| January 1 | 1st U.S. air-conditioned office building opens, San Antonio |
| January 1 | Algemeene Vereeniging Radio Omroep (AVRO) begins broadcasting (Netherlands) |
| January 6 | Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Mortalium animos (against oecumene) |
| January 9 | Eugene O'Neill's "Marco Millions," premieres in New York City |
| January 10 | G/I Gershwin/Romberg/Wodehouse's musical "Rosalie," premieres in New York City |
| January 10 | Soviet Union orders exile of Leon Trotsky |
| January 12 | Philip Barry and Elmer Rice's "Cock Robin," premieres in New York City |
| January 17 | 1st fully automatic photographic film developing machine patented |
| January 23 | "Abenteuer of brave Soldier Schwejk" premieres in Berlin |
| January 28 | Christopher Hornsrud chosen Prime Minister of Norway at age 101 |
| January 30 | 1st radio telephone connection between Netherlands and US |
| January 30 | Bradman scores 134 not out (225 minutes, 13 fours) NSW vs. Vic |
| January 30 | Eugene O'Neill's "Strange Interlude," premieres in New York City |
| January 31 | Scotch tape 1st marketed by 3-M Company |
| February 7 | 1st solo England to Australia flight takes off (Bert Hinkler) |
| February 8 | 1st transatlantic TV image received, Hartsdale, New York |
| February 8 | Scottish inventor J. Blaird demonstrates color-TV |
| February 11 | 2nd Winter Olympic games opens in St. Moritz, Switzerland |
| February 19 | 2nd Winter Olympic games close at St. Moritz, Switzerland |
| February 19 | Canadian hockey team wins 3rd consecutive gold medal |
| February 22 | 1st solo England to Australia flight lands (Bert Hinkler) |
| March 1 | Paul Whiteman and orchestra record "Ol' Man River" for Victor Records |
| March 4 | "Bunion Run" race from Los Angeles to New York City begins; It is won by Andy Payne |
| March 5 | Karl Zuckmayer's "Der Hauptmann von Kopenick," premieres in Berlin |
| March 11 | Netherlands and Belgium tie 1-1 (soccer match in Amsterdam) |
| March 13 | 450 die in St. Francisquito Valley Dam burst (Calif) |
| March 13 | Rudolph Friml's musical "Three Musketeers," premieres in New York City |
| March 15 | Mussolini modifies Italy electoral system (abolishes right to choose) |
| March 19 | "Amos and Andy" debuts on radio (NBC Blue Network-WMAQ Chicago) |
| March 22 | Noel Coward's musical "This Year of Grace," premieres in London |
| March 27 | KGB-AM in San Diego, California begins radio transmissions |
| March 27 | U.S. Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson |
| March 27 | U.S. Mens Figure Skating championship won by Roger Turner |
| March 29 | Yeshiva College (now University) chartered (New York City) |
| April 1 | Chiang Kai-shek's army crosses Yang-tse |
| April 7 | 44-yr old New York Ranger General Manager Lester Patrick replaces his injured goaltender in a Stanley Cup game, and beats Montreal Maroons 2-1 |
| April 9 | Eugene O'Neill's "Lazarus Laughed," premieres in Pasadena |
| April 9 | Mae West's New York City debut in a daring new play "Diamond Lil" |
| April 9 | Top-Oss soccer team forms in Oss |
| April 9 | Turkey passes separation of church and state |
| April 12 | Assassination attempt on king Victor Emmanuel II of Italy |
| April 13 | 1st trans atlantic flight Europe-U.S. (Fitzmaurice-von Hunefeld-Kohl) |
| April 14 | Maddus Airlines starts 1st regular passenger flights between San Francisco and LA |
| April 14 | Stanley Cup: New York Rangers beat Montreal Maroons, 3 games to 2 |
| April 15 | Alioto's on Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco forms |
| April 19 | 32nd Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar of Mass in 2:37:07.8 |
