1928
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Year 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.
Gregorian calendar | 1928 MCMXXVIII |
Ab urbe condita | 2681 |
Armenian calendar | 1377 ԹՎ ՌՅՀԷ |
Bahá'í calendar | 84 – 85 |
Berber calendar | 2878 |
Buddhist calendar | 2472 |
Burmese calendar | 1290 |
Byzantine calendar | 7436 – 7437 |
Chinese calendar | 丁卯年十二月初九日 (4564/4624-12-9) — to — 戊辰年十一月二十日(4565/4625-11-20) |
Coptic calendar | 1644 – 1645 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1920 – 1921 |
Hebrew calendar | 5688 – 5689 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1983 – 1984 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1850 – 1851 |
- Kali Yuga | 5029 – 5030 |
Holocene calendar | 11928 |
Iranian calendar | 1306 – 1307 |
Islamic calendar | 1346 – 1347 |
Japanese calendar | Shōwa 3 (昭和3年) |
Korean calendar | 4261 |
Thai solar calendar | 2471 |
Events of 1928
January
- 1 January - Estonia changes its currency from mark to kroon.
- 6 January- 7 - River Thames floods in London - 14 drowned.
- 7 January - Moat at the Tower of London, previously drained in 1843 (and planted with grass), is completely refilled by a tidal wave.
- 12 January - U.S. murderer Ruth Snyder executed at Ossining.
- 17 January - OGPU arrests Lev Trotsky in Moscow; he assumes a status of passive resistance.
- 31 January - Trotsky is exiled to Alma Ata.
February
- February - Kurume University (Japan) established
- 11 February - II Olympic Winter Games open in St. Moritz, Switzerland
- 12 February - Heavy hail kills 11 in England
- 20 February - Swung parliament produced in Japan after the general election.
- 25 February - Charles Jenkins Laboratories of Washington, D.C. becomes the first holder of a television license from the Federal Radio Commission.
March
- 12 March
- Malta becomes a British dominion
- In California, the St. Francis Dam north of Los Angeles fails killing 400
- 21 March - Charles Lindbergh is presented the Medal of Honour for his first trans-Atlantic flight.
- 26 March - China Academy of Art founded in Hangzhou in Republic of China, first named National Academy of Art
April
- 10 April - Pineapple Primary - Republican Party primary elections in Chicago preceded by assassinations and bombings
- 12 April - Bomb attack against the Dictator of Italy in Milan - 17 bystanders dead
- 12 April- 14 April - First ever east-west transatlantic flight ( Dublin , Ireland - Greenly , Canada
- 22 April - Earthquake destroys Corinth - 200.000 buildings destroyed
- The last section (wise - wyze) of the original Oxford English Dictionary completed and ready for publication (OED (1933, 1978 vol. 1, pp. xxv, xxvl)
May
- 10 May - 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).
- 15 May
- Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia, commenced operations
- Release of the animated short Plane Crazy, featuring the first appearances of Mickey and Minnie Mouse.
- 23 May - Bomb attack against Italian consulate in Buenos Aires - 22 dead, 41 injured
- 24 May - Airship Italia crashes on the North Pole; one of the occupants is Italian general Umberto Nobile
- 30 May - A rescue expedition leaves for the North Pole
June
- 4 June - Zhang Zuolin, President of the Republic of China and warlord, is killed by Japanese agents during the Huanggutun Incident.
- 8 June - By seizing Beijing and renaming it Běipíng, the NRA puts an end to the Fengtian warlords' Běiyáng government there.
- 11 June - Medical doctor's strike begins in Vienna
- 14 June - Students take over the medical wing of Rosario University in Argentina
- 17 June - 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).
- 20 June - Shooting incident in Yugoslavian parliament - Puniša Račić shoots 3 opposition representatives and injures three others
- 24 June - Swedish aeroplane rescues part of Italian North Pole expedition, including Umberto Nobile. Soviet icebreaker Krasin saves the rest 12 July
- 28 June - The Great Gorge and International Railway switches to one-man crews for its trolleys in Canada.
- 29 June - 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
- 2 July
- Jenkins Laboratories' W3XK station begins broadcasting on 6.42 MHz using 48 lines.
- The Representation of the People Act 1928 becomes law, extending the right to vote to all women in the United Kingdom.
- 6 July - The world's largest hailstone falls in Potter, Nebraska.
- 12 July - 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.
- 17 July - José de León Toral assassinates Álvaro Obregón, president of Mexico.
