Kellogg-Briand Pact Outlaws War, Signed by 15 Nations – August 27, 1928
Date: August 27, 1928
Date: August 27, 1928
A disastrous flood of the River Thames kills 14 people and causes extensive damage to much of riverside London. Date: January 7, 1928 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on January 7 π Events on this day in 1928 π On This Day (Today) More events from 1928Zhang Zuolin Assassinated by Japanese Agents,…
Boris Bazhanov defects through Iran to seek asylum in France. He is the only member of Joseph Stalin's secretariat to have defected from the Soviet Union. Date: January 1, 1928 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on January 1 π Events on this day in 1928 π On This Day (Today) More events…
Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she is a passenger; Wilmer Stultz is the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic). Date: June 18, 1928 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on June 18 π Events on this day in 1928 π On This…
Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross. Date: June 9, 1928 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on June 9 π Events on this day in 1928 π On This Day (Today) More events from 1928Soviet Union Introduces First Five-Year Plan, October 1, 1928Juan…
Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin. Date: September 28, 1928 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on September 28 π Events on this day in 1928 π On This Day (Today) More events from 1928St. Francis Dam Collapse Kills 431 in California,…
Indian revolutionaries Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar and Shivaram Rajguru assassinate British police officer James Saunders in Lahore, Punjab, to avenge the death of Lala Lajpat Rai at the hands of the police. The three were executed in 1931. Date: December 17, 1928 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on December 17 π Events…