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‎January-May

Squashua at 03:57, 3 February 2006

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PoC at 09:51, 17 January 2006

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| ya1=1929
| ya2=1930
| ya3=1931

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'''1928''' '''(MCMXXVIII)''' was a [[leap year starting on Sunday]] (link will take you to calendar).

==Events==
{{Year AG}}
===January-May===
* [[January 6]]-[[January 7|7]] - [[River Thames]] floods in London - 14 drowned
* [[January 7]] - [[Moat]] at the [[Tower of London]], previously drained in 1843, is completely refilled by a tidal wave
* [[January 12]] - US 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]]
* [[February]] - [[Kurume University]] ([[Japan]]) established
* [[February 11]] - [[1928 Winter Olympic Games]] open in [[St. Moritz]], [[Switzerland]]
* [[February 12]] - Heavy [[hail]]s kill 11 in England
* [[February 25]] - [[Charles Jenkins Laboratories]] of [[Washington, DC]] becomes the first holder of a [[television]] license from the [[Federal Radio Commission]].
* [[March 12]] - [[Malta]] becomes a British [[dominion]]
* [[March 12]] - In [[California]], the [[St. Francis Dam]] north of [[Los Angeles]] fails killing 400
* [[March 21]] - [[Charles Lindbergh]] is presented the [[Congressional Medal of Honor]] for his first trans-[[Atlantic Ocean|Atlantic]] flight.
* [[April 10]] - [[Pineapple Primary]] - [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]] primary elections in [[Chicago]] preceded by assassinations and bombings
* [[April 12]] - Bomb attack against the King of Italy in Milan - 17 bystanders dead
* [[April 22]] - [[Earthquake]] destroys [[Corinth]] - 200.000 buildings destroyed
* [[May 15]]-[[May 17|17]] - [[Christian X of Denmark]] visits [[Finland]]
* [[May 15]] - [[Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia]], commenced operations
* [[May 15]] - Release of the [[animation |animated short]] [[Plane Crazy]], featuring the first appearances of [[Mickey Mouse| 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-August===
* [[June 11]] - Medical doctor's strike begins in [[Vienna]]
* [[June 14]] - Students take over the medical wing of [[Rosario University]] in [[Argentina]]
* [[July 6]] - The world's largest [[hail|hailstone]] falls in [[Potter, Nebraska]].
* [[July 12]] - [[Mexico|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]].
* [[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).
* [[July 17]] - [[Jose del León Toral]] assassinates [[Alvaro Obregon]], president of [[Mexico]]
* [[June 20]] - Shooting incident in [[Yugoslavia]]n 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]]
* [[July 16]] - [[Leon Toral]] assassinates [[Álvaro Obregón]], [[president of Mexico]]
* [[July 25]] - USA recalls its troops from [[China]]
* [[July 27]] - [[Tich Freeman]] becomes only [[bowler (cricket)|bowler]] ever to take 200 [[first-class cricket|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 25]] - [[Ahmet Zogu]] proclaims himself ''King Zog I'' of [[Albania]]; he is crowned [[September 1]]
* [[August 27]] - The [[Kellogg-Briand Pact]] was signed in [[Paris, France|Paris]] - it was the first treaty which outlawed aggressive war.

===September-December===
* [[September 1]] - [[Richard Byrd]] leaves New York for Arctic
* [[September 3]] - [[Alexander Fleming]] discovers Penicillin
* [[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]].
* [[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, Massachusetts|Boston]].
* [[November 3]] - cartoon star [[Mickey Mouse]] appears in [[Steamboat Willie]], an animated short produced by [[Walt Disney]].
* [[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]] - [[Sweden|Swedes]] start a tradition of eating [[Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden|Gustavus Adolphus]] pastries to commemorate the old warrior king.
* [[November 6]] - [[U.S. presidential election, 1928]]: [[United States Republican Party|Republican]] [[Herbert Hoover]] wins by a wide margin over [[United States Democratic Party|Democrat]] [[Alfred E. Smith]].
* [[November 10]] - [[Hirohito]] was enthroned as Emperor of [[Japan]].
* [[December 3]] - In [[Rio de Janeiro]], a [[seaplane]] sunk near [[Cap Arcona]] with [[Alberto Santos-Dumont]] 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]]
* [[December 31]] - Bells of [[Big Ben]] first time in a radio

