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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

Historical Events Of 1928

• January 1, 1928 – Boris Bazhanov defects through Iran. He is the only assistant of Joseph Stalin’s secretariat to have defected from the Eastern Bloc.
• January 23, 1928 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Dragon in Chinese astrology.
• 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 14, 1928 – The Bremen, a German Junkers W33 type aircraft, reaches Greenly Island, Canada - the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west.
• June 4, 1928 – The President of the Republic of China, Zhang Zuolin, is assassinated by Japanese agents.
• June 8, 1928 – Second Northern Expedition: The National Revolutionary Army captures Peking, whose name is changed to Beijing (“Northern Capital”).
• September 28, 1928 – The U.K. Parliament passes the Dangerous Drugs Act outlawing cannabis.
• October 28, 1928 – Declaration of the Youth Pledge in Indonesia, the first time Indonesia Raya, now the national anthem, was sung.
• November 22, 1928 – The premier performance of Ravel’s Boléro takes place in Paris.
• December 17, 1928 – Indian revolutionaries Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar and Shivaram Rajguru assassinate British police officer James Saunders in Lahore, Punjab, to avenge the death of Lala Lajpat Rai at the hands of the police. The three were executed in 1931.

Who Were Born On 1928?

• January 14, 1928 – Garry Winogrand, American photographer and author (d. 1984)
• April 20, 1928 – Robert Byrne, American chess player and author (d. 2013)
• April 28, 1928 – Yves Klein, French painter (d. 1962)
• May 11, 1928 – Yaacov Agam, Israeli sculptor
• June 29, 1928 – Ian Bannen, Scottish actor (d. 1999)
• July 26, 1928 – Francesco Cossiga, Italian academic and politician, 8th President of Italy (d. 2010)
• August 19, 1928 – Walter Massey, Canadian actor (d. 2014)
• September 5, 1928 – Albert Mangelsdorff, German trombonist and educator (United Jazz + Rock Ensemble) (d. 2005)
• September 29, 1928 – Nathan Shamuyarira, Zimbabwean journalist and politician, Zimbabwean Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 2014)
• October 26, 1928 – Francisco Solano López, Argentinian illustrator (d. 2011)