October 1928 calendar

Events

• 01 Oct 1928 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 15m (46:49.6)
• 02 Oct 1928 The ''Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of God'', commonly known as Opus Dei, is founded by Saint Josemaria Escriva.
• 03 Oct 1928 French sun Ondine sinks returning to Toulon, drowning 42
• 04 Oct 1928 25th World Series begins, New York Yankees vs. St. Louis Cardinals
• 06 Oct 1928 11th PGA Championship: Leo Diegel at Five Farms Country Club - Baltimore
• 07 Oct 1928 Race Tafari Makonnen crowned King of Abyssinia
• 08 Oct 1928 Eastern Soccer League forms in US.
• 09 Oct 1928 New York Yankees sweep Saint Louis Cardinals in 25th World Series; Babe Ruth hits three home run in game - New York Yankees become first to sweep consecutive World Series.
• 12 Oct 1928 An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
• 15 Oct 1928 German dirigible Graf Zeppelin lands in Lakehurst, New Jersey
• 16 Oct 1928 Mickey Cochrane wins AL MVP honors, edging Heinie Manush by 2 points
• 19 Oct 1928 William Edward Hickman is executed at San Quentin prison for the 1927 murder of Marion Parker.
• 22 Oct 1928 China expels all Russian instructors and civil servants
• 26 Oct 1928 International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (ICRM) formally established with the adoption of “Statutes of the International Red Cross”
• 28 Oct 1928 Bradman scores 131 NSW vs. Queensland, 212 mins, 14 fours

Famous Birthday

• Raymond Réant
• George Peppard

  American film and TV series actor who made a total of 25 films, famed for "Breakfast at Tiffany's," 1961 and the "Carpetbaggers," 1964.

• Marthe Mercadier
• Gilles Vigneault

  Canadian singer, songwriter, poet and publisher, a Quebec nationalist and sovereigntist.

• Perry Smith

  American homicide; teamed with Richard Hickock to kill the Clutter family on 11/15/1959, Holcomb, KS.

• Jean-François Deniau

  French statesman, diplomat, essayist and novelist.

• Laurence Harvey

  Lithuanian-born actor.

• Joaquín Galarza
• Joyce Brothers

  American psychologist practicing in electronic and print media for over 30 years, seen occasionally in movies.

• Raymond Lévesque
• Erik Bruhn

  Danish dancer, one of the great ballet dancers of the 20th century who set standards of dance excellence and dramatic intensity.

• Marion Ross

  TV Actress.

• David Wright Young
• Anthony Franciosa

  American actor (Born 1928).

• Ann Morgan Guilbert

  American actress.

• Leyla Gencer
• Jean-Jacques Antier
• Jennie Lee

  American exotic dancer and stripper known for having "the biggest bust in town.

• Christian d'Oriola
• Harvey Kirck

  Canadian TV personality and co-host, known by his fellow Canadians for co-hosting the National News on CTV, appearing nightly on the 11:00...

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Famous Deaths

• Larry Semon

  American actor director producer and screenwriter (d. 1928).

• Oscar George Theodore Sonneck

  Composer, dies at 55.

• F A Alphonse Aulard

  French historian.

• Andrew Fisher

  Australian Prime Minister three times, from 1908-1909, again from 1910-1913 and the last time from 1914-1915, the sixth, eighth and tenth...

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