1928{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;"\n|- \n| align="center" colspan=2 | Years:1925 1926 1927 - 1928 - 1929 1930 1931 \n|-\n| align="center" colspan=2 | Decades: 1890s 1900s 1910s - 1920s - 1930s 1940s 1950s \n|- \n| align="center" | Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century \n1928 in architecture \n1928 in art \n1928 in aviation \n1928 in film \n1928 in literature \n1928 in music \n1928 in radio \n1928 in science \n1928 in sports \n1928 state leaders \n1928 in Canada\n|}
Year in topic\n* 1928 in aviation\n* 1928 in film\n**Sunrise\n* 1928 in literature\n**Strange Fugitive by Morley Callaghan\n* 1928 in music\n* 1928 in science\n* 1928 in sports\n**February 11 - 2nd Olympic Winter Games open in St. Moritz, Switzerland.\n**Summer Olympic Games in Amsterdam Netherlands\n* 1928 in television\n**May 11 - The first regular schedule of TV programming is begun in the United States by the General Electric company. Programs are transmitted Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday afternoons from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.\n**July 12 - First televised tennis match. \n**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. \n**September 11 - The first broadcast of a play on television, The Queen's Messenger (W2XAD).Births\n* January 5 - Walter Mondale, U.S. Senator, Democratic presidential nominee in 1984\n* January 5 - Ali Bhutto, President and Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 1979)\n* January 7 - William Peter Blatty, screenwriter\n* January 8 - Sander Vanocur, journalist\n* January 11 - David L. Wolper, producer\n* January 16 - William Kennedy, author\n* January 17 - Jean Barraqué, composer (d. 1973)\n* January 17 - Vidal Sassoon, cosmetologist\n* January 23 - Jeanne Moreau, actress\n* January 24 - Desmond Morris, anthropologist, writer\n* January 26 - Roger Vadim, film director (d. 2000)\n* January 30 - Hal Prince, stage producer, director\n* February 5 - Andrew Greeley, priest, novelist\n* February 9 - Frank Frazetta, illustrator\n* February 9 - Roger Mudd, journalist\n* February 11 - Conrad Janis, actor\n* February 11 - Archibald Forster, CEO (Esso, United Kingdom)\n* February 11 - Gerry Alexander, West Indies cricket player\n* February 11 - Raoul Cita, rocker\n* February 23 - Vasili Lazarev, cosmonaut (d. 1990)\n* February 26 - Fats Domino, musician\n* February 26 - Anatoli Filipchenko, cosmonaut\n* February 27 - Ariel Sharon, Prime Minister of Israel\n* February 27 - Alfred Hrdlicka, sculptor and graphic artist\n* March 3 - France Križanič, Slovene mathematician (d. 2002) \n* March 4 - Alan Sillitoe, writer\n* March 6 - Gabriel García Márquez, writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 1982\n* March 8 - Gerald Bull, engineer (d. 1990)\n* March 10 - James Earl Ray, assassin (d. 1998)\n* March 12 - Edward Albee, dramatist\n* March 19 - Hans Küng, theologian\n* March 19 - Patrick McGoohan, actor\n* March 20 - Fred Rogers, children's television host (d. 2003)\n* March 25 - Jim Lovell, astronaut\n* March 28 - Zbigniew Brzezinski, United States National Security Advisor\n* March 31 - Gordie Howe, ice hockey player\n* March 31 - Lefty Frizzell, country music performer\n* April 1 - Jane Powell, dancer, actress, singer\n* April 2 - Serge Gainsbourg, singer\n* April 4 - Maya Angelou, poet, novelist\n* April 6 - James D. Watson, geneticist\n* April 7 - James Garner, actor\n* April 7 - Alan J. Pakula, producer, director (d. 1998)\n* April 9 - Tom Lehrer, satirical songwriter\n* May 8 - Theodore Sorenson, political operative, writer\n* May 9 - Pancho Gonzalez, tennis player (d. 1995)\n* May 9 - Barbara Ann Scott, figure skater\n* May 11 - Mort Sahl, comedian, political commentator\n* May 12 - Burt Bacharach, composer\n* May 16 - Billy Martin, baseball player, coach (d. 1989)\n* May 18 - Pernell Roberts, actor\n* May 23 - Nigel Davenport, actor\n* May 23 - Rosemary Clooney, singer, actress (d. 2002)\n* May 26 - Jack Kevorkian, assisted suicide advocate\n* June 1 - Georgi Dobrovolski, cosmonaut\n* July 26 - Stanley Kubrick, American film director\n* August 6 - Andy Warhol, American artist\n* August 10 - Eddie Fisher, American singer\n* August 15 - Nicolas Roeg, film director\n* August 18 - Marge Schott, former owner of MLB's Cincinnati Reds\n* September 14 - The Rt Hon Sir Angus Ogilvy KCVO, husband of HRH Princess Alexandra of Kent\n* September 15 - Julian Cannonball Adderley, American saxophonist\n* September 19 - Adam West, actor\n* September 22 - James Lawson, civil rights activist, minister\n* October 1 - George Peppard, actor\n* October 9 - Einojuhani Rautavaara, composer\n* November 3 - Osamu Tezuka Japanese manga artist\n* November 10 - Ennio Morricone, film music composer\n* December 7 - Noam Chomsky, linguist and political dissident \n* December 15 - Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian artist\n*Sultan Azlan Muhibbudin Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Yusuff Izzudin Shah Ghafarullahu-lahu, later Sultan of Perak and 9th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.Deaths\n* January 1 - Loie Fuller, dancer\n* January 6 - Alvin Kraenzlein, American athlete\n* January 11 - Thomas Hardy, writer\n* January 29 - Douglas Haig, British soldier\n* February 1 - Hughie Jennings, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1869)\n* February 4- Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate\n* February 15 - Herbert Henry Asquith, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.\n* February 16 - Eddie Foy, vaudevillian, singer, dancer\n* June 4 - Chang Tso-lin, Chineese warlord\n* August 12 - Leos Janacek, Czech composer\n* August 30 - Wilhelm Wien, physicist\n* October 22 - Andrew Fisher, fifth Prime Minister of AustraliaNobel Prizes\n* Physics - Owen Willans Richardson\n* Chemistry - Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus\n* Medicine - Charles Jules Henri Nicolle\n* Literature - Sigrid Undset\n* Peace - Not awarded. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n |
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"Assassins!" - Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957) to his orchestra |
