1928
Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades: 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s - 1920s - 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s
Years: 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 - 1928 - 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933
Events
- January 10 - USSR expels Leo Tolstoy
- 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 21 - Charles Lindbergh is presented the Congressional Medal of Honor for his first trans-Atlantic flight.
- August 28 The Kellog-Briand treaty was signed in Paris - it was the first treaty which outlawed aggresive war.
- November - Herbert Hoover defeats Alfred E. Smith in the U.S. presidential election
- 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 Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States 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
- 1928 in literature
- Strange Fugitive by Morley Callaghan
- 1928 in music
- 1928 in sports
- February 11 - 2nd Olympic Winter Games open in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
- Summer Olympic Games in Amsterdam Netherlands
- 1928 in television
- May 11 - The first regular schedule of TV programming is begun in the American by the General Electric company. Programs are transmitted Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday afternoons from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.
- July 12 - First televised tennis match.
- 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.
- 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 (+ 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 Barraqué, composer (+ 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 (+ 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 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 García Márquez, writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 1982
- March 10 - James Earl Ray, assassin (+ 1998)
- March 12 - Edward Albee, dramatist
- March 19 - Hans Küng, theologian
- March 19 - Patrick McGoohan, actor
- March 20 - Fred Rogers, children's television host (+ 2003)
- March 31 - Gordie Howe, ice hockey player
- April 2 - Serge Gainsbourg, singer
- April 9 - Tom Lehrer, satirical songwriter
- July 26 - Stanley Kubrick, American film director
- August 6 - Andy Warhol, American artist
- August 15 - Nicolas Roeg, film director
- October 1 - George Peppard, actor
- December 15 - Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian artist
Deaths
- January 11 - Thomas Hardy, writer
- January 29 - Douglas Haig, British soldier
- February 16 - Eddie Foy, vaudevillian, singer, dancer
- August 12 - Leos Janacek, Czech composer
- August 30 - Wilhelm Wien, physicist