1928

1928 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	1928; MCMXXVIII
Ab urbe condita	2681
Armenian calendar	1377; ԹՎ ՌՅՀԷ
Assyrian calendar	6678
Bahá'í calendar	84–85
Balinese saka calendar	1849–1850
Bengali calendar	1335
Berber calendar	2878
British Regnal year	18 Geo. 5 – 19 Geo. 5
Buddhist calendar	2472
Burmese calendar	1290
Byzantine calendar	7436–7437
Chinese calendar	丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit); 4624 or 4564; — to —; 戊辰年 (Earth Dragon); 4625 or 4565
Coptic calendar	1644–1645
Discordian calendar	3094
Ethiopian calendar	1920–1921
Hebrew calendar	5688–5689
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1984–1985
- Shaka Samvat	1849–1850
- Kali Yuga	5028–5029
Holocene calendar	11928
Igbo calendar	928–929
Iranian calendar	1306–1307
Islamic calendar	1346–1347
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 3; (昭和３年)
Javanese calendar	1858–1859
Juche calendar	17
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4261
Minguo calendar	ROC 17; 民國17年
Nanakshahi calendar	460
Thai solar calendar	2470–2471
Tibetan calendar	མེ་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་; (female Fire-Hare); 2054 or 1673 or 901; — to —; ས་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་; (male Earth-Dragon); 2055 or 1674 or 902

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

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.

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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