1928

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

Governors
* Governor of Alabama: Bibb Graves (Democratic)
* Governor of Arizona: George W. P. Hunt (Democratic)
* Governor of Arkansas: John Ellis Martineau (Democratic) (until March 4), Harvey Parnell (Democratic) (starting March 4)
* Governor of California: Clement C. Young (Republican)
* Governor of Colorado: Billy Adams (Democratic)
* Governor of Connecticut: John H. Trumbull (Republican)
* Governor of Delaware: Robert P. Robinson (Republican)
* Governor of Florida: John W. Martin (Democratic)
* Governor of Georgia: Lamartine G. Hardman (Democratic)
* Governor of Idaho: H. C. Baldridge (Republican)
* Governor of Illinois: Len Small (Republican)
* Governor of Indiana: Edward L. Jackson (Republican)
* Governor of Iowa: John Hammill (Republican)
* Governor of Kansas: Ben S. Paulen (Republican)
* Governor of Kentucky: Flem D. Sampson (Republican)
* Governor of Louisiana: Oramel H. Simpson (Democratic) (until May 21), Huey P. Long (Democratic) (starting May 21)
* Governor of Maine: Owen Brewster (Republican)
* Governor of Maryland: Albert C. Ritchie (Democratic)
* Governor of Massachusetts: Alvan T. Fuller (Republican)
* Governor of Michigan: Fred W. Green (Republican)
* Governor of Minnesota: Theodore Christianson (Republican)
* Governor of Mississippi: Dennis Murphree (Democratic) (until January 16), Theodore G. Bilbo (Democratic) (starting January 16)
* Governor of Missouri: Samuel Aaron Baker (Republican)
* Governor of Montana: John E. Erickson (Democratic)
* Governor of Nebraska: Adam McMullen (Republican)
* Governor of Nevada: Fred B. Balzar (Republican)
* Governor of New Hampshire: Huntley N. Spaulding (Republican)
* Governor of New Jersey: A. Harry Moore (Democratic)
* Governor of New Mexico: Richard C. Dillon (Republican)
* Governor of New York: Al Smith (Democratic)
* Governor of North Carolina: Angus Wilton McLean (Democratic)
* Governor of North Dakota: Arthur G. Sorlie (Republican) (until August 28), Walter Maddock (Republican) (starting August 28)
* Governor of Ohio: A. Victor Donahey (Democratic)
* Governor of Oklahoma: Henry S. Johnston (Democratic)
* Governor of Oregon: I. L. Patterson (Republican)
* Governor of Pennsylvania: John Stuchell Fisher (Republican)
* Governor of Rhode Island: Aram J. Pothier (Republican) (until February 4), Norman S. Case (Republican) (starting February 4)
* Governor of South Carolina: John Gardiner Richards Jr. (Democratic)
* Governor of South Dakota: William J. Bulow (Democratic)
* Governor of Tennessee: Henry Hollis Horton (Democratic)
* Governor of Texas: Dan Moody (Democratic)
* Governor of Utah: George Dern (Democratic)
* Governor of Vermont: John E. Weeks (Republican)
* Governor of Virginia: Harry F. Byrd (Democratic)
* Governor of Washington: Roland H. Hartley (Republican)
* Governor of West Virginia: Howard M. Gore (Republican)
* Governor of Wisconsin: Fred R. Zimmerman (Republican)
* Governor of Wyoming: Frank C. Emerson (Republican)

