- January 28
- Serbian-Croatian-Slavic government of Oezonowitsj falls. [1]
- January 29
- 4th German government of Wilhelm Marx forms. [1]
- January 30
- Left wins national election in Thüringen. [1]
- January 31
- International allies' military command in Germany disbands. [1]
- February 3
- Uprising against regime of General Carmona in Portugal. [1]
- February 8
- Belgian-Swiss treaty signed. [1]
- February 10
- US President Calvin Coolidge asks for second disarmament conference. [1]
- February 12
- British expeditionary army lands in Shanghai. [1]
- February 13
- Uprising against Portuguese regime of General Carmona defeated. [1]
- February 16
- US restores diplomatic relations with Turkey. [1]
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- February 18
- US and Canada begin diplomatic relations. [1]
- February 19
- General strike against British occupiers in Shanghai. [1]
- February 25
- Gdansk and Polish accord concerning traffic through Polish corridor. [1]
- March 5
- 1,000 US marines land in China to protect American property. [1]
- March 7
- Earthquake measuring 8 on Richter scale strikes Tango, Japan. [1]
- March 10
- Albania mobilizes due to threat of Serbian, Croatian and Slovenes. [1]
- Bavaria lifts ban on Adolf Hitler's speeches. [1]
- March 17
- US government doesn't sign League of Nations disarmament treaty. [1]
- March 19
- Bloody battles between communists and National-socialists in Berlin, Germany. [1]
- March 21
- Guomindang Army conquerors Shanghai as British marines flee. [1]
- March 24
- Dutch first Chamber condemns Belgian and Netherlands' Wielingen Treaty. [1]
- March 26
- Alfred Hugenberg purchases German film company UFA. [1]
- Gaumont-British Film Corporation forms. [1]
- March 29
- Henry O D Segrave races his Sunbeam car to a record 203.79 mph at Daytona; first auto to exceed 200 mph (322 kph). [1]
- April 1
- First automatic record changer introduced by His Master's Voice. [1]
- April 7
- Telephone lines are used for the first time to transmit a television signal, from Washington DC to New York City. The audience to the demonstration sees an image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover. [1] [457]
- April 9
- Italy and US anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti are given death sentences. [1]
- April 11
- Chilean General Carlos Ibáñez names himself president. [1]
- April 12
- General Chiang Kai-shek begins counter revolution in Shanghai. [1]
- April 14
- In Sweden, Volvo produces its first production line car, the Jakob, in Göteborg. The car has a 28-hp 4-cylinder engine, and costs 4800 kronor. About 200 are produced. The company name was chosen because it means "I roll" in Latin. [7] (April 11 [5])
- April 15
- Switzerland and USSR agree to diplomatic relations. [1]
- April 17
- Japan's Wakarsoeki government falls; Baron Tanaka becomes premier. [1]
- April 18
- Chiang Kai-shek forms anti-government in China. [1]
- April 25
- Spain routes 20,000 soldiers to Morocco (uprising Rifkabylen). [1]
- April 30
- Princess Juliana gets seat in Dutch Council of State. [1]
- May 1
- The first cooked meals on a scheduled flight are introduced on an Imperial Airways flight from London to Paris. [1] [5]
- May 2
- International Economic Conference (52 countries including USSR) opens. [1]
- Pulitzer prize awarded to Louis Bromfield (Early Autumn). [1]
- May 4
- First balloon flight over 40,000 feet (Scott Field, Illinois, USA). [1]
- Nicaragua agrees to a US-supervised presidential election in 1928. [1]
- May 8
- French aviators Charles Nungesser and François Coli take off from Le Bourget in biplane Oiseau Blanc, attempting to be first Atlantic crossing. (The aviators and plane disappear without a trace.) [1032.105]
- May 9
- Australian Parliament first convenes in new capital, Canberra. [1]
- May 11
- Louis B Mayer forms Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. [1]
- May 13
- "Black Friday" on Berlin Stock Exchange. [1]
- May 14
- "Ain't She Sweet?" hits #1 on the pop singles chart by Ben Bernie. [1]
- May 20
- At 7:52 AM, American pilot Charles Augustus Lindbergh takes off from New York in his Spirit of St. Louis Ryan monoplane to cross Atlantic for Paris. [1] [385.xvi]
- Saudi Arabia becomes independent of Great Britain (Treaty of Jedda). [1]
- May 21
- (10:22 PM) American pilot Charles Lindbergh in the Spirit of St. Louis monoplane lands at Le Bourget airfield near Paris, France, after first solo air crossing of Atlantic (33 hours 30 minutes). [1] [385.xvi]
- May 22
- 8.3 earthquake strikes Nan-Shan China, 200,000 killed. [1]
- May 26
- Ford Motor Company manufactures its 15 millionth Model T automobile. [1]
- May 27
- The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacturing the Model T automobile and begins retooling plants to make Model A's. [5]
- Japanese military intervenes in Chinese civil war. [1]
- Thomas Masaryk is elected Czechoslovakian president. [1]
- June 26
- The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island, New York, USA. [5]
- June 29
- Wallace Turnbull's variable-pitch propeller is first tested. [5]
- First manned flight from West Coast of USA arrives in Hawaii. [1]
- June 30
- Augusto Cesar Sandino issues his Manifesto Politico. [1]
- July 7
- First disc-jockey presentation of a batch of music recordings, by Christopher Stone, for BBC radio. [55.50]
- July 9
- Attorney William T Francis is named minister to Liberia. [1]
- July 10
- Kevin O'Higgins, Irish Free State Vice President, is assassinated. [1]
- July 16
- Augusto Sandino begins 5.5-year war against US occupation of Nicaragua. [1]
- August 4
- Peace Bridge between US and Canada is opened. [1]
- August 7
- Peace Bridge between US and Canada dedicated. [1]
- August 10
- US President Calvin Coolidge formally dedicates the Mount Rushmore site. [474.30] [684.68]
- August 21
- 4th Pan-African Congress meets (New York City). [1]
- September 5
- Universal Pictures releases the Oswald the Lucky Rabbit film Trolley Troubles to theaters in the USA. This is the first Oswald film release, a series created by the Walt Disney film studio. [5] [6]
- September 7
- The first fully electronic television system is achieved by Philo Taylor Farnsworth in San Francisco, California, USA. [1] [5] [457]
- September 18
- Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air in the USA (16 radio stations). [1] [5]
- October 6
- Warner Brothers releases film The Jazz Singer to theaters in New York City, the first commercially-successful motion picture with sound. [1] [6] [55.70] [457]
- October 23
- City of Netanya (Israel) founded. [1]
- November 3
- Tropical storm flooding kills 84 in Winooski River Valley (Vermont, USA). [1]
- November 9
- Giant panda discovered in China. [1]
- November 12
- Josef Stalin's faction wins All-Union Congress in USSR, Leon Trotsky expelled. [1]
- November 13
- The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicular tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City, in the USA. [1] [5]
- December 2
- Ford sells first Model A cars, in the USA, for US$385. [1]
- December 10
- "Grand Ole Opry" makes its first radio broadcast, in Nashville, Tennessee. [1]
- December 14
- Iraq gains independence from Britain, but British troops remain. [1]
- December 17
- US submarine S-4 sinks after collision, kills all 34 aboard. [1]
- December 30
- Japan dedicates first subway in the Orient (route under two miles long). [1]
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