===Unknown dates===
* [[Charles D.B. King|Charles King]] elected president of [[Liberia]] with 600,000 [[vote]]s; the whole of country has only 15,000 voters.
* [[Chaco war]]
* [[Coca Cola]] enters Europe through the Amsterdam Olympics.
* [[Eliot Ness]] begins to lead the prohibition unit in [[Chicago, Illinois]].
* The old [[Canaan]]ite city of [[Ugarit]] is rediscovered.
* [[Turkey]] switches from the [[Arabic alphabet|Arabic]] to the [[Latin]]-based modern [[Turkish alphabet]].
*The right to vote extended to all women in the [[United Kingdom]].
* [[Frederick Griffith]] conducts the [[Griffith experiment]], indirectly proving existence of [[DNA]].
* [[Motorola]] is founded.
* First (and last) [[Best Title Writing]] [[Academy Award]] given.
* The [[Episcopal Church in the United States of America]] ratifies a new revision of the [[Book of Common Prayer]].
* W2XBS, [[RCA]]'s first television station, is established in [[New York City]].
* Australian farmer, Jack Trott, finds [[Rhizanthella gardneri]] in his garden.

==Births==
===January===
*[[January 5]] - [[Ali Bhutto]], [[President of Pakistan]] and [[Prime Minister of Pakistan]] (d. [[1979]])
*[[January 5]] - [[Walter Mondale]], U.S. Senator and Presidential candidate
*[[January 7]] - [[William Peter Blatty]], American writer
*[[January 11]] - [[David L. Wolper]], television producer
*[[January 16]] - [[William Kennedy (author)|William Kennedy]], American author
*[[January 17]] - [[Jean Barraqué]], French composer (d. [[1973]])
*[[January 17]] - [[Vidal Sassoon]], English cosmetologist
*[[January 23]] - [[Chico Carrasquel]], Venezuelan [[Major League Baseball]] player (d. [[2005]])
*[[January 23]] - [[Jeanne Moreau]], French actress
*[[January 24]] - [[Desmond Morris]], anthropologist and writer
*[[January 26]] - [[Roger Vadim]], French film director (d. [[2000]])
*[[January 30]] - [[Hal Prince]], American stage producer and director

===February===
*[[February 5]] - [[Andrew Greeley]], American Catholic priest and novelist
*[[February 9]] - [[Frank Frazetta]], American illustrator
*[[February 9]] - [[Roger Mudd]], American journalist
*[[February 23]] - [[Vasili Lazarev]], cosmonaut (d. [[1990]])
*[[February 26]] - [[Fats Domino]], American musician
*[[February 26]] - [[Anatoli Filipchenko]], cosmonaut
*[[February 27]] - [[Ariel Sharon]], [[Prime Minister of Israel]]

===March-April===
*[[March 4]] - [[Alan Sillitoe]], English writer
*[[March 6]] - [[Gabriel García Márquez]], Colombian writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate
*[[March 8]] - [[Gerald Bull]], Canadian engineer (d. [[1990]])
*[[March 10]] - [[James Earl Ray]], American assassin (d. [[1998]])
*[[March 12]] - [[Edward Albee]], American dramatist
*[[March 16]] - [[Christa Ludwig]], German mezzo-soprano
*[[March 19]] - [[Hans Küng]], Swiss theologian
*[[March 19]] - [[Patrick McGoohan]], Irish actor
*[[March 20]] - [[Fred Rogers]], American children's television host (d. [[2003]])
*[[March 24]] - [[Byron Janis]], American pianist
*[[March 25]] - [[Jim Lovell]], astronaut
*[[March 28]] - [[Zbigniew Brzezinski]], Polish-born U.S. National Security Advisor
*[[March 31]] - [[Gordie Howe]], Canadian hockey player
*[[March 31]] - [[Lefty Frizzell]], American country music performer
*[[April 1]] - [[Jane Powell]], American dancer, actress, and singer
*April 1 - [[George Grizzard]], American actor
*[[April 2]] - [[Serge Gainsbourg]], French singer (d. [[1991]])
*[[April 4]] - [[Maya Angelou]], American poet and novelist
*[[April 6]] - [[James D. Watson]], American geneticist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]]
*[[April 7]] - [[James Garner]], American actor
*[[April 7]] - [[Alan J. Pakula]], American producer and director (d. [[1998]])
*[[April 8]] - [[Eric Porter]], English actor (d. [[1995]])
*[[April 9]] - [[Tom Lehrer]], American songwriter
*[[April 12]] - [[Jean-François Paillard]], French conductor
*[[April 19]] - [[Alexis Korner]], British blues musician (d. [[1984]])
*[[April 23]] - [[Shirley Temple]], American actress and politician

