1928 in the United Kingdom

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Events from the year 1928 in the United Kingdom.

Contents 1 Incumbents 2 Events 2.1 Unknown dates 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 References

[edit] Incumbents

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

[edit] 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.
• 12 March - Malta becomes a British dominion.
• 27 June - 25 people killed in the Darlington rail crash.
• 3 July - John Logie Baird demonstrates colour television. ^[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.
• 15 September - Tich Freeman sets all-time record for number of wickets taken in an English cricket season.

[edit] Unknown dates

• The right to vote extended to all women in the United Kingdom.
• 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" ^[2]

[edit] Births

• 8 January - Ron Moody, actor
• 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)
• 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
• 26 July - Bernice Rubens, novelist (died 2004)
• 15 August - Nicolas Roeg, film director
• 8 October - Bill Maynard, actor
• 22 November - Pat Smythe, show jumper (died 1996)
• 29 December - Bernard Cribbins, actor

[edit] Deaths

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

[edit] References