May 1928 in History

Events in History

May 7 Pulitzer prize awarded to Thornton Wilder for "Bridge of San Luis Rey"

May 12 Benito Mussolini announces moves to end women's suffrage in a speech to the Senate in Italy

May 12 Second Opium Law introduced - international law to control drugs
May 14 John McGraw is knocked down by a taxicab & suffers a broken leg
May 19 "Firedamp" explodes in Mather coal mine, Pennsylvania, killing 195 of 273 miners
May 19 51 frogs enter 1st annual "Frog Jumping Jubilee" (Angel's Camp, California)
May 22 US Congress accept Jones-White Merchant Naval Act
May 23 Bomb attack on Italian embassy in Buenos Aires, 22 die
May 24 Italian aviator Umberto Nobile flies airship Italia over North Pole again (crashes onto ice pack a day later)

May 28 Dodge Brothers Inc and Chrysler Corporation merge

May 4 Egyptian president (1981-2011) who was ousted during the Arab spring, born in Kafr-El Meselha, Egypt

May 6 Robert Poujade, French politician (Mayor of Dijon 1971-2001), born in Moulins, France
May 7 Marvin Mitchelson, American celebrity attorney, born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 2004)
May 8 Theodore Sorenson, American presidential advisor to JFK and author (Kennedy), born in Lincoln, Nebraska (d. 2010)
May 9 Ralph Goings, American painter
May 10 Arnold Rüütel, Estonian president
May 11 Brother Andrew, Dutch missionary
May 11 Yaacov Agam, Israeli sculptor
May 12 Manuel Lujan Jr, American politician (Rep-R-NM, 1969-89), born in San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico (d. 2019)
May 13 Enrique Bolaños, President of Nicaragua (2002-07), born in Masaya, Nicaragua (d. 2021)
May 13 Jim Shoulders, American champion rodeo cowboy, born in Tulsa, Oklahoma (d. 2007)
May 14 Frederik H. Kreuger, Dutch scientist and inventor
May 16 Hiroshi Nakajima, Japanese physician and medical researcher (WHO Director-General, 1988-98), born in Chiba, Japan (d. 2013)
May 16 Reginald Askew, dean (King's College London)
May 17 Donald Cameron Watt, historian
May 17 Ian Griggs, bishop (Ludlow)
May 17 Vivian Moses, biotechnologist
May 18 Peter Hammersley, British Rear-Admiral who served on submarines, born in Stoke-on-Trent, England (d. 2020)
May 19 Colin Chapman, English automotive engineer and founder of Lotus Cars, born in Richmond (d. 1982)
May 20 David Berriman, CEO (Rose Thomson Young group of Lloyds Trustees)

May 22 American business person and oil tycoon (Shamrock, Mesa Petroleum Co) known as the 'Oracle of Oil', born in Holdenville, Oklahoma

May 24 Peter Griffiths, British politician (C), controversially won his seat (1964), born in West Bromwich, Staffordshire (d. 2013)
May 24 William Trevor, Irish writer (Children of Dynmouth, Fools of Fortune), born in Mitchelstown, Ireland (d. 2016)
May 25 Mary Tuck, British social researcher and civil servant (d. 1996)

May 26 American pathologist and right-to-die activist, born in Pontiac, Michigan

May 28 Albert Booth, British government minister
May 29 Felix Rohatyn, American investment banker (NY Big MAC Bonds), born in Vienna, Austria
May 30 Agnès Varda, Belgium-born French director (Vagabond), born in Ixelles, Belgium (d. 2019)
May 30 John Keith Wright, English economist, Assistant Secretary of State (1971-84)
May 30 Pro Hart, Australian artist (d. 2006)

May 1 Ebenezer Howard, English founder of the garden city movement and author (To-Morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform), dies at 78
May 4 Barry Pain, English writer (Punch), dies at 63
May 16 Edmund Gosse, English poet, author (Father & Son) and critic, dies at 78
May 19 Max Scheler, German philosopher, dies at 53
May 22 William HT Gairdner, Engl missionary (Nile Mission Press), dies at 54
May 28 Charles Edward Montague, English journalist and author (Fiery Particles), dies at 61
May 31 Ludwig Enneccerus, German politician and legal scholar, dies at 85
May 31 Manuel de Oliveira Lima, Brazilian historian, dies at 60