" 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.

A talented student, Friedman graduated from Rahway High School in 1928, just before his 16th birthday.

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.

In 1928, just 20 years old, she married her uncle Joan Gurguí, 14 years her senior, and in 1929 she had her only child, Jordi.

With Gwynn having 3, 141 hits, it was just the second time in Major League history that a pair of teammates each had 3, 000 career hits ; Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker had previously played many games together for the 1928 A's.

After achieving second place in a 1928 cartoon contest, the 23-year-old Gottfredson moved to Southern California with his wife and family, just before Christmas.

The large Routemaster tyres were moulded and cured, just to the south on the Great West Road in Brentford by the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company whose factory was opened there in 1928.

In 1928, just before the onset of the Great Depression, Illinois State Highway 74 ( later Illinois Route 26 ) was rerouted through the eastern part of Orangeville, bypassing the downtown business district.

The Jefferson County Fairgrounds were located in the area just off Bardstown Road from 1900 to 1928.

He auditioned for Victor Records, at just about the time ( end of 1928 ) it became RCA Victor.

In 1928, all circuits were replaced with committees or just completely abandoned.

Though he retired from public life in 1928, he continued to make his presence known in the army well into the Second World War, just before his death in 1942 ; at the time of his death, he was Queen Victoria's last surviving son.

On September 16, 1928 Orange held the 1927 NFL Champion New York Giants to just a 7-0 victory.

* 1928: William Horlick High School founded just north of Horlicks ' headquarters in Racine, Wisconsin.

The new period with Kreuger lasted until around 1928 ; after that they just met occasionally.

Groener, who regarded Schleicher as his " adopted son ", openly favored Schleicher and created the Ministeramt ( Office of the Ministerial Affairs ) in 1928 just for him.

* Summit Conference ( 1928 ; depicts foreign ministers of France, Germany, Britain, Poland, Japan, and Italy just before they signed the Kellogg-Briand Pact )

Steichen purchased a farm that he called Umpawaug in 1928, just outside West Redding, Connecticut.

A string of recordings the pianist began in London in 1928, as well as public concerts, would have remedied the problem, however, both activities were cut short by an unexpected disaster: during a recording session on 17 June 1930, just after completing Chopin's E major Scherzo, the pianist suffered a severe stroke which left him partially paralysed.

This made the so-called " Hawaiian " guitar the first electric stringed instrument ( just a few years before Les Paul and Charlie Christian modified their instruments and after the theremin was patented in 1928 ).

In July 1928, the NMB formally retired the case and Randolph called off the strike just hours before it was scheduled to begin.

" In 1928, just after the era of talkies began, the role of the Second Avenue film row was consolidated by the erection of the terra-cotta-ornamented, art deco Film Exchange Building ( FEB, also known as the Canterbury Building ) designed by Seattle architect Earl W. Morrison ; it covered an entire block on the west side of Second Avenue, from Battery Street to Wall Street.

The new tunnel was started in December 1925, and was built in just over three years by A. Guthrie of St. Paul, Minnesota ; the aim was to finish by the winter of 1928 – 1929 so that further maintenance on deteriorating snow sheds could be avoided.

Designed by boxing promoter Tex Rickard, who also built the third iteration of New York's Madison Square Garden, it opened on November 17, 1928 as " Boston Madison Square Garden " ( later shortened to just " Boston Garden ") and outlived its original namesake by some 30 years.

New York Governor Al Smith ( who would become the Democratic Party's candidate for president in 1928 ) then threw out the first pitch directly into the glove of catcher Wally Schang rather than the customary couple of feet wide.

He married Marguerite Cerruti in September 1926, but the couple divorced in 1928.

The couple had a daughter, Lucille, in 1928, and the birth of Allan two years later completed the family group.

The couple had three children: Alan, in 1928, and twins Colette ( known as Celly ) and Colin in 1932.

The couple married September 21, 1928 in Port Chester, New York, in a private ceremony performed by Surrogate Judge G. A. Slater of Westchester County, New York.

The couple married in 1916 and had three children: Ingeborg Caroline Auguste Seyss-Inquart ( born 18 September 1917 ), Richard Seyss-Inquart ( born 22 August 1921 ) and Dorothea Seyss-Inquart ( born 7 May 1928 ).

A couple of " Mrs Pat "' s later significant performances were as the title role in the 1922 West End production of Henrik Ibsen's play Hedda Gabler and Mrs. Alving in the " Ibsen Centennial " ( 1928 ) staging of Ghosts ( with John Gielgud as her son Oswald ).

The couple moved to Los Angeles in 1928, settling into a home in Beverly Hills, where Harlean thrived as a wealthy socialite.

Joseph Bernardin was born on April 2, 1928 in Columbia, South Carolina to Joseph and Maria Simion Bernardin, an Italian immigrant couple.

Commager married author Evan Alexa Carroll ( b. Feb 4, 1904, d. Mar 28 1968 ) of Bennettsville, South Carolina on July 3, 1928 ; the couple had three children, Henry Steele Commager Jr., known as Steele Commager, who became an eminent classicist at Columbia University and wrote the leading book on the Roman poet Horace ; Elizabeth Carroll Commager ; and Nellie Thomas McCall Commager ( now Nell Lasch, wife of the historian Christopher Lasch ).

Mattingly married Gertrude L. McCollum, a teacher, in 1928 ; the couple had no children.

Abrikosov was born in Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR, on June 25, 1928, to a couple of physicians: Prof. Alexei Ivanovich Abrikosov and Dr. Fani Abrikosova, née Wulf.

In 1928 he was married to Avarilla Hildenbrand, and the couple had a son.

The couple had three children ; Wolfram ( born 25 May 1922 ), Götz ( 27 November 1925 ) and Ellen ( 15 February 1928 )

Shawn married Cecille Lyon ( 1906 – 2005 ) in 1928, and the couple had three children.

In 1928 he married Daisy Hartmann and the couple subsequently had two sons and four daughters.

The couple returned to Queensland, and in April 1928 Murray bought Glenlyon station, Richmond, a 74, 000 acre ( 29, 947 ha ) grazing property, where he lived for the rest of his life.

After dating for six weeks, the couple married on 6 March 1928, in an inn on the outskirts of Zwittau, Schindler's hometown.

The album was named after Björk ’ s favourite book, Story of the Eye, by Georges Bataille ( 1928 ), a very intense story about a young French couple involved in sexual perversions and violent behaviours.

The couple set off down the canyons of the Green and Colorado Rivers in October 1928, as a honeymoon adventure trip.

In 1928, the famous Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova visited Bombay and the Arundale couple went to her performance, and later happened to travel on the same ship as her, to Australia where she was to perform next ; over the course of the journey their friendship grew, and soon Rukmini Devi started learning dance from one of Anna's leading solo dancers, Cleo Nordi.

The couple married in 1928.

The couple had married on 7 July 1903, and were the subject of a 1928 biography by E. V. Lucas.

When the couple went back in 1928, they were invited by the Northeastern University in Shenyang.