1928 (original) (raw)

Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century

Decades: 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s - 1920s - 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s

Years: 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 - 1928 - 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933

Events

January 10 - USSR expels Leon Trotsky
February 11 - 1928 Winter Olympic Games open in St. Moritz, Switzerland
February 25 - Charles Jenkins Laboratories of Washington, DC becomes the first holder of a television license from the Federal Radio Commission.
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.
July 6 - The then world's largest hailstone falls in Potter, Nebraska.
August 16 - Murderer Carl Panzram is arrested in Washington, DC after killing about 20 people.
August 28 The Kellog-Briand treaty was signed in Paris - it was the first treaty which outlawed aggresive war.
September 1 - Ahmet Zogu declares Albania to be a monarchy and proclaims himself king.
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.
November 10 - Michinomiya Hirohito is crowned the 124th Emperor of Japan
The old Canaanite city of Ugarit is rediscovered.
Turkey switches from arabic to the latin-based modern Turkish alphabet.
The right to vote extended to all women in England
Frederick Griffith conducted the Griffith experiment indirectly proving existence of DNA.
Motorola founded.
First (and last) Best Title Writing Academy Award given.
The Episcopal Church ratified 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 film
- Sunrise
1928 in literature
- Strange Fugitive by Morley Callaghan
1928 in music
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).

Births

January 5 - Walter Mondale, U.S. Senator, Democratic presidential nominee in 1984
January 5 - Ali Bhutto, President and Prime Minister of Pakistan († 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 Barraqu�, composer († 1973)
January 17 - Vidal Sassoon, cosmetologist
January 23 - Jeanne Moreau, actress
January 24 - Desmond Morris, anthropologist, writer
January 26 - Eartha Kitt, singer and actress
January 26 - Roger Vadim, film director († 2000)
January 30 - Hal Prince, stage producer, director
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 († 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 artist
March 3 - France Križanič, Slovene mathematician († 2002)
March 4 - Alan Sillitoe, writer
March 6 - Gabriel Garc�a M�rquez, writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 1982
March 10 - James Earl Ray, assassin († 1998)
March 12 - Edward Albee, dramatist
March 19 - Hans K�ng, theologian
March 19 - Patrick McGoohan, actor
March 20 - Fred Rogers, children's television host († 2003)
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
April 4 - Maya Angelou, poet, novelist
April 6 - James Watson, geneticist
April 7 - James Garner, actor
April 7 - Alan J. Pakula, producer, director († 1998)
April 9 - Tom Lehrer, satirical songwriter
May 8 - Theodore Sorenson, political operative, writer
May 9 - Pancho Gonzalez, tennis player († 1995)
May 11 - Mort Sahl, comedian, political commentator
May 12 - Burt Bacharach, composer
May 16 - Billy Martin, baseball player, coach († 1989)
May 18 - Pernell Roberts, actor
May 23 - Nigel Davenport, actor
May 23 - Rosemary Clooney, singer, actress († 2002)
May 26 - Jack Kevorkian, assisted suicide advocate
June 1 - Georgi Dobrovolski, cosmonaut
July 26 - Stanley Kubrick, American film director
August 6 - Andy Warhol, American artist
August 10 - Eddie Fisher, American singer
August 15 - Nicolas Roeg, film director
September 14- The Rt Hon Sir Angus Ogilvy KCVO, husband of HRH Princess Alexandra of Kent
September 15 - Julian Cannonball Adderley, American saxophonist
October 1 - George Peppard, actor
November 3 - Osamu Tezuka Japanese manga artist
November 10 - Ennio Morricone, film music composer
December 15 - Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian artist

Deaths

January 11 - Thomas Hardy, writer
January 29 - Douglas Haig, British soldier
February 4- Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate
February 16 - Eddie Foy, vaudevillian, singer, dancer
August 12 - Leos Janacek, Czech composer
August 30 - Wilhelm Wien, physicist

Nobel Prizes

Physics - Owen Willans Richardson
Chemistry - Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus
Medicine - Charles Jules Henri Nicolle
Literature - Sigrid Undset
Peace - Not awarded.