Notable Historical Events - 1928
1928 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
1st US air-conditioned office building opens, San Antonio |
Jan 1 |
Algemeene Vereeniging Radio Omroep (AVRO) begins broadcasting (Neth) |
Jan 6 |
Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Mortalium animos (against oecumene) |
Jan 9 |
Eugene O'Neill's "Marco Millions," premieres in NYC |
Jan 10 |
G/I Gershwin/Romberg/Wodehouse's musical "Rosalie," premieres in NYC |
Jan 10 |
Soviet Union orders exile of Leon Trotsky |
Jan 12 |
Philip Barry & Elmer Rice's "Cock Robin," premieres in NYC |
Jan 13 |
RCA and GE install three test television sets in homes in Schenectady, New York allowing American inventor E.F.W. Alexanderson to demonstrate the first home television receiver which delivered a poor and unsteady 1.5 square inch picture |
Jan 17 |
1st fully automatic photographic film developing machine patented |
Jan 23 |
"Abenteuer of brave Soldier Schwejk" premieres in Berlin |
Jan 28 |
Christopher Hornsrud chosen PM of Norway |
Jan 30 |
1st radio telephone connection between Netherlands & US |
Jan 30 |
Bradman scores 134 not out (225 mins, 13 fours) NSW v Vic |
Jan 30 |
Eugene O'Neill's "Strange Interlude," premieres in NYC |
Jan 31 |
Scotch tape 1st marketed by 3-M Company |
Feb 3 |
Paleoanthropologist Davidson Black reports his findings on the ancient human fossils found at Zhoukoudian, China in the journal Nature and declares them to be a new species he names 'Sinanthropus pekinensis' (now known as 'Homo erectus') |
Feb 7 |
1st solo England to Australia flight takes off (Bert Hinkler) |
Feb 8 |
1st transatlantic TV image received, Hartsdale, NY |
Feb 8 |
Scottish inventor J Blaird demonstrates color-TV |
Feb 11 |
2nd Winter Olympic games opens in St Moritz, Switzerland |
Feb 19 |
2nd Winter Olympic games close at St Moritz, Switzerland |
Feb 19 |
Canadian hockey team wins 3rd consecutive gold medal |
Feb 22 |
1st solo England to Australia flight lands (Bert Hinkler) |
Mar 1 |
Paul Whiteman & orchestra record "Ol' Man River" for Victor Records |
Mar 4 |
"Bunion Run" race from LA to NYC begins; It is won by Andy Payne |
Mar 5 |
Karl Zuckmayer's "Der Hauptmann von Köpenick," premieres in Berlin |
Mar 11 |
Netherlands & Belgium tie 1-1 (soccer match in Amsterdam) |
Mar 12 |
In California, the St. Francis Dam fails, killing over 600 people. |
Mar 13 |
Rudolph Friml's musical "Three Musketeers" premieres in NYC |
Mar 15 |
Benito Mussolini modifies Italy electoral system (abolishes right to choose) |
Mar 19 |
"Amos & Andy" debuts on radio (NBC Blue Network-WMAQ Chicago) |
Mar 22 |
Noel Coward's musical "This Year of Grace" premieres in London |
Mar 27 |
KGB-AM in San Diego CA begins radio transmissions |
Mar 27 |
US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson |
Mar 27 |
US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Roger Turner |
Mar 29 |
Yeshiva College (now University) chartered (NYC) |
Apr 1 |
Chiang Kai-shek's army crosses Yang-tse |
Apr 7 |
44-yr old NY Ranger GM Lester Patrick replaces his injured goaltender in a Stanley Cup game, & beats Montreal Maroons 2-1 |
Apr 9 |
Eugene O'Neill's "Lazarus Laughed" premieres in Pasadena |
Apr 9 |
Mae West's NYC debut in a daring new play "Diamond Lil" |
Apr 9 |
Top-Oss soccer team forms in Oss |
Apr 9 |
Turkey passes separation of church & state |
Apr 13 |
1st trans atlantic flight Europe-US (Fitzmaurice-von Hunefeld-Köhl) |
Apr 14 |
Maddus Airlines starts 1st regular passenger flights between SF & LA |
Apr 14 |
Stanley Cup: NY Rangers beat Montreal Maroons, 3 games to 2 |
Apr 15 |
Alioto's on Fisherman's Wharf (SF) forms |
Apr 19 |
32nd Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar of Mass in 2:37:07.8 |
Apr 19 |
Japanese troops occupies Sjantung-schiereiland |
Apr 19 |
