1928

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1890s 1900s 1910s – 1920s – 1930s 1940s 1950s
Years:	1925 1926 1927 – 1928 – 1929 1930 1931

The year 1928 (MCMXXIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. It was also a leap year starting on Saturday on the Julian calendar. This is before Tuesday, January 1, 1929, with an adoption of the Gregorian calendar from every state in the entire world.

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

Events

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.

Births

January

Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto

January 5 – Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, 9th Prime Minister of Pakistan and 4th President of Pakistan (d. 1979)

February

February 1 – Stuart Whitman, American actor
February 22 – Sir Bruce Forsyth, British entertainer and television presenter
February 26 – Fats Domino, American musician
February 28 – Sir Stanley Baker, Welsh actor (d. 1976)
February 29 – Joss Ackland, British actor

March

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

Shirley Temple

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)

May

Hosni Mubarak

May 4 – Hosni Mubarak, 4th President of Egypt and Prime Minister of Egypt (d. 2020)
May 12 – Burt Bacharach, American composer and songwriter
May 23
- Rosemary Clooney, American singer and actress (d. 2002)
- Nigel Davenport, British actor (d. 2013)
May 30 – Clint Walker, American actor (Cheyenne)

June

Che Guevara

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