Timeline August 1928

Events in August 1928 10

• 1854 – 1928 Leos Janacek (1854-1928) Died 12 August 1928, aged 74 Czech composer whose operas include Jenufa, Katya Kabanova and The Cunning Little Vixen. He based much of his music on the rhythms of Moravian folk song and speech. Most of his best-known works date from his last decade.
• 1864 – 1928 Wilhelm Wien (1864-1928) Died 30 August 1928, aged 64 German physicist who won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Physics for his laws of heat radiation. Wien's displacement law relates the temperature of a black body to its peak wavelength. His work led toward Planck's quantum theory.
• 1871 – 1928 Stjepan Radic (1871-1928) Died 8 August 1928, aged 57 Croatian politician who founded and led the Croatian Peasant Party. He was the main opponent of Serbian centralism in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. He died of wounds from a shooting in the Belgrade parliament.
• 1928 1928 Summer Olympics IX Olympiad - Amsterdam First time the Olympic flame was lit. Winner: USA.
• 1928 US Championships 1928 Men: Henri Cochet · Women: Helen Wills
• 1928 – 1987 Andy Warhol Pop Art · USA Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American Pop Art artist who blurred the line between fine art and commercial culture. His Campbell's Soup Cans and Marilyn Monroe prints made him the defining artist of the 1960s.
• 1928 – 2024 Herbert Kroemer (1928-2024) Died 8 March 2024, aged 95 German-born physicist who shared the 2000 Nobel Prize for Physics for semiconductor heterostructures.
• 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact signed Nations renounce war as an instrument of national policy The General Treaty for Renunciation of War was signed in Paris by fifteen nations, led by the United States and France. It was named after US Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg and French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand. The pact later provided a legal basis for the crimes-against-peace charges at the Nuremberg trials.
• 1928 – 2002 James Coburn (1928-2002) Died 18 November 2002, aged 74 James Coburn was a lean, grinning American actor who broke through in ensemble westerns and war films such as The Magnificent Seven and The Great Escape before leading roles in the 1960s spy spoofs beginning with Our Man Flint. Severe rheumatoid arthritis limited his work for years. He won a supporting-actor Oscar late in life for Affliction in 1999.
• 1928 The Threepenny Opera premieres Brecht and Weill's play with music opens in Berlin Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's Die Dreigroschenoper opened at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin. It became one of the biggest theatrical hits of the Weimar Republic. Its song "Mack the Knife" became a standard worldwide.