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January

* January – British
bacteriologist A bacteriologist is a microbiologist, or similarly trained professional, in bacteriology -- a subdivision of microbiology that studies bacteria, typically Pathogenic bacteria, pathogenic ones. Bacteriologists are interested in studying and learnin ...
Frederick Griffith Frederick Griffith (1877–1941) was a British bacteriologist whose focus was the epidemiology and pathology of bacterial pneumonia. In January 1928 he reported what is now known as Griffith's Experiment, the first widely accepted demonstrati ...
reports the results of
Griffith's experiment Griffith's experiment, reported in 1928 by Frederick Griffith, was the first experiment suggesting that bacteria are capable of transferring genetic information through a process known as transformation. Griffith's findings were followed by res ...
, indirectly proving the existence of DNA. *
January 1 January 1 or 1 January is the first day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 364 days remaining until the end of the year (365 in leap years). This day is also known as New Year's Day since the day marks the beginning of the yea ...
Eastern Bloc emigration and defection After World War II, emigration restrictions were imposed by countries in the Eastern Bloc, which consisted of the Soviet Union and its satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe. Legal emigration was in most cases only possible in order to r ...
:
Boris Bazhanov Boris Georgiyevich Bazhanov (russian: Бори́с Гео́ргиевич Бажа́нов; 9 August 1900 – 30 December 1982) was a Soviet secretary of the Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union who defected from the Soviet Un ...
,
Joseph Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet political leader who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held power as General Secreta ...
's personal secretary, crosses the border to
Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...
to defect from the
Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...
. *
January 17 Events Pre-1600 * 38 BC – Octavian divorces his wife Scribonia and marries Livia Drusilla, ending the fragile peace between the Second Triumvirate and Sextus Pompey. * 1362 – Saint Marcellus' flood kills at least 25,000 people on ...
– The
OGPU The Joint State Political Directorate (OGPU; russian: Объединённое государственное политическое управление) was the intelligence and state security service and secret police of the Soviet Union f ...
arrests
Leon Trotsky Lev Davidovich Bronstein. ( – 21 August 1940), better known as Leon Trotsky; uk, link= no, Лев Давидович Троцький; also transliterated ''Lyev'', ''Trotski'', ''Trotskij'', ''Trockij'' and ''Trotzky''. (), was a Russian ...
in Moscow; he assumes a status of passive resistance and is exiled with his family. *
January 26 Events Pre-1600 * 661 – The Rashidun Caliphate is effectively ended with the assassination of Ali, the last caliph. *1531 – The 6.4–7.1 1531 Lisbon earthquake, Lisbon earthquake kills about thirty thousand people. *1564 – ...
– The
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Anak Krakatau Anak Krakatoa ( id, Anak Krakatau)English translation and common name: ''Child of Krakatoa'' is a volcanic island in Indonesia. On 29 December 1927, Anak Krakatoa first emerged from the caldera formed in 1883 by the explosive volcanic eruption ...
appears.


February

* February – The Ford River Rouge Complex at
Dearborn, Michigan Dearborn is a city in Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan. At the 2020 census, it had a population of 109,976. Dearborn is the seventh most-populated city in Michigan and is home to the largest Muslim population in the United States pe ...
, an automobile plant begun in 1917, is completed as the world's largest integrated factory. *
February 8 Events Pre-1600 * 421 – Constantius III becomes co-Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. * 1238 – The Mongols burn the Russian city of Vladimir. *1250 – Seventh Crusade: Crusaders engage Ayyubid forces in the Battle of Al ...
– Scottish inventor
John Logie Baird John Logie Baird FRSE (; 13 August 188814 June 1946) was a Scottish inventor, electrical engineer, and innovator who demonstrated the world's first live working television system on 26 January 1926. He went on to invent the first publicly demo ...
broadcasts a transatlantic television signal from London to
Hartsdale, New York Hartsdale is a hamlet located in the town of Greenburgh, Westchester County, New York, United States. The population was 5,293 at the 2010 census. It is a suburb of New York City. History Hartsdale, a CDP/hamlet/post-office in the town of Green ...
. *
February 11 Events Pre-1600 *660 BC – Traditional date for the foundation of Japan by Emperor Jimmu. * 55 – The death under mysterious circumstances of Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus, heir to the Roman empire, on the eve of his coming ...
19 – The
1928 Winter Olympics The 1928 Winter Olympics, officially known as the II Olympic Winter Games (french: IIes Jeux olympiques d'hiver; german: II. Olympische Winterspiele; it, II Giochi olimpici invernali; rm, II Gieus olimpics d'enviern) and commonly known as St. M ...
are held in St. Moritz, Switzerland, the first as a separate event.
Sonja Henie Sonja Henie (8 April 1912 – 12 October 1969) was a Norway, Norwegian figure skating, figure skater and film star. She was a three-time List of Olympic medalists in figure skating, Olympic champion (Figure skating at the 1928 Winter Olympics, ...
of Norway wins her first
gold medal A gold medal is a medal awarded for highest achievement in a non-military field. Its name derives from the use of at least a fraction of gold in form of plating or alloying in its manufacture. Since the eighteenth century, gold medals have bee ...
, in women's
figure skating Figure skating is a sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform on figure skates on ice. It was the first winter sport to be included in the Olympic Games, when contested at the 1908 Olympics in London. The Olympic disciplines are me ...
. *
February 20 Events Pre-1600 *1339 – The Milanese army and the St. George's (San Giorgio) Mercenaries of Lodrisio Visconti clash in the Battle of Parabiago; Visconti is defeated. *1472 – Orkney and Shetland are pawned by Norway to Scotland ...
– The Japanese general election produces a hung parliament. *
February 25 Events Pre-1600 * 138 – Roman emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius as his son, effectively making him his successor. * 628 – Khosrow II, the last great Shah of the Sasanian Empire (Iran), is overthrown by his son Kavadh II. ...
Charles Jenkins Laboratories Charles Jenkins Laboratories was founded in by Charles Francis Jenkins, developer of the Phantoscope, the first commercial tv station W3XK and the first commercial television company. History Charles Francis Jenkins in 1890 moved to Washingto ...
of Washington, D.C., becomes the first holder of a television license from the
Federal Radio Commission The Federal Radio Commission (FRC) was a government agency that regulated United States radio communication from its creation in 1927 until 1934, when it was succeeded by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The FRC was established by t ...
.


March

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March 15 Events Pre-1600 * 474 BC – Roman consul Aulus Manlius Vulso celebrates an ovation for concluding the war against Veii and securing a forty years' truce. *44 BC – The assassination of Julius Caesar takes place. * 493 – Odoa ...
**
March 15 incident The was a crackdown on socialists and communists by the Japanese government in 1928. Among those who were arrested in the incident was the Marxist economist Kawakami Hajime. Background Although the Japan Communist Party had been outlawed and for ...
: The Japanese government cracks down on socialists and communists, arresting over 1000 people. ** Chinese warlord
Shi Yousan Shi Yousan () (1891 – December 12, 1940) was a KMT general who defected to, and subsequently betrayed, Feng Yuxiang, Chiang Kai-shek, Wang Jingwei, Zhang Xueliang, the Chinese Communist Party, and Japan, in that order. In 1928, his tro ...
sets fire to the
Shaolin Monastery Shaolin Monastery (少林寺 ''Shàolínsì''), also known as Shaolin Temple, is a renowned monastic institution recognized as the birthplace of Chan Buddhism and the cradle of Shaolin Kung Fu. It is located at the foot of Wuru Peak of the So ...
in
Henan Henan (; or ; ; alternatively Honan) is a landlocked province of China, in the central part of the country. Henan is often referred to as Zhongyuan or Zhongzhou (), which literally means "central plain" or "midland", although the name is al ...
, destroying some of its ancient structures and artifacts. *
March 21 Events Pre-1600 * 537 – Siege of Rome: King Vitiges attempts to assault the northern and eastern city walls, but is repulsed at the Praenestine Gate, known as the ''Vivarium'', by the defenders under the Byzantine generals Bessas an ...
Charles Lindbergh Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974) was an American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, and activist. On May 20–21, 1927, Lindbergh made the first nonstop flight from New York City to Paris, a distance o ...
is presented with the
Medal of Honor The Medal of Honor (MOH) is the United States Armed Forces' highest military decoration and is awarded to recognize American soldiers, sailors, marines, airmen, guardians and coast guardsmen who have distinguished themselves by acts of valor. ...
for his first
transatlantic flight A transatlantic flight is the flight of an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean from Europe, Africa, South Asia, or the Middle East to North America, Central America, or South America, or ''vice versa''. Such flights have been made by fixed-wing air ...
. *
March 22 Events Pre-1600 * 106 – Start of the Bostran era, the calendar of the province of Arabia Petraea. * 235 – Roman emperor Severus Alexander is murdered, marking the start of the Crisis of the Third Century. * 871 – Æthelr ...
– The
Muslim Brotherhood The Society of the Muslim Brothers ( ar, جماعة الإخوان المسلمين'' ''), better known as the Muslim Brotherhood ( ', is a transnational Sunni Islamist organization founded in Egypt by Islamic scholar and schoolteacher Hassan ...
is founded in Egypt by
Islamic scholar In Islam, the ''ulama'' (; ar, علماء ', singular ', "scholar", literally "the learned ones", also spelled ''ulema''; feminine: ''alimah'' ingularand ''aalimath'' lural are the guardians, transmitters, and interpreters of reli ...
and schoolteacher
Hassan al-Banna Sheikh Hassan Ahmed Abdel Rahman Muhammed al-Banna ( ar, حسن أحمد عبد الرحمن محمد البنا; 14 October 1906 – 12 February 1949), known as Hassan al-Banna ( ar, حسن البنا), was an Egyptian schoolteacher and imam, b ...
. *
March 24 Events Pre-1600 * 1199 – King Richard I of England is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting in France, leading to his death on April 6. *1387 – English victory over a Franco- Castilian-Flemish fleet in the Battle of Margate off ...
– Excavation work begins after the old
Canaan Canaan (; Phoenician: 𐤊𐤍𐤏𐤍 – ; he, כְּנַעַן – , in pausa – ; grc-bib, Χανααν – ;The current scholarly edition of the Greek Old Testament spells the word without any accents, cf. Septuaginta : id est Vetus T ...
ite city of
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is accidentally rediscovered.


