1928

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1928 by topic:
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1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar).

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Nobel prizes

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Events

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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 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 - 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

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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
June 28 - The Great Gorge and International Railway switches to one-man crews for its trolleys in Canada.
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.

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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

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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 Griffith's 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.
Mount Vesuvius erupts.