Important Historical Events of the year 1928, Year 1928 in History

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List of 1928 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1928

What happened in the year 1928?

Date	Event
January 1, 1928	Boris Bazhanov defects through Iran. He is the only assistant of Joseph Stalin's secretariat to have defected from the Eastern Bloc.
January 7, 1928	A disastrous flood of the River Thames kills 14 people and causes extensive damage to much of riverside London.
January 31, 1928	Leon Trotsky is exiled to Alma-Ata.
March 12, 1928	In California, the St. Francis Dam fails; the resulting floods kill 431 people.
March 21, 1928	Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight.
April 12, 1928	The Bremen, a German Junkers W 33 type aircraft, takes off for the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west.
April 14, 1928	The Bremen, a German Junkers W 33 type aircraft, reaches Greenly Island, Canada, completing the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west.
May 3, 1928	The Jinan incident begins with the deaths of twelve Japanese civilians by Chinese forces in Jinan, China, which leads to Japanese retaliation and the deaths of over 2,000 Chinese civilians in the following days.
June 4, 1928	The 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 Beijing ("Northern Capital").
June 9, 1928	Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.
June 18, 1928	Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she is a passenger; Wilmer Stultz is the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic).
June 27, 1928	The Rovaniemi township decree was promulgated, as a result of which Rovaniemi seceded from the old rural municipality as its own market town on January 1, 1929.
July 7, 1928	Sliced bread is sold for the first time (on the inventor's 48th birthday) by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.
August 27, 1928	The Kellogg–Briand Pact outlawing war is signed by fifteen nations. Ultimately sixty-one nations will sign it.
September 17, 1928	The Okeechobee hurricane strikes southeastern Florida, killing more than 2,500 people.
September 18, 1928	Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro crossing of the English Channel.
September 27, 1928	The Republic of China is recognized by the United States.
September 28, 1928	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 1, 1928	Newark Liberty International Airport opens, becoming the first airport in the New York City metro area.
October 2, 1928	The "Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of God", commonly known as Opus Dei, is founded.[12]
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 Boston Children's Hospital.
October 15, 1928	The airship Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States.
October 28, 1928	Indonesia Raya, now the national anthem of Indonesia, is first played during the Second Indonesian Youth Congress.
November 1, 1928	The Law on the Adoption and Implementation of the Turkish Alphabet, replaces the Arabic alphabet with the Latin alphabet.
November 12, 1928	SS Vestris sinks approximately 200 miles (320 km) 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 18, 1928	Release of the animated short Steamboat Willie, the first fully synchronized sound cartoon, directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, featuring the third appearances of cartoon characters Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse. This is considered by the Disney corporation to be Mickey's birthday.
December 4, 1928	Cosmo Gordon Lang was enthroned as the Archbishop of Canterbury, the first bachelor to be appointed in 150 years.
December 6, 1928	The government of Colombia sends military forces to suppress a month-long strike by United Fruit Company workers, resulting in an unknown number of deaths.
December 17, 1928	Indian revolutionaries Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar and Shivaram Rajguru assassinate British police officer James Saunders in Lahore, Punjab, to avenge the death of Lala Lajpat Rai at the hands of the police. The three were executed in 1931.