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| North America:The twenty fifth Democratic national convention meets in Houston to nominate Alfred E. Smith.
The nineteenth Republican national convention meets in Kansas City to nominate Herbert Hoover. |
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| Europe: Events in Europe this year influencing Louisiana. | |||||||||||
| January 1928
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February 1928
Antoine ³Fats² Domino is born on February 26. |
March 1928
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June 1928
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July 1928
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August 1928
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September 1928
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October 1928
In October 1928 Sara Haarberg Gataas Kellaway, an auburn-haired New York divorcee is acquitted for the murder of Oakley Harris. Oakley Harris was distinguished as ³the South s Greatest Sport². The gambler and womanizer operated the famous Crescent Billiard Hall at Canal and Carondelet and owned a string of race horses as well as a part interest in several other gambling establishments. He had lived with Kellaway for twelve years, but has recently dumped her to marry a twenty year old beauty. After the still beautiful Sara, 37, had an ugly confrontation with the girl, Harris moved from their home to his cottage on Elysian Fields Avenue and refused to see her. She stormed into the house and shot him, but in his last breath he gasped. ³Don t prosecute her. She was justified.² |
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December 1928
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| Huey P. Long elected governor, ushering in the Long era of Louisiana politics which will last long after his death in 1935. | ³Sell Louisiana to the Nation² is a campaign that goes to the 1928 Democratic and Republican Party conventions and the 1929 presidential inauguration. It includes hostesses in Evangeline attire. | ||||||||||
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