1928 Events

1928 Agatha Christie publishes The Mystery of the Blue Train
The Mystery of the Blue Train is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by William Collins & Sons on March 29, 1928 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and C...
1928 Al Capone buys 14 room mansion in Palm Island, FL
Sometime in 1928, Al Capone purchased a 14 room mansion in Palm Island, Florida.
1928 Enzo Ferrari Establishes Scuderia Ferrari
Scuderia Ferrari is the name for the Gestione Sportiva, the division of the Ferrari automobile company concerned with racing. The racing team has competed in numerous classes of motorspor...
1928 Frida Kahlo Joins the Mexican Communist Party
Diego incorporated a portrait of Frida into his "Ballad of the Revolution" mural in the Ministry of Public Education. She appears in a panel he called "Frida Kahlo Distributes the Weapons...
1928 Kellogg's Rice Krispies First Appears On The Market
Rice Krispies (known as Rice Bubbles in Australia) is a breakfast cereal that was created by Eugene Mckay for the Kellogg company, and later marketed by Kellogg's in 1927 and released to ...
1928 Mercedes-Benz SSK is First Produced
The Mercedes-Benz SSK is a roadster built by German automobile manufacturer Mercedes-Benz between 1928 and 1932. Its name is an acronym of Super Sport Kurz, with the last word being the G...
1928 Stalin Begins Collectivization Of Agriculture
To satisfy the state's need for increased food supplies, the First Five-Year Plan called for the organization of the peasantry into collective units that the authorities could easily cont...
1928 Stalin's First Five-Year Plan Begins
The first Five Year Plan introduced in 1928, concentrated on the development of iron and steel, machine-tools, electric power and transport. Joseph Stalin set the workers high targets. He...
1928 Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss) Creates Artwork for the 'Flit' Ad Campaign
In 1928 Flit, then marketed by a newly formed subsidiary of Jersey Standard, Stanco Incorporated, became the subject of a very successful long running advertising campaign. Theodor Seuss ...
1928 Jan 6 "The Circus" (film) is Released
The Circus is a 1928 silent film which finds Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp character being chased by a police officer having been mistook for a pickpocket. Running into the circus main t...
1928 Feb 11
to 1928 Feb 19
 II Olympic Winter Games Held in St. Moritz, Switzerland
The 1928 Winter Olympics, officially known as the II Olympic Winter Games, were a winter multi-sport event which was celebrated in 1928 in St. Moritz, Switzerland. The 1928 Games were the...
1928 Mar 12 St. Francis Dam Failure
The bold, black headlines echo down through the years, staring up from the fading, crumbling newspapers that carried the tale of death and destruction to their readers. The second worst ...
1928 Apr 4 Maya Angelou is born
Marguerite Johnson was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on April 4 1928. Her father, Bailey Johnson, was a doorman and navy dietitian and her mother Vivian (Baxter) Johnson, was a real estate...
1928 Apr 7 Ernest Hemingway Moves To Key West
The new Hemingways heard of Key West from Ernest’s friend John Dos Passos, and the two stopped at the tiny Florida island on their way back from Paris. They soon discovered that life in r...
1928 Apr 14 New York Rangers win Stanley Cup
The 1928 Stanley Cup Final NHL championship series was contested by the New York Rangers and the Montreal Maroons. It was the first appearance by the Rangers in the Finals and was their f...
1928 Jun 17 Amelia Earhart becomes first woman to fly across the Atlantic
After Charles Lindbergh's solo flight across the Atlantic in 1927, Amy Phipps Guest, (1873–1959), expressed interest in being the first woman to fly (or be flown) across the Atlantic Ocea...
1928 Jul 26 Stanley Kubrick is Born
Stanley Kubrick (July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) was an American director, writer, producer, and photographer of films, who lived in England during most of the last 40 years of his career....
1928 Jul 28
to 1928 Aug 12
 Games of the IX Olympiad Held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The 1928 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the IX Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event which was celebrated in 1928 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Amsterdam ha...
1928 Aug 3 "Dixon Daily Telegraph" Front Page Headline Reads: "Ronald Reagan Saves Drowning Man."
"Dixon Daily Telegraph" front page headline reads: "Ronald Reagan saves drowning man." By the time he leaves his job, after seven summers, the count of those he has Reagan as a young manp...
1928 Aug 6 Andy Warhol is born
Andrew Warhola (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987), more commonly known as Andy Warhol, was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art move...
1928 Aug 25 Frank Lloyd Wright Marries Olgivanna Lazovich Hinzenburg
Olga (Olgivanna) Ivanovna Lazovich was a Montenegrin dancer, born in Montenegro on 27 December 1898. A daughter of Ivan Lazovich and his wife, Militza Miljanova, she was the granddaughter...
1928 Sep 3 Alexander Fleming First Discovers Penicillin
For the first 2 million years or so of human history, bacterial infections—pneumonia, scarlet fever, syphilis, festering wounds—were often tantamount to a death sentence. But one London m...
1928 Sep 20 Ronald Reagan Attends Eureka College
In the fall of 1928 Ronald Reagan, from Dixon, Ill., enrolled as a freshman at Eureka College. He became an active participant in many phases of campus life, culminating in his role as pr...
1928 Sep 28 Alexander Fleming Discovers Penicillin
"When I woke up just after dawn on September 28, 1928, I certainly didn't plan to revolutionize all medicine by discovering the world's first antibiotic, or bacteria killer, but I guess th..." —Sir Alexander Fleming
1928 Oct 4
to 1928 Oct 9
 1928 World Series
In the 1928 World Series, the New York Yankees swept the St. Louis Cardinals in four games. Along with 1927, this was the first time a team had swept consecutive Series. Babe Ruth hit .6...
1928 Oct 13 Charfield Railway Disaster
At 4.28am on Saturday, October 13, 1928, the Leeds to Bristol night mail crashed under the road bridge at Charfield Station, some 20 miles south of Gloucester. It had collided in fog with...
1928 Nov Ronald Reagan Becomes Leader in Strike at Eureka College
Ronald Reagan spoke publicly and became a leader in a student strike movement on the Eureka College campus. After successfully staging a five-day strike, the student demands were met and...
1928 Nov 6 Franklin D. Roosevelt is Elected Governor of New York State
Roosevelt maintained contacts and mended fences with the Democratic Party during the 1920s, especially in New York. Although he made his name as an opponent of New York City's Tammany Hal...
1928 Nov 18 Mickey Mouse Appears in his First Animated Feature
In the fall of 1928, Walt Disney could claim three dubious assets: a new animated cartoon character called Mickey Mouse, three short silent films featuring the spunky rodent and an idea g...
1928 Nov 24 Theo Van Doesburg Marries Petronella Johanna van Moorsel
In 1920 Nelly met Van Doesburg through her brother, who had a subscription to the magazine published by Van Doesburg De Stijl. At the opening of the exhibition La Section d'Or in The Hagu...
1928 Dec 6 Ernest Hemingway's Father Clarence Commits Suicide
Suffering from severe diabetes and concerned about his financial future, Clarence Hemingway shot himself on December 6, 1928 with his father's Smith and Wesson .32 revolver. In The Sound ...
1928 Dec 21 President Calvin Coolidge Signs The Boulder Canyon Project Act
On December 21, 1928, President Calvin Coolidge signed the Boulder Canyon Project Act intended to dam the fourteen hundred mile Colorado River and distribute its water for use in Arizona,...