1928 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1928 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

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

Sport

Everton win the championship (Spurs 21st)Blackburn Rovers 3 Huddersfield 1 (FA Cup)

Johnny Weissmuller wins 2 swimming gold medals at the Amsterdam Olympics.

Rene Lacoste Wimbledon Mens ChampionHelen Wills Wimbledon Womens Champion

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).cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 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.cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-141-02715-0|year=2006]
* 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. [cite book |title= The Hutchinson Factfinder |publisher= Helicon |year= 1999 |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. [cite web|url=http://www.rsc.org/pdf/pressoffice/2003/penicillin.pdf|title=Royal Society of Chemistry Press Release (PDF)|accessdate=2008-03-07]
* 15 September - Tich Freeman sets all-time record for number of wickets taken in an English cricket season.
* 20 December - The first Harry Ramsden's fish and chips shop opens in Yorkshire.

Undated

* Frederick Griffith conducts Griffith's experiment, indirectly proving existence of DNA.
* Owen Willans Richardson wins the 1928 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his work on the thermionic phenomenon and especially for the discovery of the law named after him". This award was announced on 12 November 1929. [cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1928/|title=The Nobel Prize in Physics 1928|accessdate=2008-01-28]
* Cosmo Lang enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury.

Publications

* Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot novel "The Mystery of the Blue Train".
* Ford Madox Ford's novel "Last Post", last of the "Parade's End" tetralogy.
* Radclyffe Hall's novel "The Well of Loneliness".
* Aldous Huxley's novel "Point Counter Point".
* D. H. Lawrence's novel "Lady Chatterley's Lover" published in Italy; it was not published in Britain until 1960.
* Evelyn Waugh's novel "Decline and Fall".
* Virginia Woolf's novel "".

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
* 16 July - Anita Brookner, novelist and art historian
* 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
* 9 October - Geoff Coppock, all round good egg
* 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

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