1928
year
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1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1928th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 928th year of the 2nd millennium, the 28th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1920s decade.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 19th century – 20th century – 21st century |
| Decades: | 1890s 1900s 1910s – 1920s – 1930s 1940s 1950s |
| Years: | 1925 1926 1927 – 1928 – 1929 1930 1931 |
| Gregorian calendar | 1928 MCMXXVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2681 |
| Armenian calendar | 1377 ԹՎ ՌՅՀԷ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6678 |
| Bahá'í calendar | 84–85 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1849–1850 |
| Bengali calendar | 1335 |
| Berber calendar | 2878 |
| British Regnal year | 18 Geo. 5 – 19 Geo. 5 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2472 |
| Burmese calendar | 1290 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7436–7437 |
| Chinese calendar | 丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit) 4624 or 4564 — to — 戊辰年 (Earth Dragon) 4625 or 4565 |
| Coptic calendar | 1644–1645 |
| Discordian calendar | 3094 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1920–1921 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5688–5689 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1984–1985 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1849–1850 |
| - Kali Yuga | 5028–5029 |
| Holocene calendar | 11928 |
| Igbo calendar | 928–929 |
| Iranian calendar | 1306–1307 |
| Islamic calendar | 1346–1347 |
| Japanese calendar | Shōwa 3 (昭和３年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1858–1859 |
| Juche calendar | 17 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 13 days |
| Korean calendar | 4261 |
| Minguo calendar | ROC 17 民國17年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 460 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2470–2471 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴火兔年 (female Fire-Rabbit) 2054 or 1673 or 901 — to — 阳土龙年 (male Earth-Dragon) 2055 or 1674 or 902 |
Events change
- January 31 – Leon Trotsky is exiled to Kazakhstan
- February 8 – British inventor John Logie Baird sends the first television signal across the Atlantic Ocean, from London to New York
- May 7 – The United Kingdom gives equal voting rights to women by passing the Representation of the People Act. This law allows women to vote when they are 21 years old, like men. Before this, women could not vote until they were 30.
- June 9 – Australian flyer Charles Kingsford Smith finishes the first airplane flight across the Pacific Ocean.
- September 28 – Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
- October 2 – Josemaria Escriva starts Opus Dei.
Births change
January change
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- January 5 – Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, 9th Prime Minister of Pakistan and 4th President of Pakistan (d. 1979)
February change
- February 1 – Stuart Whitman, American actor
- February 22 – Sir Bruce Forsyth, British entertainer and television presenter
- February 26 – Fats Domino, American musician
- February 28 – Sir Stanley Baker, Welsh actor (d. 1976)
- February 29 – Joss Ackland, British actor
March change
- March 5 – Diana Coupland, British actress
- March 6 - Glyn Owen, Welsh actor (d. 2004)
- March 20 – Fred Rogers, American television children's program host and writer (d. 2003)
April change
- April 7 – James Garner, American actor (Maverick, The Rockford Files)
- April 23 – Shirley Temple, American child actress and diplomat (d. 2014)
- April 24 – Tommy Docherty, Scottish footballer and manager of Manchester United F.C. (1973-1977)
- April 30 – Dickie Davies, British television sports presenter (World of Sport)
May change
- May 4 – Hosni Mubarak, 4th President of Egypt and Prime Minister of Egypt (d. 2020)
- May 12 – Burt Bacharach, American composer and songwriter
- May 23
- Rosemary Clooney, American singer and actress (d. 2002)
- Nigel Davenport, British actor (d. 2013)
- May 30 – Clint Walker, American actor (Cheyenne)
June change
- June 1 – Bob Monkhouse, British actor, comedian, writer and television game show host (d. 2003)
- June 14 – Che Guevara, Argentinian Marxist revolutionary (d. 1967)
July change
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- July 12
- Sir Alastair Burnett, British journalist and television newsreader (ITV)
- Kathy Staff, British actress (Crossroads, Last of the Summer Wine)
- July 26 – Stanley Kubrick, American movie director (d. 1999)
August change
- August 10 – Eddie Fisher, American singer (d. 2010)
- August 22 – Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer (d. 2007)
September change
- September 19 – Adam West, American actor (Batman, Family Guy)
October change
November change
- November 10 – Ennio Morricone, Italian composer, orchestrator and conductor (d. 2022)
December change
- December 1 - Malachi Throne, American television actor (d. 2013)
- December 12 – Chinghiz Aitmatov, Kyrgyzstani writer (d. 2008)
- December 30 – Bo Diddley, American rock and roll musician (d. 2008).