1928

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

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Events

• January 10 - USSR expels Leo Tolstoy
• 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 28 The Kellog-Briand treaty was signed in Paris - it was the first treaty which outlawed aggresive war.
• November - Herbert Hoover defeats Alfred E. Smith in the U.S. presidential election

• The old Canaanite city of Ugarit is rediscovered.
• Turkey switches from arabic to the latin-based modern Turkish alphabet.
• The right to vote given to 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 Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States ratified a new revision of the Book of Common Prayer.
• W2XBS, RCA's first television station, is established in New York City.

Art, Culture & Fashion

• 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 Barraqué, 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 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 4 - Alan Sillitoe, writer
• March 6 - Gabriel García Márquez, writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 1982
• March 10 - James Earl Ray, assassin (+ 1998)
• March 12 - Edward Albee, dramatist
• March 19 - Hans Küng[?], theologian
• March 19 - Patrick McGoohan[?], actor
• March 20 - Fred Rogers, children's television host (+ 2003)
• March 25 - Jim Lovell[?], astronaut
• March 28 - Zbigniew Brzezinski, 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, infamous physician
• June 1 - Georgi Dobrovolski, cosmonaut
• July 26 - Stanley Kubrick, American film director
• August 6 - Andy Warhol, American artist
• August 15 - Nicolas Roeg, film director
• October 1 - George Peppard, actor
• November 3 - Osamu Tezuka Japanese manga artist
• 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.