January 9 » Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the poet Alfred Tennyson, becomes the second Governor-General of Australia.
June 16 » The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
August 3 » Macedonian rebels in Kruševo proclaim the Kruševo Republic, which exists for only ten days before Ottoman Turks lay waste to the town.
August 29 » The Slava, the last of the five Borodino-class battleships, is launched.
October 10 » The Women's Social and Political Union is founded in support of the enfranchisement of British women.
November 3 » With the encouragement of the United States, Panama separates from Colombia.
Day of death April 16, 1928
The temperature on April 16, 1928 was between 0.6 °C and 2.4 °C and averaged 1.4 °C. There was 3.7 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
January 1 » Boris Bazhanov defects through Iran. He is the only assistant of Joseph Stalin's secretariat to have defected from the Eastern Bloc.
March 12 » In California, the St. Francis Dam fails; the resulting floods kill 431 people.
May 3 » The Jinan incident begins with the deaths of twelve Japanese civilians by Chinese forces in Jinan, China, which leads to Japanese retaliation and the deaths of over 2,000 Chinese civilians in the following days.
October 1 » The Soviet Union introduces its first five-year plan.
October 12 » An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston.
December 13 » George Gershwin's An American in Paris is first performed.
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