LIFE 1928
Historical Highlights from 1928 :
- Richard E. Byrd starts an expedition to Antarctic; returns in 1930.
- The first television is sold — a Daven for $75.
- Mickey Mouse appears in Steamboat Willie, the third Mickey Mouse cartoon released, but the first sound film.
- The Academy Awards are handed out for the first time.
- Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
- An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children’s Hospital, Boston.
- The first machine-sliced, machine-wrapped loaf of bread is sold in Chillicothe, Missouri.
- The 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane kills at least 2,500 people in Florida.
- The Ford River Rouge Complex at Dearborn, Michigan, an automobile plant begun in 1917, is completed as the largest integrated factory in the world.
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