Lieutenant Governors
* Lieutenant Governor of Alabama: William C. Davis (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas: Harvey Parnell (Democratic) (until March 4), William Lee Cazort (Democratic) (starting March 4)
* Lieutenant Governor of California:
	+ until November 30: Buron Fitts (Republican)
	+ November 30-December 4: vacant
	+ starting December 4: H. L. Carnahan (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Colorado: George Milton Corlett (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut: J. Edwin Brainard (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Delaware: James H. Anderson (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Idaho: O. E. Hailey (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Illinois: Fred E. Sterling (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Indiana: F. Harold Van Orman (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Iowa: Clem F. Kimball (Republican) (until September 10), Arch W. McFarlane (Republican) (starting September 10)
* Lieutenant Governor of Kansas: De Lanson Alson Newton Chase (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky: James Breathitt Jr. (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana: Philip H. Gilbert (Democratic) (until month and day unknown), Paul N. Cyr (Democratic) (starting month and day unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: Frank G. Allen (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Michigan: Luren D. Dickinson (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota: William I. Nolan (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi: vacant (until January 16), Bidwell Adam (Democratic) (starting January 16)
* Lieutenant Governor of Missouri: Philip Allen Bennett (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Montana: W. S. McCormack (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska: George A. Williams (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Nevada: Morley Griswold (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of New Mexico: Edward G. Sargent (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of New York: Edwin Corning (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina: Jacob E. Long (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota: Walter Maddock (Republican) (until August 28), vacant (starting August 28)
* Lieutenant Governor of Ohio:
	+ until April: Earl D. Bloom (Democratic)
	+ April–November: William G. Pickrel (Democratic)
	+ starting November: George C. Braden (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma: William J. Holloway (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania: Arthur H. James (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island: Norman S. Case (Republican) (until February 4), vacant (starting February 4)
* Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: E. B. Jackson (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota: Hyatt E. Covey (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee: vacant
* Lieutenant Governor of Texas: Barry Miller (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Vermont: vacant
* Lieutenant Governor of Virginia: Junius Edgar West (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Washington: W. Lon Johnson (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin: Henry A. Huber (Republican)

## Events

### January

* January 16
	+ U.S. murderer Ruth Snyder is executed at Ossining.
	+ 6th Pan-American Conference opens in Havana. Calvin Coolidge becomes the last sitting U.S. President until 2016 to visit Cuba.

### February

* February 8 – British inventor John Logie Baird broadcasts a transatlantic television signal from London to Hartsdale, New York.
* February 25 – Charles Jenkins Laboratories of Washington, D.C. becomes the first holder of a television license from the Federal Radio Commission.

### March

* 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.

### April

* April 10 – "Pineapple Primary": The Republican Party primary elections in Chicago are preceded by assassinations and bombings.
* April 28 – Tamiami Trail linking Tampa and Miami officially opens to traffic.

### May

* 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.
* May 19 – Mather Mine disaster
* May 26 – Airplane Coaster roller coaster opens at Playland, Rye, New York.
* May 29 – *Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co.*, a leading case in United States tort law on the question of liability to an unforeseeable plaintiff, is decided in the New York Court of Appeals.

### June

* June 4 – *Olmstead v. United States* decided in the Supreme Court: wiretapped private telephone conversations, obtained by federal agents without judicial approval and subsequently used as evidence, do not violate the Fourth and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution.
* June 3 – Serial killer Albert Fish kidnaps and kills 10-year-old Grace Budd in New York.
* June 17 – Aviator Amelia Earhart starts her attempt to become the first woman to successfully cross the Atlantic Ocean. Wilmer Stultz is 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.
	+ Outerbridge Crossing and Goethals Bridge in Staten Island, New York is opened.

### July

* July 4 – Jean Lussier goes over Niagara Falls in a rubber ball.
* July 6 – The world's largest hailstone falls in Potter, Nebraska.
* July 7 – The first machine-sliced, machine-wrapped loaf of bread is sold in Chillicothe, Missouri, using Otto Frederick Rohwedder's technology.
* 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

* 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

* 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.

### October

* October 9 – The New York Yankees defeat the St. Louis Cardinals, 4 games to 0, to win their 3rd World Series Title.
* October 12 – An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston.
* October 19 – William Edward Hickman is executed at San Quentin State Prison, for the 1927 murder of 12-year-old Marion Parker.
* October 28 – Glenn Miller and Helen Burger marry in New York City.

### November

* 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 Democratic Governor of New York 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

* 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.

## Sport

* April 14 - New York Rangers win their First Stanley Cup by defeating the Montreal Maroons 3 games to 2. All games were played at the Montreal Forum. The Rangers become the Second American team to win the Stanley Cup and the first since the Seattle Metropolitans in 1918.

