The
Jinan Incident happened in
China when Chinese and Japanese soldiers clashed in
Jinan, resulting in the death of 12 Japanese. Both sides blamed each other for the shooting, but Japanese officer
Hikosuke Fukuda vowed to punish the Chinese for the incident after stockpiling food and ammunition.[5]
The town of
Carnation, Washington, changed its name back to Tolt. The official name would remain until 1951, when the name would be changed to Carnation again.
Charles Francis Jenkins publicly demonstrated his new radio moving picture receiver in Washington, D.C. Government engineers, scientists and
Federal Radio Commissioners sat in a darkened lab as well as in several homes with receiving sets. With the push of a button on the cabinet, silhouetted images of children at play were activated on the tiny screens.[7][8]
Japanese General
Hikosuke Fukuda issued a harsh ultimatum in Jinan with a 12-hour deadline to the Chinese which they would be sure to refuse.[10][11][12]
London's Daily Express published a shocking story detailing a plot by
Prince Carol of Romania to overthrow the government and seize the throne held by his six-year-old son
Michael.[13] Carol, who was in England at the time with his mistress
Magda Lupescu, was "requested" by British authorities to leave the country.[14]
British scientist Sir
Arthur Keith said in a lecture at the
University of Manchester that no evidence had been found to support the belief that a spirit survives after the brain ceases to function.[17]
Born:
Ricardo "Pancho" Gonzales, U.S. professional tennis player, twice U.S. Open winner and winner of multiple professional titles; in
Los Angeles (d. 1995)
W2XCW, an experimental television station based in
Schenectady, New York, went on the air. Kolin Hager became the first television newscaster, appearing three times a week to deliver farm and weather reports.[18]
Fascist Italy passed a new electoral bill. The all-appointed Senate was unchanged, but the
Chamber of Deputies was now to be elected in the form of a
plebiscite in which voters would simply vote "yes" or "no" to a single list of candidates approved by the
Grand Council of Fascism. The bill also took the vote away from
women. "Universal suffrage is a purely conventional fiction",
Benito Mussolini explained. "It says nothing, means nothing, and gives the most divergent results."[20][21][22]
A test screening was held for the animated short film Plane Crazy, featuring the first appearance of
Mickey Mouse. It was shelved until 1929.
Wednesday, May 16, 1928
A panic on
Wall Street caused stocks to plunge by as many as forty points, as a record 4,820,840 shares changed hands. The fall was triggered by selling of shares in aircraft companies.[2]
The
House of Lords debated the matter of whether a husband should be allowed to disinherit wives and children in favour of
mistresses.[24]
The
1928 Summer Olympics opened in
Amsterdam in the
Netherlands with competition in
field hockey more than two months before the main events of the games. [25] A welcoming ceremony was held before a crowd of 4,000 people.[26] The official opening ceremony would not be held until July 28.
Nazis in Berlin attacked a procession of communists demonstrating on the eve of
elections. Twenty were wounded and a child was killed, marring the election campaign which had been remarkably uneventful up to this point.[30]
The
Capper-Ketcham Act for promotion of educating American youth in agricultural techniques, was passed into law in the United States. Sponsored by U.S. Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas and Congressman John C. Ketcham of Michigan, the act financed the founding of the
Future Farmers of America and provided matching funds for states with
4-H clubs.
The airship Italia, crewed by sixteen men led by
Umberto Nobile, departed from
Svalbard in a bid to fly over the
North Pole just as the Norge had done in 1926.[35] The crew hoped this time to actually land at the North Pole.[36]
A bomb exploded at the Italian consulate in
Buenos Aires, killing 8 and injuring 37. The Italian
consul general blamed anti-fascist extremists.[37][38]
Protestors in
Innsbruck, Austria tore down the flag over the Italian consulate that was flying in commemoration of the thirteenth anniversary of the Italian declaration of war on
Austria-Hungary.[38]
The crew of the Italia crashed, 180 miles (290 km) from
Svalbard. One member of the crew was killed. The ship lurched back into the air with six men still trapped inside the cabin and drifted away, never to be seen again.[35][36][41]
Andy Payne won the first 3,400-mile (5,500 km) coast-to-coast "
Trans-American Footrace", arriving in New York City 84 days after starting in Los Angeles.[44]
Anti-Italian demonstrators in
Belgrade burned Mussolini's portrait as protests of the
Nettuno Convention became increasingly violent. Dispatches from
Zadar reported that Italians attacked Yugoslav residents and burned a picture of
King Alexander.[46]
The
Yugoslav National Assembly was adjourned for a week after opposition members tore the tops off of desks, pounded fists and shouted against the methods of police suppressing anti-Italian demonstrations.[53]
References
^Attribution: Bundesarchiv, Bild 102-05738 / Georg Pahl / CC-BY-SA 3.0
^
abcMercer, Derrik (1989). Chronicle of the 20th Century. London: Chronicle Communications Ltd. pp. 365–366.