April

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April 10 Events Pre-1600 * 428 – Nestorius becomes the Patriarch of Constantinople. * 837 – Halley's Comet makes its closest approach to Earth at a distance equal to 0.0342 AU (5.1 million kilometres/3.2 million miles). * 1407 ...
– ''
Pineapple Primary The Pineapple Primary was the name given to the primary election held in Illinois on April 10, 1928. The campaign was marked by numerous acts of violence, mostly in Chicago and elsewhere in Cook County. In the six months prior to the primary ele ...
'': The United States Republican Party primary elections in Chicago are preceded by violence, bombings and assassination attempts (two politicians are killed, Octavius C. Granady and Giuseppe Esposito). *
April 12 Events Pre-1600 * 240 – Shapur I becomes co-emperor of the Sasanian Empire with his father Ardashir I. * 467 – Anthemius is elevated to Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. * 627 – King Edwin of Northumbria is converted ...
– A bomb attack against Italian Fascist leader
Benito Mussolini Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (; 29 July 188328 April 1945) was an Italian politician and journalist who founded and led the National Fascist Party. He was Prime Minister of Italy from the March on Rome in 1922 until his deposition in 194 ...
in Milan kills 17 bystanders. *
April 13 Events Pre-1600 *1111 – Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor. * 1204 – Constantinople falls to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade, temporarily ending the Byzantine Empire. 1601–1900 *1612 – In one of the epic samurai ...
– The West Plains, Missouri Dance Hall explosion occurs. *
April 12 Events Pre-1600 * 240 – Shapur I becomes co-emperor of the Sasanian Empire with his father Ardashir I. * 467 – Anthemius is elevated to Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. * 627 – King Edwin of Northumbria is converted ...
14 – The first east–west
transatlantic flight A transatlantic flight is the flight of an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean from Europe, Africa, South Asia, or the Middle East to North America, Central America, or South America, or ''vice versa''. Such flights have been made by fixed-wing air ...
by aeroplane takes place from
Dublin Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of th ...
, Ireland, to
Greenly Island, Canada Greenly Island ( French, ''Île Greenly'') is an island in Blanc-Sablon, Quebec, Canada, near the border of Newfoundland and Labrador, in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence at the southwestern end of Strait of Belle Isle. The rocky surface of Greenly Isl ...
, using the German
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''
Bremen Bremen (Low German also: ''Breem'' or ''Bräm''), officially the City Municipality of Bremen (german: Stadtgemeinde Bremen, ), is the capital of the German state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (''Freie Hansestadt Bremen''), a two-city-state consis ...
''. *
April 14 Events Pre-1600 * 43 BC – Legions loyal to the Roman Senate, commanded by Gaius Pansa, defeat the forces of Mark Antony in the Battle of Forum Gallorum. * 69 – Vitellius, commanding Rhine-based armies, defeats Roman emperor Otho ...
– An earthquake occurs in Chirpan,
Bulgaria Bulgaria (; bg, България, Bǎlgariya), officially the Republic of Bulgaria,, ) is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern flank of the Balkans, and is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and North Macedon ...
, followed four days later by another in
Plovdiv Plovdiv ( bg, Пловдив, ), is the second-largest city in Bulgaria, standing on the banks of the Maritsa river in the historical region of Thrace. It has a population of 346,893 and 675,000 in the greater metropolitan area. Plovdiv is the c ...
. Between them, they destroy more than 21,000 buildings, and kill almost 130 people. *
April 19 Events Pre-1600 * AD 65 – The freedman Milichus betrays Piso's plot to kill the Emperor Nero and all the conspirators are arrested. * 531 – Battle of Callinicum: A Byzantine army under Belisarius is defeated by the Persi ...
– The last section ("wise – wyze") of the original ''
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'' is completed and published. *
April 22 Events Pre-1600 * 1500 – Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral lands in Brazil. * 1519 – Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés establishes a settlement at Veracruz, Mexico. * 1529 – Treaty of Zaragoza divides the eastern ...
– An Ms 6.0 earthquake affects southern Greece with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (''Violent''), leaving 20 dead, and destroying 3,000 homes in
Corinth Corinth ( ; el, Κόρινθος, Kórinthos, ) is the successor to an ancient city, and is a former municipality in Corinthia, Peloponnese, which is located in south-central Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform, it has been part o ...
; a non-destructive tsunami is also observed. *
April 28 Events Pre-1600 * 224 – The Battle of Hormozdgan is fought. Ardashir I defeats and kills Artabanus V effectively ending the Parthian Empire. * 357 – Emperor Constantius II enters Rome for the first time to celebrate his victory ...
– 28 inches of snow fall in southern-central Pennsylvania, United States.


