February 1928

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The following events occurred in February 1928:

February 1, 1928 (Wednesday)

February 2, 1928 (Thursday)

February 3, 1928 (Friday)

February 4, 1928 (Saturday)

February 5, 1928 (Sunday)

February 6, 1928 (Monday)

February 7, 1928 (Tuesday)

February 8, 1928 (Wednesday)

February 9, 1928 (Thursday)

February 10, 1928 (Friday)

February 11, 1928 (Saturday)

February 12, 1928 (Sunday)

  • French playwright Pierre Veber challenged the author Maurice Rostand to a pistol duel after Rostand wrote a negative review of Veber's latest play, En Bordée. Rostand declined the challenge, explaining that duels must be fought at dawn and he never got up before noon.[18]

February 13, 1928 (Monday)

February 14, 1928 (Tuesday)

February 15, 1928 (Wednesday)

February 16, 1928 (Thursday)

  • Indiana Governor Edward L. Jackson was found not guilty of trying to bribe Warren T. McCray, the governor at the time, in 1923. The judge took the case away from the jury, explaining that the state had failed to prove that the bribery had been concealed, in the legal meaning of that term.[24]
  • Canadian Minister of Finance James Robb presented the government's budget for the next year, projecting a surplus of over $45.8 million. The income tax, cut 10 percent last year, was cut an additional 10 percent, and the sales tax was cut from 4 percent to 3 percent.[25]
  • Born: Willi Dreesen, Swiss painter and sculptor, in Essen-Werden, Germany (d. 2013); Porfi Jiménez, Dominican-born Venezuelan musician (d. 2010)
  • Died: Eddie Foy, Sr., 71, American stage entertainer; Reggie Morris, 41, American film actor, director and screenwriter (heart attack)

February 17, 1928 (Friday)

February 18, 1928 (Saturday)

February 19, 1928 (Sunday)

February 20, 1928 (Monday)

February 21, 1928 (Tuesday)

  • Industrialist Harry Ford Sinclair and three associates were found guilty of criminal contempt of court for jury shadowing in the Teapot Dome scandal trial. Sinclair was sentenced to six months in prison.[31]
  • The United States Department of War announced that tank development in the past several years had made it a far more effective weapon than it was a decade earlier. "The tank of the World War was formerly regarded as an auxiliary of the infantryman", the department said. "Today it has undergone a complete transformation and while it will still, in certain circumstances, continue its role in aiding the doughboy, the future will find it utilized as the nucleus of the army's mechanized units."[32]
  • Born: Larry Pennell, American motion picture and television actor, born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania (d. 2013)

February 22, 1928 (Wednesday)

February 23, 1928 (Thursday)

February 24, 1928 (Friday)

February 25, 1928 (Saturday)

February 26, 1928 (Sunday)

February 27, 1928 (Monday)

  • The controversial British war film Dawn was discussed on the floor of the House of Commons. Foreign Affairs Secretary Austen Chamberlain had not viewed the film and did not plan to, but objected to a scene depicting Edith Cavell's execution which had reportedly been embellished for dramatic effect. "I believe that account of the execution to be wholly apocryphal, and I hold it is an outrage on a noble woman's memory to turn into melodrama, for the purposes of commercial gain, so heroic a story", Chamberlain said, though he did not propose to censor the film as had been suggested.[37]

February 28, 1928 (Tuesday)

February 29, 1928 (Wednesday)

  • A French court refused to grant American lawyer and politician Bainbridge Colby a divorce, declaring itself "incompetent" to do so because both parties involved were foreigners and Mrs. Colby was not present. The ruling was thought to put an end to Americans coming to France for easy divorces in the country's "divorce mills".[39]
  • Born: Tempest Storm, burlesque performer, in Eastman, Georgia
  • Died: Adolphe Appia, 65, Swiss architect and stage set designer

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