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January 13, 1928: General Electric Company and NBC make first television broadcast
January 12, 1928: Murderer Ruth Snyder executed in the electric chair, secretly photographed by New York's Daily News
January 27, 1928: The Los Angeles becomes the first dirigible to make a landing on a ship, touching down on the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga

The following events occurred in January 1928:

Sunday, January 1, 1928

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Monday, January 2, 1928

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Tuesday, January 3, 1928

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Wednesday, January 4, 1928

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  • Half of England was under water due to flooding.[6]

Thursday, January 5, 1928

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Friday, January 6, 1928

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Saturday, January 7, 1928

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Sunday, January 8, 1928

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Monday, January 9, 1928

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  • A council in Rome declared that the city's new coat of arms would include a fasces along with the Savoy cross.[14]
  • Charles Lindbergh flew to Panama where President Rodolfo Chiari presented him with a medal and praised him for "establishing a basis of fraternity, and bringing together all of the American countries on a basis of real understanding."[15]
  • Born: Domenico Modugno, Italian singer, songwriter, actor and politician, in Polignano a Mare (d. 1994)

Tuesday, January 10, 1928

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Wednesday, January 11, 1928

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  • A U.S. Senate committee released its findings of an inquiry into alleged documents charging that Mexican President Plutarco Elías Calles was conspiring against the United States by secretly funding anti-American revolutionary activities in Nicaragua as well as bribing senators to support Mexico-friendly policies. The investigation concluded that the documents were forged, which came as a blow to the reputation of William Randolph Hearst who had broken the story in his newspapers. Pennsylvania Senator and committee leader David A. Reed said that "in dealing with the reputations of four senators it was incumbent upon Mr. Hearst to exhaust every avenue in seeking to verify the documents before printing them."[18][19]
  • Voters in Haiti overwhelmingly approved thirteen amendments to the Constitution in a national referendum.
  • Born: David L. Wolper, American television and film producer, in New York City (d. 2010)
  • Died: Thomas Hardy, 87, English novelist and poet

Thursday, January 12, 1928

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  • An order staying the execution of Ruth Snyder signed by Supreme Court Justice Aaron J. Levy was served to the warden of Sing Sing Prison shortly after 2 a.m., based on a plea by her lawyers that her presence as a witness was required in the litigation over the insurance left by her murdered husband.[20] In response, New York Attorney General Albert Ottinger ruled that the stay of execution granted by Supreme Court Justice Levy was not binding.[21] and Snyder and her partner in crime, Henry Judd Gray, were executed at a few minutes past 11 p.m.[22]
  • The Italian press was banned from reporting suicides or sensational crimes.[1]
  • Died: Ruth Snyder, 32, American murderer (executed by electric chair)

Friday, January 13, 1928

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  • General Electric demonstrated the potential of television by broadcasting into three homes in Schenectady, New York. Company officials, engineers and journalists gathered in each of the three locations were able to see and hear a radio announcer on a 2-inch x 2 inch screen.[23]
  • The New York Daily News published a surreptitiously-taken photograph of the Ruth Snyder execution in an extra edition and reprinted it the following day. Together, the two editions sold an extra 1.5 million copies, despite an uproar.[24]

Saturday, January 14, 1928

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Sunday, January 15, 1928

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Monday, January 16, 1928

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Tuesday, January 17, 1928

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Wednesday, January 18, 1928

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Thursday, January 19, 1928

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Friday, January 20, 1928

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Saturday, January 21, 1928

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  • County court judges in Pittsburgh ruled that Sunday symphony concerts did not violate the local blue laws, explaining that such laws were "evidently intended to forbid actual physical, material interference with the quiet rest of the Sabbath day, and not to forbid the obviously harmless and even ancient custom of the rendition of music on that day."[33]
  • Al Capone announced that he would accept the request of Miami authorities to leave the city, in response to protests from civic organizations. "If I am not wanted here I will leave immediately", Capone said. "Where I will go from here I have not decided."[34]
  • Born: Gene Sharp, American political theorist of nonviolent action; in North Baltimore, Ohio (d. 2018)
  • Died:

Sunday, January 22, 1928

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Monday, January 23, 1928

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Tuesday, January 24, 1928

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Wednesday, January 25, 1928

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Thursday, January 26, 1928

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  • Volcanic activity on the Pacific island of Krakatoa caused a new volcanic cone to emerge from below sea level. This new island was called Anak Krakatoa, or "Child of Krakatoa".[42]
  • Born: Roger Vadim, filmmaker, in Paris, France (d. 2000)
  • Died: William A. Carroll, 53, American silent film actor

Friday, January 27, 1928

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  • A dirigible landed on an aircraft carrier for the first time in history when the Los Angeles was moored to the mast of the Saratoga in the Atlantic Ocean, allowing the passengers and crew to descend to the Saratoga's deck.[43]
  • Charles Lindbergh flew to Bogotá, Colombia, where he was welcomed by a crowd of 15,000.[44]
  • The historic Redford Theater opened in Redford (Detroit), Michigan.
  • Born: Hans Modrow, the last Premier of East Germany, from 1989 until its 1990 reunification with West Germany; in Jasenitz, Free State of Prussia, Germany (now Jasienica, Poland) (d. 2023)

