The Mae West play Pleasure Man was closed down by police after one performance at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway due to indecency. All 64 members of the cast were thrown in jail.[2]
Franklin D. Roosevelt was unanimously selected by Democratic Party leaders as a candidate for New York governor. Roosevelt initially declined consideration for the nomination due to health concerns.[3]
The LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin sailed across the English Channel and over parts of England during test flights as it prepared to cross the Atlantic Ocean.[4]
Josemaría Escrivá had a vision in which he said that he 'saw' the Opus Dei (Latin for "The Work of God"), a revelation of God's plan for Christians. Thus, the founding date of this Catholic institution is said to be October 2.
The U.S. Republican Party publicized a telegram from Charles Lindbergh to Herbert Hoover which served as an endorsement. "Your qualifications as a man and what you stand for, regardless of party, make me feel that the problems which will come before our country during the next four years will be best solved under your leadership", one line from the message read.[7]
Australian explorer Sir Hubert Wilkins published a book entitled Undiscovered Australia, recounting an expedition to the north of the country. The book included a surprising passage in which he claimed to have seen natives of Milingimbi Island with tails.[8]
Died:George Beban, 54, American actor and filmmaker
Saturday, October 6, 1928
The Goodyear company was awarded a $7,825,000 contract to build two zeppelins for the U.S. Navy.[9]
Italy rejected the Anglo-French naval reduction plan, explaining that its needs were different from other nations because of the country's long coastline and many islands.[10]
Benito Mussolini told a gathering of Italian newspaper editors that they were "the freest in the world" because newspapers in other countries were "organs of plutocratic groups, parties or individuals. In some cases they are reduced to the miserable task of buying and selling exciting news and in other cases they are owned by individuals who consider the newspaper as an ordinary industry, such as the steel or leather industry."[13]
Died:Maria Feodorovna, 80, Danish princess and former Empress of Russia
Sunday, October 14, 1928
In the biggest radio broadcast attempted in Italy up to that time, Mussolini announced that he intended to transfer the major reconstruction efforts of Fascism from cities to undeveloped rural regions. He then distributed 1.7 million lire to Italian wheat growers.[14]
Italian communist Michele Della Maggiore was executed by firing squad for murdering two Fascists. Maggiore was the first person condemned to death in Italy since Mussolini reintroduced capital punishment.[19]
Born:Whitey Ford, baseball player, in New York City (d. 2020)
Monday, October 22, 1928
Herbert Hoover gave a campaign speech before 21,000 in Madison Square Garden in New York City. Hoover reviewed the country's progress and prosperity over the past seven and a half years of Republican administrations and warned that Democratic experiments would put the economy at risk.[24]
Chiang Kai-shek expelled Soviet military and government advisors.[11]
Adolf Kraus, 78, Bohemian-born American lawyer and Jewish leader
Tuesday, October 23, 1928
Hungary ordered four universities closed over antisemitic rioting that had been going on for several weeks ever since students accused the government of allowing more Jewish students than the law allowed.[25]
During a meeting in the Royal Albert Hall, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin said that Britain had no intention of building up its navy in competition with the United States.[30]
Died:Rodryg Dunin, 58, Polish noble, industrialist and agriculturalist
Saturday, October 27, 1928
Fascist Italy celebrated the sixth anniversary of the March on Rome with a ceremonial burning of 140 million lire worth of government bonds, donated by citizens for the purpose of reducing the national debt. Each person who turned in a bond had their name written in a "golden book".[31][32]
The CBS radio Saturday morning children's show Let's Pretend first aired.
Sunday, October 28, 1928
The first of 2,802 public utility works, including a new highway from Rome to the coast near Ostia, were inaugurated around Italy as part of national commemoration of the Fascist revolution. Celebrations were unostentatious under order from Mussolini as a lesson in economy.[31][33]
The first pictures ever publicly broadcast in Britain through the fultograph system were transmitted by the BBC to the Savoy Hotel in London. A picture of George V and a cartoon were successfully transmitted.[39]
^Kabatchnik, Amnon (2010). Blood on the Stage, 1925–1950: Milestone Plays of Crime, Mystery, and Detection. Plymouth: Scarecrow Press. p. 225. ISBN978-0-8108-6963-9.
^"Uncover Plot to Assassinate King of Serbia". Chicago Daily Tribune. October 26, 1928. p. 1.
^"Soviet to Repay General Electric for Seized Works". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 26, 1928. p. 1.
^Steele, John (October 27, 1928). "Not Competing With U.S. Navy Britain Says". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 1.
^ ab"Fascist Anniversary". The Straits Times. Singapore. October 29, 1928. p. 9.
^Darrah, David (October 28, 1928). "Italy Observes Year 7 of Reign of Mussolini". Chicago Daily Tribune: 3.
^"Mussolini Bans Elaborate Fete for Fascist Day". Chicago Daily Tribune. October 29, 1928. p. 18.
^Gomery, Douglas (2005). The Coming of Sound. New York: Routledge. p. 103. ISBN978-1-135-92395-2.
^Ricklefs (1982). A History of Modern Indonesia (reprint ed.). Macmillan Southeast Asian. p. 177. ISBN0-333-24380-3.
