1928

Events

   * January 10 - USSR expels Leon Trotsky
   * February 11 - 1928 Winter Olympic Games open in St. Moritz, Switzerland
   * February 25 - Charles Jenkins Laboratories of Washington, DC becomes
     the first holder of a television license from the Federal Radio
     Commission.
   * March 12 - In California, the St. Francis Dam fails killing 400.
   * March 21 - Charles Lindbergh is presented the Congressional Medal of
     Honor for his first trans-Atlantic flight.
   * July 6 - The then world's largest hailstone falls in Potter, Nebraska.
   * August 16 - Murderer Carl Panzram is arrested in Washington, DC after
     killing about 20 people.
   * August 28 The Kellog-Briand treaty was signed in Paris - it was the
     first treaty which outlawed aggresive war.
   * September 1 - Ahmet Zogu declares Albania to be a monarchy and
     proclaims himself king.
   * October 12 - An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at
     Children's Hospital, Boston.
   * November - Herbert Hoover defeats Alfred E. Smith in the U.S.
     presidential election
   * The old Canaanite city of Ugarit is rediscovered.
   * Turkey switches from arabic to the latin-based modern Turkish alphabet.
   * The right to vote given to women in England
   * Frederick Griffith conducted the Griffith experiment indirectly proving
     existence of DNA.
   * Motorola founded.
   * First (and last) Best Title Writing Academy Award given.
   * The Episcopal Church ratified a new revision of the Book of Common
     Prayer.
   * W2XBS, RCA's first television station, is established in New York City.

Art, Culture & Fashion

   * 1928 in film
        o Sunrise
   * 1928 in literature
        o Strange Fugitive by Morley Callaghan
   * 1928 in sports
        o February 11 - 2nd Olympic Winter Games open in St. Moritz,
          Switzerland.
        o Summer Olympic Games in Amsterdam Netherlands
   * 1928 in television
        o May 11 - The first regular schedule of TV programming is begun in
          the United States by the General Electric company. Programs are
          transmitted Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday afternoons from 1:30 to
          3:30 p.m.
        o July 12 - First televised tennis match.
        o August 22 - Alfred E. Smith accepts the Democratic presidential
          nomination, with WGY simulcasting the event on radio and
          Television. This was the first live broadcast and the first
          television news event.
        o September 11 - The first broadcast of a play on television, The
          Queen's Messenger (W2XAD).

Births

   * January 5 - Walter Mondale, U.S. Senator, Democratic presidential
     nominee in 1984
   * January 5 - Ali Bhutto, President and Prime Minister of Pakistan (d.
     1979)
   * January 7 - William Peter Blatty, screenwriter
   * January 8 - Sander Vanocur, journalist
   * January 11 - David L. Wolper, producer
   * January 16 - William Kennedy, author
   * January 17 - Jean BarraquŽ, composer (d. 1973)
   * January 17 - Vidal Sassoon, cosmetologist
   * January 23 - Jeanne Moreau, actress
   * January 24 - Desmond Morris, anthropologist, writer
   * January 26 - Eartha Kitt, singer and actress
   * January 26 - Roger Vadim, film director (d. 2000)
   * January 30 - Hal Prince, stage producer, director
   * February 5 - Andrew Greeley, priest, novelist
   * February 9 - Frank Frazetta, illustrator
   * February 9 - Roger Mudd, journalist
   * February 11 - Conrad Janis, actor
   * February 11 - Archibald Forster, CEO (Esso, United Kingdom)
   * February 11 - Gerry Alexander, West Indies cricket player
   * February 11 - Raoul Cita, rocker
   * February 23 - Vasili Lazarev, cosmonaut († 1990)
   * February 26 - Fats Domino, musician
   * February 26 - Anatoli Filipchenko, cosmonaut
   * February 27 - Ariel Sharon, Prime Minister of Israel
   * February 27 - Alfred Hrdlicka, sculptor and graphic artist
   * March 4 - Alan Sillitoe, writer
   * March 6 - Gabriel Garc’a M‡rquez, writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in
     Literature 1982
   * March 10 - James Earl Ray, assassin (d. 1998)
   * March 12 - Edward Albee, dramatist
   * March 19 - Hans KŸng, theologian
   * March 19 - Patrick McGoohan, actor
   * March 20 - Fred Rogers, children's television host (d. 2003)
   * March 25 - Jim Lovell, astronaut
   * March 28 - Zbigniew Brzezinski, United States National Security Advisor
   * March 31 - Gordie Howe, ice hockey player
   * March 31 - Lefty Frizzell, country music performer
   * April 1 - Jane Powell, dancer, actress, singer
   * April 2 - Serge Gainsbourg, singer
   * April 4 - Maya Angelou, poet, novelist
   * April 6 - James Watson, geneticist
   * April 7 - James Garner, actor
   * April 7 - Alan J. Pakula, producer, director (d. 1998)
   * April 9 - Tom Lehrer, satirical songwriter
   * May 8 - Theodore Sorenson, political operative, writer
   * May 9 - Pancho Gonzalez, tennis player (d. 1995)
   * May 11 - Mort Sahl, comedian, political commentator
   * May 12 - Burt Bacharach, composer
   * May 16 - Billy Martin, baseball player, coach (d. 1989)
   * May 18 - Pernell Roberts, actor
   * May 23 - Nigel Davenport, actor
   * May 23 - Rosemary Clooney, singer, actress (d. 2002)
   * May 26 - Jack Kevorkian, assisted suicide advocate
   * June 1 - Georgi Dobrovolski, cosmonaut
   * July 26 - Stanley Kubrick, American film director
   * August 6 - Andy Warhol, American artist
   * August 15 - Nicolas Roeg, film director
   * October 1 - George Peppard, actor
   * November 3 - Osamu Tezuka Japanese manga artist
   * December 15 - Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian artist
   * Julian Cannonball Adderley - saxophonist

Deaths

   * January 11 - Thomas Hardy, writer
   * January 29 - Douglas Haig, British soldier
   * February 4- Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate
   * February 16 - Eddie Foy, vaudevillian, singer, dancer
   * August 12 - Leos Janacek, Czech composer
   * August 30 - Wilhelm Wien, physicist

Nobel Prizes

   * Physics - Owen Willans Richardson
   * Chemistry - Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus
   * Medicine - Charles Jules Henri Nicolle
   * Literature - Sigrid Undset
   * Peace - Not awarded.

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