WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO NOVEMBER 1928
Find out what all happened February to November 1928

The airship, Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States. (15. October 1928)

Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross. (9. June 1928)

Joseph Szigeti gives the first performance of Alfredo Casella's Violin Concerto. (8. October 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)

The President of the Republic of China, Zhang Zuolin, is assassinated by Japanese agents. (4. June 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)

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

New Vietnam Revolutionary Party is founded in Huế amid providing some of the communist party's most important leaders in its early years. (14. July 1928)

Tich Freeman becomes the only bowler ever to take 200 first-class wickets before the end of July. (27. July 1928)

Ahmet Zogu declares Albania to be a monarchy and proclaims himself king. (1. September 1928)

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

Sliced bread is sold for the first time (on the inventor's 48th birthday) by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri. (7. July 1928)

Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro crossing of the English Channel. (18. September 1928)

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

The Soviet Union introduces its First Five-Year Plan. (1. October 1928)

Declaration of the Youth Pledge in Indonesia, the first time Indonesia Raya, now the national anthem, was sung. (28. October 1928)

Sir Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin. (28. September 1928)

Chiang Kai-Shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China. (10. October 1928)

Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she is a passenger; Wilmer Stultz is the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic). (18. June 1928)

SS Vestris sinks approximately 200 miles (320 km) off Hampton Roads, Virginia, killing at least 110 passengers, mostly women and children who die after the vessel is abandoned. (12. November 1928)