuing society scandal estranged Vreeland and her mother, who died in September 1928 in Nantucket, Massachusetts.

His most famous collaboration with Bertolt Brecht, The Threepenny Opera ( 1928 ), was both a scandal and an immense box-office success.

Because of the accusation of financial anomalies in his ministry associated with the secret armament of the Reichswehr ( the Phoebus scandal ) Gessler had to resign in January 1928.

In 1928, he was appointed Special Assistant Attorney General of New York, in which capacity he investigated a scandal involving sewer construction in Queens.