1928

Year '1928' ('MCMXXVIII') was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.

Contents

Events of 1928

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Undated

Births

January-February

March-April

May-June

July-August

September-October

November-December

Unknown date

Deaths

January - June

July - December

Nobel prizes

Notes

External links

Table of Contents

Events of 1928

January

★ January 1 - Estonia changes its currency from mark to kroon.

★ January 6-7 - River Thames floods in London - 14 drowned.

★ January 7 - Moat at the Tower of London, previously drained in 1843 (and planted with grass), is completely refilled by a tidal wave.

★ January 12 - U.S. murderer Ruth Snyder executed at Ossining.

★ January 17 - OGPU arrests Lev Trotsky in Moscow; he assumes a status of passive resistance and is exiled to Turkestan.

February

★ February - Kurume University (Japan) established

★ February 11 - II Olympic Winter Games open in St. Moritz, Switzerland

★ February 12 - Heavy hail kills 11 in England

★ February 20 - Swung parliament produced in Japan after the general election.

★ February 25 - Charles Jenkins Laboratories of Washington, DC becomes the first holder of a television license from the Federal Radio Commission.

March

★ March 12

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★ Malta becomes a British dominion

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★ In California, the St. Francis Dam north of Los Angeles fails killing 400

★ March 21 - Charles Lindbergh is presented the Medal of Honor for his first trans-Atlantic flight.

★ March 26 - China Academy of Art founded in Hangzhou in Republic of China, first named National Academy of Art

April

★ April 10 - Pineapple Primary - Republican Party primary elections in Chicago preceded by assassinations and bombings

★ April 12 - Bomb attack against the Dictator of Italy in Milan - 17 bystanders dead

★ April 22 - Earthquake destroys Corinth - 200.000 buildings destroyed

May

★ May 10 - The first regular schedule of television programming begins in Schenectady, New York by the General Electric's television station W2XB (the station was popularly known as WGY Television; after its sister radio station, WGY).

★ May 15

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★ Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia, commenced operations

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★ 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

★ June 4 - Zhang Zuolin, President of the Republic of China and warlord, is killed by Japanese agents during the Huanggutun Incident.

★ June 8 - By seizing Beijing and renaming it Běipíng, the NRA puts an end to the Fengtian warlords' Běiyáng government there.

★ June 11 - Medical doctor's strike begins in Vienna

★ June 14 - Students take over the medical wing of Rosario University in Argentina

★ 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

★ June 28 - The Great Gorge and International Railway switches to one-man crews for its trolleys in Canada.

★ June 29 - New York Governor Alfred E. Smith becomes the first Catholic nominated by a major political party for U.S. President, at the Democratic National Convention in Houston, Texas.

July

★ July 2

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★ Jenkins Laboratories' W3XK station begins broadcasting on 6.42 MHz using 48 lines.

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★ The Representation of the People Act 1928 becomes law, extending the right to vote to all women in the United Kingdom.

★ 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 New Jersey Pine Barrens while returning from a goodwill flight to New York City.

★ July 17 - José de León Toral assassinates Álvaro Obregón, president of Mexico.

★ July 25 - U.S.A. recalls its troops from China

★ July 27 - Tich Freeman becomes only bowler ever to take 200 first-class wickets before end of July.

★ July 28 - Official opening ceremony of the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam.

August

★ August 16 - Murderer Carl Panzram is arrested in Washington, DC after killing about 20 people.

★ August 22 - Alfred E. Smith accepts the Democratic presidential nomination, with WGY/W2XB simulcasting the event on radio and television.

★ August 25 - Ahmet Zogu proclaims himself ''King Zog I'' of Albania; he is crowned September 1

★ August 26 - May Donoghue finds the remains of a snail in her gingerbeer, launching Donoghue v. Stevenson.

★ August 27 - The Kellogg-Briand Pact was signed in Paris - it was the first treaty which outlawed aggressive war.

★ August 29 - Club Deportivo Motagua of Honduras is founded.

September

★ September 1 - Richard Byrd leaves New York for Arctic.

★ September 3 - Alexander Fleming discovers Penicillin.