- 25 July - U.S.A. recalls its troops from China
- 27 July - Tich Freeman becomes only bowler ever to take 200 first-class wickets before end of July.
- 27 July - publication of The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall.
- 28 July - Official opening ceremony of the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam.
August
- 16 August - Murderer Carl Panzram is arrested in Washington, D.C. after killing about 20 people.
- 22 August - Alfred E. Smith accepts the Democratic presidential nomination, with WGY/W2XB simulcasting the event on radio and television.
- 25 August - Ahmet Zogu proclaims himself King Zog I of Albania; he is crowned 1 September
- 26 August - May Donoghue finds the remains of a snail in her gingerbeer, launching Donoghue v. Stevenson.
- 27 August - The Kellogg-Briand Pact was signed in Paris - it was the first treaty which outlawed aggressive war.
- 29 August - Club Deportivo Motagua of Honduras is founded.
September
- 1 September - Richard Byrd leaves New York for Arctic.
- 3 September - Alexander Fleming discovers Penicillin.
- 11 September - Kenmore's WMAK station starts broadcasting in Buffalo, New York.
- 15 September - Tich Freeman sets all-time record for number of wickets taken in an English cricket season.
- 16 September - The 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane kills at least 2,500 people in Florida.
- 25 September - Motorola is founded.
October
- 2 October - Saint Josemaria Escriva, founds Opus Dei
- 7 October - Haile Selassie crowned king (not yet emperor) of Abyssinia
- 12 October - An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston.
- 19 October - William Edward Hickman is executed at San Quentin prison for the 1927 murder of Marion Parker.
- 22 October - Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity is founded at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus.
November
- 4 November - At Park Central Hotel in Manhattan, Arnold Rothstein, New York City's most notorious gambler, is shot to death over a poker game.
- 6 November
- Swedes start a tradition of eating Gustavus Adolphus pastries to commemorate the old warrior king.
- U.S. presidential election, 1928: Republican Herbert Hoover wins by a wide margin over Democrat Alfred E. Smith.
- 10 November - Hirohito was enthroned as Emperor of Japan.
- 17 November - The Boston Garden opens in Boston.
- 18 November - Mickey Mouse appears in Steamboat Willie, the first sound cartoon.
December
- 3 December - In Rio de Janeiro, a seaplane sent to greet Alberto Santos-Dumont crashed near Cap Arcona, killing all on board.
- 5 December - Police disperses Sicilian gangs' meeting in Cleveland
- 21 December - 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.
Births
January-February
- 2 January - Robert Goralski - American journalist (d. 1988)
- 2 January - Daisaku Ikeda - Japanese religious leader
- 5 January - Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, President of Pakistan and Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 1979)
- 5 January - Walter Mondale, U.S. Senator and Presidential candidate
- 6 January - George H. Ross, American businessman
- 7 January - William Peter Blatty, American writer
- 10 January - Philip Levine, American poet
- 11 January - David L. Wolper, American television producer
- 15 January - Joanne Linville, American actress
- 16 January - William Kennedy, American author
- 17 January - Jean Barraqué, French composer (d. 1973)
- 17 January - Vidal Sassoon, English hairdresser
- 22 January - Yoshihiko Amino, Japanese historians (d. 2004)
- 23 January - Chico Carrasquel, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player (d. 2005)
- 23 January - Jeanne Moreau, French actress
- 24 January - Michel Serrault, French actor (d. 2007)
- 24 January - Desmond Morris, English anthropologist and writer
- 26 January - Roger Vadim, French film director (d. 2000)
- 27 January - Hans Modrow, East German Premier
- 30 January - Hal Prince, American stage producer and director
- 5 February - Andrew Greeley, American Catholic priest and novelist
- 9 February - Frank Frazetta, American illustrator
- 9 February - Roger Mudd, American journalist
- 22 February - Bruce Forsyth, English entertainer
- 23 February - Vasili Lazarev, cosmonaut (d. 1990)
- 23 February - Ralph Earnhardt, American race car driver (d. 1973)
- 26 February - Fats Domino, American musician
- 26 February - Anatoli Filipchenko, cosmonaut
