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Year 1928 ( MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.
Events of 1928
January
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
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
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
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's 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
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.
Births
January-February
January 2
January 5
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
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 27 - Hans Modrow, a German politician, premier of East Germany
January 30 - Hal Prince, American stage producer and director
February 5 - Andrew Greeley, American Catholic priest and novelist
February 9
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
February 27 - Ariel Sharon, Prime Minister of Israel
March-April
March 4
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
March 16 - Christa Ludwig, German mezzo-soprano
March 19
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
April 1
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
April 8 - Eric Porter, English actor (d. 1995)
April 9 - Tom Lehrer, American songwriter
April 12 - Jean-François Paillard, French conductor
April 19
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
May 8 - Theodore Sorenson, American lawyer and speechwriter
May 9
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
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)
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
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
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
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
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 Carolinian 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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