Timeline December 1928

Events in December 1928 8

• 1868 – 1928 Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928) Died 10 December 1928, aged 60 Scottish architect and designer, a leading figure of the Glasgow Style. His best-known building is the Glasgow School of Art. His furniture and interiors influenced European modernism.
• 1925 – 1928 Hot Five and Hot Seven -- the greatest recordings in jazz Between November 1925 and December 1928, Armstrong records 65 tracks for Okeh Records under the names the Hot Five and the Hot Seven -- the most important series of recordings in jazz history. These studio-only ensembles (Armstrong's regular performing band at the time was different) include Kid Ory, Johnny Dodds, Earl Hines and Zutty Singleton. The recordings document jazz's transformation from collective improvisation (New Orleans style) to soloist-driven music centred on Armstrong's trumpet. 'Cornet Chop Suey,' 'Potato Head Blues,' 'West End Blues' and 'Weather Bird' are defining masterpieces.
• 1928 Banana Massacre Colombian troops fire on striking United Fruit workers Colombian soldiers opened fire on striking United Fruit Company workers gathered in the town square of Cienaga. Estimates of the dead range from dozens to more than a thousand. The massacre is fictionalised in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude.
• 1928 – 2024 Bruce Ames (1928-2024) Died 5 October 2024, aged 95 American biochemist who developed the Ames test for chemical mutagens.
• 1928 – 1982 Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) Died 2 March 1982, aged 53 American science fiction author whose novels inspired the film Blade Runner. He died of heart failure following a stroke, months before the film's release.
• 1928 Northeast Flag Replacement Manchuria submits to the Nationalist government Zhang Xueliang raised the Nationalist flag across Manchuria and pledged allegiance to the Nanjing government. The move nominally reunified China under the Kuomintang. It ended the Northern Expedition and the Beiyang era.
• 1928 – 2008 Bo Diddley (1928-2008) Died 2 June 2008, aged 79 American singer and guitarist whose rhythmic "Bo Diddley beat" became a foundational building block of rock and roll. He influenced generations of musicians from Buddy Holly to the Rolling Stones.
• 1928 Bo Diddley born in McComb, Mississippi Ellas Otha Bates Raised in Chicago by his mother's cousin, taking the name McDaniel.