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In spite of widespread protest and grave judicial doubt Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are sent to the electric chair
Although not the first film with synchronized sound, The Jazz Singer with Al Jolson in the title role does much to popularize the 'talkies'
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy star together for the first time in the silent film Duck Soup
Isadora Duncan dies in Nice when her scarf tangles in the wheel of a Bugatti sports car, breaking her neck
William Randolph Hearst by now owns a nation-wide string of some 28 daily newspapers
Irish author Frank Harris publishes the fourth and final volume of My Life and Loves
Don Marquis publishes archy and mehitabel, the first collection of his sketches about archy the cockroach and mehitabel the alley cat
President Coolidge issues a famously terse statement: 'I do not choose to run for President in 1928'
11-year-old Yehudi Menuhin gives a sensational performance of the Beethoven Violin Concerto in the Carnegie Hall, conducted by Fritz Busch
Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern open on Broadway with an immensely influential American musical, Show Boat
'Pine Top' Smith records Pinetop's Boogie-Woogie, the first recording to be labelled boogie-woogie
Gershwin's orchestral work An American in Paris (with parts for four taxi-horns) has its first performance in New York
Mickey Mouse makes his first appearance in Walt Disney's short animated film Steamboat Willie
George Balanchine creates Apollo for Ballets Russes, to music by Igor Stravinksy
Stephen V. Benét publishes a verse narrative of the Civil War under the title John Brown's Body
The Front Page, by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, has its premiere on Broadway
US anthropologist Margaret Mead makes much of trouble-free sex among natives, in Coming of Age in Samoa, but her findings are subsequently disputed
The Kellogg-Briand Pact is drawn up by the US and France as a pledge to renounce war
Republican candidate Herbert Hoover wins the US presidential election with the slogan 'a chicken in every pot'
Sartoris is the first of 14 novels by William Faulkner set in his fictional Yoknapatawpha County
On St Valentine's Day six members of the Bugs Moran gang in Chicago are lined up against a wall and machine-gunned by rival gangsters
Hollywood stars Joan Crawford and Douglas Fairbanks Jr marry
Ernest Hemingway publishes A Farewell to Arms, closely reflecting his own wartime experiences
US astronomer Edwin Hubble uses the red shift of light from galaxies to demonstrate that they are receding from each other and the universe is expanding
Jazz musician Fats Waller begins recording with his Buddies, one of the first racially integrated groups in the US music industry
