1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). 1928 - Events. January 6-7 - River Thames floods in London - 14 drowned January 7 - Moat at the Tower of London, previously drained in 1843, is completely refilled by a tidal wave January 12 - US murderer Ruth Snyder executed at Ossining January 17 - OGPU arrests Lev Trotsky in Moscow; he assumes a status of passive resistance and is exiled to Turk ...

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1928 - January. January 5 - Ali Bhutto, President of Pakistan and Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 1979) January 5 - Walter Mondale, U.S. Senator and Presidential candidate January 7 - William Peter Blatty, American writer January 11 - David L. Wolper, television producer January 16 - William Kennedy, American author January 17 - Jean Barraqué, French composer (d. 1973) January 17 - Vidal Sassoon, English cosmetologist January 23 - Chico Carrasqu ...

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Avalon Blues: The Complete 1928 OKEH Recordings (Columbia Roots N' Blues reissue) 1. "Frankie" (3:21)- February 24, 1928, Memphis, TN - 400221-B, OK 8560 2. "Nobody's Dirty Business" (2:52)- February 24, 1928, Memphis - 400223-B, OK 8560 3. "Ain't No Tellin'" (2:54)- December 21, 1928, New York City, NY - 401471-A, OK 8560 4. "Louis Collins" (2:57)- December 21, 1928, NYC - 401472-A, OK 8724 5. "Avalon Blues" (3:01)- December 21, 1928, NYC - 401473-B, OK 8 ...

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January January 6-8 - Lt Christian Schilt makes ten flights in an O2U Corsair to evacuate wounded marines from the besieged village of Quilali, Nicaragua. He is awarded the Medal of Honor. February February 7 - Bert Hinkler leaves Croydon in an Avro Avian, attempting the first solo flight from England to Australia. He will arrive in Darwin on February 22. February 12 - Lady Mary Hearth leaves Cape Town in an Avro Avian in an attempt to make the first solo flight by a woman from South Africa to England. S ...

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2000 - January. January 2 - Patrick O'Brian, English writer (b. 1914) January 15 - Fran Ryan, American actress (b. 1916) January 19; Bettino Craxi, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1934) Hedy Lamarr, Austrian actress (b. 1913) 2000 - February. February 9 - Beau Jack, American boxer (b. 1921) February 10 - Jim Varney, Actor (b. 1949) February 11 - Roger Vadim, French film director (b. 1928) Feb ...

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1888 - January-March. January 1 - Victor Goldschmidt, Swiss geochemist (d. 1947) January 8 - Matt Moore, Irish-born actor (d. 1960) January 24 - Vicki Baum, Austrian writer (d. 1960) Ernst Heinkel, German aircraft designer (d. 1958) February 2 - Frederick Lane, Australian swimmer (d. 1969) February 17 - Otto Stern, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1969) February 19 - José Eustasio Rivera, Colombian writer (d. 1928) Februar ...

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Havelock Ellis (February 2, 1859-July 8, 1939) was a British doctor, sexual psychologist and social reformer. He studied medicine at St Thomas' Hospital, although never had a regular medical practice; he joined The Fellowship of the New Life in 1883, meeting other social reformers Edward Carpenter and George Bernard Shaw. In 1891, when still a virgin, Ellis married Edith Lees. He was interested in sexual liberation and wrote the seven volume Studies in the Psychology of Sex between 1897 and 1928. Until 1935 this work ...

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Vyacheslav Vasilyevich Tikhonov (February 8, 1928) is a famous Soviet actor, a recipient of numerous state awards, including the titles of People's Artist of the USSR (1974) and Hero of Socialist Labour (1982). He was born in Pavlovsky Posad near Moscow and worked at a factory. In the 1950s and 1960s, he was married to Nonna Mordyukova, a far more popular actress at that time. His best known part was that of Standartenführer Stirlitz in a famous series Семнадцать мгновений весны, Seventeen Mom ...

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Charles James "Chick" Hafey (February 12, 1903 - July 2, 1973) was an American player in Major League Baseball. Playing for the St. Louis Cardinals (1924-1931) and Cincinnati Reds (1932-1935, 1937), Hafey was known strong line-drive hitter and batted for a high average on a consistent basis. Hafey also showed some power, averaging 27 home runs and 114 RBI from 1928 to 1930. He won the batting title in 1931 with a .349 clip and was considered for the MVP award. Hafey was part of two World Series championship teams (in 1926 a ...

