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.
- April 19, 1928 – The 125th and final fascicle of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
- 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.
- 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 27, 1928 – The Republic of China is recognised by the United States.
- 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 12, 1928 – An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children’s Hospital, Boston
- 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 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 22, 1928 – The premier performance of Ravel’s Boléro takes place in Paris.
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