1928
1928 was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar).
Events
January-May January 6-7 - River Thames floods in London - 14 drowned January 17 - OGPU arrests Lev Trotsky in Moscow; he assumes a status of passive resistance and is exiled to Turkestan February - Kurume University (Japan) established February 11 - 1928 Winter Olympic Games open in St. Moritz, Switzerland February 12 - Heavy hails kill 11 in England February 25 - Charles Jenkins Laboratories of Washington, DC becomes the first holder of a television license from the Federal Radio Commission. March 11 - Blizzard in England; In London temperature drops to 9 degrees Celsius March 12 - Malta becomes a British dominion March 12 - In California, the St. Francis Dam fails killing 400 March 21 - Charles Lindbergh is presented the Congressional Medal of Honor for his first trans-Atlantic flight. April 12 - Bomb attack against the King of Italy in Milan - 17 bystanders dead April 22 - Earthquake destroys Corinth - 200.000 buildings destroyed May 15-17 - Christian X of Denmark visits Finland May 15 - Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia, commenced operations May 15 - Release of the animated short Plane Crazy, featuring the first appearances of Mickey and Minnie Mouse. May 23 - Bomb attack against Italian consulate in Buenos Aires - 22 dead, 41 injured May 24 - Airship Italia crashes on the North Pole; one of the occupants is Italian general Umberto Nobile May 30 - A rescue expedition leaves for the North Pole
June-September June 11 - Medical doctor's strike begins in Vienna June 14 - Students take over the medical wing of Rosario University in Argentina July 6 - The world's largest hailstone falls in Potter, Nebraska. July 12 - Mexican aviator Emilio Carranza dies in a solo plane crash in the Pine Barrens of southern New Jersey while returning from a goodwill flight to New York City. June 17 - Aviator Amelia Earhart starts her attempt to become the first woman to successfully pilot an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she succeeded the next day). June 20 - Shooting incident in Yugoslavian parliament - Punica Rasic shoots 3 opposition representatives and injures three others June 24 - Swedish aeroplane rescues part of Italian North Pole expedition, including Umberto Nobile. Soviet icebreaker Krasin saves the rest July 12 July 16 Leon Toral assassinates Álvaro Obregón, president of Mexico July 25 - USA recalls its troops from China July 27 - Tich Freeman becomes only bowler ever to take 200 first-class wickets before end of July. August 16 - Murderer Carl Panzram is arrested in Washington, DC after killing about 20 people. August 25 - Ahmet Zogu proclaims himself King Zog I of Albania; he is crowned September 1 August 28 - The Kellogg-Briand Pact was signed in Paris - it was the first treaty which outlawed aggressive war. September 1 - Richard Byrd leaves New York for Arctic September 15 - Tich Freeman sets all-time record for number of wickets taken in an English cricket season. September 17 - A hurricane kills over 3,000 people in Florida.
October-December October 2 Saint Josemaria Escriva, under divine inspiration, founded Opus Dei October 7 - Haile Selassie crowned king (not yet emperor) of Abyssinia October 12 - An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston. November 4 - At Park Central Hotel in Manhattan, Arnold Rothstein, New York City's most notorious gambler, is shot to death over a poker game. November 6 - Swedes start a tradition of eating Gustavus Adolphus pastries to commemorate the king. November 6 - U.S. presidential election, 1928: Republican Herbert Hoover wins by a wide margin over Democrat Alfred E. Smith. December 3 - In Rio de Janeiro, a seaplane sunk near Cap Arcona with Alberto Santos-Dumont on board. December 5 - Police disperses Sicilian gangs' meeting in Cleveland December 31 - Bells of Big Ben first time in a radio
Unknown dates Charles King elected president of Liberia with 600.000 votes; the whole of country has only 15,000 voters. Building of the Maginot Line begins. Chaco war Coca Cola enters Europe through the Amsterdam Olympics. Eliot Ness begins to lead the prohibition unit in Chicago.The old Canaanite city of Ugarit is rediscovered.Turkey switches from the Arabic to the Latin-based modern Turkish alphabet.The right to vote extended to all women in the United Kingdom.Frederick Griffith conducts the Griffith experiment, indirectly proving existence of DNA.Motorola is founded.First (and last) Best Title Writing Academy Award given.The Episcopal Church ratifies a new revision of the Book of Common Prayer.W2XBS, RCA's first television station, is established in New York City.
Year in topic 1928 in aviation 1928 in film*Sunrise 1928 in literature*Strange Fugitive by Morley Callaghan 1928 in music 1928 in rail transport 1928 in science 1928 in sports*February 11 - 2nd Olympic Winter Games open in St. Moritz, Switzerland.*Summer Olympic Games in Amsterdam Netherlands 1928 in television*May 11 - The first regular schedule of TV programming is begun in the United States by the General Electric company. Programs are transmitted Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday afternoons from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.*July 12 - First televised tennis match. *August 22 - Alfred E. Smith accepts the Democratic presidential nomination, with WGY simulcasting the event on radio and Television. This was the first live broadcast and the first television news event. *September 11 - The first broadcast of a play on television, The Queen's Messenger (W2XAD).
