1928

MYTHOS 1928

TODO: Combine this in properly November 5: Tooting Sons of Terror lead by Serpent Man Doctor Christopher Lewis, attack the Weapons to End War Conference in Westminster, London (The Day of the Beast, Lucya Szachnowski and Gary O'Connell)

Years:	1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931
Decades:	1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
Centuries:	19th century - 20th century - 21st century

1928 by topic:

Arts

Architecture - Art - Film - Literature - Music - Television

Science and technology

Archaeology - Aviation - Rail transport - Radio - Science

By country

Australia - Canada - India - Ireland - Mexico - South Africa

Other topics

Sport - Law - State leaders - Religious leaders Video gaming

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

1928 (MCMXXVIII) 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 7 - Moat at the Tower of London, previously drained in 1843, is completely refilled by a tidal wave
• January 12 - US 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 - 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 12 - Malta becomes a British dominion
• March 12 - In California, the St. Francis Dam north of Los Angeles fails killing 400
• March 21 - Charles Lindbergh is presented the Congressional Medal of Honor for his first trans-Atlantic flight.
• April 10 - Pineapple Primary - Republican Party primary elections in Chicago preceded by assassinations and bombings
• 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-August

• 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 New Jersey Pine Barrens 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).
• July 17 - Jose del León Toral assassinates Alvaro Obregon, president of Mexico
• 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.
• July 28 - Official opening ceremony of the 1928_Summer_Olympics in Amsterdam.
• 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 27 - The Kellogg-Briand Pact was signed in Paris - it was the first treaty which outlawed aggressive war.

September-December

• September 1 - Richard Byrd leaves New York for Arctic
• September 3 - Alexander Fleming discovers Penicillin
• 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.
• 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.
• November 3 - cartoon star Mickey Mouse appears in Steamboat Willie, an animated short produced by Walt Disney.
• 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 old warrior king.
• November 6 - 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.
• 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 21 - U.S. Congress approves the construction of The Boulder Dam, later renamed The Hoover Dam
• 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.
• Chaco war
• Coca Cola enters Europe through the Amsterdam Olympics.
• Eliot Ness begins to lead the prohibition unit in Chicago, Illinois.
• 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 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.

Births

January

• January 5 - Ali Bhutto, President of Pakistan and Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 1979)
• January 5 - Walter Mondale, U.S. Senator and Presidential candidate
• January 7 - William Peter Blatty, American writer
• January 11 - David L. Wolper, television producer
• January 16 - William Kennedy, American author
• January 17 - Jean Barraqué, French composer (d. 1973)
• January 17 - Vidal Sassoon, English cosmetologist
• January 23 - Chico Carrasquel, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player (d. 2005)
• January 23 - Jeanne Moreau, French actress
• January 24 - Desmond Morris, anthropologist and writer
• January 26 - Roger Vadim, French film director (d. 2000)
• January 30 - Hal Prince, American stage producer and director

February

• February 5 - Andrew Greeley, American Catholic priest and novelist
• February 9 - Frank Frazetta, American illustrator
• February 9 - Roger Mudd, American journalist
• February 23 - Vasili Lazarev, cosmonaut (d. 1990)
• February 26 - Fats Domino, American musician
• February 26 - Anatoli Filipchenko, cosmonaut
• February 27 - Ariel Sharon, Prime Minister of Israel

March-April

• March 4 - 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 - Hans Küng, Swiss theologian
• March 19 - 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 - Gordie Howe, Canadian hockey player
• March 31 - Lefty Frizzell, American country music performer
• April 1 - Jane Powell, American dancer, actress, and singer
• April 1 - 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 - James Garner, American actor
• April 7 - Alan J. Pakula, American producer and director (d. 1998)
• April 8 - Eric Porter, English actor (d. 1995)
• April 9 - Tom Lehrer, American songwriter
• April 12 - Jean-François Paillard, French conductor
• April 19 - Alexis Korner, British blues musician (d. 1984)
• April 23 - Shirley Temple, American actress and politician

May-June

• May 3 - Dave Dudley, American singer (d. 2003)
• May 4 - Hosni Mubarak, President of Egypt
• May 8 - Theodore Sorenson, American lawyer and speechwriter
• May 9 - Colin Chapman, English automotive engineer (d. 1982)
• May 9 - Pancho Gonzalez, American tennis player (d. 1995)
• May 9 - Barbara Ann Scott, Canadian figure skater
• May 12 - Burt Bacharach, American composer
• 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 - Georgi Dobrovolski, cosmonaut (d. 1971)
• June 1 - Bob Monkhouse, English comedian and game show host (d. 2003)
• 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 Abrikosov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• June 26 - Jacob Druckman, American composer (d. 1996)

July-September

• July 5 - Warren Oates, American actor (d. 1982)
• July 10 - Moshe Greenberg, American-Israeli 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 - 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, 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
• September 11 - William Kienzle, American author (d. 2001
• September 14 - Angus Ogilvy, husband of Princess Alexandra of Kent (d. 2004)
• September 15 - Julian Cannonball Adderley, American saxophonist
• September 19 - Adam West, American actor
• 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-December

• October 1 - George Peppard, American actor (d. 1994)
• October 8 - Bill Maynard, British actor
• October 9 - Einojuhani Rautavaara, Finnish composer
• October 27 - Kyle Rote, American football player (d. 2002)
• October 30 - Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1999)
• November 3 - Osamu Tezuka, Japanese artist (d. 1989)
• November 3 - George Yardley, American basketball player (d. 2004)
• November 10 - Ennio Morricone, Italian composer
• November 11 - Carlos Fuentes, Panamanian writer
• November 17 - Rance Howard, American actor
• November 29 - Paul Simon, U.S. Senator from Illinois (d. 2003)
• 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 31 - Siné, French cartoonist

Unknown date

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

Deaths

• 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 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)
• April 2 - Theodore William Richards, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868)
• April 5 - Roy Kilner, English cricketer (b. 1890)
• June 4 - Chang Tso-lin, Chinese warlord (b. 1873)
• June 22 - A. B. Frost, American illustrator (b. 1851)
• August 12 - Leos Janacek, Czech composer (b. 1854)
• August 30 - Wilhelm Wien, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
• October 22 - Andrew Fisher, fifth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1862)
• December 1 - José Eustasio Rivera, Colombian writer (b. 1888)
• December 10 - Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect (b. 1868)
• Robert Abbe, American surgeon (b. 1851)

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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