1928

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Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
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1928 Media

A 1928 Ford Model A
Flag of South Africa from 1928 to 1994
Aspecte din timpul vizitei oficiale de prietenie a preşedintelui Consiliului de Stat al României, Nicolae Ceauşescu împreună cu Elena Ceauşescu în Pakistan.(ianuarie 1973).
Founder of Edhi.
Author William Peter Blatty inside of his home office in 2009.
Image of former Argentine president Reynaldo Bignone.
L'actrice française Jeanne Moreau, souriante, à la Mostra de Venise 1958.
President Eduard Shevardnadze of Georgia photographed during his meeting with Secretary of Defense William Cohen at The Pentagon

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1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday in the Gregorian calendar.

January 31 – Leon Trotsky is exiled to Kazakhstan
February 8 – British inventor John Logie Baird sends the first television signal across the Atlantic Ocean, from London to New York
May 7 – The United Kingdom gives equal voting rights to women by passing the Representation of the People Act. This law allows women to vote when they are 21 years old, like men. Before this, women could not vote until they were 30.
June 9 – Australian flyer Charles Kingsford Smith finishes the first airplane flight across the Pacific Ocean.
September 28 – Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
October 2 – Josemaria Escriva starts Opus Dei.

March 5 – Diana Coupland, British actress
March 6 - Glyn Owen, Welsh actor (d. 2004)
March 20 – Fred Rogers, American television children's program host and writer (d. 2003)

April 7 – James Garner, American actor (Maverick, The Rockford Files)
April 23 – Shirley Temple, American child actress and diplomat (d. 2014)
April 24 – Tommy Docherty, Scottish footballer and manager of Manchester United F.C. (1973-1977)
April 30 – Dickie Davies, British television sports presenter (World of Sport)

June 1 – Bob Monkhouse, British actor, comedian, writer and television game show host (d. 2003)
June 14 – Che Guevara, Argentinian Marxist revolutionary (d. 1967)

July 12
- Sir Alastair Burnett, British journalist and television newsreader (ITV)
- Kathy Staff, British actress (Crossroads, Last of the Summer Wine)
July 26 – Stanley Kubrick, American movie director (d. 1999)

November 10 – Ennio Morricone, Italian composer, orchestrator and conductor (d. 2022)

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