May

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May 3 Events Pre-1600 * 752 – Mayan king Bird Jaguar IV of Yaxchilan in modern-day Chiapas, Mexico, assumes the throne. * 1481 – The largest of three earthquakes strikes the island of Rhodes and causes an estimated 30,000 casualties. ...
Jinan incident: An armed conflict between the
Imperial Japanese Army The was the official ground-based armed force of the Empire of Japan from 1868 to 1945. It was controlled by the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff Office and the Ministry of the Army, both of which were nominally subordinate to the Emperor o ...
(allied with Northern Chinese warlords) and the
Kuomintang The Kuomintang (KMT), also referred to as the Guomindang (GMD), the Nationalist Party of China (NPC) or the Chinese Nationalist Party (CNP), is a major political party in the Republic of China, initially on the Chinese mainland and in Tai ...
's southern army occurs in
Jinan Jinan (), Postal Map Romanization, alternately romanization of Chinese, romanized as Tsinan, is the Capital (political), capital of Shandong province in East China, Eastern China. With a population of 9.2 million, it is the second-largest city i ...
, China. *
May 7 Events Pre-1600 * 351 – The Jewish revolt against Constantius Gallus breaks out after his arrival at Antioch. * 558 – In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses, twenty years after its construction. Justinian I imm ...
– Passage of the
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in the United Kingdom lowers the voting age for women from 30 to 21, giving them equal suffrage with men from
July 2 Events Pre-1600 * 437 – Emperor Valentinian III begins his reign over the Western Roman Empire. His mother Galla Placidia ends her regency, but continues to exercise political influence at the court in Rome. * 626 – Li Shimin, th ...
. *
May 10 Events Pre-1600 * 28 BC – A sunspot is observed by Han dynasty astronomers during the reign of Emperor Cheng of Han, one of the earliest dated sunspot observations in China. *1291 – Scottish nobles recognize the authority of Edw ...
– The first regular schedule of television programming begins in
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, New York, by
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's television station
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(the station is popularly known as WGY Television, after its sister radio station WGY). *
May 15 Events Pre-1600 * 221 – Liu Bei, Chinese warlord, proclaims himself emperor of Shu Han, the successor of the Han dynasty. * 392 – Emperor Valentinian II is assassinated while advancing into Gaul against the Frankish usurper Arbog ...
– The
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''
Plane Crazy ''Plane Crazy'' is a 1928 American animated short film directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. The cartoon, released by the Walt Disney Studios, was the first Mickey Mouse film produced, and was originally a silent film. It was given a test sc ...
'' is released by
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in Los Angeles, featuring the first appearances of
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and
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(in a non-distributed film). *
May 23 Events Pre-1600 * 1430 – Joan of Arc is captured at the Siege of Compiègne by troops from the Burgundian faction. *1498 – Girolamo Savonarola is burned at the stake in Florence, Italy. * 1533 – The marriage of King Henry VI ...
– A bomb attack against the Italian consulate in
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, Argentina, kills 22 and injures 43. *
May 24 Events Pre-1600 * 919 – The nobles of Franconia and Saxony elect Henry the Fowler at the Imperial Diet in Fritzlar as king of the East Frankish Kingdom. * 1218 – The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt. * 1276 – Magnus La ...
– The airship ''Italia'' crashes at the
North Pole The North Pole, also known as the Geographic North Pole or Terrestrial North Pole, is the point in the Northern Hemisphere where the Earth's axis of rotation meets its surface. It is called the True North Pole to distinguish from the Mag ...
; one of the occupants is Italian general
Umberto Nobile Umberto Nobile (; 21 January 1885 – 30 July 1978) was an Italian aviator, aeronautical engineer and Arctic explorer. Nobile was a developer and promoter of semi-rigid airships in the years between the two World Wars. He is primarily remembe ...
. A rescue expedition leaves for the Pole on
May 30 Events Pre-1600 * 70 – Siege of Jerusalem: Titus and his Roman legions breach the Second Wall of Jerusalem. Jewish defenders retreat to the First Wall. The Romans build a circumvallation, cutting down all trees within fifteen kilometres ...
. *
May 30 Events Pre-1600 * 70 – Siege of Jerusalem: Titus and his Roman legions breach the Second Wall of Jerusalem. Jewish defenders retreat to the First Wall. The Romans build a circumvallation, cutting down all trees within fifteen kilometres ...
– Rookie driver
Louis Meyer Louis Meyer (July 21, 1904 – October 7, 1995) was an American Hall of Fame race car driver who was the first three-time winner of the Indianapolis 500. Biography Born in lower Manhattan, New York on July 21, 1904, he was the son of French imm ...
wins his first
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(he will win that race again, in 1933 and
1936 Events January–February * January 20 – George V of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India, dies at his Sandringham Estate. The Prince of Wales succeeds to the throne of the United Kingdom as King E ...
). *
May 31 Events Pre-1600 * 455 – Emperor Petronius Maximus is stoned to death by an angry mob while fleeing Rome. * 1223 – Mongol invasion of the Cumans: Battle of the Kalka River: Mongol armies of Genghis Khan led by Subutai defeat K ...
– South Africa adopts a new national flag, based upon the Van Riebeeck flag or Prinsevlag (originally the Dutch flag), to replace the Red Ensign. It later became infamously known as the "
apartheid Apartheid (, especially South African English: , ; , "aparthood") was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s. Apartheid was ...
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".


June

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June 4 Events Pre-1600 *1411 – King Charles VI granted a monopoly for the ripening of Roquefort cheese to the people of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon as they had been doing for centuries. * 1561 – The steeple of St Paul's, the medieval cathedr ...
Huanggutun incident The Huanggutun incident (), also known as the , was the assassination of the Fengtian warlord and Generalissimo of the Military Government of China Zhang Zuolin near Shenyang on 4 June 1928. Zhang was killed when his personal train was destroy ...
:
Zhang Zuolin Zhang Zuolin (; March 19, 1875 June 4, 1928), courtesy name Yuting (雨亭), nicknamed Zhang Laogang (張老疙瘩), was an influential Chinese bandit, soldier, and warlord during the Warlord Era in China. The warlord of Manchuria from 1916 to ...
, a warlord, is killed by Japanese agents in China. *
June 8 Events Pre-1600 * 218 – Battle of Antioch: With the support of the Syrian legions, Elagabalus defeats the forces of emperor Macrinus. * 452 – Attila leads a Hun army in the invasion of Italy, devastating the northern province ...
– By seizing
Beijing } Beijing ( ; ; ), alternatively romanized as Peking ( ), is the capital of the People's Republic of China. It is the center of power and development of the country. Beijing is the world's most populous national capital city, with over 21 ...
and renaming it Běipíng, the
National Revolutionary Army The National Revolutionary Army (NRA; ), sometimes shortened to Revolutionary Army () before 1928, and as National Army () after 1928, was the military arm of the Kuomintang (KMT, or the Chinese Nationalist Party) from 1925 until 1947 in China ...
puts an end to the ' Fengtian
warlords A warlord is a person who exercises military, economic, and political control over a region in a country without a strong national government; largely because of coercive control over the armed forces. Warlords have existed throughout much of h ...
'
Beiyang government The Beiyang government (), officially the Republic of China (), sometimes spelled Peiyang Government, refers to the government of the Republic of China which sat in its capital Peking (Beijing) between 1912 and 1928. It was internationally r ...
there. *
June 9 Events Pre-1600 *411 BC – The Athenian coup succeeds, forming a short-lived oligarchy. * 53 – The Roman emperor Nero marries Claudia Octavia. * 68 – Nero dies by suicide after quoting Vergil's ''Aeneid'', thus ending th ...
** Australian aviator
Charles Kingsford Smith Sir Charles Edward Kingsford Smith (9 February 18978 November 1935), nicknamed Smithy, was an Australian aviation pioneer. He piloted the first transpacific flight and the first flight between Australia and New Zealand. Kingsford Smith was b ...
and his crew complete the first flight across the
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, from the mainland United States to Australia, in the
Fokker F.VII The Fokker F.VII, also known as the Fokker Trimotor, was an airliner produced in the 1920s by the Dutch aircraft manufacturer Fokker, Fokker's American subsidiary Atlantic Aircraft Corporation, and other companies under licence. Design and d ...
aircraft ''Southern Cross (aircraft), Southern Cross''. Having left Oakland, California on
May 31 Events Pre-1600 * 455 – Emperor Petronius Maximus is stoned to death by an angry mob while fleeing Rome. * 1223 – Mongol invasion of the Cumans: Battle of the Kalka River: Mongol armies of Genghis Khan led by Subutai defeat K ...
, they reach Brisbane via Honolulu and Fiji. ** Ellis Park Stadium, a well-known sport venue of South Africa, officially opens in Johannesburg. * June 14 – Students take over the medical wing of Rosario University in Argentina. * June 17–June 18, 18 – Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to make a successful
transatlantic flight A transatlantic flight is the flight of an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean from Europe, Africa, South Asia, or the Middle East to North America, Central America, or South America, or ''vice versa''. Such flights have been made by fixed-wing air ...
, as a passenger in a
Fokker F.VII The Fokker F.VII, also known as the Fokker Trimotor, was an airliner produced in the 1920s by the Dutch aircraft manufacturer Fokker, Fokker's American subsidiary Atlantic Aircraft Corporation, and other companies under licence. Design and d ...
b/3m piloted by Wilmer Stultz, from Newfoundland (island), Newfoundland to Wales. * June 20 – Puniša Račić kills three opposition representatives in the Yugoslavian Parliament, and injures three others, in a gun attack. * June 24 – A Sweden, Swedish aeroplane rescues some survivors of the Italian North Pole expedition, including Umberto Nobile. The Soviet icebreaker ''Krasin'' saves the rest July 12. * June 28 ** The keel of the first 1,000 ft (300 m)-long ocean liner, ''Oceanic (unfinished ship), Oceanic'', for the British White Star Line, is laid by Harland and Wolff in Belfast; construction is delayed, and cancelled on 23 July 1929. ** The International Railway (New York–Ontario) switches to one-man crews, for its Tram, trolleys in Canada. * June 29 – At the 1928 Democratic National Convention in Houston, Governor of New York Al Smith becomes the first Catholic Church, Catholic nominated by a major political party for President of the United States.


