Today in History for May 1928

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 30 of 30

1st - 6 children die & 10 injured by hailstones in Klausenburg, Romania
1st - Drunken fascist Erich Wichman attacks VARA-radio transmitter
1st - Lei Day begun (a Hawaiian celebration)
1st - Pitcairn Airlines (later Eastern) begins service
1st - Rotterdam soccer team Black White '28 forms
2nd - KPQ-AM in Wenatchee WA begins radio transmissions
3rd - Japanese atrocities in Jinan, China.
7th - England lowers age of women voters from 30 to 21
7th - Pulitzer prize awarded to Thornton Wilder for (Bridge of San Luis Rey)
10th - WGY, Schenectady begins regular TV programming
11th - 54th Kentucky Derby: Chick Lang aboard Reigh Count wins in 2:10.4
11th - 54th Preakness: Raymond Sonny Workman aboard Victorian wins in 2:00.2
11th - 63rd British Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 292 at Royal St George's
11th - General Electric opens 1st TV-station (Schenectady, NY)
12th - Benito Mussolini ends woman's rights in Italy
12th - Opium laws enforced
14th - John McGraw is knocked down by a taxicab & suffers a broken leg
15th - Mickey Mouse made his 1st appearance in "Plane Crazy"
17th - 9th modern Olympic games opens in Amsterdam
Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini 19th - "Firedamp" explodes in Mather Pa coal mine killing 195 of 273 miners
19th - 51 frogs enter 1st annual "Frog Jumping Jubilee" (Angel's Camp, Cal)
22nd - US Congress accept Jones-White Merchant Naval Act
23rd - Bomb attack on Italians embassy in Buenos Aires, 22 die
24th - Record 12 future Hall of Famers take the field, as Yanks beat A's 9-7
24th - Umberto Nobile flies airship over North Pole again
26th - A's commit 7 errors & lose to Yanks 7-4
28th - Dodge Brothers Inc & Chrysler Corp merged
29th - Fritz von Opel reaches 200 kph in experimental rocket car
31st - 1st aerial cross of Pacific takes off from Oakland
31st - Charlie Hallows scores his 1,000th run of Cricket season

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 65 of 65

1st - Raoul Servais, Belgian cartoonist/pres (l'ASIFA)
1st - Desmond Titterington, Northern Irish racer (d. 2002)
3rd - Jeanne Bal, Santa Monica California, actress (Pat-Love & Marriage)
4th - Betsy Rawls, Spartanburg SC, golfer (US Womens Open-51, 53, 57, 60)
4th - Hosni Mubarak, Kafr-El Meselha, Egypt, Egyptian president (1981-2011)
4th - Maynard Ferguson, Verdun Quebec, jazz trumpeter (Roulette)
4th - Wolfgang von Trips, German racing driver (d. 1961)
5th - Pierre Schoendoerffer,Chamalieres, France, director and screen-writer (The Anderson Platoon), (d. 2012)
6th - Robert Poujade, French politician
7th - John Ingle, actor (Edward Quartermaine-General Hospital), (d. 2012)
7th - Marvin Mitchelson, attorney
8th - Theodore Sorenson, presidential advisor (JFK)/author (1000 Days)
8th - William Jay Sydeman, composer
9th - Barbara Ann Scott, Ottawa Ontario, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1948), (d. 2012)
9th - Pall Pampichier Palsson, composer
9th - Richard A "Pancho" Gonzalez, LA California, tennis star (US 1948-49)
9th - Ralph Goings, American painter
10th - Arnold Rüütel, Estonian president
11th - Yaacov Agam, Israeli sculptor
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak (4th) 11th - Brother Andrew, Dutch missionary
12th - Manuel Lujan Jr, (Rep-R-NM, 1969- )
12th - Burt Bacharach, KC Mo, composer (I'll Never Fall in Love Again)
12th - Henry Cosby, African-American songwriter (d. 2002)
13th - Édouard Molinaro, French film actor, director and screenwriter
13th - Enrique Bolaños, President of Nicaragua
13th - Jim Shoulders, Champion rodeo cowboy (d. 2007)
14th - Will "Dub Jones, American singer (The Coasters) (d. 2000)
14th - Frederik H. Kreuger, Dutch scientist and inventor
16th - Billy Martin, baseball 2nd baseman/manager (NY Yankees, Oakland A's)
16th - Reginald Askew, dean (King's College London)
16th - Hiroshi Nakajima, Chiba, Japan, doctor (WHO Director-General, 1988-98), (d. 2013)
17th - Donald Cameron Watt, historian
17th - Ian Griggs, bishop (Ludlow)
17th - Vivian Moses, biotechnologist
18th - G R Hall, nuclear scientist
18th - P G Hammersley, British Rear-Admiral
18th - Pernell Roberts, Waycross Ga, actor (Adam-Bonanza, Trapper John MD)
19th - Anthony C B Chapman, England, sports car builder/autoracer (Formula 1)
19th - Pol Pot, Cambodian dictator (d. 1998)
19th - Colin Chapman, founder of Lotus Cars (d. 1982)
20th - David Berriman, CEO (Rose Thomson Young group of Lloyds Trustees)
20th - David Hedison, actor (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)
20th - Jack Kevorkian, controversial American medical doctor
22nd - Roscoe Robinson, US gospel singer
22nd - T Boone Pickens, CEO (Shamrock, Mesa Petroleum Co)
23rd - Nigel Davenport, Cambridge England, actor (Without a Clue, Masada)
23rd - Nina Otkalenko, USSR, 800m runner (9 world records)
23rd - Rosemary Clooney, Kentucky, singer/paper towels spokeswoman (Coronet)
23rd - Jeannie Carson, English actress and comedian
23rd - Pauline Julien, French Canadian singer (d. 1998)
24th - Peter Griffiths, MP
24th - Stanley Baxter, British comedian (Joey Boy, Fast Lady)
24th - William Trevor, Brit writer (Children of Dynmouth, Fools of Fortune)
25th - Frigyes Hidas, composer
25th - Mary Tuck, social researcher/civil servant
27th - Thea Musgrave, Barnton Midlothian Scot, composer (Mary Queen of Scots)
28th - Albert Booth, British government minister
28th - Jacob R Druckman, composer
29th - Felix Rohatyn, Vienna Austria, investment banker (NY Big MAC Bonds)
30th - John Keith Wright, English economist/asst sect of state (1971-84)
30th - Agnès Varda, French director
30th - Pro Hart, Australian artist (d. 2006)
30th - Gustav Leonhardt, Master Dutch Harpsichordist, organist and conductor
31st - Jacob Lateiner, Havana Cuba, pianist/professor (Juiliard)
31st - Pankaj Roy, cricketer (Indian opener, 413 partnership w/Vinoo Mankad)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 9 of 9

4th - Barry E Odell Pain, English writer (Punch), dies at 63
7th - Alexander Afanasii Spendiaryan, composer, dies at 56
9th - Constantin Dimitrescu, composer, dies at 81
16th - Edmund William Grosse, poet/author, dies
19th - Henry Franklin Belknap Gilbert, composer, dies at 59
19th - Max Scheler, German philosopher, dies at 53
22nd - William HT Gairdner, Engl missionary (Nile Mission Press), dies at 54
31st - Ludwig Enneccerus, German leader, dies at 85
31st - Manuel de Oliveira Lima, Brazilian historian, dies at 60