1928 in the United States
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Events from the year 1928 in the United States.

Contents 1 Events 1.1 January–March 1.2 April–June 1.3 July–September 1.4 October–December 1.5 Undated 2 External links

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[edit] January–March

• January 12 – U.S. murderer Ruth Snyder is executed at Ossining.
• February 25 – Charles Jenkins Laboratories of Washington, D.C. becomes the first holder of a television license from the Federal Radio Commission.
• March 12 – In California, the St. Francis Dam north of Los Angeles fails, killing 400.
• March 21 – Charles Lindbergh is presented the Medal of Honor for his first trans-Atlantic flight.

[edit] April–June

• April 10 – "Pineapple Primary": The U.S. Republican Party primary elections in Chicago are preceded by assassinations and bombings.
• May 10 – The first regular schedule of television programming begins in Schenectady, New York by the General Electric's television station W2XB (the station is popularly known as WGY Television, after its sister radio station WGY).
• May 15 – The animated short Plane Crazy is released by Disney Studios in Los Angeles, featuring the first appearances of Mickey and Minnie Mouse.
• June 17 – Aviator Amelia Earhart starts her attempt to become the first woman to successfully cross the Atlantic Ocean (she succeeds the next day). Wilmer Stultz was the pilot.
• June 29 – New York Governor Alfred E. Smith becomes the first Catholic nominated by a major political party for U.S. President, at the Democratic National Convention in Houston, Texas.

[edit] July–September

• July 6 – The world's largest hailstone falls in Potter, Nebraska.
• July 12 – Mexican aviator Emilio Carranza dies in a solo plane crash in the New Jersey Pine Barrens, while returning from a goodwill flight to New York City.
• July 25 – The United States recalls its troops from China.
• August 16 – Murderer Carl Panzram is arrested in Washington, D.C. after killing about 20 people.
• August 22 – Alfred E. Smith accepts the Democratic presidential nomination, with WGY/W2XB simulcasting the event on radio and television.
• September 1 – Richard Byrd leaves New York for the Arctic.
• September 11 – Kenmore's WMAK station starts broadcasting in Buffalo, New York.
• September 16 – The 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane kills at least 2,500 people in Florida.

[edit] October–December

• October 12 – An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston.
• October 22 – The Phi Sigma Alpha Fraternity is founded at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus.
• November 4 – At Park Central Hotel in Manhattan, Arnold Rothstein, New York City's most notorious gambler, is shot to death over a poker game.
• November 6 – U.S. presidential election, 1928: Republican Herbert Hoover wins by a wide margin over Democrat Alfred E. Smith.
• November 17 – The Boston Garden opens in Boston.
• November 18 – Mickey Mouse appears in Steamboat Willie, the third Mickey Mouse cartoon released, but the first sound film.
• December 5 – Police disperse a Sicilian gangs' meeting in Cleveland.
• December 21 – The U.S. Congress approves the construction of Boulder Dam, later renamed Hoover Dam.

[edit] Undated

• Eliot Ness begins to lead the prohibition unit in Chicago.
• The first (and last) Best Title Writing Academy Award is given.
• The Episcopal Church in the United States of America ratifies a new revision of the Book of Common Prayer.
• W2XBS, RCA's first television station, is established in New York City.

[edit] External links

• Media related to 1928 in the United States at Wikimedia Commons