July

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July 2 Events Pre-1600 * 437 – Emperor Valentinian III begins his reign over the Western Roman Empire. His mother Galla Placidia ends her regency, but continues to exercise political influence at the court in Rome. * 626 – Li Shimin, th ...
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' W3XK station begins broadcasting on 6.42 megahertz, MHz, using 48 lines. * July 3 – Scottish inventor
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demonstrates the world's first colour television transmission in Glasgow. * July 7 – The first machine-sliced and machine-wrapped loaf of bread is sold in Chillicothe, Missouri, United States, using Otto Frederick Rohwedder's technology. * July 17 – José de León Toral assassinates Álvaro Obregón, president-elect of Mexico. * July 25 – The United States recalls its troops from China. * July 27 – Radclyffe Hall's highly controversial novel ''The Well of Loneliness'', with a theme of lesbian love, is published in London, UK. * July 28 – August 12 – The 1928 Summer Olympics are held in Amsterdam, opening with the lighting of the Olympic flame. Women's sport of athletics, athletics and gymnastics debut at these games, and discus thrower Halina Konopacka of Poland becomes the first female Olympic gold medal winner for a track or field event. Coca-Cola enters Europe as sponsor of the games.


August

* August – Margaret Mead's influential cultural anthropology text, ''Coming of Age in Samoa'', is published in the U.S. * August 2 – Italy and Ethiopia sign the Italo-Ethiopian Treaty of 1928, Italo-Ethiopian Treaty. * August 16 – Serial killer Carl Panzram is arrested in Washington, D.C., for burglary. Later it will be discovered that he has committed multiple murders, rapes and other major crimes. * August 22 – Al Smith accepts the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic nomination for the US presidential election, with ''WGY/W2XB'' simulcasting the event on radio and television. * August 26 – In Scotland, May Donoghue finds the remains of a snail in her ginger beer, leading to the landmark negligence case ''Donoghue v Stevenson''. * August 27 – The Kellogg–Briand Pact is signed in Paris, the first treaty to outlaw aggressive war. * August 29 – F.C. Motagua, C.D. Motagua is founded as an association football club in Honduras. * August 31 – ''The Threepenny Opera'' (german: Die Dreigroschenoper, links=no), by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, opens at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, Berlin.


September

* September 1 – Ahmet Zogu, President of the Albanian Republic, declares the country to be a constitutional monarchy, the Albanian Kingdom (1928–39), Albanian Kingdom, with himself as Zog I of Albania, King Zog I. * September 3 ** Philo Farnsworth demonstrates to the press in San Francisco the world's first working History of television#Electronic television, all-electronic television system, employing electronic scanning in both the pickup and display devices. ** Scotsman, Alexander Fleming, at St Mary's Hospital, London, accidentally rediscovers the antibiotic Penicillin. * September 11 – ''The Queen's Messenger'' is the first melodrama broadcast by Ernst F. W. Alexanderson at W2XAD (Schenectady, New York); WMAK (Kenmore, New York, Kenmore) begins broadcasting in Buffalo, New York. * September 12 – The 1928 Okeechobee hurricane, Okeechobee hurricane hits Guadeloupe, killing 1,200 people. * September 15 – Tich Freeman sets an all-time record, for the number of wickets taken in an English cricket season. * September 16 – The 1928 Okeechobee hurricane, Okeechobee hurricane kills at least 2,500 people in Florida. * September 25 – Paul Galvin (businessman), Paul and Joseph Galvin incorporate the Galvin Manufacturing Corporation (later known as Motorola and Freescale). * September 28 – Scottish physician Alexander Fleming observes a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later becomes known as penicillin.


October

* October – The women's organisation ''Gruaja Shiqiptare'' is founded in Albania, with Princess Senije as its chair. * October 1 –
Joseph Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet political leader who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held power as General Secreta ...
launches the first five-year plan (1928–1932); the average nonfarm wage falls by 50% in the
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. * October 2 **Josemaría Escrivá founds Opus Dei. **Arvid Lindman returns as Prime Minister of Sweden, with his right-wing rival Ernst Trygger as Foreign Minister of Sweden. * October 7 – Haile Selassie is crowned king (not yet emperor) of Ethiopian Empire, Abyssinia. * October 8 – Chiang Kai-shek is named as Generalissimo (Chairman of the National Military Council) of the Nationalist Government of the Republic of China (1912–1949), Republic of China. * October 12 – An Negative pressure ventilator, iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston. * October 22 – The Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity is founded at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus. * October 25 – The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (ICRM) is formally established, with the adoption of the "Statutes of the International Red Cross" * October 28 – The Second Youth Congress is held in Batavia, Dutch East Indies, Batavia, Dutch East Indies by young Indonesian nationalists, resulting in the Youth Pledge. The Indonesian national anthem, "Indonesia Raya", is introduced at the congress.


November

* November 1 – Turkey passes a law switching the country from the Arabic alphabet, Arabic to the Latin-based modern Turkish alphabet. * November 6 – 1928 United States presidential election: Republican Party (United States), Republican Herbert Hoover wins by a wide margin, over Democratic Party (United States), Democratic New York Governor Al Smith. * November 10 ** The enthronement ceremony of Emperor of Japan Hirohito is held, two years after he actually took the imperial throne on December 26, 1926, following the death of Emperor Taishō. * November 12 – The develops a severe starboard list, is abandoned and sinks approximately 200 miles off Hampton Roads, Virginia; estimated deaths range from 110 to 127. * November 17 ** 1928 Australian federal election: Stanley Bruce's Nationalist Party of Australia, Nationalist/National Party of Australia, Country Coalition (Australia), Coalition Second Bruce Ministry, Government is re-elected with a decreased majority, defeating the Australian Labor Party, Labor Party led by James Scullin. ** Boston Garden opens in Boston, Massachusetts. * November 18 – Mickey Mouse appears in ''Steamboat Willie'', the third Mickey Mouse cartoon released, but the first sound film and the first such film to be generally distributed. * November 22 – The one-movement ballet ''Boléro'' (music by Maurice Ravel, choreography by Bronislava Nijinska) premières at the Palais Garnier, Paris Opéra, to a commission by Ida Rubinstein. * November 28 – Persija Jakarta association football is founded as Voetbalbond Indonesische Jacatra.


December

* December 3 – In Rio de Janeiro, a seaplane sent to greet Alberto Santos-Dumont crashes, killing all on board. The pilot had tried to avoid another plane which came too close. * December 4 – Cosmo Gordon Lang was enthroned as the Archbishop of Canterbury, the first bachelor to be appointed in 150 years. * December 6 – 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. * December 21 – The United States Congress approves the construction of Boulder Dam, later renamed Hoover Dam.


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* The women's organisation ''Anjuman-i Himayat-i-Niswan'' is founded in Afghanistan.


Births


January

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– Abdul Sattar Edhi, Pakistani philanthropist (d. 2016) * January 2 – Daisaku Ikeda, Japanese religious leader, Soka Gakkai#List of presidents, 3rd President of Soka Gakkai * January 3 – Abdul Rahman Ya'kub, Malaysian politician (d. 2015) * January 5 ** Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, President of Pakistan and Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 1979) ** Walter Mondale, American politician, 42nd Vice President of the United States (d. 2021) ** Qian Qichen, Chinese diplomat, politician (d. 2017) * January 6 – Vijay Tendulkar, Indian playwright (d. 2008) * January 7 – William Peter Blatty, American writer (''The Exorcist (novel), The Exorcist'') (d. 2017) * January 9 ** Judith Krantz, American novelist (d. 2019) ** Domenico Modugno, Italian singer, songwriter, actor and politician (d. 1994) * January 10 – Philip Levine (poet), Philip Levine, American poet (d. 2015) * January 13 – Bengt Gustavsson, Swedish footballer and manager (d. 2017) * January 14 – Hans Kornberg, German-English biochemist (d. 2019) * January 16 ** William Kennedy (author), William Kennedy, American author ** Pilar Lorengar, Spanish soprano (d. 1996) *
January 17 Events Pre-1600 * 38 BC – Octavian divorces his wife Scribonia and marries Livia Drusilla, ending the fragile peace between the Second Triumvirate and Sextus Pompey. * 1362 – Saint Marcellus' flood kills at least 25,000 people on ...
** Jean Barraqué, French composer (d. 1973) ** Vidal Sassoon, English hairdresser (d. 2012) * January 18 – Terence Higgins, Baron Higgins, English politician and athlete * January 21 ** Gene Sharp, American political theorist of nonviolent action (d. 2018) ** Reynaldo Bignone, 45th President of Argentina (d. 2018) * January 22 – Kate Molale, South African anti-apartheid activist (d. 1980) * January 23 – Jeanne Moreau, French actress (d. 2017) * January 24 ** Desmond Morris, English anthropologist and writer ** Michel Serrault, French actor (d. 2007) * January 25 – Eduard Shevardnadze, Georgia SSR, Georgian politician, 2nd President of Georgia (d. 2014) *
January 26 Events Pre-1600 * 661 – The Rashidun Caliphate is effectively ended with the assassination of Ali, the last caliph. *1531 – The 6.4–7.1 1531 Lisbon earthquake, Lisbon earthquake kills about thirty thousand people. *1564 – ...
– Roger Vadim, French film director (d. 2000) * January 27 – Hans Modrow, Premier of the German Democratic Republic, East German Premier * January 30 – Harold Prince, American stage producer, director (d. 2019)


