the US presidential election, with WGY/W2XB simulcasting the event on radio and television. August 26 – In Scotland, May Donoghue finds the remains of a snail in her ginger beer, leading to the landmark negligence case Donoghue v Stevenson. August 27 – The Kellogg–Briand Pact is signed in Paris, the first treaty to outlaw aggressive war. August 29 – C.D. Motagua is founded as an association football club in Honduras. August 31 – The Threepenny Opera (), by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, opens at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, Berlin. September September 1 – Ahmet Zogu, President of the Albanian Republic, declares the country to be a constitutional monarchy, the Albanian Kingdom, with himself as King Zog I. September 3 Philo Farnsworth demonstrates to the press in San Francisco the world's first working all-electronic television system, employing electronic scanning in both the pickup and display devices. Scotsman, Alexander Fleming, at St Mary's Hospital, London, accidentally rediscovers the antibiotic Penicillin. September 11 – The Queen's Messenger is the first melodrama broadcast by Ernst F. W. Alexanderson at W2XAD (Schenectady, New York); WMAK (Kenmore) begins broadcasting in Buffalo, New York. September 12 – The Okeechobee hurricane hits Guadeloupe, killing 1,200 people. September 15 – Tich Freeman sets an all-time record, for the number of wickets taken in an English cricket season. September 16 – The Okeechobee hurricane kills at least 2,500 people in Florida. September 25 – Paul and Joseph Galvin incorporate the Galvin Manufacturing Corporation (later known as Motorola and Freescale). September 28 – Scottish physician Alexander Fleming observes a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later becomes known as penicillin. October October – The women's organisation Gruaja Shiqiptare is founded in Albania, with Princess Senije as its chair. October 1 – Joseph Stalin launches the first five-year plan (1928–1932); the average nonfarm wage falls by 50% in the Soviet Union. October 2 Josemaría Escrivá founds Opus Dei. Arvid Lindman returns as Prime Minister of Sweden, with his right-wing rival Ernst Trygger as Foreign Minister of Sweden. 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 22 – The Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity