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.
- 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.
- May 3, 1928 – Japanese atrocities in Jinan, China.
- May 15, 1928 – Mickey Mouse premiered in his first cartoon, Plane Crazy
- June 8, 1928 – Second Northern Expedition: The National Revolutionary Army captures Peking, whose name is changed to Beiping (“Northern peace”).
- 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).
- July 7, 1928 – Sliced bread is sold for the first time by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.
- July 27, 1928 – Tich Freeman becomes the only bowler ever to take 200 first-class wickets before the end of July.
- September 1, 1928 – Ahmet Zogu declares Albania to be a monarchy and proclaims himself king.
- September 17, 1928 – The Okeechobee Hurricane strikes southeastern Florida, killing upwards of 2,500 people. It is the third deadliest natural disaster in United States history, behind the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
- September 28, 1928 – Sir Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.
- October 1, 1928 – The Soviet Union introduces its First Five-Year Plan.
- October 8, 1928 – Joseph Szigeti gives the first performance of Alfredo Casella’s Violin Concerto.
- October 10, 1928 – Chiang Kai-Shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China.
- October 22, 1928 – Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity is founded at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus.
- November 15, 1928 – The RNLI Lifeboat Mary Stanford capsized in Rye Harbour with the loss of the entire 17 man crew.
- 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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