Yanks are out of 1st place for 1st time since May 1926 |
Apr 19 |
The 125th and final fascicle of the Oxford English Dictionary is published. |
Apr 24 |
Fathometer, which measures underwater depth, patented |
Apr 25 |
Buddy, a German Shepherd, becomes 1st guide dog for a US citizen Morris Frank |
Apr 26 |
Madame Tussaud's waxwork exhibition opens in London |
Apr 30 |
Cherkess Autonomous Region forms in RSFSR (until 1957) |
May 1 |
6 children die & 10 injured by hailstones in Klausenburg, Romania |
May 1 |
Drunken fascist Erich Wichman attacks VARA-radio transmitter |
May 1 |
Lei Day begun (a Hawaiian celebration) |
May 1 |
Pitcairn Airlines (later Eastern) begins service |
May 1 |
Rotterdam soccer team Black White '28 forms |
May 2 |
KPQ-AM in Wenatchee WA begins radio transmissions |
May 3 |
Japanese atrocities in Jinan, China. |
May 7 |
The United Kingdom lowers age of women voters from 30 to 21 |
May 7 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to Thornton Wilder for (Bridge of San Luis Rey) |
May 10 |
WGY, Schenectady begins regular TV programming |
May 11 |
54th Preakness: Raymond Sonny Workman aboard Victorian wins in 2:00.2 |
May 11 |
63rd British Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 292 at Royal St George's |
May 11 |
General Electric opens 1st TV-station (Schenectady, NY) |
May 12 |
Benito Mussolini ends women's rights in Italy |
May 12 |
Opium laws enforced |
May 14 |
John McGraw is knocked down by a taxicab & suffers a broken leg |
May 15 |
Mickey Mouse made his 1st ever appearance in silent film "Plane Crazy" |
May 17 |
9th modern Olympic games opens in Amsterdam |
May 19 |
54th Kentucky Derby: Chick Lang aboard Reigh Count wins in 2:10.4 |
May 19 |
"Firedamp" explodes in Mather Pa coal mine killing 195 of 273 miners |
May 19 |
51 frogs enter 1st annual "Frog Jumping Jubilee" (Angel's Camp, Cal) |
May 22 |
US Congress accept Jones-White Merchant Naval Act |
May 23 |
Bomb attack on Italians embassy in Buenos Aires, 22 die |
May 24 |
Record 12 future Hall of Famers take the field, as Yanks beat A's 9-7 |
May 24 |
Umberto Nobile flies airship over North Pole again |
May 26 |
A's commit 7 errors & lose to Yanks 7-4 |
May 28 |
Dodge Brothers Inc & Chrysler Corp merged |
May 29 |
Fritz von Opel reaches 200 kph in experimental rocket car |
May 30 |
Indianapolis 500: Louis Meyer wins in 5:01:33.725 (160.101 km/h) |
May 31 |
1st aerial crossing of Pacific takes off from Oakland |
May 31 |
Charlie Hallows scores his 1,000th run of Cricket season |
Jun 2 |
Velveeta Cheese created by Kraft |
Jun 4 |
President of the Republic of China Zhang Zuolin is assassinated by Japanese agents. |
Jun 8 |
1st US-to-Australia flight lands (Sir Charles Kingford) |
Jun 9 |
60th Belmont: Clarence Kummer aboard Vito wins in 2:33.2 |
Jun 9 |
Charles Kingsford-Smith & Charles Ulm are 1st to fly across the Pacific when they end their flight from California to Brisbane |
Jun 11 |
Alfred Hitchcock's 1st film, "Case Of Jonathan Drew," is released |
Jun 12 |
NY Yankee Lou Gehrig hits 2 triples & 2 HRs to be White Sox 15-7 |
Jun 14 |
Republican National Convention, meeting in KC, nominates Herbert Hoover for President |
Jun 15 |
Ty Cobb, 41, steals home for 50th & final time |
Jun 17 |
Amelia Earhart leaves Nfld to become 1st woman (passenger) to fly Atlantic (as a passenger in a plane piloted by Wilmer Stultz) |
Jun 18 |
American aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the 1st woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean landing at Burry Port, Wales |
Jun 24 |
32nd US Golf Open: Johnny Farrell shoots a 294 at Olympia Fields Ill |
Jun 24 |
With declining business, the Great Gorge and International Railway begins using one-person crews on trolley operations in Canada. |
Jun 25 |
NY Giant Fred Lindstrom ties record of 9 hits in a doubleheader |
