WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO MAY 1928
Find out what all happened January to May 1928

Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight. (21. March 1928)

Mickey Mouse premieres in his first cartoon, Plane Crazy (15. May 1928)

Charles Jenkins Laboratories of Washington, D.C. becomes the first holder of a television license from the Federal Radio Commission. (25. February 1928)

Boris Bazhanov defects through Iran. He is the only assistant of Joseph Stalin's secretariat to have defected from the Eastern Bloc. (1. January 1928)

The Bremen, a German Junkers W33 type aircraft, reaches Greenly Island, Canada - the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west. (14. April 1928)

C.V. Raman discovers the Raman effect. (28. February 1928)

In California, the St. Francis Dam fails; the resulting floods kill over 600 people. (12. March 1928)

The Bremen, a German Junkers W33 type aircraft, takes off for the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west. (12. April 1928)

The 125th and final fascicle of the Oxford English Dictionary is published. (19. April 1928)

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