===May-June===
*[[May 3]] - [[Dave Dudley]], American singer (d. [[2003]])
*[[May 4]] - [[Hosni Mubarak]], [[President of Egypt]]
*[[May 8]] - [[Theodore Sorenson]], American lawyer and speechwriter
*[[May 9]] - [[Colin Chapman]], English automotive engineer (d. [[1982]])
*[[May 9]] - [[Pancho Gonzalez]], American tennis player (d. [[1995]])
*[[May 9]] - [[Barbara Ann Scott]], Canadian figure skater
*[[May 12]] - [[Burt Bacharach]], American composer
*[[May 16]] - [[Billy Martin]], baseball player and manager (d. [[1989]])
*[[May 18]] - [[Pernell Roberts]], American actor
*[[May 23]] - [[Rosemary Clooney]], American singer and actress (d. [[2002]])
*[[May 26]] - [[Jack Kevorkian]], American physician
*[[June 1]] - [[Georgi Dobrovolski]], cosmonaut (d. [[1971]])
*[[June 1]] - [[Bob Monkhouse]], English comedian and game show host (d. [[2003]])
*[[June 13]] - [[John Forbes Nash, Jr.]], American mathematician, recipient of the [[Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences|Nobel Prize in Economics]]
*[[June 14]] - [[Ernesto Rafael Guevara de la Serna]], Argentine-born revolutionary (d. [[1967]])
*[[June 19]] - [[Nancy Marchand]], American actress (d. [[2000]])
*[[June 25]] - [[Alexei Abrikosov]], Russian physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate
*[[June 26]] - [[Jacob Druckman]], American composer (d. [[1996]])

===July-September===
*[[July 5]] - [[Warren Oates]], American actor (d. [[1982]])
*[[July 10]] - [[Moshe Greenberg]], American-Israeli Bible scholar
*[[July 11]] - [[Bobo Olson]], American boxer (d. [[2002]])
*[[July 12]] - [[Elias James Corey]], American chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate
*[[July 13]] - [[Leroy Vinnegar]], American musician (d. [[1999]])
*[[July 16]] - [[Robert Sheckley]], American writer
*[[July 25]] - [[Keter Betts]], American jazz bassist (d. [[2005]])
*[[July 26]] - [[Stanley Kubrick]], American film director (d. [[1999]])
*[[July 26]] - [[Bernice Rubens]], British novelist (d. [[2004]])
*[[August 6]] - [[Andy Warhol]], American artist (d. [[1987]])
*[[August 10]] - [[Eddie Fisher (singer)|Eddie Fisher]], American singer
*[[August 12]] - [[Bob Buhl]], baseball player (d. [[2001]])
*[[August 15]] - [[Nicolas Roeg]], English film director
*[[August 18]] - [[Marge Schott]], baseball team owner (d. [[2004]])
*[[August 25]] - [[Herbert Kroemer]], German-born physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate
*[[September 11]] - [[William Kienzle]], American author (d. [[2001]]
*[[September 14]] - [[Angus Ogilvy]], husband of [[Princess Alexandra of Kent]] (d. [[2004]])
*[[September 15]] - [[Julian Cannonball Adderley]], American saxophonist
*[[September 19]] - [[Adam West]], American actor
*[[September 22]] - [[James Lawson]], American civil rights activist and minister
*[[September 30]] - [[Elie Wiesel]], Romanian Holocaust survivor, writer, and lecturer, recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]]