| April 19 | Japanese troops occupies Sjantung-schiereiland |
| April 19 | Yankees are out of 1st place for 1st time since May 1926 |
| April 24 | Fathometer, which measures underwater depth, patented |
| April 25 | Buddy, a German Shepherd, becomes 1st guide dog for the blind |
| April 26 | Madame Tussaud's waxwork exhibition opens in London |
| April 30 | Cherkess Autonomous Region forms in RSFSR (until 1957) |
| May 1 | 6 children die and 10 injured by hailstones in Klausenburg, Romania |
| May 1 | Drunken fascist Erich Wichman attacks VARA-radio transmitter |
| May 1 | Lei Day begun (a Hawaiian celebration) |
| May 1 | Pitcairn Airlines (later Eastern) begins service |
| May 1 | Rotterdam soccer team Black White '28 forms |
| May 2 | KPQ-AM in Wenatchee WA begins radio transmissions |
| May 7 | England lowers age of women voters from 30 to 21 |
| May 7 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Thornton Wilder for (Bridge of San Luis Rey) |
| May 10 | WGY, Schenectady begins regular TV programming |
| May 11 | 54th Kentucky Derby: Chick Lang aboard Reigh Count wins in 2:10.4 |
| May 11 | 54th Preakness: Raymond Sonny Workman aboard Victorian wins in 2:00.2 |
| May 11 | 63rd British Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 292 at Royal St. George's |
| May 11 | General Electric opens 1st TV-station (Schenectady, New York) |
| May 12 | Mussolini ends woman's rights in Italy |
| May 14 | John McGraw is knocked down by a taxicab and suffers a broken leg |
| May 15 | Mickey Mouse made his 1st appearance |
| May 17 | 9th modern Olympic games opens in Amsterdam |
| May 19 | 51 frogs enter 1st annual "Frog Jumping Jubilee" (Angel's Camp, Cal) |
| May 19 | Explosion in coal mine in Mather, Pennsylvania, 195 die |
| May 19 | "Firedamp" explodes in Mather Pennsylvania coal mine killing 195 of 273 miners |
| May 22 | U.S. Congress accept Jones-White Merchant Naval Act |
| May 23 | Bomb attack on Italians embassy in Buenos Aires, 22 die |
| May 24 | Record 12 future Hall of Famers take the field, as Yankees beat A's 9-7 |
| May 24 | Umberto Nobile flies airship over North Pole again |
| May 25 | Amelia Earhart (as a passenger) is 1st woman to fly Atlantic Ocean |
| May 26 | A's commit 7 errors and lose to Yankees 7-4 |
| May 28 | Dodge Brothers Inc. and Chrysler Corp. merged |
| May 29 | Fritz von Opel reaches 200 kph in experimental rocket car |
| May 31 | 1st aerial cross of Pacific takes off from Oakland |
| May 31 | Charlie Hallows scores his 1,000th run of Cricket season |
| June 2 | Velveeta Cheese created by Kraft |
| June 8 | 1st U.S. to Australia flight lands (Sir Charles Kingford) |
| June 9 | 60th Belmont: Clarence Kummer aboard Vito wins in 2:33.2 |
| June 9 | Charles Kingsford-Smith and Charles Ulm are 1st to fly across the Pacific when they end their flight from California to Brisbane |
| June 11 | Alfred Hitchcock's 1st film, "Case Of Jonathan Drew," is released |
| June 12 | New York Yankee Lou Gehrig hits 2 triples and 2 home runs to be White Sox 15-7 |
| June 14 | Republican National Convention, met in KC, nominated Herbert Hoover |
| June 15 | Ty Cobb, 41, steals home for 50th and final time |
| June 17 | Amelia Earhart leaves Nfld to become 1st woman (passenger) to fly Atlantic (as a passenger in a plane piloted by Wilmer Stultz) |
| June 18 | Amelia Earhart becomes 1st female to fly across Atlantic Ocean |
| June 24 | 32nd U.S. Golf Open: Johnny Farrell shoots a 294 at Olympia Fields Ill |
| June 25 | New York Giant Fred Lindstrom ties record of 9 hits in a doubleheader |
| June 28 | Alfred E. Smith (NY-Gov) nominated for president at Dem Convention |