February

* February 1 – Stuart Whitman, American actor (d. 2020) * February 2 – Ciriaco De Mita, Italian politician (d. 2022) * February 4 – Kim Yong-nam, North Korean politician * February 9 ** George Brady (Holocaust survivor), George Brady, Czech-Canadian businessman and Holocaust survivor (d. 2019) ** Rinus Michels, Dutch association football player, coach (d. 2005) * February 10 – Anthony Prospect, conductor from Trinidad and Tobago (d. 2000) * February 13 – Gerald Regan, Canadian politician (d. 2019) * February 15 – Luis Posada Carriles, Cuban militant (d. 2018) * February 16 – Pedro Casaldáliga, Spanish-Brazilian prelate and human rights activist (d. 2020) * February 18 – John Ostrom, American paleontologist (d. 2005) *
February 20 Events Pre-1600 *1339 – The Milanese army and the St. George's (San Giorgio) Mercenaries of Lodrisio Visconti clash in the Battle of Parabiago; Visconti is defeated. *1472 – Orkney and Shetland are pawned by Norway to Scotland ...
– Friedrich Wetter, German Catholic cardinal * February 22 ** Sir Bruce Forsyth, English entertainer (d. 2017) ** Pushpa Mittra Bhargava, Indian scientist, writer, and administrator (d. 2017) * February 23 – Vasily Lazarev, Russian cosmonaut (d. 1990) * February 24 – Naqsh Lyallpuri, Indian ghazal (d. 2017) *
February 25 Events Pre-1600 * 138 – Roman emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius as his son, effectively making him his successor. * 628 – Khosrow II, the last great Shah of the Sasanian Empire (Iran), is overthrown by his son Kavadh II. ...
– Paul Elvstrøm, Danish yachtsman (d. 2016) * February 26 ** Fats Domino, African-American musician (d. 2017) ** Anatoly Filipchenko, Russian cosmonaut (d. 2022) ** Ariel Sharon, 11th Prime Minister of Israel (d. 2014) * February 27 – René Clemencic, Austrian composer and conductor *February 28 - Stanley Baker, Welsh actor and film producer (d. 1976)


March

* March 1 – Jacques Rivette, French filmmaker (d. 2016) * March 3 ** Bernice Sandler, American women's rights activist (d. 2019) ** Gudrun Pausewang, German young fiction writer (d. 2020) * March 4 – Alan Sillitoe, English writer (d. 2010) * March 5 – Yelizaveta Dementyeva, Soviet Olympic canoeist (d. 2022) * March 7 – Arthur Dion Hanna, Bahamian politician (d. 2021) * March 9 ** Gerald Bull, Canadian engineer (d. 1990) ** Robert Adeyinka Adebayo, Nigerian politician and military officer (d. 2017) * March 10 ** Sara Montiel, Spanish singer, actress (d. 2013) ** James Earl Ray, American assassin (d. 1998) * March 12 – Edward Albee, American dramatist (d. 2016) * March 14 – Frank Borman, American astronaut * March 16 ** Karlheinz Böhm, Austrian actor (d. 2014) ** Christa Ludwig, German mezzo-soprano (d. 2021) * March 18 ** Lennart Carleson, Swedish mathematician ** Fidel V. Ramos, 12th President of the Philippines (d. 2022) * March 19 ** Sutanto Djuhar, Chinese-Indonesian entrepreneur (d. 2018) ** Hans Küng, Swiss Roman Catholic theologian (d. 2021) ** Marceline Loridan-Ivens, French writer, film director and Holocaust survivor (d. 2018) ** Patrick McGoohan, American-born British-based actor of Irish descent (d. 2009) * March 20 – Fred Rogers, American children's television host (d. 2003) *
March 21 Events Pre-1600 * 537 – Siege of Rome: King Vitiges attempts to assault the northern and eastern city walls, but is repulsed at the Praenestine Gate, known as the ''Vivarium'', by the defenders under the Byzantine generals Bessas an ...
– Surya Bahadur Thapa, 24th Prime Minister of Nepal (d. 2015) * March 25 – Jim Lovell, American astronaut * March 28 ** Zbigniew Brzezinski, Polish-born American National Security Advisor (d. 2017) ** Alexander Grothendieck, German-born mathematician (d. 2014) * March 30 – Robert Badinter, French lawyer and politician * March 31 ** Lefty Frizzell, American country music performer (d. 1975) ** Gordie Howe, Canadian hockey player (d. 2016)


April

* April 2 – Serge Gainsbourg, French singer (d. 1991) * April 3 – Don Gibson, American country music singer-songwriter (d. 2003) * April 4 – Maya Angelou, African-American poet, novelist (d. 2014) * April 6 – James D. Watson, American geneticist; recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine * April 7 ** James Garner, American actor, producer (d. 2014) ** Alan J. Pakula, American producer, director (d. 1998) * April 8 ** Eric Porter, English actor (d. 1995) ** Algimantas Nasvytis, Lithuanian architect (d. 2018) * April 9 ** Paul Arizin, American basketball player (d. 2006) ** Tom Lehrer, American songwriter, satirist * April 11 – Ethel Kennedy, American human-rights campaigner, wife of Robert F. Kennedy *
April 12 Events Pre-1600 * 240 – Shapur I becomes co-emperor of the Sasanian Empire with his father Ardashir I. * 467 – Anthemius is elevated to Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. * 627 – King Edwin of Northumbria is converted ...
– Hardy Krüger, German actor (d. 2022) * April 15 – Vida Alves, Brazilian actress (d. 2017) * April 18 – Mikio Sato, Japanese mathematician *
April 19 Events Pre-1600 * AD 65 – The freedman Milichus betrays Piso's plot to kill the Emperor Nero and all the conspirators are arrested. * 531 – Battle of Callinicum: A Byzantine army under Belisarius is defeated by the Persi ...
– Sultan Azlan Shah of Perak, King of Malaysia (d. 2014) * April 23 – Shirley Temple, American actress and diplomat (d. 2014) * April 24 – Tommy Docherty, Scottish footballer and manager (d. 2020) * April 25 – Cy Twombly, American artist (d. 2011) *
April 28 Events Pre-1600 * 224 – The Battle of Hormozdgan is fought. Ardashir I defeats and kills Artabanus V effectively ending the Parthian Empire. * 357 – Emperor Constantius II enters Rome for the first time to celebrate his victory ...
– Yves Klein, French artist (d. 1962)


May

* May 1 ** Sonny James, American country singer (d. 2016) ** Sisavath Keobounphanh, 13th prime minister of Laos (d. 2020) * May 4 ** Maynard Ferguson, Canadian jazz trumpeter (d. 2006) ** Hosni Mubarak, 4th President of Egypt (d. 2020) ** Betsy Rawls, American golfer ** Wolfgang von Trips, German racing driver (d. 1961) * May 9 ** Pancho Gonzales, American tennis player (d. 1995) ** Barbara Ann Scott, Canadian figure skater (d. 2012) *
May 10 Events Pre-1600 * 28 BC – A sunspot is observed by Han dynasty astronomers during the reign of Emperor Cheng of Han, one of the earliest dated sunspot observations in China. *1291 – Scottish nobles recognize the authority of Edw ...
** Arnold Rüütel, President of Estonia ** Lothar Schmid, German chess player (d. 2013) * May 11 ** Arthur Foulkes, Governor-General of the Bahamas ** Andrew van der Bijl, Dutch Christian missionary (d. 2022) * May 12 – Burt Bacharach, American composer, songwriter and pianist * May 13 ** Enrique Bolaños, 61st President of Nicaragua (d. 2021) ** Édouard Molinaro, French film director, screenwriter (d. 2013) * May 16 – Billy Martin, American baseball player (d. 1989) * May 18 – Pernell Roberts, American actor (d. 2010) * May 19 ** Dolph Schayes, American basketball player (d. 2015) ** Dragutin Zelenović, Serbian politician and professor (d. 2020) *
May 23 Events Pre-1600 * 1430 – Joan of Arc is captured at the Siege of Compiègne by troops from the Burgundian faction. *1498 – Girolamo Savonarola is burned at the stake in Florence, Italy. * 1533 – The marriage of King Henry VI ...
– Rosemary Clooney, American singer and actress (d. 2002) *
May 24 Events Pre-1600 * 919 – The nobles of Franconia and Saxony elect Henry the Fowler at the Imperial Diet in Fritzlar as king of the East Frankish Kingdom. * 1218 – The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt. * 1276 – Magnus La ...
– Adrian Frutiger, Swiss typeface designer, cutter (d. 2015) * May 26 – Jack Kevorkian, American right-to-die advocate (d. 2011) * May 27 – Thea Musgrave, Scottish-born American composer and educator * May 28 – Ivan Kizimov, Soviet and Russian equestrian (d. 2019) *
May 30 Events Pre-1600 * 70 – Siege of Jerusalem: Titus and his Roman legions breach the Second Wall of Jerusalem. Jewish defenders retreat to the First Wall. The Romans build a circumvallation, cutting down all trees within fifteen kilometres ...
– Agnès Varda, Belgian-born French director, producer and screenwriter (d. 2019)


