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1928
• In March, Egyptian schoolteacher Hasan al-Banna forms the Society of Muslim Brothers, later known as the Muslim Brotherhood. • From 1 October, Stalin begins the first Five-Year Plan in the Soviet Union, aimed at developing the country's economy. • On 6 October, Chiang Kai-shek is elected president of China. • In the US presidential election on 6 November, the Republican candidate Herbert Hoover wins. • British scientist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin in London. Its use as an antibiotic is later made possible by the work of Howard Florey, Ernst Chain and Norman Heatley at Oxford during World War II. • German scientist Fritz Pfleumer invents magnetic tape. • In Berlin, Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's Die Dreigroschenoper (Threepenny Opera), the product of a left-wing bohemian milieu, is first performed. • American film-maker Walt Disney creates Mickey Mouse. European films include G W Pabst's Pandora's Box. • British novelist D H Lawrence publishes Lady Chatterley's Lover privately in Florence, but soon the book, with its scenes of explicit sex, is banned in several countries. • Anthropologist Margaret Mead publishes Coming of Age in Samoa, a study that has an impact on sexual mores in the West. |
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