| June 28 | Friedrich Schmiedl attempted rocket mail in Austria (unsuccessful) |
| June 30 | Radio Service Bulletin lists radio stations call signs that are to be changed to conform with international standards |
| July 2 | British parliament accept female sufferage |
| July 3 | 1st color TV broadcast in London (John Logic Baird) |
| July 6 | 1st all-talking motion picture shown in New York (Lights of New York) |
| July 6 | Worlds largest hailstone 1 lbs (17') falls in Potter Nebraska |
| July 7 | 41st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats L de Alvarez (62 63) |
| July 7 | Edward Hamm of U.S., sets then long jump record at 25' 11" |
| July 8 | Phillies set record of errorless 25 inning doubleheader |
| July 10 | Senator Milt Gaston hurls record tying 14-hit shutout |
| July 12 | 1st televised tennis match |
| July 19 | King Fuad of Egypt grabs power/disbands parliament |
| July 21 | 1st woman to win an olympic gold medal - Halina Knonpacka of Poland |
| July 26 | Gene Tunney TKOs Tom Heeney in 11 for heavyweight boxing title |
| July 26 | Yankees score 11 runs in 12th beating Tigers 12-1 |
| July 27 | AVRO, General Vereniging Radio Omroep, forms |
| July 28 | 9th Olympic Games open in Amsterdam |
| July 29 | Cleveland Indians score 17 in 1st 2 inns to beat Yankees 24-6 at Dunn Field they also set a record with 24 singles in 1 game |
| July 29 | Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie" is released |
| July 30 | George Eastman shows 1st color motion pictures (U.S.) |
| August 1 | Babe Ruth hits HR # 42 and is 4 weeks ahead of his 1927 pace |
| August 2 | Mussolini signs peace treaty with Abyssinia, Ethiopia |
| August 3 | Ray Barbuti saves U.S. team from defeat in Amsterdam Olympics track events by winning 400 m (47.8 sec) |
| August 11 | Carl Hubbell's 1st major league victory is a 4-0 shutout of Phils |
| August 11 | Georges Ronsse becomes world champion cyclists |
| August 12 | 9th Olympic Games close in Amsterdam |
| August 13 | Soviet Union Spartacan Games begins |
| August 14 | Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's "Front Page," premieres in New York City |
| August 25 | Tri-City Rugby Football Union forms consisting of Moose Jaw, Regina and Winnipeg |
| August 27 | 16 die in a New York City subway's 2nd worst accident |
| August 27 | 42nd U.S. Womens Tennis: Helen W Moody beats Helen Hull Jacobs (62 61) |
| August 27 | Kellogg-Briand Pact, where 60 nations agree to outlaw war |
| August 30 | Jawaharlal Nehru requests independence of India |
| August 31 | Brecht and Weils "Dreigroschenoper" premieres |
| September 1 | Albania becomes a kingdom, with Zogu I as king |
| September 3 | Baseball Hall of Famer Ty Cobb got his 4,191th and final career hit |
| September 6 | U.S.S.R. signs Briand-Kellogg-pact |
| September 7 | Sophie Treadwell's "Machinal," premieres in New York City |
| September 9 | Silvio Cator of Haiti, sets then long jump record at 26' " |
| September 11 | 1st TV drama-WGY's Queens Messenger |
| September 11 | Ty Cobb last hitting appearance, pops out against Yankees |
| September 12 | Hurricane in Florida, kills 6,000 |
| September 12 | Katharine Hepburn's New York stage debut in "Night Hostess" |
| September 13 | KOH-AM in Reno NV begins radio transmissions |
| September 15 | 400 kg Fournier-albums (forged postage stamps) burn in Geneva |
| September 15 | Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin |
| September 15 | Cards set NL record of 18 men left on base beating Phillies 8-6 |
| September 15 | Stothard, Kalmar and Ruby's musical "Good Boy," premieres in New York City |
