1928

align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1925 1926 1927 - 1928 - 1929 1930 1931

align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1890s 1900s 1910s - 1920s - 1930s 1940s 1950s

align="center" | Centuries:
19th century - 20th century - 21st century

1928 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 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 11 - Blizzard in England; In London temperature drops to 9 degrees Celsius
March 12 - Malta becomes a British dominion
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.
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-September

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 Pine Barrens of southern New Jersey 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).
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 lvaro Obregn, 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.
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 28 - The Kellogg-Briand Pact was signed in Paris - it was the first treaty which outlawed aggressive war.
September 1 - Richard Byrd leaves New York for Arctic
September 15 - Tich Freeman sets all-time record for number of wickets taken in an English cricket season.
September 17 - A hurricane kills over 3,000 people in Florida.

October-December

October 2 Saint Josemaria Escriva, under divine inspiration, founded 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 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.
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 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
Building of Maginot Line begins
Chaco war
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 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

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Sunrise

1928 in literature

Strange Fugitive by Morley Callaghan

1928 in music
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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).