1928 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1928?
- January 23, 1928 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Dragon in Chinese astrology.
- February 28, 1928 – C.V. Raman discovers Raman effect.
- March 12, 1928 – In California, the St. Francis Dam fails; the resulting floods kill over 600 people.
- March 21, 1928 – Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight.
- April 19, 1928 – The 125th and final fascicle of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
- May 3, 1928 – Japanese atrocities in Jinan, China.
- May 15, 1928 – Mickey Mouse premiered in his first cartoon, Plane Crazy
- June 4, 1928 – President of the Republic of China Zhang Zuolin is assassinated by Japanese agents.
- June 8, 1928 – Second Northern Expedition: The National Revolutionary Army captures Peking, whose name is changed to Beiping (“Northern peace”).
- June 9, 1928 – Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.
- June 18, 1928 – Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she is a passenger; Wilmer Stultz is the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic).
- September 1, 1928 – Ahmet Zogu declares Albania to be a monarchy and proclaims himself king.
- September 28, 1928 – Sir Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.
- October 8, 1928 – Joseph Szigeti gives the first performance of Alfredo Casella’s Violin Concerto.
- October 15, 1928 – The airship, Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States.
- October 22, 1928 – Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity is founded at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus.
- November 1, 1928 – The Law on the Adoption and Implementation of the Turkish Alphabet, replacing the version of the Arabic alphabet previously used, comes into force in Turkey.
- November 18, 1928 – Release of the animated short Steamboat Willie, the first fully synchronized sound cartoon, directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, featuring the third appearances of cartoon characters Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse. This is also considered by the Disney corporation to be Mickey’s birthday.
- December 6, 1928 – The government of Colombia sends military forces to suppress a month-long strike by United Fruit Company workers, resulting in an unknown number of deaths.
- December 17, 1928 – Indian revolutionaries Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar and Shivaram Rajguru assassinate British police officer James Saunders in Lahore, Punjab to avenge the death of Lala Lajpat Rai at the hands of the police. The three were executed in 1931.
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