1928 Calendar
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1928 Historical Event(s)
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.
April 26, 1928
– Los Angeles City Hall dedicated.
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.
August 27, 1928
– The Kellogg-Briand Pact outlawing war is signed by the first 15 nations to do so. Ultimately sixty-one nations will sign it.
October 12, 1928
– An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children’s Hospital, Boston
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.
Who Were Born On 1928?
April 8, 1928
– Monty Sunshine, English jazz clarinetist
April 14, 1928
– Ezra Fleischer, Romanian dissident, later Israeli writer (d. 2006)
May 12, 1928
– Henry Cosby, American songwriter (d. 2002)
May 14, 1928
– Will “Dub” Jones, American singer (The Coasters) (d. 2000)
May 22, 1928
– T. Boone Pickens, Jr., American businessman
June 25, 1928
– Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Russian physicist, Nobel laureate
August 19, 1928
– Norman Brooks, Canadian singer (d. 2006)
September 10, 1928
– Roch Bolduc, Canadian civil servant and senator
October 1, 1928
– Willy Mairesse, Belgian racing driver (d. 1969)
October 16, 1928
– Ann Morgan Guilbert, American actress