" 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.

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.

In 1928, just a couple blocks east of Laurel Canyon, Mack Sennett created his 38 acre ( 15. 4 hm² ) Keystone Studios, which produced silent movies with stars such as Fatty Arbuckle, W. C. Fields, Stan Laurel, and the Keystone Kops.

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.

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.

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 ).

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, Prinknash Abbey was officially returned to the Benedictines after four hundred years.

Samson and Delilah, although pre-1950, has been retained by Paramount, as are all the DeMille / Paramount silent films produced before 1928, and all sound films produced after 1950 — television distribution for those films is handled by Trifecta Entertainment & Media.

New Corinth was rebuilt after a further earthquake in 1928 and again after a great fire in 1933.

In the United Kingdom, the Easter Act 1928 set out legislation to allow the date of Easter to be fixed as the first Sunday after the second Saturday in April ( or, in other words, the Sunday in the period from 9 to 15 April ).

Apparently Husserl and Heidegger had moved apart during the 1920s, which became clearer after 1928 when Husserl retired and Heidegger succeeded to his University chair.

The building was named after the ancient phrase of Hakkō ichiu ( literally " eight cords, one roof "), which had been attributed to Emperor Jimmu and, since 1928, has been espoused by the Imperial government as an expression of Japanese expansionism, as it envisioned to the unification of the world ( the " eight corners of the world ") under the Emperor's " sacred rule ", a goal that was considered imperative to all Japanese subjects, as Jimmu, finding five races in Japan, had made them all as " brothers of one family.

D. David Bourland, Jr. ( 1928 – 2000 ) proposed E-Prime as an addition to Alfred Korzybski's general semantics some years after Korzybski's death in 1950.

The city started to grow significantly after 1928.

In 1945 the Allies commanded full disarmament of the country, private ownership of firearms was not allowed until after 1956 when restrictions effectively returned to 1928 policy.

In 1928, Venizelos returned from exile and after a landslide victory formed a government.

An ottavino built by Arnold Dolmetsch in 1928, and modeled after a 1698 instrument by Joannes Carcassi.

While living in Echo Park, California, he enrolled at Los Angeles ' Manual Arts High School, from which he was expelled, after having been expelled from another high school in 1928.

Kuomintang Members pay tribute to the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum in Beijing in 1928 after the success of the Northern Expedition.

Regardless of what happened in 1921, Jardine's conflicts with Australia solidified after he was selected to tour the country in 1928 – 29.

Charlotte died of breast cancer in March 1928 after several operations.

* 1928 – sinks approximately off Hampton Roads, Virginia, killing at least 110 passengers, mostly women and children who die after the vessel is abandoned.

The first Deputy-Registrar was Paul Ruegger ; after his resignation on 17 August 1928, Julio Lopez Olivan was selected to succeed him.

Gordon in 1927 and 1928, had been enjoying a comeback, appearing on Broadway as Bobby in Maxwell Anderson's Saturday's Children, performing in a serious role after having been typecast for years as a " beautiful, but dumb " character.

Steiner immediately began work designing a second Goetheanum building – this time made of concrete instead of wood – which was completed in 1928, three years after his death.

In the late 1920s and 1930s, this idea gained some momentum ( along with other calendar reform proposals, such as the World Calendar ), and in 1928 a law was passed in the United Kingdom authorising an Order in Council which would fix the date of Easter in that country as the first Sunday after the second Saturday in April.