June

* June 3 ** Donald Judd, American artist (d. 1994) ** John Richard Reid, New Zealand cricketer (d. 2020) *
June 4 Events Pre-1600 *1411 – King Charles VI granted a monopoly for the ripening of Roquefort cheese to the people of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon as they had been doing for centuries. * 1561 – The steeple of St Paul's, the medieval cathedr ...
– Ruth Westheimer (Dr. Ruth), German-American sex therapist, film and television personality, and author * June 5 – Tony Richardson, English film and theatre director (d. 1991) * June 6 – George Deukmejian, American Republican politician (d. 2018) * June 7 ** James Ivory, American director, screenwriter and producer ** Charles Strouse, American composer and lyricist * June 10 – Maurice Sendak, American children's author, illustrator (d. 2012) * June 11 – Queen Fabiola of Belgium, Spanish Queen Consort of Baudouin of Belgium, King Baudouin of Belgium (d. 2014) * June 12 ** Vic Damone, American singer (d. 2018) ** Richard M. Sherman, American songwriter * June 13 ** Giacomo Biffi, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 2015) ** John Forbes Nash Jr., American mathematician, recipient of the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences, Nobel Prize in Economics (d. 2015) ** Li Ka-shing, Asia's & Hong Kong's richest person, major philanthropist * June 14 ** José Bonaparte, Argentine palaeontologist (d. 2020) ** Ernesto Rafael Guevara de la Serna (aka ''Che Guevara''), Argentine-born Cuban revolutionary (''or May 14''; d. 1967) * June 16 ** Annie Cordy, Belgian actress and singer (d. 2020) ** Dagmar Rom, Austrian alpine skier * June 17 – Juan María Bordaberry, Uruguayan dictator (d. 2011) * June 19 ** Tommy DeVito (musician), Tommy DeVito, American musician and singer (The Four Seasons (band), The Four Seasons) (d. 2020) ** Jacques Dupont (cyclist), Jacques Dupont, French Olympic cyclist (d. 2019) * June 20 ** Martin Landau, American actor (d. 2017) ** Jean-Marie Le Pen, French intelligence officer, far-right politician * June 22 – Ralph Waite, American actor, political activist (''The Waltons'') (d. 2014) * June 25 ** Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2017) ** Peyo, Belgian comics artist (d. 1992) * June 27 ** Lin Ho-ming, Taiwanese sports shooter ** Antoinette Spaak, Belgian politician (d. 2020) * June 28 ** Hans Blix, Swedish diplomat and politician ** Harold Evans, English-born newspaper editor (d. 2020)


July

* July 4 ** Giampiero Boniperti, Italian football player (d. 2021) ** Teofisto Guingona Jr., 13th Vice President of the Philippines * July 5 ** Juris Hartmanis, Latvian-born American computer scientist, computational theorist (d. 2022) ** Pierre Mauroy, Prime Minister of France (d. 2013) * July 8 ** Balakh Sher Mazari, Pakistani politician, caretaker prime minister (d. 2022) ** Alekos Spanoudakis, Greek basketball player (d. 2019) * July 9 ** Federico Bahamontes, Spanish road bicycle racer ** Juan Rodríguez (rower), Juan Rodríguez, Uruguayan rower (d. 2019) * July 11 ** Dor Bahadur Bista, Nepalese anthropologist, social scientist and activist (dis. 1995) ** Carmelita González, Mexican actress (d. 2010) ** Greville Janner, British lawyer and Labour Member of Parliament (d. 2015) * July 12 ** Elias James Corey, American chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize laureate ** Hayden White, American historian (d. 2018) * July 14 – Nancy Olson, American actress * July 15 – Pal Benko, French chess grandmaster, author, and composer of endgame studies and chess problems (d. 2019) * July 16 ** Bella Davidovich, Soviet-born Jewish-American pianist ** Anita Brookner, English novelist, art historian (d. 2016) ** Jim Rathmann, American race car driver (d. 2011) * July 19 – Choi Yun-chil, South Korean long-distance runner (d. 2020) * July 20 ** Belaid Abdessalam, Algerian politician, Prime Minister 1992-93 (d. 2020) ** Pavel Kohout, Czech-Austrian novelist, playwright, and poet * July 23 ** Leon Fleisher, American pianist and conductor (d. 2020) ** Vera Rubin, American astronomer (d. 2016) * July 24 – Keshubhai Patel, Indian politician (d. 2020) * July 25 – Dolphy, Filipino actor, comedian (d. 2012) * July 26 ** Francesco Cossiga, Italian politician, 8th President of Italy (d. 2010) ** Joe Jackson (manager), Joe Jackson, American manager (d. 2018) ** Stanley Kubrick, American film director (''2001: A Space Odyssey (film), 2001: A Space Odyssey'') (d. 1999) * July 27 – Joseph Kittinger, American colonel, United States Air Force, U.S. Air Force pilot (d. 2022) * July 29 – T. H. P. Chentharasseri, Indian historian (d. 2018)


August

* August 2 – Luigi Colani, German industrial designer (d. 2019) * August 3 – Cécile Aubry, French film actress, author, television screenwriter and director (d. 2010) * August 4 ** Udham Singh (field hockey), Udham Singh, Indian Hockey team player, winner of three gold and one silver medals (d. 2000) ** Flóra Kádár, Hungarian actress (d. 2002) ** Gerard Damiano, American adult film director (d. 2008) * August 5 – Chung Won-shik, South Korean politician, educator, soldier, and author, prime minister 1991 (d. 2020) * August 6 ** Mary Grant (politician), Mary Grant, Ghanaian politician (d. 2016) ** Andy Warhol, American artist (d. 1987) * August 7 ** Helen Vita, Swiss chanson singer, actress, and comedian (d. 2001) ** James Randi, Canadian stage magician and scientific skeptic (d. 2020) * August 8 ** Lubor Bárta, Czech composer (d. 1972) ** Simón Díaz, Venezuelan folk composer, singer (d. 2014) * August 10 ** Peter Barry (politician), Peter Barry, Irish Fine Gael politician, businessman (d. 2016) ** Eddie Fisher (singer), Eddie Fisher, American singer and actor (d. 2010) ** Jimmy Dean, singer, television host and spokesman for the Jimmy Dean sausage brand (d. 2010) * August 11 – Beniamino Andreatta, Italian economist, politician (d. 2007) * August 14 – Lina Wertmüller, Italian film director and screenwriter (d. 2021) * August 15 ** Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal, 2-time prime minister of Somalia (d. 2002) ** Nicolas Roeg, English film director (d. 2018) ** Simone Silva, Egyptian-born French film actress (d. 1957) * August 16 ** Ara Güler, Armenian-Turkish photojournalist (d. 2018) ** Eydie Gormé, American singer (d. 2013) ** Ann Blyth, American actress * August 19 – Queen Ratna of Nepal * August 21 ** Chris Brasher, British track and field athlete, sports journalist and co-founder of the London Marathon (d. 2003) ** Art Farmer, American jazz trumpeter, flugelhorn player (d. 1999) ** Gillian Sheen, English Olympic fencer (d. 2021) * August 22 – Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer (d. 2007) * August 23 – Marian Seldes, American actress (d. 2014) * August 24 – Levko Lukyanenko, Ukrainian politician (d. 2018) * August 25 – Herbert Kroemer, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize laureate * August 26 – Saliu Adetunji, Nigerian monarch of Ibadan (d. 2022) * August 27 ** Péter Boross, Hungarian politician ** Mangosuthu Buthelezi, South African leader of the Inkatha Freedom Party * August 31 ** James Coburn, American actor (d. 2002) ** Wojciech Plewiński, Polish photographer ** Jaime Sin, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2005)