★ September 11 - Kenmore's WMAK station starts broadcasting in Buffalo, New York.

★ September 15 - Tich Freeman sets all-time record for number of wickets taken in an English cricket season.

★ September 16 - The 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane kills at least 2,500 people in Florida.

★ September 25 - Motorola is founded.

October

★ October 2 - Saint Josemaria Escriva, founds 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.

★ October 19 - William Edward Hickman is executed at San Quentin prison for the 1927 murder of Marian Parker.

November

★ 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

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★ Swedes start a tradition of eating Gustavus Adolphus pastries to commemorate the old warrior king.

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★ U.S. presidential election, 1928: Republican Herbert Hoover wins by a wide margin over Democrat Alfred E. Smith.

★ November 10 - Hirohito was enthroned as Emperor of Japan.

★ November 17 - The Boston Garden opens in Boston.

★ November 18 - Mickey Mouse appears in Steamboat Willie, the first sound cartoon.

December

★ December 3 - In Rio de Janeiro, a seaplane sent to greet Alberto Santos-Dumont crashed near Cap Arcona, killing all on board.

★ December 5 - Police disperses Sicilian gangs' meeting in Cleveland

★ December 21 - U.S. Congress approves the construction of The Boulder Dam, later renamed The Hoover Dam

Undated

★ 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.

★ Frederick Griffith conducts Griffith's experiment, indirectly proving existence of DNA.

★ First (and last) Best Title Writing Academy Award given.

★ The Episcopal Church in the United States of America ratifies a new revision of the Book of Common Prayer.

★ W2XBS, RCA's first television station, is established in New York City.

★ Australian farmer, Jack Trott, finds Rhizanthella gardneri in his garden.

★ The first patent for the transistor principle was registered in Germany to Julius Edgar Lilienfeld.

★ World population reaches 2 billion.

Births

January-February

★ January 2

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★ Robert Goralski - American journalist at Voice of America, NBC News (d. 1988)

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★ Daisaku Ikeda - Japanese President of the Nichiren Buddhist religious organization, the Soka Gakkai International

★ January 5

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★ Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, President of Pakistan and Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 1979)

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★ Walter Mondale, U.S. Senator and Presidential candidate

★ January 6 - George H. Ross, American senior vice president of Trump Organization

★ January 7 - William Peter Blatty, American writer

★ January 10 - Philip Levine, American poet

★ January 11 - David L. Wolper, American television producer

★ January 16 - William Kennedy, American author

★ January 17

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★ Jean Barraqué, French composer (d. 1973)

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★ Vidal Sassoon, English hairdresser

★ January 23 - Chico Carrasquel, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player (d. 2005)

★ January 23 - Jeanne Moreau, French actress

★ January 24 - Desmond Morris, English anthropologist and writer

★ January 26 - Roger Vadim, French film director (d. 2000)

★ January 30 - Hal Prince, American stage producer and director

★ February 5 - Andrew Greeley, American Catholic priest and novelist

★ February 9

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★ Frank Frazetta, American illustrator

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★ Roger Mudd, American journalist

★ February 22 - Bruce Forsyth, English entertainer

★ February 23 - Vasili Lazarev, cosmonaut (d. 1990)

★ February 23 - Ralph Earnhardt, American Race car driver (d. 1973)

★ February 26

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★ Fats Domino, American musician

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★ Anatoli Filipchenko, cosmonaut

★ February 27 - Ariel Sharon, Prime Minister of Israel

March-April

★ March 4

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★ Samuel Adler, American composer

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★ Alan Sillitoe, English writer

★ March 6 - Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian writer, Nobel Prize laureate

★ March 8 - Gerald Bull, Canadian engineer (d. 1990)

★ March 10 - James Earl Ray, American assassin (d. 1998)

★ March 12 - Edward Albee, American dramatist

★ March 16 - Christa Ludwig, German mezzo-soprano

★ March 19

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★ Hans Küng, Swiss theologian

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★ Patrick McGoohan, Irish actor

★ March 20 - Fred Rogers, American children's television host (d. 2003)

