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Top Song(s)
• Jimmie Rodgers - T For Texas
• Louis Armstrong - West End Blues
• Helen Kane - I Wanna Be Loved By You
• Pinetop Smith - Pinetop's Boogie Woogie
• Paul Robeson - Ol' Man River
Top Film(s)
• The Passion of Joan of Arc
• The Circus
• The Cameraman
• Steamboat Bill, Jr.
• The Crowd
Best Selling Book(s)
• All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
• Lady Chatterley's Lover - D.H. Lawrence
• Orlando - Virginia Woolf
• Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh
• Millions of Cats Wanda Gag
Famous Deaths
• January 29 – Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, British field marshal
• February 25 – Toribio Romo González, Mexican Roman Catholic priest, martyr and saint
• April 19 – Dorus Rijkers, Dutch sailor, savior of over 500 men, women and children
• June 2 – Otto Nordenskjold, Finnish and Swedish geologist, geographer and polar explorer
• June 14 – Emmeline Pankhurst, British women's suffrage campaigner
• July 30 – John Christopher Cutler, 2nd Governor of Utah
• August 30 - Wilhelm Wien, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• October 13 – Dagmar of Denmark, later Maria Fyodorovna, wife of Tsar Alexander III
• November 17 – Lala Lajpat Rai Indian independence movement leader
• December 17 – Eglantyne Jebb, British human rights activist, co-founder of Save the Children
Medical/Science/Technology
• The old Canaanite city of Ugarit is rediscovered.
• Frederick Griffith reports the results of Griffith's experiment, indirectly proving the existence of DNA.
• Alexander Fleming, accidentally rediscovers the antibiotic which he will call Penicillin.
• The concrete pump is invented by German Max Giese.
• Bubble gum is invented by Walter Diemer in the United States.
• Florian Cajori begins publication of A History of Mathematical Notations.
• John von Neumann publishes Zur Theorie der Gesellschaftsspiele, a text in game theory.
• An 'iron lung' medical ventilator is used for the first time, at Boston Children's Hospital.
• Magnetic tape is invented by German Fritz Pfleumer.
• British inventor John Logie Baird demonstrates the world's first color television transmission, using scanning discs.
Political Events
• January 16 – Calvin Coolidge becomes the last sitting U.S. president until 2016 to visit Cuba.
• February 20 – The Japanese general election produces a hung parliament.
• April 10 – The United States Republican Party primary elections in Chicago are preceded by violence.
• May 7 – Passage of the Representation of the People Act in the United Kingdom lowers the voting age for women from 30 to 21.
• June 4 – Olmstead v. United States decided in the Supreme Court.
• June 29 – At the 1928 Democratic National Convention in Houston, Al Smith becomes the first Catholic nominated.
• July 25 – The United States recalls its troops from China.
• August 22 – Alfred E. Smith accepts the Democratic presidential nomination.
• November 6 – U.S. presidential election, 1928: Republican Herbert Hoover wins.
• December 21 – The U.S. Congress approves the construction of Boulder Dam, later renamed Hoover Dam.
National Events
• January 12 – Murderer Ruth Snyder is executed at Sing Sing in Ossining, New York.
• March 12 – In California, the St. Francis Dam north of Los Angeles fails, killing 400.
• March 21 – Charles Lindbergh is presented the Medal of Honor for his first trans-Atlantic flight.
• April 28 – 28 inches of snow fall in southern-central Pennsylvania, United States.
• May 10 – The first regular schedule of television programming begins in Schenectady, New York.
• June 17 – Aviator Amelia Earhart starts her attempt to become the first woman to successfully cross the Atlantic Ocean.
• June 29 – Outerbridge Crossing and Goethals Bridge in Staten Island, New York is opened.
• September 1 – Richard Byrd leaves New York for the Arctic.
• September 16 – The 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane kills at least 2,500 people in Florida.
• October 12 – An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston.
Worldwide Events
• January 26 – The volcanic island Anak Krakatau appears.
• February 11 – 19 – The 1928 Winter Olympics are held in St. Moritz, Switzerland, the first as a separate event.
• March 22 – The Muslim Brotherhood is founded in Egypt.
• April 14 – An earthquake occurs in Chirpan, Bulgaria, followed four days later by another in Plovdiv.
• June 4 – Huanggutun incident: Zhang Zuolin, a warlord, is killed by Japanese agents in China.
• July 3 – Scottish inventor John Logie Baird demonstrates the world's first colour television transmission in Glasgow.
• August 27 – The Kellogg–Briand Pact is signed in Paris, the first treaty to outlaw aggressive war.
• September 1 – Ahmet Zogu, President of the Albanian Republic, declares the country to be a constitutional monarchy.
• October 1 – Joseph Stalin launches the first five-year plan.
• October 25 – The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (ICRM) is formally established.