Saturday, January 28, 1928

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Sunday, January 29, 1928

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Monday, January 30, 1928

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Tuesday, January 31, 1928

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  2. ^ "250,000 Slaves in Sierra Leone, Africa, Freed". Chicago Daily Tribune. January 3, 1928. p. 3.
  3. ^ Rue, Larry (January 3, 1928). "Hungary Seizes Guns from Italy and Causes Row". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 17.
  4. ^ "Crush Rebels, Marines Told". Chicago Daily Tribune. January 4, 1928. p. 1.
  5. ^ "Chronology 1928". indiana.edu. 2002. Retrieved March 4, 2015.
  6. ^ "Much of England is Under Water; Faces New Thaw". Chicago Daily Tribune. January 5, 1928. p. 3.
  7. ^ Rosenthal, Luis (January 6, 1928). "Nicaragua War Gets Back Seat as Lindy Lands". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 1.
  8. ^ "The Circus (1928)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on February 4, 2007. Retrieved March 4, 2015.
  9. ^ a b Steele, John (January 7, 1928). "Tide Floods London; 27 Die". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 1.
  10. ^ Darrah, David (January 7, 1928). "Mussolini Bars Foreign Loans Without His O. K.". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 5.
  11. ^ a b Steele, John (January 8, 1928). "London Up All Night; Watches Flood Waters Recede". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 1 and 4.
  12. ^ Cohen, Alex (January 8, 1928). "Lindbrgh Wins Another Nation; It's Costa Rica". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 5.
  13. ^ "Afghan Queen Doffs Veil for Rome Crowds". Chicago Daily Tribune. January 9, 1928. p. 1.
  14. ^ "Fascist Emblem Placed on Coat of Arms of Rome". Chicago Daily Tribune. January 10, 1928. p. 3.
  15. ^ "Panama Hails Lindy; "Uniting All Americas"". Chicago Daily Tribune. January 10, 1928. p. 2.
  16. ^ "Ruth Must Die, Smith Rules". Chicago Daily Tribune. January 11, 1928. p. 1.
  17. ^ "Rogers Hornsby". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved March 4, 2015.
  18. ^ Procter, Ben (2007). William Randolph Hearst : The Later Years, 1911–1951. Oxford University Press. pp. 142–143. ISBN 978-0-19-971710-1.
  19. ^ "Hearst Mexican Papers Forged, Committee Says". Chicago Daily Tribune. January 12, 1928. p. 6.
  20. ^ "Ruth Snyder Gains a Stay". Chicago Daily Tribune. January 12, 1928. p. 1.
  21. ^ "Ottinger Edict Dooms Slayers Tonight". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. January 12, 1928. p. 1.
  22. ^ Sutherland, Sid (January 13, 1928). "Electrocute Ruth and Gray". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 1.
  23. ^ "Flashes Moving Pictures into Homes By Radio". Chicago Daily Tribune. January 14, 1928. p. 3.
  24. ^ Miller, April. "Bloody Blondes and Bobbed-Haired Bandits: The Execution of Justice and the Construction of the Celebrity Criminal in the 1920s Popular Press. In the Limelight and Under the Microscope: Forms and Functions of Female Celebrity Ed. Diane Negra, Su Holmes. New York: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2011. ISBN 978-1-4411-8917-2.
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  26. ^ Bennett, James O'Donnell (January 15, 1928). "Ford's, Where Lincoln Fell, to Be Shrine". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 1.
  27. ^ Henning, Arthur Sears (January 16, 1928). "Cubans Throng to Coolidge". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 1.
  28. ^ "Obama lands in Cuba as first US president to visit in nearly a century", The Guardian (London), March 20, 2016
  29. ^ "Coolidge Wins Pan-American Hearts". Chicago Daily Tribune. January 17, 1928. p. 1.
  30. ^ "Report Sandino Slain by U.S. Flyers". Chicago Daily Tribune. January 19, 1928. p. 1.
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  32. ^ "Labor Will Ask Both Parties to Give U.S. Beer". Chicago Daily Tribune. January 21, 1928. p. 1.
  33. ^ "Sunday Symphony Concerts are Held Legal in Pittsburgh". Chicago Daily Tribune. January 22, 1928. p. 24.
  34. ^ "Capone to Quit Miami Because He Is Asked To". Chicago Daily Tribune. January 22, 1928. p. 8.
  35. ^ "British Women Ask State Equality in State Honors". Chicago Daily Tribune. January 23, 1928. p. 2.
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  37. ^ "21 Break Jail in Detroit; All U.S. Prisoners". Chicago Daily Tribune. January 24, 1928. p. 1.
  38. ^ "St. Louis Leads as Dirtiest City; Chicago Fifth". Chicago Daily Tribune. January 24, 1928. p. 1.
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  40. ^ "26 Soldiers Killed When Auto Truck Strikes Wall". Chicago Daily Tribune. January 25, 1928. p. 2.
  41. ^ Allen, Jay (January 26, 1928). "Amir Gets Stage Fright in Pomp of Paris Entry". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 18.
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  43. ^ "Dirigible Lands on Deck of Ship at Sea; Returns to Its Base". Chicago Daily Tribune. January 28, 1928. p. 2.
  44. ^ Rockwood, F.L. (January 28, 1928). "Lindy Conquers Lofty Andes in Hop to Bogotá". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 2.
  45. ^ "Lindy Carries U.S. Good Will to Venezuela". Chicago Daily Tribune. January 30, 1928. p. 1.
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  48. ^ "Lindbergh Hops to Gibraltar of U.S.' Oversea". Chicago Daily Tribune. February 1, 1928. p. 1.