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 25, 1928 – Charles Jenkins Laboratories of Washington, D.C. becomes the first holder of a television license from the Federal Radio Commission.
- 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.
- 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.
- June 29, 1928 – The Outerbridge Crossing and Goethals Bridge in Staten Island, New York are both opened.
- 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 1, 1928 – Ahmet Zogu declares Albania to be a monarchy and proclaims himself king.
- September 18, 1928 – Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro crossing of the English Channel.
- September 28, 1928 – The U.K. Parliament passes the Dangerous Drugs Act outlawing cannabis.
- October 1, 1928 – The Soviet Union introduces its First Five-Year Plan.
- 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 15, 1928 – The airship, Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States.
- November 15, 1928 – The RNLI Lifeboat Mary Stanford capsized in Rye Harbour with the loss of the entire 17 man crew.
- 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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