Steamboat Willie debuts Mickey Mouse
1928 · Work
Disney's synchronised-sound cartoon introduces Mickey Mouse and helps launch the American animation industry.
On these timelines: Master, Arts and Thoughts, USA
Around 1928
- Founding of the Soviet Union (1922)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Pop music: the 1920s (1920)
- Pop music: the 1930s (1930)
- Great Depression (1929)
- Discovery of penicillin (1928)
- Treaty of Versailles (1919)
- Wall Street Crash (1929)
- Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933)
- Spanish flu pandemic (1918)