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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 21, 1928 – Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight.
• July 7, 1928 – Sliced bread is sold for the first time (on the inventor’s 48th birthday) by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.
• 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.
• August 27, 1928 – The Kellogg–Briand Pact outlawing war is signed by fifteen nations. Ultimately sixty-one nations will sign it.
• September 7, 1928 – The first Tour de Pologne began.
• October 2, 1928 – The “Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of God”, commonly known as Opus Dei, is founded by Saint Josemaría Escrivá.
• October 8, 1928 – Joseph Szigeti gives the first performance of Alfredo Casella’s Violin Concerto.
• October 15, 1928 – The airship, Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States.
• December 6, 1928 – The government of Colombia sends military forces to suppress a month-long strike by United Fruit Company workers, resulting in an unknown number of deaths.

Who Were Born On 1928?

• January 6, 1928 – George H. Ross, American lawyer and businessman
• January 9, 1928 – Palghat R. Raghu, Carnatic musician and percussionist
• January 14, 1928 – Garry Winogrand, American photographer and author (d. 1984)
• February 1, 1928 – Tom Lantos, Hungarian-American academic and politician (d. 2008)
• February 22, 1928 – Texas Johnny Brown, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2013)
• April 4, 1928 – Jimmy Logan, Scottish actor, director, and producer (d. 2001)
• April 7, 1928 – James White, Northern Irish author and educator (d. 1999)
• May 22, 1928 – T. Boone Pickens, American businessman
• July 11, 1928 – Bobo Olson, American boxer (d. 2002)
• December 6, 1928 – Stanley Clinton Davis, Baron Clinton-Davis, English lawyer and politician