===October-December===
*[[October 1]] - [[George Peppard]], American actor (d. [[1994]])
*[[October 8]] - [[Bill Maynard]], British actor
*[[October 9]] - [[Einojuhani Rautavaara]], Finnish composer
*[[October 27]] - [[Kyle Rote]], American football player (d. [[2002]])
*[[October 30]] - [[Daniel Nathans]], American microbiologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[1999]])
*[[November 3]] - [[Osamu Tezuka]], Japanese artist (d. [[1989]])
*[[November 3]] - [[George Yardley]], American basketball player (d. [[2004]])
*[[November 10]] - [[Ennio Morricone]], Italian composer
*[[November 11]] - [[Carlos Fuentes]], Panamanian writer
*[[November 17]] - [[Rance Howard]], American actor
*[[November 29]] - [[Paul Simon (politician)|Paul Simon]], U.S. Senator from Illinois (d. [[2003]])
*[[December 7]] - [[Noam Chomsky]], American linguist
*[[December 15]] - [[Friedensreich Hundertwasser]], Austrian artist (d. [[2000]])
*[[December 16]] - [[Philip K. Dick]], American author (d. [[1982]])
*[[December 25]] - [[Dick Miller]], American actor
*[[December 31]] - [[Siné]], French cartoonist

===Unknown date===
*[[Sultan Azlan Muhibbudin Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Yusuff Izzudin Shah Ghafarullahu-lahu]], King of Malaysia

==Deaths==
* [[January 1]] - [[Loie Fuller]], American dancer (b. [[1862]])
* [[January 6]] - [[Alvin Kraenzlein]], American athlete (b. [[1876]])
* [[January 11]] - [[Thomas Hardy]], English writer (b. [[1840]])
* [[January 29]] - [[Douglas Haig]], British soldier (b. [[1861]])
*[[January 30]] - [[Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger]], Danish scientist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (b. [[1867]])
* [[February 1]] - [[Hughie Jennings]], baseball player (b. [[1869]])
* [[February 4]] - [[Hendrik Lorentz]], Dutch physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1853]])
* [[February 15]] - [[Herbert Henry Asquith]], [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (b. [[1852]])
* [[February 16]] - [[Eddie Foy]], American vaudevillian (b. [[1856]])
* [[April 2]] - [[Theodore William Richards]], American chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1868]])
* [[April 5]] - [[Roy Kilner]], English cricketer (b. [[1890]])
* [[June 4]] - [[Chang Tso-lin]], Chinese warlord (b. [[1873]])
* [[June 22]] - [[A. B. Frost]], American illustrator (b. [[1851]])
* [[August 12]] - [[Leos Janacek]], Czech composer (b. [[1854]])
* [[August 30]] - [[Wilhelm Wien]], German physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1864]])
* [[October 22]] - [[Andrew Fisher]], fifth [[Prime Minister of Australia]] (b. [[1862]])
* [[December 1]] - [[José Eustasio Rivera]], Colombian writer (b. [[1888]])
* [[December 10]] - [[Charles Rennie Mackintosh]], Scottish architect (b. [[1868]])
*[[Robert Abbe]], American surgeon (b. [[1851]])

==Nobel Prizes==
* [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] - [[Owen Willans Richardson]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] - [[Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Physiology or Medicine]] - [[Charles Jules Henri Nicolle]]
* [[Nobel Prize in literature|Literature]] - [[Sigrid Undset]]
* [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] - not awarded

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 {{Year AG}}
 ===January-May===
-* [[January 6, 1930|January 6]]-[[January 7|7]] - [[River Thames]] floods in London - 14 drowned
+* [[January 6, 1928|January 6]]-[[January 7|7]] - [[River Thames]] floods in London - 14 drowned
 * [[January 7]] - [[Moat]] at the [[Tower of London]], previously drained in 1843, is completely refilled by a tidal wave
 * [[January 12]] - US murderer [[Ruth Snyder]] executed at [[Ossining]]

1928 - Revision history

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Tgaitskell: /* January-May */

Squashua at 03:57, 3 February 2006

PoC at 09:51, 17 January 2006