March 2 » United States Steel Corporation is founded as a result of a merger between Carnegie Steel Company and Federal Steel Company which became the first corporation in the world with a market capital over $1 billion.
March 23 » Emilio Aguinaldo, only President of the First Philippine Republic, was captured at Palanan, Isabela by the forces of General Frederick Funston.
June 17 » The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT.
September 17 » Second Boer War: A Boer column defeats a British force at the Battle of Blood River Poort.
October 12 » President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the "Executive Mansion" to the White House.
Day of marriage May 11, 1928
The temperature on May 11, 1928 was between -2.0 °C and 13.0 °C and averaged 5.7 °C. There was 7.9 hours of sunshine (51%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
January 1 » Boris Bazhanov defects through Iran. He is the only assistant of Joseph Stalin's secretariat to have defected from the Eastern Bloc.
January 7 » A disastrous flood of the River Thames kills 14 people and causes extensive damage to much of riverside London.
March 12 » In California, the St. Francis Dam fails; the resulting floods kill 431 people.
September 18 » Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro crossing of the English Channel.
October 12 » An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston.
December 6 » The government of Colombia sends military forces to suppress a month-long strike by United Fruit Company workers, resulting in an unknown number of deaths.
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