1928_in_the_united_kingdom

1928 in the United Kingdom:

Other years

1927 | 1928 | 1929 | 1930

Sport

1928 English cricket season

Football England | Scotland

Events from the year 1928 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

• Monarch - George V of the United Kingdom
• Prime Minister - Stanley Baldwin, Conservative

Events

• 6 January–7 - River Thames floods in London, 14 drown.
• 7 January - Moat at the Tower of London, previously drained in 1843 (and planted with grass), is completely refilled by a tidal wave.
• 12 February - Heavy hails kill 11 in England.
• 11 February–19 February - Great Britain and Northern Ireland compete at the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland and win one bronze medal.
• 12 March - Malta becomes a British dominion.
• May - First run of the Flying Scotsman fast steam train from London to Edinburgh (although earlier services had been unofficially known by this name).Palmer, Alan & Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd, 369-370. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2. 
• 7 May - Passage of the Representation of the People Act 1928 lowers the voting age for women from 30 to 21 giving them equal suffrage with men. (2006) Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. ISBN 0-141-02715-0. 
• 17 May–12 August - Great Britain and Northern Ireland compete at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam and win 3 gold, 10 silver and 7 bronze medals.
• 27 June - 25 people killed in the Darlington rail crash.
• 3 July - John Logie Baird demonstrates colour television. (1999) The Hutchinson Factfinder. Helicon. ISBN 1-85986-000-1. 
• 27 July - Tich Freeman becomes only bowler ever to take 200 first-class wickets before end of July.
• 26 August - May Donoghue finds the remains of a snail in her ginger beer, leading to the landmark case Donoghue v. Stevenson.
• 3 September - Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin at St Mary\'s Hospital, London.Royal Society of Chemistry Press Release (PDF). Retrieved on 2008-03-07.
• 15 September - Tich Freeman sets all-time record for number of wickets taken in an English cricket season.

Undated

• Frederick Griffith conducts Griffith\'s experiment, indirectly proving existence of DNA.
• Owen Willans Richardson wins the Nobel Prize in Physics "for his work on the thermionic phenomenon and especially for the discovery of the law named after him".The Nobel Prize in Physics 1928. Retrieved on 2008-01-28.
• Cosmo Lang enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury.

Publications

• Agatha Christie\'s Hercule Poirot novel The Mystery of the Blue Train.
• Aldous Huxley\'s novel Point Counter Point.
• Evelyn Waugh\'s novel Decline and Fall.
• D.H. Lawrence\'s novel Lady Chatterley\'s Lover published in Italy; it was not published in Britain until 1960.

Births

• 17 January - Vidal Sassoon, cosmetologist
• 24 January - Desmond Morris, anthropologist and writer
• 22 February - Bruce Forsyth, entertainer
• 4 March - Alan Sillitoe, writer
• 30 March - Tom Sharpe, author
• 8 April - Eric Porter, actor (died 1995)
• 19 April - Alexis Korner, musician (died 1984)
• 9 May - Colin Chapman, automotive engineer (died 1982)
• 1 June - Bob Monkhouse, comedian and game show host (died 2003)
• 5 June - Tony Richardson, film director (died 1991)
• 6 June - R. D. Wingfield, novelist and radio dramatist (died 2007)
• 19 June - Barry Took, comedian, writer and television presenter (died 2002)
• 28 June - Harold Evans, newspaper editor
• 22 July - Jimmy Hill, footballer and television sports presenter
• 26 July - Bernice Rubens, novelist (died 2004)
• 15 August - Nicolas Roeg, film director
• 17 September - Roddy McDowall, actor (died 1998)
• 8 October - Bill Maynard, actor
• 22 November - Pat Smythe, show jumper (died 1996)
• 29 December - Bernard Cribbins, actor

Deaths

• 11 January - Thomas Hardy, writer (born 1840)
• 29 January - Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, soldier (born 1861)
• 15 February - Herbert Henry Asquith, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1852)
• 5 April - Jane Ellen Harrison, scholar, linguist and feminist (born 1850)
• 5 April - Roy Kilner, cricketer (born 1890)
• 1 May - Ebenezer Howard, urban planner (born 1850)
• 14 June - Emmeline Pankhurst, suffragette (born 1858)
• 10 December - Charles Rennie Mackintosh, architect (born 1868)

References

See also

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