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 26, 1928 – Los Angeles City Hall dedicated.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 2, 1928 – The “Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of God”, commonly known as Opus Dei, is founded by Saint Josemaría Escrivá.
- October 10, 1928 – Chiang Kai-Shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China.
- October 12, 1928 – An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children’s Hospital, Boston
- October 28, 1928 – Declaration of the Youth Pledge in Indonesia, the first time Indonesia Raya, now the national anthem, was sung.
- November 12, 1928 – SS Vestris sinks approximately 200 mi off Hampton Roads, Virginia, killing at least 110 passengers, mostly women and children who die after the vessel is abandoned.
- November 15, 1928 – The RNLI Lifeboat Mary Stanford capsized in Rye Harbour with the loss of the entire 17 man crew.
- 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.
- November 22, 1928 – The premier performance of Ravel’s Boléro takes place in Paris.
- 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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