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1928 Calendar Trivia
The next time you can reuse this calendar will be on year 2040. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a solar cycle.
April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), December 12 (12/12), and the last day of February always fall on the same day of the week in any given year. This is called the ‘Doomsday rule’. Check these dates using the full 12-month calendar below to verify.
1928 Calendar
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Historical Events Of 1928
- January 23, 1928 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Dragon in Chinese astrology.
- March 12, 1928 – In California, the St. Francis Dam fails; the resulting floods kill over 600 people.
- 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 19, 1928 – The 125th and final fascicle of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
- June 4, 1928 – The President of the Republic of China, Zhang Zuolin, is assassinated by Japanese agents.
- June 9, 1928 – Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.
- July 14, 1928 – New Vietnam Revolutionary Party is founded in Huế amid providing some of the communist party’s most important leaders in its early years.
- September 17, 1928 – The Okeechobee hurricane strikes southeastern Florida, killing more than 2,500 people. It is the third deadliest natural disaster in United States history, behind the Galveston hurricane of 1900 and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
- October 10, 1928 – Chiang Kai-shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China.
- October 15, 1928 – The airship, Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States.
Who Were Born On 1928?
- March 12, 1928 – Aldemaro Romero, Venezuelan pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 2007)
- May 5, 1928 – Richard Schaal, American actor and screenwriter (d. 2014)
- July 11, 1928 – Greville Janner, Baron Janner of Braunstone, Welsh lawyer and politician
- August 19, 1928 – Walter Massey, Canadian actor (d. 2014)
- October 1, 1928 – Sivaji Ganesan, Indian actor (d. 2001)
- October 5, 1928 – Louise Fitzhugh, American author and illustrator (d. 1974)
- October 26, 1928 – Francisco Solano López, Argentinian illustrator (d. 2011)
- November 2, 1928 – Herb Geller, American-German saxophonist and composer (d. 2013)
- November 19, 1928 – Dara Singh, Indian wrestler, actor, and politician (d. 2012)
- December 30, 1928 – Bo Diddley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2008)