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Bruce Joseph Forsyth, CBE (affectionately called Brucie) (born 22 February 1928) is a British entertainer and showman who achieved celebrity on the show Sunday Night at the London Palladium (1958-1960 and 1961), and has since presented game shows such as Play Your Cards Right (1980-1987, 1994-1999 and 2002-2003), The Generation Game (1971-1977 and 1990-1994), and Strictly Come Dancing (since 2004). Bruce Forsyth - Life history. He was born Bruce Joseph Forsyth-JohnsonIncluding:

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Vince Guaraldi (July 17, 1928 - February 6, 1976) was an American jazz musician and pianist best known for composing music for animated adaptations of the Peanuts comic strip. He was born in San Francisco, California. He was an Army cook in the Korean War. In his first serious gig, he had to fill in for Art Tatum. His first recording came in 1953 when he played on the Cal Tjader Trio release Vibratharpe. By 1955, Guaraldi had put to ...

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Clarence 13X, born Clarence Smith (February 22, 1928–1969) in Danville, Virginia is considered the founder of The Nation of Gods and Earths, and is referred to by members of that group as "Allah." After serving in the Korean War, Clarence joined the Nation of Islam after learning that his wife had converted to the group. He became a member at Temple Number 7 in Harlem, New York where Malcolm X was a minister. (The 13X indicates that he would have been the 13th person named Clarence to join that temple.) Clarence would be well ...

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Sir Alister Clavering Hardy (February 10, 1896 - May 22, 1985) was an Oxford-educated marine biologist, expert on zooplankton and marine ecosystems. He was the zoologist on the RRS Discovery voyage to explore the Antarctic between 1925 and 1927, and in his studies of zooplankton and its relationship with predators became expert in marine mammals such as whales. Hardy was Professor of Zoology at the University of Hull from 1928 - 1942, became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1940, was knighted in 1957, Linac ...

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His Holiness Pope Cyril (Kyrellos) VI of Alexandria, born Azer Ioseph Atta (August 2, 1902 – March 9, 1971), was Coptic Orthodox Pope from 1959 to 1971. Pope Cyril VI was born in Damanhour, Egypt, into a Christian family. He resigned a civil service position to become a monk in July 1927. He passed his probationary period and, on February 24, 1928, took his monastic vows and assumed the name Fr. Mina El-Baramosy. ...

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University of Arkansas - Fort Smith is the fifth largest university in Arkansas, with a fall 2004 credit enrollment of 6,631. The university has a $51 million budget, and is one of the largest suppliers of allied health care workers and technical workforce in the state. Established as Fort Smith Junior College in 1928, it later changed its name to Westark Community College (February 1972), then ...

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Ariel "Arik" Sharon ▶ (help·info) (Hebrew: אריאל שרון) (born February 27, 1928) is the eleventh and current Prime Minister of Israel, serving from March 2001. A long-serving Israeli political and military leader, he was a founding member and former head of the Likud party, and previously served for over thirty years in the Israeli Defense Forces, rising to the rank of Major General, and achieving fame within Israel for his actions in the 1967 Six Day ...

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Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American painter, filmmaker, publisher, and a major figure in the Pop Art movement. Andy Warhol - Biography. Andy Warhol, born as Andrew Warhola, was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to a working class immigrant family of Ruthenian ethnicity from northeast Slovakia. He showed early artistic talent and studied commercial art at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. In 1949 he moved to New York City and began a successful career in magazine illust ...

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1854 in rail transport - January births. January 6 - William N. Page, American civil engineer who built the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway and the Virginian Railway (d. 1932). 1854 in rail transport - February births. February 14 - Job A. Edson, president of Kansas City Southern Railway 1905-1918 and 1920-1927 (d. 1928). ...

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Saratoga, the first fast carrier in the Navy, quickly proved the value of her type. She sailed from Philadelphia on 6 January 1928, for shakedown, and on 11 January, her air officer, the future World War II hero, Marc A. Mitscher, landed the first aircraft on board. In an experiment on 27 January, the rigid airship Los Angeles (ZR-3) moored to Saratoga's stern and took on fuel and stores. The same day Saratoga sailed for the Pacific via the Panama Canal. She was diverted briefly between 14 February and 16 February ...

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