August 1928
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The following events occurred in August 1928:
August 15, 1928: Germany launches the high-tech luxury liner SS Europa
August 27, 1928: Germany's Foreign Minister Gustav Streseman joins others in signing Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact in Paris, renouncing "war as an instrument of national policy"
The Kellogg-Briand Pact and seals from 15 signatory nations
France's Foreign Minister Aristide Briand addresses the assembled representatives
January 1928
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The following events occurred in January 1928:
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