September

* September 1 – George Maharis, American actor * September 3 – Gaston Thorn, Luxembourg Prime Minister (d. 2007) * September 4 – Dick York, American actor (''Bewitched'') (d. 1992) * September 6 ** Mirosława Litmanowicz, Polish chess player (d. 2017) ** Fumihiko Maki, Japanese architect ** Robert M. Pirsig, American philosopher and author (d. 2017) ** Yevgeny Svetlanov, Russian conductor, composer and pianist (d. 2002) ** Sid Watkins, English neurosurgeon (d. 2012) * September 7 – Donald Henderson, American epidemiologist (d. 2016) * September 9 – Sol LeWitt, American artist (d. 2007) * September 10 – Jean Vanier, Swiss-born Canadian Catholic philosopher, theologian and humanitarian (d. 2019) * September 11 – Earl Holliman, American actor * September 12 – Violeta Vidaurre, Chilean actress (d. 2021) * September 13 – Tzannis Tzannetakis, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2010) * September 16 – Hironoshin Furuhashi, Japanese swimmer (d. 2009) * September 17 – Roddy McDowall, British actor (d. 1998) * September 19 – Adam West, American actor (''Batman (TV series), Batman'') (d. 2017) * September 20 ** Donald Hall, American poet, United States Poet Laureate (d. 2018) ** Kirsten Rolffes, Danish actress (d. 2000) * September 22 – Justin Marie Bomboko, Congolese civil servant (d. 2014) * September 28 – Koko Taylor, African-American singer (d. 2009) * September 29 – Mihály Lantos, Hungarian footballer and manager (d. 1989) * September 30 – Elie Wiesel, Romania, Rumanian-born Holocaust survivor, writer, lecturer, Nobel Peace Prize recipient (d. 2016)


October

* October 1 ** Laurence Harvey, Lithuanian-born South African actor (d. 1973) ** Sivaji Ganesan, Indian stage, film actor (d. 2001) ** George Peppard, American actor (d. 1994) * October 2 – Geert Hofstede, Dutch social psychologist (d. 2020) * October 3 ** Shridath Ramphal, Guyanese academic and politician ** Kåre Willoch, Norwegian politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Norway (d. 2021) ** Erik Bruhn, Danish danseur, choreographer, artistic director, actor, and author (d. 1986) * October 4 – Torben Ulrich, Danish tennis player * October 7 ** Ali Kafi, Algerian politician, acting President 1992-1994 (d. 2013) ** Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and painter (d. 1980) * October 8 – Neil Harvey, Australian cricketer * October 9 – Einojuhani Rautavaara, Finnish composer (d. 2016) * October 12 – Dilbagh Singh Athwal, Indian geneticist, agriculturist (d. 2017) * October 14 – Arnfinn Bergmann, Norwegian Olympic ski jumper (d. 2011) * October 15 – María Cristina Arango Vega, First Lady of Colombia (d. 2017) * October 18 – Ernest Simoni, Albanian Catholic cardinal * October 19 – Borisav Jović, 13th President of the Presidency of Yugoslavia (d. 2021) * October 20 – Li Peng, former Premier of the People's Republic of China (d. 2019) * October 21 – Whitey Ford, American baseball player (d. 2020) * October 23 – Zhu Rongji, former Premier of the People's Republic of China * October 24 – Mohammad Beheshti, Chief Justice of Iran (d. 1981) * October 25 ** Anthony Franciosa, American actor (d. 2006) ** Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Brazilian architect (d. 2021) ** Marion Ross, American actress * October 27 – Gilles Vigneault, Canadian singer and poet * October 29 – Shulamit Aloni, Israeli politician (d. 2014) * October 30 – Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1999)


November

* November 3 ** Ion Dincă, Romanian communist politician and general (d. 2007) ** Osamu Tezuka, Japanese manga artist (d. 1989) ** Nick Holonyak, American electrical engineer and inventor (d. 2022) * November 8 ** Natalie Zemon Davis, Canadian-born historian ** Ursula Haverbeck, German historian * November 9 – Anne Sexton, American poet (d. 1974) * November 10 – Ennio Morricone, Italian composer (d. 2020) * November 11 – Carlos Fuentes, Mexican writer (d. 2012) * November 14 – Vitaliy Masol, 3rd Prime Minister of Ukraine (d. 2018) * November 17 ** Arman, French artist (d. 2005) ** Rance Howard, American actor (d. 2017) ** Betty Kaunda, first lady of Zambia (d. 2012) ** Amata Kabua, 1st president of the Marshall Islands (d. 1996) * November 18 – Salvador Laurel, Filipino lawyer and politician (d. 2004) * November 19 ** Ina van Faassen, Dutch actress, comedian (d. 2011) ** Dara Singh, Indian wrestler, actor and politician (d. 2012) * November 20 ** Aleksey Batalov, Russian actor (d. 2017) ** Pete Rademacher, American boxer (d. 2020) * November 28 ** Toaripi Lauti, 1st prime minister of Tuvalu (d. 2014) ** Arthur Melvin Okun, American economist (d. 1980) ** Piet Steenbergen, Dutch footballer (d. 2010) * November 30 ** Takako Doi, Japanese politician (d. 2014) ** Steele Hall, Australian politician ** Peter Hans Kolvenbach, Dutch Superior General of the Society of Jesus (d. 2016) ** Karin Söder, Swedish politician (d. 2015)


December

* December 4 – Hebe de Bonafini, Argentine political activist (d. 2022) * December 7 – Noam Chomsky, American linguist * December 13 – Nati Mistral, Spanish actress (d. 2017) * December 15 ** Ida Haendel, Polish-British violinist (d. 2020) ** Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian artist (d. 2000) * December 16 ** Philip K. Dick, American science fiction author (d. 1982) ** Friedrich Wilhelm Schnitzler, German landowner, politician (CDU), manager and businessman (d. 2011) * December 19 – Guy Razanamasy, 2-time prime minister of Madagascar (d. 2011) * December 22 – Piero Angela, Italian television host, science journalist and writer (d. 2022) * December 25 – Dick Miller, American actor (d. 2019) * December 26 – Martin Cooper (inventor), Martin Cooper, American inventor, "Father of the mobile phone" * December 29 – Bernard Cribbins, English actor, comedian and singer (d. 2022) * December 30 – Bo Diddley, African-American musician (d. 2008)


Deaths


January

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– Loie Fuller, American dancer (b. 1862) * January 3 – Emily Stevens (actress), Emily Stevens, American actress (b. 1882) * January 6 – Alvin Kraenzlein, American athlete (b. 1876) * January 11 – Thomas Hardy, British writer (b. 1840) * January 12 – Ruth Snyder, American murderer (executed) (b. 1895) * January 16 – Bernhard III, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (b. 1851) * January 21 ** Nikolai Astrup, Norwegian painter (b. 1880) ** John de Robeck, Sir John de Robeck, British admiral (b. 1862) * January 28 – Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Spanish novelist and screenwriter (b. 1867) * January 29 – Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, British soldier (b. 1861) * January 30 – Johannes Fibiger, Danish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1867)


February

* February 1 – Hughie Jennings, American baseball player, MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1869) * February 4 – Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853) *
February 8 Events Pre-1600 * 421 – Constantius III becomes co-Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. * 1238 – The Mongols burn the Russian city of Vladimir. *1250 – Seventh Crusade: Crusaders engage Ayyubid forces in the Battle of Al ...
– Theodor Curtius, German chemist (b. 1857) * February 12 – Count Manfred von Clary-Aldringen, Manfred von Clary-Aldringen, Austro-Hungarian nobleman, statesman and former prime minister of Austria (b. 1852) * February 15 – H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1852) * February 16 – Eddie Foy Sr., American vaudevillian (b. 1856) *
February 25 Events Pre-1600 * 138 – Roman emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius as his son, effectively making him his successor. * 628 – Khosrow II, the last great Shah of the Sasanian Empire (Iran), is overthrown by his son Kavadh II. ...
– Toribio Romo González, Mexican Roman Catholic priest, martyr and saint (b. 1900) * February 26 – Juan Vázquez de Mella, Spanish scholar, politician (b. 1861) * February 27 – Karl Max, Prince Lichnowsky, German diplomat, noble (b. 1860) * February 28 – Armando Diaz, Italian general, Marshal of Italy (b. 1861)