Jun 28 |
Alfred E Smith (NY-Gov) nominated for US president at Democratic Convention |
Jun 28 |
Friedrich Schmiedl attempted rocket mail in Austria (unsuccessful) |
Jun 29 |
The Outerbridge Crossing and Goethals Bridge in Staten Island, New York both opened. |
Jun 30 |
Radio Service Bulletin lists radio stations call signs that are to be changed to conform with international standards |
Jul 2 |
British parliament reduces the age at women can vote to 21 - the same as men (Representation of the People Act 1928) |
Jul 2 |
The Jenkins Television Corporation (owned by Charles Jenkins) goes on air with W3XK, the first television broadcasting station in the USA |
Jul 3 |
1st colour TV broadcast in London (John Logie Baird) |
Jul 6 |
1st all-talking motion picture shown in NY (Lights of NY) |
Jul 6 |
Worlds largest record hailstone 1.5 lbs (7 inchs in diameter) at the time falls in Potter, Nebraska |
Jul 6 |
48th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: René Lacoste beats Henri Cochet (6-1 4-6 6-4 6-2) |
Jul 7 |
41st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats L de Alvarez (6-2 6-3) |
Jul 7 |
Edward Hamm of US, sets then long jump record at 25' 11" |
Jul 7 |
Sliced bread is sold for the first time by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri. It is described as the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped". |
Jul 8 |
Phillies set record of errorless 25 inning doubleheader |
Jul 10 |
Senator Milt Gaston hurls record tying 14-hit shutout |
Jul 12 |
1st televised tennis match |
Jul 19 |
King Fuad of Egypt siezes power and disbands parliament |
Jul 20 |
The government of Hungary issues a decree ordering Gypsies to end their nomadic ways, settle permanently in one place, and subject themselves to the same laws and taxes as other Hungarians. |
Jul 26 |
Gene Tunney TKOs Tom Heeney in 11 for heavyweight boxing title |
Jul 26 |
Yanks score 11 runs in 12th beating Tigers 12-1 |
Jul 27 |
AVRO, General Vereniging Radio Omroep, forms |
Jul 27 |
Tich Freeman becomes only bowler ever to take 200 first-class wickets before end of July. |
Jul 28 |
9th Olympic Games open in Amsterdam |
Jul 29 |
Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie" is released |
Jul 29 |
Cleve Indians score 17 in 1st 2 inns to beat Yanks 24-6 at Dunn Field they also set a record with 24 singles in 1 game |
Jul 29 |
23rd Davis Cup: France beats USA in Paris (4-1) |
Jul 30 |
George Eastman shows 1st color motion pictures (US) |
Jul 31 |
1st woman to win a track and field olympic gold medal, Halina Konopacka of Poland |
Aug 1 |
Babe Ruth hits HR # 42 & is 4 weeks ahead of his 1927 pace |
Aug 2 |
Benito Mussolini signs peace treaty with Abyssinia (Ethiopia) |
Aug 3 |
Ray Barbuti saves US team from defeat in Amsterdam Olympics track events by winning 400 m (47.8 sec) |
Aug 11 |
Carl Hubbell's 1st major league victory is a 4-0 shutout of Phils |
Aug 11 |
Georges Ronsse becomes world champion cyclists |
Aug 12 |
9th Olympic Games close in Amsterdam |
Aug 13 |
Soviet Union Spartacan Games begins |
Aug 14 |
Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur's "Front Page," premieres in NYC |
Aug 25 |
Tri-City Rugby Football Union forms consisting of Moose Jaw, Regina & Winnipeg |
Aug 27 |
16 die in a NYC subway's 2nd worst accident |
Aug 27 |
42nd US Women's Tennis: Helen W Moody beats Helen Hull Jacobs (6-2 6-1) |
Aug 27 |
Kellogg-Briand Pact, 60 nations agree to outlaw war |
Aug 30 |
Jawaharlal Nehru requests independence of India |
Aug 31 |
Brecht & Weils "Dreigroschenoper" premieres |
Sep 1 |
Albania becomes a kingdom, with Zogu I as king |
Sep 3 |
Baseball Hall of Famer Ty Cobb got his 4,191th & final career hit |
Sep 6 |
USSR signs Briand-Kellogg-pact |
Sep 7 |
Sophie Treadwell's "Machinal" premieres in NYC |
Sep 9 |