## Memoriam

* January 1 – Loie Fuller, dancer (aged 65; Paris, France)
* January 3
	+ Dorothy Donnelly, actress and songwriter (aged 51; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Emily Stevens, actress (aged 45; New York City, NY, USA)
* January 6 – Alvin Kraenzlein, American athlete (aged 51; Wilkes-Barre, PA, USA)
* January 12 – Ruth Snyder, murderer (aged 32; Ossining, NY, USA)
* January 13 – Frederick Arthur Bridgman, artist (aged 80; Rouen, France)
* January 21 – John A. Kimberly, entrepreneur, co-founder of Kimberly-Clark (aged 89; Redlands, CA, USA)
* January 22 – Victor Blue, American admiral (aged 62; Fort George Island, FL, USA)
* January 25 – Charles Gorman, American actor (aged 63; New York City, NY, USA)
* March 7 – Robert Abbe, surgeon (aged 76; New York City, NY, USA)
* March 19 – Nora Bayes, singer and actress (aged 47; Brooklyn, NY, USA)
* March 21 – William Cameron Sproul, 27th Governor of Pennsylvania (aged 57; Wallingford, PA, USA)
* March 30 – Frank B. Willis, 47th Governor of Ohio, U.S. Senator from Ohio from 1921 to 1928 (aged 56; Delaware, OH, USA)
* April 2 – Theodore William Richards, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (aged 60; Cambridge, MA, USA)
* April 8 – Wendell P. Bowman, army major general (aged 80; Merion Station, PA, USA)
* April 22
	+ Warner B. Bayley, admiral (aged 82; Washington, DC, USA)
	+ Frank Currier, actor (aged 70; Hollywood, CA, USA)
* April 25 – Floyd Bennett, aviator (aged 37; Quebec City, QC, Canada)
* May 8 – Clara Williams, actress (aged 40; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* May 14 – Thomas Tibbles, abolitionist, author, journalist, Indians’ rights activist, and politician (aged 87; Omaha, NE, USA)
* May 18 – Bill Haywood, labor leader (aged 59; Moscow, USSR (Now Russia))
* May 19 – Bessie Van Vorst, campaigning journalist (aged 54; Paris, France)
* May 20 – Frank T. Johns, carpenter, political activist and politician (aged 39; Bend, OR, USA)
* June 6 – John D. Works, U.S. Senator from California from 1911 to 1917 (aged 81; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* June 16 – Mark Keppel, Superintendent of Los Angeles County Schools (aged 61; CA, USA)
* June 17 – Edwin T. Meredith, 6th U.S. Secretary of Agriculture (aged 51; Des Moines, IA, USA)
* June 22
	+ A. B. Frost, illustrator (aged 77; Pasadena, CA, USA)
	+ George Siegmann, actor (aged 46; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* June 24 – Holbrook Blinn, actor (aged 56; Croton-on-Hudson, NY, USA)
* July 1
	+ Avery Hopwood, playwright (aged 46; Antibes, France)
	+ Frankie Yale, gangster (aged 35; Brooklyn, NY, USA)
* July 9 – George Earle Chamberlain, 11th Governor of Oregon, U.S. Senator from Oregon from 1909 to 1921 (aged 74; Washington, DC, USA)
* August 29 – George N. Bliss, soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (aged 91; East Providence, RI, USA)
* October 8 – Larry Semon, actor (aged 39; Victorville, CA, USA)
* October 20 – Mary Ingalls, blind older sister of author Laura Ingalls Wilder (aged 63; Keystone, SD, USA)
* October 22 – Charles A. Towne, politician (aged 69; Tucson, AZ, USA)
* October 24 – Arthur Bowen Davies, artist (aged 66; Florence, Italy)
* October 30 – Robert Lansing, Secretary of State (aged 64; New York City, NY, USA)
* December 11 – Lewis Howard Latimer, inventor (aged 80; Queens, NY, USA)
* December 14 – Theodore Roberts, actor (aged 67; Hollywood, CA, USA)
* December 16 – Elinor Wylie, poet and novelist (aged 43; New York City, NY, USA)
* December 25 – Fred Thomson, silent film actor (aged 38; Los Angeles, CA, USA)