Explore 4052 historical events from 1920–1929.
The Colleges of Durham University are residential colleges that are the primary source of accommodation and support services for undergraduates and postgraduates at Durham Universi…
Following a series of similar actions against other sculptures, hundreds of students at Armstrong College in Newcastle…
The Jinan incident or 3 May Tragedy began as a 3 May 1928 dispute between Chiang Kai-shek's National Revolutionary Army (NRA) and Japanese soldiers and civilians in Jinan, the capi…
The Jinan incident begins with the deaths of twelve Japanese civilians by Chinese forces in Jinan, China, which leads to
Sir Charles Edward Kingsford Smith, nicknamed Smithy, was an Australian aviation pioneer. He piloted the first transpacific flight and the first flight between Australia and New Ze…
Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross
Rovaniemi is a city in Finland and the regional capital of Lapland. It is located near the Arctic Circle in the northern interior of the country. The population of Rovaniemi is app…
The Rovaniemi township decree is promulgated, as a result of which Rovaniemi secedes from the old rural municipality as
The president of the Republic of China, also known as the president of Taiwan, is the head of state of the Republic of China (Taiwan), as well as the commander-in-chief of the Repu…
The President of the Republic of China, Zhang Zuolin, is assassinated by Japanese agents
The Northern Expedition was a military campaign launched by the National Revolutionary Army (NRA) of the Kuomintang (KMT) against the Beiyang government and other regional warlords…
Second Northern Expedition: The National Revolutionary Army captures Beijing, whose name is changed to Beiping ("Norther
An aircraft pilot, or aviator, is an individual who controls an aircraft's flight by operating its directional controls. Other aircrew members, such as navigators and flight engine…
Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she is a passenger; Wilm
Juan de la Cierva y Codorníu, 1st Count of la Cierva, was a Spanish civil engineer, pilot and a self-taught aeronautical engineer. His most famous accomplishment was the invention …
Juan de la Cierva makes the first Autogyro crossing of the English Channel.
Richard Lane, commonly known as Dick "Night Train" Lane, was an American professional football cornerback who played for 14 years in the National Football League (NFL). He played f…
Night Train Lane, American football player (died 2002)
Victor Aubrey Lownes III was an executive for HMH Publishing Company Inc., later known as Playboy Enterprises, from 1955 through the early 1980s. Soon after he met Hugh Hefner in 1…
Victor Lownes, American businessman (died 2017)
Sliced bread is a loaf of bread, sliced with a machine and packaged for convenience, as opposed to the consumer cutting it with a knife. It was first sold in 1928, advertised as "t…
Sliced bread is sold for the first time (on the inventor's 48th birthday) by the Chillicothe Baking Company of…
The Kellogg–Briand Pact or Pact of Paris is a 1928 international agreement on peace in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve "disputes or conflicts of whatever …
The Kellogg–Briand Pact outlawing war is signed by fifteen nations. Ultimately sixty-one nations will sign it.
The Okeechobee hurricane of 1928, also known as the San Felipe Segundo hurricane and Florida's Forgotten Storm, was one of the deadliest hurricanes in the recorded history of the N…
The Okeechobee hurricane strikes southeastern Florida, killing more than 2,500 people.
The Republic of China established its governance over Mainland China on 1 January 1912 following the Xinhai Revolution, which overthrew the Manchu-led Qing dynasty and ended China'…
The Republic of China is recognized by the United States.
Cynthia Ozick is an American short story writer, novelist, and essayist.
Cynthia Ozick, American short story writer, novelist, and essayist
Heinz Putzl is an Austrian former fencer. He competed at the 1948 and 1952 Summer Olympics.
Heinz Putzl, Austrian fencer
Fabien Roy was a Canadian politician who was active in Quebec in the 1970s. Roy was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec and the House of Commons of Canada, and advocated soc…
Fabien Roy, Canadian accountant and politician (died 2023)
Karl Josef Becker S.J. was a German Catholic theologian and consultor for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith since 15 September 1977. He taught at the Pontifical Gregor…
Karl Josef Becker, German cardinal and theologian (died 2015)
Otto Piene was a German-American artist specializing in kinetic and technology-based art, often working collaboratively. He lived and worked in Düsseldorf, Germany; Cambridge, Mass…
Otto Piene, German sculptor and academic (died 2014)
Sir Alexander Fleming was a Scottish physician and microbiologist. He shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Howard Florey and Ernst Chain "for the discovery of…
Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as…
The first five-year plan of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a list of economic goals, implemented by Communist Party General Secretary Joseph Stalin, based on hi…
The Soviet Union introduces its first five-year plan.
Newark Liberty International Airport is an international airport in the U.S. state of New Jersey, serving the New York metropolitan area. The airport is located in both Newark and …
Newark Liberty International Airport opens, becoming the first airport in the New York City metro area.
Opus Dei is a personal prelature of the Catholic Church founded in Spain on 2 October 1928 by Josemaría Escrivá. The prelature states that it helps lay and clerical members pursue …
The "Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of God", commonly known as Opus Dei, is founded.
Chiang Kai-shek was a Chinese military commander, revolutionary, and statesman who was the president of the Republic of China from 1948 to 1975 and the head of the Nationalist gove…
Chiang Kai-shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China.