Charles Fort: A Fortean Chronology, 1928.

"See the newspapers for several dozen accounts of somebody, or something, that was terrorising people in New Jersey, in and around Camden, in the winter of 1927-28. People were fired upon, and in automobiles there were bullet holes, but bullets were unfindable."

Lo! by Charles Fort

January

• January 6-7: The River Thames floods in London; 14 drown. The moat at the Tower of London, previously drained in 1843 (and planted with grass), is completely refilled by a tidal wave.
• January 12: U.S. murderer Ruth Snyder is executed at Ossining.
• January 17: The OGPU arrests Lev Trotsky in Moscow; he assumes a status of passive resistance.
• January 31: Trotsky is exiled to Alma Ata.

February

• Fenruary 8: A window at the house of William T. Turnbull, Collingswood N.J., is shattered by a charge of shot by the 'phantom sniper of Camden. (Books893)
• February 11: The II Olympic Winter Games open in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
• February 12: Heavy hail kills 11 in England.
• February 25: Charles Jenkins Laboratories of Washington, D.C. becomes the first holder of a television license from the Federal Radio Commission.

March

• March: People in a block of houses, in the Third District of Vienna are "haunted by a mysterious person," who enters houses, and steals small objects, never money, just to show that he could. (Books867)
• March 12: Malta becomes a British dominion.
• March 12: In California, the St. Francis Dam north of Los Angeles fails, killing 400.
• March 21: Charles Lindbergh is presented the Medal of Honor for his first trans-Atlantic flight.

April

• April 10: Pineapple Primary: The U.S. Republican Party primary elections in Chicago are preceded by assassinations and bombings.
• April 12: A bomb attack against Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini in Milan kills 17 bystanders.
• April 12-14: The first ever east-west transatlantic flight takes place from Dublin, Ireland to Greenly, Canada.
• April 14: Two earthquakes in Chirpan and Plovdiv destroy more than 21000 buildings in Bulgaria and kill almost 130 persons.
• April 22: An earthquake destroys 200,000 buildings in Corinth.

May

• May 10: The first regular schedule of television programming begins in Schenectady, New York by the General Electric's television station W2XB.
• May 15: The Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia commences operations.
• May 15: The animated short Plane Crazy is released by Disney Studios in Los Angeles, featuring the first appearances of Mickey and Minnie Mouse.
• May 23: A bomb attack against the Italian consulate in Buenos Aires kills 22 and injures 43.
• May 24: The airship Italia crashes on the North Pole; one of the occupants is Italian general Umberto Nobile.
• May 30: A rescue expedition leaves for the North Pole.

June

• June 11: A medical doctors' strike begins in Vienna.
• June 14: Students take over the medical wing of Rosario University in Argentina.
• June 17-18: Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to successfully pilot an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean.
• June 20: Puniša Račić shoots 3 opposition representatives in the Yugoslavian Parliament, and injures 3 others.
• June 24: A Swedish aeroplane rescues part of the Italian North Pole expedition, including Umberto Nobile. The Soviet icebreaker Krasin saves the rest July 12.
• June 29: New York Governor Alfred E. Smith becomes the first Catholic nominated by a major political party for U.S. President, at the Democratic National Convention in Houston, Texas.

July

• The Representation of the People Act 1928 becomes law, extending the right to vote to all women in the United Kingdom.
• July 6: The world's largest hailstone falls in Potter, Nebraska.
• July 12: Mexican aviator Emilio Carranza dies in a solo plane crash in the New Jersey Pine Barrens, while returning from a goodwill flight to New York City.
• July 17: José de León Toral assassinates Álvaro Obregón, president of Mexico.
• July 25: The United States recalls its troops from China.
• July 27: Tich Freeman becomes the only bowler ever to take 200 first-class wickets before the end of July.
• July 28: The 1928 Summer Olympics officially open in Amsterdam.

August

• August 2: Italy and Ethiopia sign the Italo-Ethiopian Treaty.
• August 16: Murderer Carl Panzram is arrested in Washington, D.C. after killing about 20 people.
• August 22: Alfred E. Smith accepts the Democratic presidential nomination, with WGY/W2XB simulcasting the event on radio and television.
• August 25: Ahmet Zogu proclaims himself King Zog I of Albania; he is crowned September 1.
• August 26: May Donoghue finds the remains of a snail in her gingerbeer, launching Donoghue v. Stevenson.

September

• September 1: Richard Byrd leaves New York for the Arctic.
• September 15: Tich Freeman sets an all-time record for the number of wickets taken in an English cricket season.
• September 16: The 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane kills at least 2,500 people in Florida.
• September 28: Alexander Fleming discovers Penicillin.

October

• October 2: Saint Josemaria Escriva founds Opus Dei.
• October 7: Haile Selassie is crowned king (not yet emperor) of Abyssinia.
• October 8: Chiang Kai-shek is named as Generalissimo (Chairman of the National Military Council) of the Nationalist Government of the Republic of China.
• October 12: An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston.
• October 19: William Edward Hickman is executed at San Quentin prison for the 1927 murder of Marion Parker.

November

• November 4: At Park Central Hotel in Manhattan, Arnold Rothstein, New York City's most notorious gambler, is shot to death over a poker game.
• November 6: Swedes start a tradition of eating Gustavus Adolphus pastries to commemorate the old warrior king.
• November 6: U.S. presidential election, 1928: Republican Herbert Hoover wins by a wide margin over Democrat Alfred E. Smith.
• November 10: Enthronement ceremony of Japanese Emperor Hirohito is held, after some two years since he actually took the Imperial throne on December 26, 1926, the following day of the demise of Emperor Taishō.
• November 18: Mickey Mouse appears in Steamboat Willie, the first Mickey Mouse cartoon released, as well as the first sound film.
• November 22: Maurice Ravel's Boléro premieres at the Paris Opéra.

December

• December 3: In Rio de Janeiro, a seaplane sent to greet Alberto Santos-Dumont crashes near Cap Arcona, killing all on board.
• December 5: Police disperse a Sicilian gangs' meeting in Cleveland.
• December 24: The Danish training ship Kobenhoven set sal from Montevideo, it and its crew are never seen again. (Books642)
• December 21: The U.S. Congress approves the construction of Boulder Dam, later renamed Hoover Dam.