| September 16 | Hurricane hits West Palm Beach-Lake Okeechobee Florida; 3,000 die |
| September 17 | 48th U.S. Mens Tennis: Henri Cochet beats F T Hunter (46 64 36 75 63) |
| September 17 | Henri Cochet wins U.S. Tennis Open |
| September 17 | Hurricane hits Lake Okeechobee Florida drowning 1,800-2500 |
| September 17 | Pitcher Ray Boggs hits 3 batters in 1 inning |
| September 18 | Cards beat Phillies for 20th of 22 games in 1928 |
| September 18 | Juan de la Cierva flies 1st helicopter above Channel |
| September 19 | Mickey Mouse's screen debut (Steamboat Willie at Colony Theater New York City) |
| September 21 | "My Weekly Reader" magazine made its debut |
| September 24 | Cohan/Lardner's musical "Elmer the Great," premieres in New York City |
| September 27 | U.S. recognizes Nationalist Chinese government |
| September 28 | 1st recording session in Nashville (Warmack's Gully Jumpers) |
| September 28 | Juan de la Cierva makes 1st helicopter flight over English Channel |
| September 28 | New York Yankees clinch pennant #6 |
| September 28 | Prussia forbids speech from Adolf Hitler |
| September 28 | U.S. acknowledge Chinese government of Chiang Kai-shek |
| September 28 | Valentin Katayev's "Kvadratura Kruga," premieres in Moscow |
| September 29 | Cardinals win NL pennant with a 3-1 win at Boston |
| September 29 | New York Yankees (17) Tigers (28) set 9 inning hit record (45)-Tigers win 19-10 |
| September 30 | Le Sifflet publishes 1st precursor of Kuifje (Tintin) |
| September 30 | Leon Vanderstuyft of Belgium cycles record 76 mi 604 yds in 1 hr |
| October 1 | Leon Vanderstuyft of Belgium bicycled 76 miles 504 yards in 1 hour |
| October 1 | Paavo Nurmi runs world record 15m (46:49.6) |
| October 1 | U.S.S.R. launches its 1st 5 year plan |
| October 3 | French sun "Ondine" sinks returning to Toulon, drowning 42 |
| October 4 | 25th World Series begins, New York Yankees vs St. Louis Cardinals |
| October 4 | KPD begins petition against Germany building a battle fleet |
| October 6 | 11th PGA Championship: Leo Diegel at Five Farms CC Baltimore |
| October 6 | Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek becomes president of China |
| October 6 | Josip Broz (Tito) sentenced to 5 years in jail |
| October 7 | Paavo Nurmi runs world record 10 miles (50:15.0) |
| October 7 | Race Tafari Makonnen crowned king of Abyssinia |
| October 8 | Cole Porter and E Ray Goetz' musical "Paris," premieres in New York City |
| October 8 | Eastern Soccer League forms in U.S. |
| October 9 | Marcel Pagnol's "Topaz," premieres in Paris |
| October 9 | New York Yankees become 1st to sweep consecutive World Series |
| October 9 | New York Yankees sweep Cards in 25th World Series, Ruth hits 3 HR in game |
| October 15 | German dirigible "Graf Zeppelin" lands in Lakehurst, NJ |
| October 15 | Walter Johnson signs a 3-year contract to manage the Senators |
| October 16 | Mickey Cochrane wins AL MVP honors, edging Heinie Manush by 2 points |
| October 22 | China expels all Russian instructors and civil servants |
| October 22 | ESL Robinson's "Far-Off Hills," premieres in Dublin |
| October 22 | President Hoover speaks of "American system of rugged individualism" |
| October 28 | Bradman scores 131 NSW vs. Queensland, 212 minutes, 14 fours |
| October 28 | Indonesian child laws enfoced in Bahasa Indonesia |
| November 1 | 1st celebration of Author's Day |
| November 1 | Bradman scores a century each innings (131 and 133*), NSW vs. Qld |
| November 1 | Graf Zeppelin sets airship distance record of 6384 km |
| November 2 | Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 1st Symphony, L Stokovski premieres in Philadelphia |