ISBN978-0-582-03919-3.
^"Coolidge Pins Flying Crosses On German, Irish Trans-Sea Fliers", Fresno (CA) Bee, May 2, 1928, p. 1
^Akira Iriye, After Imperialism: The Search for a New Order in the Far East, 1921–1931 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1965; reprinted:Chicago: Imprint Publications, 1990): 199–201.
^
abcSchlichtmann, Klaus (2009). Japan in the World: Shidehara Kijūrō, Pacifism, and the Abolition of War. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books. p. 45.
ISBN978-0-7391-3519-8.
^Kabatchnik, Amnon (2010). Blood on the Stage, 1925–1950: Milestone Plays of Crime, Mystery, and Detection. Plymouth: Scarecrow Press. p. 194.
ISBN978-0-8108-6963-9.
^Darrah, David (May 13, 1928). "Italy Ends Its Right to Pick Parliament". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 1.
^Lepsius, M. Rainer. "The Model of Charismatic Leadership and its Applicability to the Rule of Adolf Hitler." Charisma and Fascism. Ed. António Pinto, Roger Eatwell and Stein Ugelvik Larsen. Oxon and New York: Routledge, 2007. p. 41.
ISBN978-1-317-83453-3
^"Wispy Cloud of War Gas Kills 11 in Hamburg". Chicago Daily Tribune. May 22, 1928. p. 3.
The
Jinan Incident happened in
China when Chinese and Japanese soldiers clashed in
Jinan, resulting in the death of 12 Japanese. Both sides blamed each other for the shooting, but Japanese officer
Hikosuke Fukuda vowed to punish the Chinese for the incident after stockpiling food and ammunition.[5]
The town of
Carnation, Washington, changed its name back to Tolt. The official name would remain until 1951, when the name would be changed to Carnation again.
Charles Francis Jenkins publicly demonstrated his new radio moving picture receiver in Washington, D.C. Government engineers, scientists and
Federal Radio Commissioners sat in a darkened lab as well as in several homes with receiving sets. With the push of a button on the cabinet, silhouetted images of children at play were activated on the tiny screens.[7][8]
Japanese General
Hikosuke Fukuda issued a harsh ultimatum in Jinan with a 12-hour deadline to the Chinese which they would be sure to refuse.[10][11][12]
London's Daily Express published a shocking story detailing a plot by
Prince Carol of Romania to overthrow the government and seize the throne held by his six-year-old son
Michael.[13] Carol, who was in England at the time with his mistress
Magda Lupescu, was "requested" by British authorities to leave the country.[14]
British scientist Sir
Arthur Keith said in a lecture at the
University of Manchester that no evidence had been found to support the belief that a spirit survives after the brain ceases to function.[17]
Born:
Ricardo "Pancho" Gonzales, U.S. professional tennis player, twice U.S. Open winner and winner of multiple professional titles; in
Los Angeles (d. 1995)
W2XCW, an experimental television station based in
Schenectady, New York, went on the air. Kolin Hager became the first television newscaster, appearing three times a week to deliver farm and weather reports.[18]
Fascist Italy passed a new electoral bill. The all-appointed Senate was unchanged, but the
Chamber of Deputies was now to be elected in the form of a
plebiscite in which voters would simply vote "yes" or "no" to a single list of candidates approved by the
Grand Council of Fascism. The bill also took the vote away from
women. "Universal suffrage is a purely conventional fiction",
Benito Mussolini explained. "It says nothing, means nothing, and gives the most divergent results."[20][21][22]
A test screening was held for the animated short film Plane Crazy, featuring the first appearance of
Mickey Mouse. It was shelved until 1929.
