January 22 » Edward VII is proclaimed King after the death of his mother, Queen Victoria.
February 15 » The association football club Alianza Lima is founded in Lima, Peru, under the name Sport Alianza.
August 10 » The U.S. Steel recognition strike by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers begins.
September 7 » The Boxer Rebellion in Qing dynasty (modern-day China) officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.
September 17 » Second Boer War: A Boer column defeats a British force at the Battle of Blood River Poort.
December 10 » The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm on the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.
Day of marriage November 8, 1928
The temperature on November 8, 1928 was between 2.1 °C and 9.0 °C and averaged 5.5 °C. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (42%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
May 15 » Walt Disney character Mickey Mouse premieres in his first cartoon, "Plane Crazy".
June 18 » 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).
September 1 » Ahmet Zogu declares Albania to be a monarchy and proclaims himself king.
September 27 » The Republic of China is recognized by the United States.
October 12 » An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston.
November 1 » The Law on the Adoption and Implementation of the Turkish Alphabet, replaces the Arabic alphabet with the Latin alphabet.
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