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1928
The 20th Century Almanac · The Twenties

1928

Major Events · Sports · Music · Screen · Prizes

Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin, Walt Disney's Steamboat Willie introduced sound cartoons and Mickey Mouse, and Amelia Earhart crossed the Atlantic by air. Herbert Hoover won the presidency, and Broadway Melody-era Hollywood honored Wings as its first Best Picture.

A Year in Review
Best Picture
Broadway Melody
Nobel · Literature
Undset
World Series
New York Yankees vs. St. Louis Cardinals
No. 1 Song
Top TV
Academy · Actor
Warner Baxter

Sports Highlights

Champions of 1928

Champions

Stanley CupN.Y. Rangers vs. Montreal Maroons Series: 3-2 US Open (Golf): Johnny Farrell Score: 294 Course: Olympia Fields CC Location: Matteson, IL
World SeriesNew York Yankees vs. St. Louis Cardinals Series: 4-0 Olympic Games: See the results

Academy Awards

Honoring 1928
Best Picture
Broadway Melody
Best Director
Frank Lloyd
The Divine Lady
Best Actor
Warner Baxter
In Old Arizona
Best Actress
Mary Pickford
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Nobel & Pulitzer Prizes

The year in letters & science

Nobel Prizes

Chemistry
WINDAUS, ADOLF OTTO REINHOLD, Germany, Goettingen University, b. 1876, d. 1959: "for the services rendered through his research into the constitution of the sterols and their connection with the vitamins"
Literature
UNDSET, SIGRID, Norway, b. 1882 (in Kalundborg, Denmark), d. 1949: "principially for her powerful descriptions of Northern life during the Middle Ages"
Peace
The prize money for 1928 was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
Physiology or Medicine
NICOLLE, CHARLES JULES HENRI, France, Institut Pasteur, Tunis, b. 1866, d. 1936: "for his work on typhus"
Physics
RICHARDSON, Sir OWEN WILLANS, Great Britain, London University, b. 1879, d. 1959: "for his work on the thermionic phenomenon and especially for the discovery of the law named after him"

Pulitzer Prizes

Drama
Eugene O'Neill ... "Strange Interlude"
Fiction
Thornton Wilder ... "The Bridge of San Luis Rey"
History
Vernon Louis Parrington ... "Main Currents in American Thought"
Public Service
"Indianapolis Times"