★ March 24 - Byron Janis, American pianist

★ March 25 - Jim Lovell, astronaut

★ March 28 - Zbigniew Brzezinski, Polish-born U.S. National Security Advisor

★ March 31

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★ Gordie Howe, Canadian hockey player

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★ Lefty Frizzell, American country music performer

★ April 1

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★ Jane Powell, American dancer, actress, and singer

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★ George Grizzard, American actor

★ April 2 - Serge Gainsbourg, French singer (d. 1991)

★ April 4 - Maya Angelou, American poet and novelist

★ April 6 - James D. Watson, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

★ April 7

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★ James Garner, American actor

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★ Alan J. Pakula, American producer and director (d. 1998)

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★ James White, Irish writer (d. 1999)

★ April 8 - Eric Porter, English actor (d. 1995)

★ April 9 - Tom Lehrer, American songwriter

★ April 12 - Jean-François Paillard, French conductor

★ April 19

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★ Alexis Korner, British musician (d. 1984)

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★ Sultan Azlan Muhibbudin Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Yusuff Izzudin Shah Ghafarullahu-lahu, King of Malaysia

★ April 23 - Shirley Temple, American actress and politician

May-June

★ May 1 - Desmond Titterington, Irish race car driver (d. 2002)

★ May 3 - Dave Dudley, American singer (d. 2003)

★ May 4

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★ Maynard Ferguson, Canadian jazz trumpeter (d. 2006)

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★ Hosni Mubarak, President of Egypt

★ May 8 - Theodore Sorenson, American lawyer and speechwriter

★ May 9

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★ Colin Chapman, English automotive engineer (d. 1982)

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★ Pancho Gonzalez, American tennis player (d. 1995)

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★ Barbara Ann Scott, Canadian figure skater

★ May 12 - Burt Bacharach, American composer

★ May 13 - Jim Shoulders, American rodeo cowboy

★ May 16 - Billy Martin, baseball player and manager (d. 1989)

★ May 18 - Pernell Roberts, American actor

★ May 23 - Rosemary Clooney, American singer and actress (d. 2002)

★ May 26 - Jack Kevorkian, American physician

★ June 1

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★ Georgi Dobrovolski, cosmonaut (d. 1971)

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★ Bob Monkhouse, English comedian and game show host (d. 2003)

★ June 9 - Jackie Mason, - American comedian

★ June 12 - Richard M. Sherman, American songwriter

★ June 13 - John Forbes Nash, Jr., American mathematician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics

★ June 14 - Ernesto Rafael Guevara de la Serna, Argentine-born revolutionary (d. 1967)

★ June 19 - Nancy Marchand, American actress (d. 2000)

★ Martin Landau, -American actor

★ June 25 - Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

★ June 26 - Jacob Druckman, American composer (d. 1996)

★ June 28 - Harold Evans, British newspaper editor

July-August

★ July 5 - Warren Oates, American actor (d. 1982)

★ July 10 - Moshe Greenberg, America Bible scholar

★ July 11 - Bobo Olson, American boxer (d. 2002)

★ July 12 - Elias James Corey, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

★ July 13 - Leroy Vinnegar, American musician (d. 1999)

★ July 16 - Robert Sheckley, American writer

★ July 25 - Keter Betts, American jazz bassist (d. 2005)

★ July 26

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★ Stanley Kubrick, American film director (d. 1999)

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★ Bernice Rubens, British novelist (d. 2004)

★ August 6 - Andy Warhol, American artist (d. 1987)

★ August 7 - James Randi, Canadian magician

★ August 10 - Eddie Fisher, American singer

★ August 12 - Bob Buhl, baseball player (d. 2001)

★ August 15 - Nicolas Roeg, English film director

★ August 18 - Marge Schott, baseball team owner (d. 2004)

★ August 25 - Herbert Kroemer, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

★ August 26 - Zdeněk Veselovský, legendary Czech zoologist (d. 2006)

★ August 31

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★ Jaime Cardinal Sin, Filipinio Catholic cardinal (d. 2005)

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★ James Coburn, American actor (d. 2002)

September-October

★ September 3 - Gaston Thorn, Luxembourger politician and Prime Minister (d. 2007)

