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January 1, 1928

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EUROPE FACES YEAR WITH BRIGHTER HOPE; MADE GAINS IN 1927; She Sees Agencies of Peace Making for Security, With League's Power Growing. ECONOMIC AFFAIRS BETTER France Is Reported in Soundest Position, Britain Changing Methods, Others Improving. OUR AID AND POWER HAILED Cooperation Has Gained for Us Much of Wartime Prestige--More Aid Looked For.

By Edwin L. James Copyright, 1928, By the New York Times Company. Special Cable To the New York Times

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Notable Births

Ernest Tidyman

1928Ernest Tidyman, American author and screenwriter (died 1984)[†]

Ernest Ralph Tidyman was an American author and screenwriter, best known for his novels featuring the African-American detective John Shaft. His screenplay for The French Connection garnered him an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, as well as a Golden Globe Award, a Writers Guild of America Award, and an Edgar Award. In 1971, he also co-wrote the screenplay for the film version of Shaft with John D. F. Black.

Gerhard Weinberg

1928Gerhard Weinberg, German-American historian, author, and academic[†]

Gerhard Ludwig Weinberg is a German-born American diplomatic and military historian noted for his studies in the history of Nazi Germany and World War II. Weinberg is the William Rand Kenan Jr. Professor Emeritus of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has been a member of the history faculty at UNC-Chapel Hill since 1974. Previously he served on the faculties of the University of Michigan (1959–1974) and the University of Kentucky (1957–1959).

Notable Deaths

Loie Fuller

1928Loie Fuller, American dancer (born 1862)[†]

Loie Fuller, also known as Louie Fuller and Loïe Fuller, was an American dancer and a pioneer of modern dance and theatrical lighting techniques.

Historical Events

1928Boris Bazhanov defects through Iran to seek asylum in France. He is the only member of Joseph Stalin's secretariat to have defected from the Soviet Union.[†]

Boris Georgiyevich Bazhanov was a secretary of the Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union who published memoirs about Stalin and his secrets.