May 14 "Ain't She Sweet?" hits #1 on the pop singles chart by Ben Bernie

May 18 Ritz Hotel opens in Boston

May 01 The first British airliner to serve cooked meals (Imperial Airways)

May 02 International Economic Conference (52 countries including USSR) opens

May 11 Louis B Mayer forms Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences

May 07 San Fransisco Municipal Airport (Mills Field) dedicated

May 11 Belgium beats England 9-1 in soccer

May 27 Thomas Masaryk elected Czechoslovakian president

May 31 Ford Motor Company produces last "Tin Lizzie" (begins Model A)

May 03 Francis E.J. Wilde of Meadowmere Park, NY patented the electric sign flasher.

May 21 Lindbergh lands in Paris France, after first solo air crossing of Atlantic

May 04 The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is founded

May 09 Australian Parliament first convenes in new capital, Canberra

May 22 Near Xining, China a 8.3 quake caused 200,000 deaths. One of the world's most destructive earthquakes.

May 20 At 7:40 AM, Lindbergh takes off from New York to cross Atlantic for Paris

May 22 8.3 earthquake strikes Nan-Shan China, 200,000 killed

May 27 Japanese military intervention in Chinese civil war

May 20 Saudi Arabia becomes independent of Great Britain (Treaty of Jedda)

May 20 Britain recognises the independence of Saudi Arabia

May 13 VVOG soccer team forms in Harderwijk

May 16 Supreme Court ruled bootleggers must pay income tax

May 25 Henry Ford stops producing Model T car (begins Model A)

May 21 Charles Lindbergh becomes the first to fly solo across the Atlantic

May 13 "Black Friday" on Berlin Stock Exchange

May 04 The first balloon flight over 40,000 feet (Scott Field IL)

May 20 At 7 40 AM, Lindbergh takes off from New York to cross Atlantic for Paris

May 20 Charles Lindbergh takes off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, NY to begin his historic solo flight to Paris

May 04 Academy of Motion Picture Arts &Sciences forms

May 04 Nicaragua agrees to a US supervised presidential election in 1928

May 13 Black Friday' in Germany, the day when the economic collapse of Germany begins.

May 01 Netherlands beats Belgium 3-2 in soccer match in Amsterdam

May 26 Ford Motor Company manufactures its 15 millionth Model T automobile

May 28 Hammond scores his 1,000th cricket run of the season after 22 days

May 02 Pulitzer prize awarded to Louis Bromfield (Early Autumn)

Jan 07 Harlem Globetrotters play first game (Hinckley IL)

« Previous Page | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Next Page »