- 27 February - Ariel Sharon, Prime Minister of Israel
March-April
- 4 March - Samuel Adler, American composer
- 4 March - Alan Sillitoe, English writer
- 8 March - Gerald Bull, Canadian engineer (d. 1990)
- 10 March - James Earl Ray, American assassin (d. 1998)
- 12 March
- Edward Albee, American dramatist
- Aldemaro Romero, Venezuelan musician (d. 2007)
- 16 March - Christa Ludwig, German mezzo-soprano
- 19 March - Hans Küng, Swiss theologian
- 19 March - Patrick McGoohan, Irish actor
- 20 March - Fred Rogers, American children's television host (d. 2003)
- 24 March - Byron Janis, American pianist
- 25 March - Jim Lovell, astronaut
- 28 March - Zbigniew Brzezinski, Polish-born U.S. National Security Advisor
- 31 March
- Gordie Howe, Canadian hockey player
- Lefty Frizzell, American country music performer
- 1 April
- Jane Powell, American dancer, actress, and singer
- George Grizzard, American actor (d. 2007)
- 2 April - Serge Gainsbourg, French singer (d. 1991)
- 4 April - Maya Angelou, American poet and novelist
- 6 April - James D. Watson, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 7 April
- 8 April - Eric Porter, English actor (d. 1995)
- 9 April - Tom Lehrer, American songwriter
- 12 April - Jean-François Paillard, French conductor
- 19 April - Alexis Korner, British musician (d. 1984)
- Sultan Azlan Muhibbudin Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Yusuff Izzudin Shah Ghafarullahu-lahu, King of Malaysia
- 23 April - Shirley Temple, American actress and politician
May-June
- 1 May - Desmond Titterington, Irish race car driver (d. 2002)
- 3 May - Dave Dudley, American singer (d. 2003)
- 4 May - Maynard Ferguson, Canadian jazz trumpeter (d. 2006)
- 4 May - Hosni Mubarak, President of Egypt
- 8 May - Theodore Sorenson, American lawyer and speechwriter
- 8 May - Gregory Scarpa Sr., American mobster
- 9 May - Colin Chapman, English automotive engineer (d. 1982)
- 9 May - Pancho Gonzalez, American tennis player (d. 1995)
- 9 May - Barbara Ann Scott, Canadian figure skater
- 12 May - Burt Bacharach, American composer
- 13 May - Jim Shoulders, American rodeo cowboy
- 16 May - Billy Martin, baseball player and manager (d. 1989)
- 18 May - Pernell Roberts, American actor
- 23 May - Jeannie Carson, English actress and comedian
- 23 May - Rosemary Clooney, American singer and actress (d. 2002)
- 24 May - Adrian Frutiger, Swiss typeface designer and cutter
- 26 May - Jack Kevorkian, American physician
- 1 June - Georgi Dobrovolski, cosmonaut (d. 1971)
- 1 June - Bob Monkhouse, English comedian and game show host (d. 2003)
- 10 June - Maurice Bernard Sendak, American children's author/illustrator
- 12 June - Richard M. Sherman, American songwriter
- 13 June - John Forbes Nash, Jr., American mathematician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics
- 14 June - Ernesto Rafael Guevara de la Serna, Argentine-born revolutionary (d. 1967)
- 19 June - Nancy Marchand, American actress (d. 2000)
- 25 June - Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 26 June - Jacob Druckman, American composer (d. 1996)
- 26 June - Yoshiro Nakamatsu, Japanese inventor
- 28 June - Harold Evans, British newspaper editor
July-August
- 5 July - Warren Oates, American actor (d. 1982)
- 10 July - Moshe Greenberg, America Bible scholar
- 11 July - Bobo Olson, American boxer (d. 2002)
- 12 July - Elias James Corey, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 13 July - Leroy Vinnegar, American musician (d. 1999)
- 16 July - Robert Sheckley, American writer
- 25 July - Keter Betts, American jazz bassist (d. 2005)
- 25 July - Mario Montenegro, Filipino actor (d. 1988)
- 26 July - Stanley Kubrick, American film director (d. 1999)
- 26 July - Bernice Rubens, British novelist (d. 2004)
- 30 July - Joe Nuxhall, baseball player (d. 2007)
- 5 August - Bogdan Maglich, physicist
- 6 August - Andy Warhol, American artist (d. 1987)
- 7 August - James Randi, Canadian magician
- 9 August - Bob Cousy, American basketball player
- 10 August - Eddie Fisher, American singer
- 12 August - Bob Buhl, baseball player (d. 2001)
- 15 August - Nicolas Roeg, English film director
- 18 August - Marge Schott, baseball team owner (d. 2004)
- 22 August - Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer (d. 2007)
- 25 August - Herbert Kroemer, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 26 August - Zdeněk Veselovský, Czech zoologist (d. 2006)
- 31 August - Jaime Cardinal Sin, Filipino Catholic cardinal (d. 2005)
