1928

Events of 1928

Jan.7: Tidal wave fills Tower's moat.

January 1 - Estonia changes its currency from mark to kroon.
January 6-7 - River Thames floods in London - 14 drowned.
January 7 - Moat at the Tower of London, previously drained in 1843 (and planted with grass), is completely refilled by a tidal wave.
January 12 - U.S. murderer Ruth Snyder executed at Ossining.
January 17 - OGPU arrests Lev Trotsky in Moscow; he assumes a status of passive resistance and is exiled to Turkestan.

April 10 - Pineapple Primary - Republican Party primary elections in Chicago preceded by assassinations and bombings
April 12 - Bomb attack against the Dictator of Italy in Milan - 17 bystanders dead
April 22 - Earthquake destroys Corinth - 200.000 buildings destroyed

May 10 - The first regular schedule of television programming begins in Schenectady, New York by the General Electric's television station W2XB (the station was popularly known as WGY Television; after its sister radio station, WGY).
May 15
- Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia, commenced operations
- Release of the animated short Plane Crazy, featuring the first appearances of Mickey and Minnie Mouse.
May 23 - Bomb attack against Italian consulate in Buenos Aires - 22 dead, 41 injured
May 24 - Airship Italia crashes on the North Pole; one of the occupants is Italian general Umberto Nobile
May 30 - A rescue expedition leaves for the North Pole

June 4 - Zhang Zuolin, President of the Republic of China and warlord, is killed by Japanese agents during the Huanggutun Incident.
June 8 - By seizing Beijing and renaming it Běipíng, the NRA puts an end to the Fengtian warlords' Běiyáng government there.
June 11 - Medical doctor's strike begins in Vienna
June 14 - Students take over the medical wing of Rosario University in Argentina
June 17 - Aviator Amelia Earhart starts her attempt to become the first woman to successfully pilot an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she succeeded the next day).
June 20 - Shooting incident in Yugoslavian parliament - Punica Rasic shoots 3 opposition representatives and injures three others
June 24 - Swedish aeroplane rescues part of Italian North Pole expedition, including Umberto Nobile. Soviet icebreaker Krasin saves the rest July 12
June 28 - The Great Gorge and International Railway switches to one-man crews for its trolleys in Canada.
June 29 - New York Governor Alfred E. Smith becomes the first Catholic nominated by a major political party for U.S. President, at the Democratic National Convention in Houston, Texas.

July 2
- Jenkins Laboratories' W3XK station begins broadcasting on 6.42 MHz using 48 lines.
- The Representation of the People Act 1928 becomes law, extending the right to vote to all women in the United Kingdom.
July 6 - The world's largest hailstone falls in Potter, Nebraska.
July 12 - Mexican aviator Emilio Carranza dies in a solo plane crash in the New Jersey Pine Barrens while returning from a goodwill flight to New York City.
July 17 - José de León Toral assassinates Álvaro Obregón, president of Mexico.
July 25 - U.S.A. recalls its troops from China
July 27 - Tich Freeman becomes only bowler ever to take 200 first-class wickets before end of July.
July 28 - Official opening ceremony of the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam.

August 16 - Murderer Carl Panzram is arrested in Washington, DC after killing about 20 people.
August 22 - Alfred E. Smith accepts the Democratic presidential nomination, with WGY/W2XB simulcasting the event on radio and television.
August 25 - Ahmet Zogu proclaims himself King Zog I of Albania; he is crowned September 1
August 26 - May Donoghue finds the remains of a snail in her gingerbeer, launching Donoghue v. Stevenson.
August 27 - The Kellogg-Briand Pact was signed in Paris - it was the first treaty which outlawed aggressive war.
August 29 - Club Deportivo Motagua of Honduras is founded.

September 1 - Richard Byrd leaves New York for Arctic.
September 3 - Alexander Fleming discovers Penicillin.
September 11 - Kenmore's WMAK station starts broadcasting in Buffalo, New York.
September 15 - Tich Freeman sets all-time record for number of wickets taken in an English cricket season.
September 16 - The 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane kills at least 2,500 people in Florida.
September 25 - Motorola is founded.

October 2 - Saint Josemaria Escriva, founds Opus Dei
October 7 - Haile Selassie crowned king (not yet emperor) of Abyssinia
October 12 - An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston.
October 19 - William Edward Hickman is executed at San Quentin prison for the 1927 murder of Marian Parker.

November 4 - At Park Central Hotel in Manhattan, Arnold Rothstein, New York City's most notorious gambler, is shot to death over a poker game.
November 6
- Swedes start a tradition of eating Gustavus Adolphus pastries to commemorate the old warrior king.
- U.S. presidential election, 1928: Republican Herbert Hoover wins by a wide margin over Democrat Alfred E. Smith.
November 10 - Hirohito was enthroned as Emperor of Japan.
November 17 - The Boston Garden opens in Boston.
November 18 - Mickey Mouse appears in Steamboat Willie, the first sound cartoon.

December 3 - In Rio de Janeiro, a seaplane sent to greet Alberto Santos-Dumont crashed near Cap Arcona, killing all on board.
December 5 - Police disperses Sicilian gangs' meeting in Cleveland
December 21 - U.S. Congress approves the construction of The Boulder Dam, later renamed The Hoover Dam