Silvio Cator of Haiti, sets then long jump record at 26' ½" |
Sep 11 |
1st TV drama-WGY's Queens Messenger |
Sep 11 |
Ty Cobb last hitting appearance, pops out against Yankees |
Sep 12 |
-17] Hurricane in Florida, kills 6,000 |
Sep 12 |
Katharine Hepburn's NY stage debut in "Night Hostess" |
Sep 13 |
KOH-AM in Reno NV begins radio transmissions |
Sep 15 |
400 kg Fournier-albums (forged postage stamps) burn in Geneva |
Sep 15 |
Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin |
Sep 15 |
Cards set NL record of 18 men left on base beating Phillies 8-6 |
Sep 15 |
Stothard, Kalmar & Ruby's musical "Good Boy," premieres in NYC |
Sep 15 |
Tich Freeman becomes the only bowler to take 300 wickets in an English cricket season. |
Sep 16 |
Hurricane hits West Palm Beach-Lake Okeechobee Florida; 3,000 die |
Sep 17 |
48th US Men's Tennis: Henri Cochet beats F T Hunter (4-6 6-4 3-6 7-5 6-3) |
Sep 17 |
Hurricane hits Lake Okeechobee Florida drowning 1,800-2500 |
Sep 17 |
Pitcher Ray Boggs hits 3 batters in 1 inning |
Sep 18 |
Cards beat Phillies for 20th of 22 games in 1928 |
Sep 18 |
Juan de la Cierva flies 1st helicopter above Channel |
Sep 19 |
Mickey Mouse's screen debut (Steamboat Willie at Colony Theater NYC) |
Sep 21 |
"My Weekly Reader" magazine made its debut |
Sep 24 |
Cohan/Lardner's musical "Elmer the Great" premieres in NYC |
Sep 27 |
The Nationalist Republic of China is recognised by the United States. |
Sep 28 |
1st recording session in Nashville (Warmack's Gully Jumpers) |
Sep 28 |
Juan de la Cierva makes 1st helicopter flight over English Channel |
Sep 28 |
NY Yanks clinch pennant #6 |
Sep 28 |
Prussia forbids speech from Adolf Hitler |
Sep 28 |
US acknowledge Chinese government of Chiang Kai-shek |
Sep 28 |
Valentin Katayev's "Kvadratura Kruga" premieres in Moscow |
Sep 28 |
UK passes the Dangerous Drugs Act outlawing cannabis. |
Sep 29 |
Cardinals win NL pennant with a 3-1 win at Boston |
Sep 29 |
Yanks (17) Tigers (28) set 9 inning hit record (45)-Tigers win 19-10 |
Sep 30 |
Le Sifflet publishes 1st precursor of Kuifje (Tintin) |
Sep 30 |
Leon Vanderstuyft of Belgium cycles record 76 mi 604 yds in 1 hr |
Oct 1 |
Leon Vanderstuyft of Belgium bicycled 76 miles 504 yards in 1 hour |
Oct 1 |
Paavo Nurmi runs world record 15m (46:49.6) |
Oct 1 |
USSR launches its first 5-year plan |
Oct 2 |
The "Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of God", commonly known as Opus Dei, was founded by Saint Josemaría Escrivá. |
Oct 3 |
French submarine "Ondine" sinks returning to Toulon, drowning 42 |
Oct 4 |
25th World Series begins, NY Yankees vs St Louis Cardinals |
Oct 4 |
KPD begins petition against Germany building a battle fleet |
Oct 6 |
11th PGA Championship: Leo Diegel at Five Farms CC Baltimore |
Oct 6 |
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek becomes president of China |
Oct 6 |
Josip Broz (Tito) sentenced to 5 years in jail |
Oct 7 |
Paavo Nurmi runs world record 10 miles (50:15.0) |
Oct 7 |
Race Tafari Makonnen crowned king of Abyssinia |
Oct 8 |
Cole Porter & E Ray Goetz' musical "Paris" premieres in NYC |
Oct 8 |
Eastern Soccer League forms in USA |
Oct 8 |
Joseph Szigeti debuted Alfredo Casella's Violin Concerto. |
Oct 9 |
Marcel Pagnol's "Topaz" premieres in Paris |
Oct 9 |
NY Yankees sweep Cards in 25th World Series, Ruth hits 3 HR in game |
Oct 9 |
NY Yankees become 1st to sweep consecutive World Series |
Oct 12 |
1st use of iron lung (Boston's Children Hospital) |
Oct 15 |
German dirigible "Graf Zeppelin" lands in Lakehurst, NJ |
Oct 15 |
Walter Johnson signs a 3-year contract to manage the Senators |
Oct 16 |
Mickey Cochrane wins AL MVP honors, edging Heinie Manush by 2 points |
Oct 22 |
China expels all Russian instructors & civil servants |
Oct 22 |
ESL Robinson's "Far-Off Hills" premieres in Dublin |
Oct 22 |
