1928

Eastern Bloc emigration and defection: Boris Bazhanov, Joseph Stalin's personal secretary, crosses the border to Iran to defect from the Soviet Union.

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

A bomb attack against Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini in Milan kills 17 bystanders.

Jinan incident: An armed conflict between the Imperial Japanese Army (allied with Northern Chinese warlords) and the Kuomintang's southern army occurs in Jinan, China.

South Africa adopts a new national flag, based upon the Van Riebeeck flag or Prinsevlag (originally the Dutch flag), to replace the Red Ensign. It later became infamously known as the "apartheid flag" for being the flag of South Africa under Apartheid from 1948 to 1994.

Puniša Račić kills three opposition representatives in the Yugoslavian Parliament, and injures three others, in a gun attack.

The first machine-sliced and machine-wrapped loaf of bread is sold in Chillicothe, Missouri, United States, using Otto Frederick Rohwedder's technology.

Al Smith accepts the Democratic nomination for the US presidential election, with WGY/W2XB simulcasting the event on radio and television.

The Okeechobee hurricane hits Guadeloupe, killing 1,200 people.

Arvid Lindman returns as Prime Minister of Sweden, with his right-wing rival Ernst Trygger as Foreign Minister of Sweden.

Turkey passes a law switching the country from the Arabic to the Latin-based modern Turkish alphabet.

Mickey Mouse makes his official debut in Steamboat Willie.