1928

Years: 1925 1926 1927 - 1928 - 1929 1930 1931
Decades: 1890s 1900s 1910s - 1920s - 1930s 1940s 1950s
Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century 1928 in architecture 1928 in art 1928 in aviation 1928 in film 1928 in literature 1928 in music 1928 in radio 1928 in science 1928 in sports 1928 state leaders 1928 in Canada

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Year in topic
3 Births
4 Deaths
5 Nobel Prizes

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.
May 15 - Royal Flying Doctor Service, (Australia) commenced operations.
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 6 - The then world's largest hailstone falls in Potter, Nebraska.
July 12 - Mexican aviator Emilio Carranza dies in a solo plane crash in the Pine Barrens of southern New Jersey while returning from a goodwill flight to New York City.
August 16 - Murderer Carl Panzram is arrested in Washington, DC after killing about 20 people.
August 28 The Kellogg-Briand Pact was signed in Paris - it was the first treaty which outlawed aggressive 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
December 3 - In Rio de Janeiro, a seaplane sunk near Cap Arcona with Alberto Santos-Dumont on board.
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 the United Kingdom.
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 aviation
1928 in film
- Sunrise
1928 in literature
- Strange Fugitive by Morley Callaghan
1928 in music
1928 in science
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 (d. 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 - Vidal Sassoon, cosmetologist
January 23 - Jeanne Moreau, actress
January 24 - Desmond Morris, anthropologist, writer
January 26 - Roger Vadim, film director (d. 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 (d. 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 (d. 2002)
March 4 - Alan Sillitoe, writer
March 6 - Gabriel GarcÃÂa MÃÂ¡rquez, writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 1982
March 8 - Gerald Bull, engineer (d. 1990)
March 10 - James Earl Ray, assassin (d. 1998)
March 12 - Edward Albee, dramatist
March 19 - Hans KÃÂ¼ng, theologian
March 19 - Patrick McGoohan, actor
March 20 - Fred Rogers, children's television host (d. 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 D. Watson, geneticist
April 7 - James Garner, actor
April 7 - Alan J. Pakula, producer, director (d. 1998)
April 9 - Tom Lehrer, satirical songwriter
May 8 - Theodore Sorenson, political operative, writer
May 9 - Pancho Gonzalez, tennis player (d. 1995)
May 9 - Barbara Ann Scott, figure skater
May 11 - Mort Sahl, comedian, political commentator
May 12 - Burt Bacharach, composer
May 16 - Billy Martin, baseball player, coach (d. 1989)
May 18 - Pernell Roberts, actor
May 23 - Nigel Davenport, actor
May 23 - Rosemary Clooney, singer, actress (d. 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
August 18 - Marge Schott, former owner of MLB's Cincinnati Reds
September 14 - The Rt Hon Sir Angus Ogilvy KCVO, husband of HRH Princess Alexandra of Kent
September 15 - Julian Cannonball Adderley, American saxophonist
September 19 - Adam West, actor
September 22 - James Lawson, civil rights activist, minister
October 1 - George Peppard, actor
October 9 - Einojuhani Rautavaara, composer
November 3 - Osamu Tezuka Japanese manga artist
November 10 - Ennio Morricone, film music composer
December 7 - Noam Chomsky, linguist and political dissident
December 15 - Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian artist
Sultan Azlan Muhibbudin Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Yusuff Izzudin Shah Ghafarullahu-lahu, later Sultan of Perak and 9th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.

Deaths

January 6 - Alvin Kraenzlein, American athlete
January 11 - Thomas Hardy, writer
January 29 - Douglas Haig, British soldier
February 1 - Hughie Jennings, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1869)
February 4- Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate
February 15 - Herbert Henry Asquith, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
February 16 - Eddie Foy, vaudevillian, singer, dancer
June 4 - Chang Tso-lin, Chineese warlord
August 12 - Leos Janacek, Czech composer
August 30 - Wilhelm Wien, physicist
October 22 - Andrew Fisher, fifth Prime Minister of Australia