★ September 6 - Robert M. Pirsig, American philosopher and author

★ September 11 - William Kienzle, American author (d. 2001)

★ September 15 - Julian Cannonball Adderley, American saxophonist

★ September 19 - Adam West, American actor (famous for playing ''Batman'')

★ September 20 - Donald Hall, American poet and US Poet Laureate

★ September 22 - James Lawson, American civil rights activist and minister

★ September 30 - Elie Wiesel, Romanian Holocaust survivor, writer, and lecturer, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize

★ October 1 - George Peppard, American actor (d. 1994)

★ October 7 - Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and painter (d. 1980)

★ October 8 - Bill Maynard, British actor

★ October 9 - Einojuhani Rautavaara, Finnish composer

★ October 15 - Paul Giambarba, American graphic designer

★ October 30 - Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1999)

November-December

★ November 3

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★ Osamu Tezuka, Japanese artist (d. 1989)

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★ George Yardley, American basketball player (d. 2004)

★ November 9 - Anne Sexton, American poet (d. 1974)

★ November 10 - Ennio Morricone, Italian composer

★ November 11 - Carlos Fuentes, Mexican writer

★ November 17 - Rance Howard, American actor

★ November 18 - Otar Gordeli, Georgian composer

★ November 29 - Paul Simon, U.S. Senator from Illinois (d. 2003)

★ November 30 - Joe B. Hall, American basketball coach

★ December 7 - Noam Chomsky, American linguist

★ December 15 - Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian artist (d. 2000)

★ December 16 - Philip K. Dick, American author (d. 1982)

★ December 25 - Dick Miller, American actor

★ December 30 - Bo Diddley, American musician

★ December 31 - Siné, French cartoonist

Unknown date

★ Norman Carlberg, American sculptor

Deaths

January - June

★ January 1 - Loie Fuller, American dancer (b. 1862)

★ January 6 - Alvin Kraenzlein, American athlete (b. 1876)

★ January 11 - Thomas Hardy, English writer (b. 1840)

★ January 21 - Nikolai Astrup, Norwegian painter (b.1880)

★ January 29 - Douglas Haig, British soldier (b. 1861)

★ January 30 - Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger, Danish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1867)

★ February 1 - Hughie Jennings, baseball player (b. 1869)

★ February 4 - Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853)

★ February 15 - Herbert Henry Asquith, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1852)

★ February 16 - Eddie Foy, American vaudevillian (b. 1856)

★ March 7 - Robert Abbe - American surgeon (b. 1851)

★ April 2 - Theodore William Richards, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868)

★ April 5 - Roy Kilner, English cricketer (b. 1890)

★ April 19 - Dorus Rijkers, famous Dutch sailor and savior of over 500 men, women and children (b. 1847)

★ May 22 - Francisco López Merino, Argentine poet (b. 1904)

★ June 4

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★ Emmeline Pankhurst, women's suffrage campaigner (b. 1858)

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★ Chang Tso-lin, Chinese warlord (b. 1873)

★ June 16 - Mark Keppel, Superintendent of Los Angeles County Schools (b. 1867)

★ June 22 - A. B. Frost, American illustrator (b. 1851)

July - December

★ August 12 - Leoš Janáček, Czech composer (b. 1854)

★ August 30 - Wilhelm Wien, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)

★ October 13 - Dagmar of Denmark, later 'Maria Fyodorovna', wife of Tsar Alexander III and Empress Consort of Russia (b. 1847)

★ October 22 - Andrew Fisher, fifth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1862)

★ October 31 - John William Wood Sr., North Carolinan politician, founder of Benson, North Carolina (b. 1855)

★ December 1 - José Eustasio Rivera, Colombian writer (b. 1888)

★ December 10 - Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect (b. 1868)

★ December 17 - Eglantyne Jebb - English co-founder of Save the Children, and champion of children's human rights (b. 1876)

Nobel prizes

★ Physics - Owen Willans Richardson

★ Chemistry - Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus

★ Physiology or Medicine - Charles Jules Henri Nicolle

★ Literature - Sigrid Undset

★ Peace - not awarded

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