| November 3 | Turkey switches from Arabic to Roman alphabet |
| November 4 | Jose Moncada elected president of Nicaragua |
| November 6 | Clevelanders vote to build a stadium with city bonds |
| November 6 | Herbert Hoover (R) beats Alfred E. Smith (D) for president |
| November 6 | Jacob Schick patents 1st electric razor |
| November 7 | Herbert Hoover (R) elected president |
| November 8 | George and Ira Gershwin's musical "Treasure Girl," premieres in New York City |
| November 10 | Hirohito ascended throne as Emperor of Japan |
| November 11 | France's 5th government of Poincare forms |
| November 11 | KXO-AM in El Centro California begins radio transmissions |
| November 11 | WGL-AM in Ft. Wayne IN begins radio transmissions |
| November 11 | WMT-AM in Cedar Rapids IA begins radio transmissions |
| November 11 | WOL-AM in Washington D.C. begins radio transmissions |
| November 12 | British steamer "Vestris" capsizes and sinks off Virginia, kills 110 |
| November 13 | Bradman scores 132* for NSW against MCC |
| November 17 | Boston Garden officially opens |
| November 17 | Notre Dame finally lost a football game after nearly 25 years |
| November 18 | Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse debuts in New York in "Steamboat Willie" |
| November 19 | 1st issue of Time magazine, Japanese Emperor Hirohito on cover |
| November 20 | Boston Gardens opens, Mont Canadiens beat Boston Bruins, 1-0 |
| November 20 | WGH-AM in Newport News Virginia begins radio transmissions |
| November 22 | "Bolero" by Maurice Ravel, 1st performed publicly (Paris) |
| November 26 | Paul Claudel's "Lepdrehumily," premieres in Dresden |
| November 26 | Philip Barry's "Holiday," premieres in New York City |
| November 30 | Test Cricket debut of Don Bradman, who scored 18 and 1 vs England |
| December 1 | CFL Grey Cup: Ham Tigers beats Regina, 30-0 at Hamilton |
| December 1 | Railroad museum opens in Utrecht, Netherlands |
| December 2 | Cardinals 1B Jim Bottomley is voted NL MVP |
| December 4 | Walter Donaldson and Gus Kahn's musical "Whoopee," premieres in New York City |
| December 5 | England defeats Australia by record 675 runs at Brisbane |
| December 5 | MW Miklas elected president of Austria |
| December 11 | Buenos Aires police thwart an attempt on President-elect Herbert Hoover |
| December 11 | NL President John Heydler proposes designated hitter for pitchers |
| December 12 | Nichols/Brownes "Wings over Europe," premieres in New York City |
| December 13 | Clip-on tie designed |
| December 13 | George Gershwin's "An American In Paris" premieres (New York City) |
| December 14 | 2nd Test Cricket Australia vs. England starts with Bradman 12th man |
| December 17 | John McGraw backs NL President John Heydler's designated hitter idea |
| December 19 | 1st autogiro (predecessor of helicopter) flight in US |
| December 20 | 1st internationsl dogsled mail leaves Minot, Maine for Montreal, Que |
| December 20 | Ethel Barrymore Theater opens at 243 W 47th St. New York City |
| December 23 | NBC sets up a permanent, coast-to-coast radio network |
| December 24 | George Abbott Theater (Adelphi, 54 St) opens at 152 W 54th St. New York City |
| December 25 | Christmas Day attendance at cricket MCG (Vic vs. NSW) 14,887 |
| December 25 | NSW (v Vic) go from 8-74 to 9-113 to be 9-367 at stumps |
| December 26 | Johnny Weissmuller announces his retirement from amateur swimming |
| December 26 | World record 10th wicket stand 307 (Kippax / Hooker) NSW vs. Vic |
| December 28 | Last recording of Ma Rainey, "Mother of the Blues," made |
| December 28 | Louis Armstrong makes 78 recording of "West End blues" |
