January 11
January 11
Stalin banishes Trotsky
Leon Trotsky, a leader of the Bolshevik revolution and early architect of the Soviet state, is deported by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin to Alma‑Ata in remote Soviet Central Asia. He…
A Year In History: 1928
This Year in History:
1928
Discover what happened in this year with HISTORY’s summaries of major events, anniversaries, famous births and notable deaths.
February 6
February 6
Woman claiming to be Anastasia Romanov arrives in the U.S.
On February 6, 1928, a woman calling herself Anastasia Tschaikovsky and claiming to be the youngest daughter of the murdered Russian czar Nicholas II arrives in New York City. She…
April 4
April 4
Maya Angelou is born
Poet and novelist Maya Angelou—born Marguerite Johnson—is born in St. Louis, Missouri. Her parents divorced when she was three, and she and her brother went to live with their grandmother…
April 13
April 13
First nonstop flight from Europe to North America
German pilot Hermann Köhl, Irish aviator James Fitzmaurice and Baron Ehrenfried Günther Freiherr von Hünefeld, the expedition’s financier, complete the first Europe to North America transatlantic flight, taking off from…
June 10
June 10
“Where the Wild Things Are” author Maurice Sendak is born
On June 10, 1928, author and illustrator Maurice Sendak, who revolutionized children’s literature with such best‑selling books as Where the Wild Things Are and became one of the most celebrated…
July 8
July 8
A spiteful son kills four in a fit of rage
Rose Booher, her son Fred, and two hired workers are all shot to death on a secluded farm in Mannville, Alberta, Canada, while the rest of the Booher family is…
August 6
August 6
Andy Warhol is born
Andy Warhol, one of the most influential artists of the latter part of the 20th century, is born Andrew Warhola in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A frail and diminutive man with a…
August 31
August 31
Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s “The Threepenny Opera” premieres in Berlin
Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera) receives its world premiere in Berlin on August 31, 1928. “I think I’ve written a good piece and that several numbers in it, at least…
September 26
September 26
Work begins at company that designs first mass‑produced car radios
On September 26, 1928, work begins at Chicago’s new Galvin Manufacturing Corporation. (The company had officially incorporated the day before.) In 1930, Galvin would introduce the Motorola radio, the first…
September 30
September 30
Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and best‑selling author, is born
On September 29, 1928, Eliezer “Elie” Wiesel, the human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize‑winning author of more than 50 books, including “Night,” an internationally acclaimed memoir based on his…
November 4
November 4
One of New York’s most notorious gamblers is shot to death
Arnold Rothstein, New York’s most notorious gambler, is shot and killed during a poker game at the Park Central Hotel in Manhattan. After finding Rothstein bleeding profusely at the service…
November 10
November 10
WWI novel “All Quiet on the Western Front” is published
On November 10, 1928, the first installment of All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque’s acclaimed novel of World War I, appears in the German magazine Vossische Zeitung.…
December 4
December 4
“Irish Godfather” killed by car bomb in St. Paul, MN
“Dapper Dan” Hogan, a St. Paul, Minnesota saloonkeeper and mob boss, is killed on December 4, 1928 when someone plants a car bomb under the floorboards of his new Paige…