BirthsJanuary January 5 - Walter Mondale, U.S. Senator, Democratic presidential nominee in 1984 January 5 - Ali Bhutto, President and Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 1979) January 7 - William Peter Blatty, screenwriter January 8 - Sander Vanocur, journalist January 11 - David L. Wolper, producer January 16 - William Kennedy, author January 17 - Jean Barraqué, composer (d. 1973) January 17 - Vidal Sassoon, cosmetologist January 23 - Jeanne Moreau, actress January 24 - Desmond Morris, anthropologist, writer January 26 - Roger Vadim, film director (d. 2000) January 30 - Hal Prince, stage producer, directorFebruary February 5 - Andrew Greeley, priest, novelist February 9 - Frank Frazetta, illustrator February 9 - Roger Mudd, journalist February 11 - Conrad Janis, actor February 11 - Archibald Forster, CEO (Esso, United Kingdom) February 11 - Gerry Alexander, West Indies cricket player February 11 - Raoul Cita, rocker February 23 - Vasili Lazarev, cosmonaut (d. 1990) February 26 - Fats Domino, musician February 26 - Anatoli Filipchenko, cosmonaut February 27 - Ariel Sharon, Prime Minister of Israel February 27 - Alfred Hrdlicka, sculptor and graphic artistMarch-April March 3 - France Križanič, Slovene mathematician (d. 2002) March 4 - Alan Sillitoe, writer March 6 - Gabriel García Márquez, writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 1982 March 8 - Gerald Bull, engineer (d. 1990) March 10 - James Earl Ray, assassin (d. 1998) March 12 - Edward Albee, U.S. dramatist March 16 - Christa Ludwig, German mezzo-soprano March 19 - Hans Küng, theologian March 19 - Patrick McGoohan, actor March 20 - Fred Rogers, children's television host (d. 2003) March 24 - Byron Janis, American pianist March 25 - Jim Lovell, astronaut March 28 - Zbigniew Brzezinski, United States National Security Advisor March 31 - Gordie Howe, ice hockey player March 31 - Lefty Frizzell, country music performer April 1 - Jane Powell, dancer, actress, singer April 2 - Serge Gainsbourg, singer (d. 1991) April 4 - Maya Angelou, poet, novelist April 6 - James D. Watson, geneticist April 7 - James Garner, actor April 7 - Alan J. Pakula, producer, director (d. 1998) April 9 - Tom Lehrer, satirical songwriter April 12 - Jean-François Paillard, French conductor
May-September May 4 - Hosni Mubarak, president of Egypt May 8 - Theodore Sorenson, political operative, writer May 9 - Colin Chapman, engineer, founder of Lotus Cars (d. 1982) May 9 - Pancho Gonzalez, tennis player (d. 1995) May 9 - Barbara Ann Scott, figure skater May 12 - Burt Bacharach, composer May 16 - Billy Martin, baseball player, coach (d. 1989) May 18 - Pernell Roberts, actor May 23 - Nigel Davenport, actor May 23 - Rosemary Clooney, singer, actress (d. 2002) May 26 - Jack Kevorkian, assisted suicide advocate June 1 - Georgi Dobrovolski, cosmonaut June 19 - Nancy Marchand, actress (The Sopranos) (d. 2000) July 5 - Warren Oates, Character actor (d. 1982) July 11 - Bobo Olson, American world champion boxer (d. 2002) July 16 - Robert Sheckley, science fiction writer July 26 - Stanley Kubrick, American film director (d. 1999) July 26 - Bernice Rubens, British novelist (d. 2004) August 6 - Andy Warhol, American artist (d. 1987) August 10 - Eddie Fisher, American singer August 12 - Bob Buhl, Major League Baseball player (d. 2001) August 15 - Nicolas Roeg, film director August 18 - Marge Schott, former owner of MLB's Cincinnati Reds (d. 2004) September 14 - The Rt Hon Sir Angus Ogilvy KCVO, husband of HRH Princess Alexandra of Kent (d. 2004) September 15 - Julian Cannonball Adderley, American saxophonist September 19 - Adam West, actor September 22 - James Lawson, civil rights activist, minister
October-December October 1 - George Peppard, actor October 8 - Bill Maynard, actor October 9 - Einojuhani Rautavaara, composer November 3 - Osamu Tezuka Japanese manga artist November 3 - George Yardley NBA Hall of famer. (d. 2004) November 10 - Ennio Morricone, film music composer December 7 - Noam Chomsky, linguist and political dissident December 15 - Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian artist December 16 - Philip K. Dick, American author
Unknown dateSultan Azlan Muhibbudin Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Yusuff Izzudin Shah Ghafarullahu-lahu, Sultan of Perak and 9th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia
Deaths - January 1 - Loie Fuller, dancer
- January 6 - Alvin Kraenzlein, American athlete
- January 11 - Thomas Hardy, English writer (b. 1840)
- January 29 - Douglas Haig, British soldier
- February 1 - Hughie Jennings, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1869)
- February 4- Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
- February 15 - Herbert Henry Asquith, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
- February 16 - Eddie Foy, vaudevillian
- June 4 - Chang Tso-lin, Chinese warlord
- August 12 - Leos Janacek, Czech composer
- August 30 - Wilhelm Wien, physicist (b. 1864)
- October 22 - Andrew Fisher, fifth Prime Minister of Australia
- December 1 - José Eustasio Rivera, Colombian writer (b. 1888)
- Robert Abbe, American surgeon
- Physics - Owen Willans Richardson
- Chemistry - Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus
- Medicine - Charles Jules Henri Nicolle
- Literature - Sigrid Undset
- Peace - Not awarded.
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