" 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.

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.

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.

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.

His governments were accused of being corrupt even before he even took power in 1928.

Many prominent figures testified in that trial, including members of the parliamentary committee investigating the reasons for the defeat, so some of its results were made public long before the publication of the committee report in 1928.

The psychologist Edward B. Titchener in his book 1928 A Textbook of Psychology, explained déjà vu as caused by a person having a brief glimpse of an object or situation, before the brain has completed " constructing " a full conscious perception of the experience.

The relationship between England and FIFA became strained and this resulted in their departure from FIFA in 1928, before rejoining in 1946.

Other early synthesizers included Thaddeus Cahill's Dynamophone or Telharmononium ( before 1907 ), Jorg Mager's Spherophone ( 1924 ) and Partiturophone, the Theremin ( 1927 ), which was marketed by RCA, Taubmann's similar Electronde ( 1933 ), the Ondes Martenot ( 1928 ), Trautwein's Trautonium ( 1930 ).

* 1928 – Tich Freeman becomes the only bowler ever to take 200 first-class wickets before the end of July.

He had been in charge of American relief efforts in Europe after World War I before his election as President of the United States in 1928.

Of the Grand Slam tournaments, the US Open and Australian Open use hard courts ( though both used grass courts in the past, and the US Open used clay courts from 1975 through 1977 ), the French Open is played on clay ( though it too was played on grass before 1928 ), and Wimbledon has always been played on grass.

Astronomers before Eddy had also named the period after the solar astronomer Edward W. Maunder ( 1851 – 1928 ) who studied how sunspot latitudes changed with time.

Hoover and Smith had been widely known as potential presidential candidates long before the campaign of 1928, and both were generally regarded as of outstanding leadership quite apart from the office of president.

In 1928, before leaving for Göttingen, Curry married Mary Virginia Wheatley.

In 1935, decades before the introduction of the Compact Cassette, AEG released the first reel-to-reel tape recorder ( in German: Tonbandgerät ), with the commercial name " Magnetophon ", based on the invention of the magnetic tape ( 1928 ) by Fritz Pfleumer, which used similar technology but with open reels ( for which the tape was manufactured by BASF ).

On June 14, 1928, the summer before the start of his senior year, LeMay accepted a commission as a second lieutenant in the Field Artillery Reserve of the United States Army.

He obtained an apprenticeship at a garage in 1922, and after some hesitation over his employment, he stayed for six years, working as a car mechanic before returning home to start his own auto repair business in 1928 at the age of 22.

Chaplin's feature The Circus, released in 1928, was his last film before the motion picture industry embraced sound recording and brought the silent movie era to a close.

On the day of the 1928 Grand National, before the race had begun, Tipperary Tim's jockey William Dutton heard a friend call out to him: " Billy boy, you'll only win if all the others fall down!

There was once a ditch before the fence but this was filled in after a mêlée in the 1928 race.

The North African Party broke from the PCF in 1928, before being dissolved in 1929 at Paris's demand.

Originally set in Ula, the county seat moved to Rosita in 1878, and to Silver Cliff in 1886 before settling in Westcliffe in 1928.

The company was renamed Taylor Brothers Aircraft Corporation in April 1928, shortly before Gordon Taylor died in a airplane crash on April 24, 1928.