- 31 August - James Coburn, American actor (d. 2002)
September-October
- 3 September - Gaston Thorn, Luxembourger politician and Prime Minister (d. 2007)
- 6 September - Robert M. Pirsig, American philosopher and author
- 11 September - William Kienzle, American author (d. 2001)
- 12 September - M. V. Rajasekharan,Indian, Member of Rajya Sabha
- 15 September - Julian Cannonball Adderley, American saxophonist (d. 1975)
- 19 September - Adam West, American actor (famous for playing Batman)
- 20 September - Donald Hall, American poet and US Poet Laureate
- 22 September - James Lawson, American civil rights activist and minister
- 30 September - Elie Wiesel, Romanian Holocaust survivor, writer, and lecturer, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
- 1 October - George Peppard, American actor (d. 1994)
- 7 October - Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and painter (d. 1980)
- 8 October - Bill Maynard, British actor
- 9 October - Einojuhani Rautavaara, Finnish composer
- 15 October - Paul Giambarba, American graphic designer
- 30 October - Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1999)
November-December
- 3 November - Osamu Tezuka, Japanese artist (d. 1989)
- 3 November - George Yardley, American basketball player (d. 2004)
- 9 November - Anne Sexton, American poet (d. 1974)
- 10 November - Ennio Morricone, Italian composer
- 11 November - Carlos Fuentes, Mexican writer
- 17 November - Rance Howard, American actor
- 18 November - Inge Bandekow, wife of German industrialist Harald Quandt
- 18 November - Otar Gordeli, Georgian composer
- 22 November - Timothy Beaumont, Baron Beaumont of Whitley (d. 2008)
- 29 November - Paul Simon, U.S. Senator from Illinois (d. 2003)
- 30 November - Joe B. Hall, American basketball coach
- 1 December - Emily McLaughlin, American actress (d. 1992)
- 7 December - Noam Chomsky, American linguist
- 15 December - Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian artist (d. 2000)
- 16 December - Philip K. Dick, American author (d. 1982)
- 25 December - Dick Miller, American actor
- 30 December - Bo Diddley, American musician (d. 2008)
- 31 December - Siné, French cartoonist
Unknown date
- Norman Carlberg, American sculptor
Deaths
January - June
- 1 January - Loie Fuller, American dancer (b. 1862)
- 6 January - Alvin Kraenzlein, American athlete (b. 1876)
- 11 January - Thomas Hardy, English writer (b. 1840)
- 21 January - Nikolai Astrup, Norwegian painter (b.1880)
- 29 January - Douglas Haig, British soldier (b. 1861)
- 30 January - Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger, Danish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1867)
- 1 February - Hughie Jennings, baseball player (b. 1869)
- 4 February - Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853)
- 15 February - Herbert Henry Asquith, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1852)
- 16 February - Eddie Foy, American vaudevillian (b. 1856)
- 7 March - Robert Abbe - American surgeon (b. 1851)
- 2 April - Theodore William Richards, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868)
- 5 April - Roy Kilner, English cricketer (b. 1890)
- 19 April - Dorus Rijkers, famous Dutch sailor and savior of over 500 men, women and children (b. 1847)
- 19 May - Max Scheler, German philosopher (b. 1874)
- 22 May - Francisco López Merino, Argentine poet (b. 1904)
- 4 June
- Emmeline Pankhurst, women's suffrage campaigner (b. 1858)
- Chang Tso-lin, Chinese warlord (b. 1873)
- 16 June - Mark Keppel, Superintendent of Los Angeles County Schools (b. 1867)
- 22 June - A. B. Frost, American illustrator (b. 1851)
July - December
- 17 July - Álvaro Obregón, President of Mexico (assassinated) (b. 1880)
- 8 August - Stjepan Radić, Croatian politician (b. 1871)
- 12 August - Leoš Janáček, Czech composer (b. 1854)
- 30 August - Wilhelm Wien, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
- 13 October - Dagmar of Denmark, later Maria Fyodorovna, wife of Tsar Alexander III and Empress Consort of Russia (b. 1847)
- 22 October - Andrew Fisher, fifth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1862)
- 31 October - John William Wood Sr., North Carolinian politician, founder of Benson, North Carolina (b. 1855)
- 1 December - José Eustasio Rivera, Colombian writer (b. 1888)
- 10 December - Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect (b. 1868)
- 17 December - 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