Herbert Hoover speaks of "American system of rugged individualism" |
Oct 22 |
Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity is founded at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus. |
Oct 28 |
Bradman scores 131 NSW v Queensland, 212 mins, 14 fours |
Oct 28 |
Indonesian child laws enforced in Bahasa Indonesia |
Nov 1 |
1st celebration of Authors' Day |
Nov 1 |
Bradman scores a century each innings (131 & 133*), NSW v Qld |
Nov 1 |
Graf Zeppelin sets airship distance record of 6384 km |
Nov 2 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch's 1st Symphony, L Stokovski premieres in Phila |
Nov 3 |
Turkey switches from Arabic to Roman alphabet |
Nov 4 |
Jose Moncada elected president of Nicaragua |
Nov 6 |
Clevelanders vote to build a stadium with city bonds |
Nov 6 |
Herbert Hoover (R) beats Alfred E Smith (D) for US President |
Nov 6 |
Colonel Jacob Schick patents 1st electric razor |
Nov 6 |
Swedes start a tradition of eating Gustavus Adolphus pastries to commemorate the king. |
Nov 8 |
George & Ira Gershwin's musical "Treasure Girl" premieres in NYC |
Nov 10 |
Emperor Hirohito's official coronation as Emperor of Japan |
Nov 11 |
France's 5th government of Poincaré forms |
Nov 11 |
KXO-AM in El Centro CA begins radio transmissions |
Nov 11 |
WGL-AM in Ft Wayne IN begins radio transmissions |
Nov 11 |
WMT-AM in Cedar Rapids IA begins radio transmissions |
Nov 11 |
WOL-AM in Washington DC begins radio transmissions |
Nov 12 |
British steamer "Vestris" capsizes & sinks off Virginia, kills 110 |
Nov 13 |
Bradman scores 132* for NSW against MCC |
Nov 17 |
Boston Garden officially opens |
Nov 17 |
Notre Dame finally lost a football game after nearly 25 years |
Nov 18 |
Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse appears in NY in "Steamboat Willie" |
Nov 20 |
Boston Gardens opens, Mont Canadiens beat Boston Bruins, 1-0 |
Nov 20 |
WGH-AM in Newport News VA begins radio transmissions |
Nov 22 |
"Bolero" by Maurice Ravel first performed publicly (Paris) |
Nov 26 |
Paul Claudel's "Lepdrehumily" premieres in Dresden |
Nov 26 |
Philip Barry's "Holiday" premieres in NYC |
Nov 30 |
Test Cricket debut of Don Bradman, who scored 18 & 1 vs England |
Dec 1 |
CFL Grey Cup: Ham Tigers beats Regina 30-0 at Hamilton |
Dec 1 |
Railroad museum opens in Utrecht Neth |
Dec 2 |
Cardinals' 1B Jim Bottomley is voted NL MVP |
Dec 4 |
Walter Donaldson & Gus Kahn's musical "Whoopee" premieres in NYC |
Dec 5 |
England defeats Australia by record 675 runs at Brisbane |
Dec 5 |
MW Miklas elected president of Austria |
Dec 11 |
Buenos Aires police thwart an attempt on Pres-elect Herbert Hoover |
Dec 11 |
NL Pres John Heydler proposes designated hitter for pitchers |
Dec 12 |
Nichols/Brownes "Wings over Europe" premieres in NYC |
Dec 13 |
Clip-on tie designed |
Dec 13 |
George Gershwin's "An American In Paris" premieres (NYC) |
Dec 14 |
2nd Test Cricket Australia v England starts with Bradman 12th man |
Dec 17 |
John McGraw backs NL Pres John Heydler's designated hitter idea |
Dec 19 |
1st autogyro flight in US |
Dec 20 |
1st international dogsled mail leaves Minot, Maine for Montreal, Quebec |
Dec 20 |
Ethel Barrymore Theater opens at 243 W 47th St NYC |
Dec 23 |
NBC sets up a permanent, coast-to-coast radio network |
Dec 24 |
George Abbott Theater (Adelphi, 54 St) opens at 152 W 54th St NYC |
Dec 25 |
Christmas Day attendance at cricket MCG (Vic v NSW) 14,887 |
Dec 25 |
NSW (v Vic) go from 8-74 to 9-113 to be 9-367 at stumps |
Dec 26 |
Johnny Weissmuller announces his retirement from amateur swimming |
Dec 26 |
World record 10th wicket stand 307 (Kippax / Hooker) NSW v Vic |
Dec 28 |
Last recording of Ma Rainey, "Mother of the Blues," made |
Dec 28 |
Louis Armstrong makes 78 recording of "West End blues" |
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