March

* March 7 – Robert Abbe, American surgeon (b. 1851) * March 10 – Mateo Elías Nieves Castillo, Mexican Roman Catholic priest and blessed (b. 1882) * March 19 ** Nora Bayes, American singer, actress (b. 1880) ** Emil Wiechert, German physicist and geophysicist (b. 1861) *
March 21 Events Pre-1600 * 537 – Siege of Rome: King Vitiges attempts to assault the northern and eastern city walls, but is repulsed at the Praenestine Gate, known as the ''Vivarium'', by the defenders under the Byzantine generals Bessas an ...
– Edward Walter Maunder, British astronomer (b. 1851) * March 25 – Nina Bang, Danish politician (b. 1866)


April

* April 2 – Theodore William Richards, American chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868) *
April 13 Events Pre-1600 *1111 – Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor. * 1204 – Constantinople falls to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade, temporarily ending the Byzantine Empire. 1601–1900 *1612 – In one of the epic samurai ...
– Gonzalo Córdova, 21st president of Ecuador (b. 1863) * April 16 – Pavel Axelrod, Russian Menshevik (b. 1850) *
April 19 Events Pre-1600 * AD 65 – The freedman Milichus betrays Piso's plot to kill the Emperor Nero and all the conspirators are arrested. * 531 – Battle of Callinicum: A Byzantine army under Belisarius is defeated by the Persi ...
– Dorus Rijkers, famous Dutch sailor, savior of over 500 men, women and children (b. 1847) * April 25 **Floyd Bennett, American aviator (b. 1890) **Pyotr Wrangel, Russian general, anti-Bolshevik leader (b. 1878) * April 27 – Alessandro Guidoni, Italian air force general (b. 1880)


May

* May 1 – Ebenezer Howard, Sir Ebenezer Howard, British urban planner (b. 1850) * May 8 – Clara Williams, American actress (b. 1888) *
May 10 Events Pre-1600 * 28 BC – A sunspot is observed by Han dynasty astronomers during the reign of Emperor Cheng of Han, one of the earliest dated sunspot observations in China. *1291 – Scottish nobles recognize the authority of Edw ...
– Ivan Merz, Yugoslav Roman Catholic blessed (b. 1896) * May 18 ** Moritz von Auffenberg, Austro-Hungarian general and politician (b. 1852) **Bill Haywood, American labor leader (b. 1869) * May 19 – Max Scheler, German philosopher (b. 1874) * May 21 – Hideyo Noguchi, Japanese bacteriologist (b. 1876) * May 22 – Francisco López Merino, Argentine poet (b. 1904)


June

* June 2 - Otto Nordenskjöld, Finnish and Swedish geologist, geographer, and polar explorer (b. 1869) * June 3 ** Alexander Hamilton (priest), Alexander Hamilton, American priest and blessed (b. 1847) **Li Yuanhong, Fourth President of the Republic of China (1912–1949), Republic of China (b. 1864) *
June 4 Events Pre-1600 *1411 – King Charles VI granted a monopoly for the ripening of Roquefort cheese to the people of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon as they had been doing for centuries. * 1561 – The steeple of St Paul's, the medieval cathedr ...
Zhang Zuolin Zhang Zuolin (; March 19, 1875 June 4, 1928), courtesy name Yuting (雨亭), nicknamed Zhang Laogang (張老疙瘩), was an influential Chinese bandit, soldier, and warlord during the Warlord Era in China. The warlord of Manchuria from 1916 to ...
, Chinese warlord (assassinated) (b. 1875) * June 5 – Liege Hulett, Sir Liege Hulett, South African politician, sugar magnate (b. 1838) * June 12 – Salvador Díaz Mirón, Mexican poet (b. 1853) * June 13 – Charles Wynn-Carington, 1st Marquess of Lincolnshire, British politician and colonial governor (b. 1843) * June 14 – Emmeline Pankhurst, British women's suffrage campaigner (b. 1858) * June 17 – Euphemia Wilson Pitblado, American activist, social reformer, and writer (b. 1849) * June 18 – Roald Amundsen, Norwegian polar explorer (b. 1872) * June 22 ** A. B. Frost, American illustrator (b. 1851) ** George Siegmann, American actor (b. 1882) * June 28 – Leo Ditrichstein, Austrian-born actor, playwright (b. 1865)


July

* July 1 – Avery Hopwood, American playwright (b. 1882) * July 12 – Emilio Carranza, Mexican aviator (b. 1905; plane crash) * July 17 ** Álvaro Obregón, Mexican military officer, 39th President of Mexico (assassinated) (b. 1880) ** Giovanni Giolitti, Italian politician, 13th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1842) * July 21 **Mihail Savov, Bulgarian general (b. 1857) **Dame Ellen Terry, British actress (b. 1847) * July 22 – William M. Folger, American admiral (b. 1844) * July 30 – John Christopher Cutler, 2nd Governor of Utah (suicide) (b. 1846)


August

* August 8 ** Frederick II, Grand Duke of Baden (b. 1857) ** Stjepan Radić, Croatian politician (assassinated) (b. 1871) * August 12 – Leoš Janáček, Czech composer (b. 1854) * August 16 – Carlo Del Prete, Italian aviator (b. 1897) * August 19 ** Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane, British politician, lawyer (b. 1856) ** Stephanos Skouloudis, 34th prime minister of Greece (b. 1838) * August 27 – Émile Fayolle, French general (b. 1852) * August 30 ** Hugh Evan-Thomas, Sir Hugh Evan-Thomas, British admiral (b. 1862) ** Wilhelm Wien, German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)


September

* September 9 – Urban Shocker, American baseball player (b. 1890) * September 13 – Italo Svevo, Italian writer, businessman (b. 1861) * September 29 – John Devoy, Irish rebel leader, exile (b. 1842) * September (unknown date) – Ioan Culcer, Romanian general and politician (b. 1853)


October

* October 1 – Cecilia Eusepi, Italian religious leader and blessed (b. 1910) * October 8 – Larry Semon, American film actor (b. 1889) * October 13 – Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark), Dagmar of Denmark, later Maria Fyodorovna, wife of Alexander III of Russia, Tsar Alexander III and Empress Consort of Russia (b. 1847) * October 22 – Andrew Fisher, 5th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1862) * October 30 – Robert Lansing, U.S. Secretary of State (b. 1864)


November

* November 6 – Arnold Rothstein, Jewish-American businessman, gangster (b. 1882) * November 10 – Alexander Trepov, former prime minister of the Russian Empire (b. 1862) * November 13 ** Enrico Cecchetti, Italian ballet dancer (b. 1850) ** Oskar Victorovich Stark, Russian admiral, explorer (b. 1846) * November 17 – Lala Lajpat Rai (''The Lion of Punjab''), Indian independence movement leader (b. 1865) * November 18 – Mauritz Stiller, Finnish screenwriter, director (b. 1883) * November 21 – Heinrich XXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line, German prince (b. 1858) * November 24 – Alphonse Jacques de Dixmude, Belgian general (b. 1858) * November 26 – Reinhard Scheer, German admiral (b. 1863) * November 27 – Frank Hedges Butler, British wine merchant, founding member of the Aero Club of Great Britain (b. 1855)


December

* December 1 ** Arthur Gore (tennis), Arthur Gore, British tennis player (b. 1868) ** José Eustasio Rivera, Colombian writer (b. 1888) * December 2 – Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, 2nd Governor-General of Australia (b. 1852) * December 10 – Charles Rennie Mackintosh, British architect (b. 1868) * December 11 – Lewis Howard Latimer, American inventor (b. 1848) * December 12 – Patriarch Gregory IV of Antioch (b. 1859) * December 14 **Theodore Roberts, American actor (b. 1861) **Pierre Ruffey, French general (b. 1851) * December 16 – Elinor Wylie, American poet and novelist (b. 1885) * December 17 – Eglantyne Jebb, British human rights activist, co-founder of ''Save the Children'' (b. 1876) * December 19 – Italo Svevo, Italian writer (b. 1861) * December 21 – Luigi Cadorna, Italian general (b. 1850) * December 25 – Fred Thomson, American actor (b. 1890)


Nobel Prizes

* Nobel Prize in Physics, Physics – Owen Willans Richardson * Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Chemistry – Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus * Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Physiology or Medicine – Charles Jules Henri Nicolle * Nobel Prize in Literature, Literature – Sigrid Undset * Nobel Peace Prize, Peace – not awarded


References

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