Wednesday, May 16, 1928
A panic on
Wall Street caused stocks to plunge by as many as forty points, as a record 4,820,840 shares changed hands. The fall was triggered by selling of shares in aircraft companies.[2]
The
House of Lords debated the matter of whether a husband should be allowed to disinherit wives and children in favour of
mistresses.[24]
The
1928 Summer Olympics opened in
Amsterdam in the
Netherlands with competition in
field hockey more than two months before the main events of the games. [25] A welcoming ceremony was held before a crowd of 4,000 people.[26] The official opening ceremony would not be held until July 28.
Nazis in Berlin attacked a procession of communists demonstrating on the eve of
elections. Twenty were wounded and a child was killed, marring the election campaign which had been remarkably uneventful up to this point.[30]
The
Capper-Ketcham Act for promotion of educating American youth in agricultural techniques, was passed into law in the United States. Sponsored by U.S. Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas and Congressman John C. Ketcham of Michigan, the act financed the founding of the
Future Farmers of America and provided matching funds for states with
4-H clubs.
The airship Italia, crewed by sixteen men led by
Umberto Nobile, departed from
Svalbard in a bid to fly over the
North Pole just as the Norge had done in 1926.[35] The crew hoped this time to actually land at the North Pole.[36]
A bomb exploded at the Italian consulate in
Buenos Aires, killing 8 and injuring 37. The Italian
consul general blamed anti-fascist extremists.[37][38]
Protestors in
Innsbruck, Austria tore down the flag over the Italian consulate that was flying in commemoration of the thirteenth anniversary of the Italian declaration of war on
Austria-Hungary.[38]
The crew of the Italia crashed, 180 miles (290 km) from
Svalbard. One member of the crew was killed. The ship lurched back into the air with six men still trapped inside the cabin and drifted away, never to be seen again.[35][36][41]
Andy Payne won the first 3,400-mile (5,500 km) coast-to-coast "
Trans-American Footrace", arriving in New York City 84 days after starting in Los Angeles.[44]
Anti-Italian demonstrators in
Belgrade burned Mussolini's portrait as protests of the
Nettuno Convention became increasingly violent. Dispatches from
Zadar reported that Italians attacked Yugoslav residents and burned a picture of
King Alexander.[46]
The
Yugoslav National Assembly was adjourned for a week after opposition members tore the tops off of desks, pounded fists and shouted against the methods of police suppressing anti-Italian demonstrations.[53]
References
^Attribution: Bundesarchiv, Bild 102-05738 / Georg Pahl / CC-BY-SA 3.0
^
abcMercer, Derrik (1989). Chronicle of the 20th Century. London: Chronicle Communications Ltd. pp. 365–366.
ISBN978-0-582-03919-3.
^"Coolidge Pins Flying Crosses On German, Irish Trans-Sea Fliers", Fresno (CA) Bee, May 2, 1928, p. 1
^Akira Iriye, After Imperialism: The Search for a New Order in the Far East, 1921–1931 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1965; reprinted:Chicago: Imprint Publications, 1990): 199–201.
^
abcSchlichtmann, Klaus (2009). Japan in the World: Shidehara Kijūrō, Pacifism, and the Abolition of War. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books. p. 45.
ISBN978-0-7391-3519-8.
^Kabatchnik, Amnon (2010). Blood on the Stage, 1925–1950: Milestone Plays of Crime, Mystery, and Detection. Plymouth: Scarecrow Press. p. 194.
ISBN978-0-8108-6963-9.
^Darrah, David (May 13, 1928). "Italy Ends Its Right to Pick Parliament". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 1.
^Lepsius, M. Rainer. "The Model of Charismatic Leadership and its Applicability to the Rule of Adolf Hitler." Charisma and Fascism. Ed. António Pinto, Roger Eatwell and Stein Ugelvik Larsen. Oxon and New York: Routledge, 2007. p. 41.
ISBN978-1-317-83453-3
^"Wispy Cloud of War Gas Kills 11 in Hamburg". Chicago Daily Tribune. May 22, 1928. p. 3.