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Release year: 1928
May 1928 calendar
Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in May 1928.
The US president was Calvin Coolidge (Republican), the UK Prime Minister was Stanley Baldwin (Conservative), Pope Pius XI was leading the Catholic Church.
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Historical Events
Which were the important events of May 1928?
Events
- 01 May 1928 Drunken fascist Erich Wichman attacks VARA-radio transmitter
- 02 May 1928 KPQ-AM in Wenatchee WA begins radio transmissions
- 03 May 1928 Japanese atrocities in Jinan, China.
- 07 May 1928 Pulitzer prize awarded to Thornton Wilder for
- 10 May 1928 WGY, Schenectady begins regular TV programming
- 11 May 1928 54th Kentucky Derby: Chick Lang aboard Reigh Count wins in 2:10.4
- 12 May 1928 Opium laws enforced
- 14 May 1928 John McGraw is knocked down by a taxicab and suffers a broken leg
- 15 May 1928 Mickey Mouse premiered in his first cartoon, Plane Crazy
- 17 May 1928 9th modern Olympic games opens in Amsterdam
- 19 May 1928 Explosion in coal mine in Mather, Pennsylvania, 195 die
- 22 May 1928 US Congress accepts Jones-White Merchant Naval Act.
- 23 May 1928 Bomb attack on Italian embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina; 22 die.
- 24 May 1928 Umberto Nobile flies airship over North Pole again
- 25 May 1928 Amelia Earhart (as a passenger) is 1st woman to fly Atlantic Ocean
- 28 May 1928 Dodge Brothers Inc and Chrysler Corp merged
- 29 May 1928 Fritz von Opel reaches 200 kph in experimental rocket car.
- 30 May 1928 A rescue expedition leaves for the North Pole.
- 31 May 1928 First aerial cross of the Pacific takes off from Oakland, California.
Famous Birthday
Argentinean revolutionary who led guerrilla groups with the aid of Fidel Castro in their attempt to spread communism in South America and...
Israeli sculptor.
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Egyptian President, leader and military commander.
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Famous Deaths
Poet / author.
Composer, dies at 59.
Engl Missionary (Nile Mission Press), dies at 54.
Composer, dies at 81.
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Movies
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Skirts
Release year: 1928
Directed by: Wheeler Dryden, Jess Robbins
Starring: Syd Chaplin, Betty Balfour, Edmund Breon, Nancy Rigg
Detectives
Release year: 1928
Directed by: Chester M. Franklin
Starring: Karl Dane, George K. Arthur, Marceline Day, Tenen Holtz
Steamboat Bill, Jr.
Release year: 1928
Directed by: Charles Reisner, Buster Keaton
Starring: Buster Keaton, Tom McGuire, Ernest Torrence, Tom Lewis
Country: United States of America
Yellow Lily
Release year: 1928
Directed by: Alexander Korda
Starring: Billie Dove, Clive Brook, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Marc McDermott