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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 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.
• May 15, 1928 – Walt Disney character Mickey Mouse premieres in his first cartoon, Plane Crazy.
• June 9, 1928 – Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.
• 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.
• September 18, 1928 – Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro crossing of the English Channel.
• October 8, 1928 – Joseph Szigeti gives the first performance of Alfredo Casella’s Violin Concerto.
• October 10, 1928 – Chiang Kai-shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China.
• October 12, 1928 – An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children’s Hospital, Boston.
• 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 – Gerald Arpino, American dancer and choreographer (d. 2008)
• January 31, 1928 – Chuck Willis, American singer-songwriter (d. 1958)
• February 1, 1928 – Stuart Whitman, American actor
• February 2, 1928 – Jay Handlan, American basketball player and engineer (d. 2013)
• February 29, 1928 – Joss Ackland, English actor and singer
• April 28, 1928 – Yves Klein, French painter (d. 1962)
• July 5, 1928 – Pierre Mauroy, French educator and politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 2013)
• August 27, 1928 – Péter Boross, Hungarian lawyer and politician, 54th Prime Minister of Hungary
• October 30, 1928 – Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
• November 18, 1928 – Sheila Jordan, American singer-songwriter and pianist