Events Date 1928 October | History by KabAstro

Paavo Nurmi World Records

Oct 1 Finnish distance runner Paavo Nurmi runs 15k world record 46:49.6 and 10 miles 50:15.0 in Berlin, Germany

Runner nicknamed the Flying Finn Paavo Nurmi

Oct 1 Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) opens in the Westchester section of Los Angeles California
Oct 1 USSR launches its first 5-year plan
Oct 2 "Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of God", known as Opus Dei, founded by Catholic priest Josemaría Escrivá in Madrid, Spain
Oct 3 French submarine "Ondine" sinks returning to Toulon, drowning 42
Oct 4 KPD begins petition against Germany building a battle fleet

PGA Championship

Oct 6 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Five Farms CC: Leo Diegel dominates Al Espinosa, 6 & 5 in the final to win the first of his 2 consecutive titles

Golfer and Two-Time PGA Champion Leo Diegel

Tito Imprisoned

Oct 6 Yugoslav revolutionary Josip Broz Tito is convicted after police find bombs in his apartment and sentenced to 5 years in jail

President of Yugoslavia and Revolutionary Josip Broz Tito

Oct 7 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 10 miles (50:15.0)
Oct 7 Race Tafari Makonnen crowned King of Abyssinia

Paris

Oct 8 Cole Porter and E. Ray Goetz' musical "Paris" opens at the Music Box Theater, NYC; runs for 195 performances

Oct 8 Joseph Szigeti debuts Alfredo Casella's Violin Concerto

World Series

Oct 9 Baseball World Series: NY Yankees beat St. Louis Cardinals, 7-3 at Sportsman's Park to become first to sweep consecutive World Series; Babe Ruth hits smashes 3 HRs for Yanks

Oct 9 Marcel Pagnol's play "Topaze" premieres in Paris

Chiang Kai-shek Rises to Power

Oct 10 Chiang Kai-shek becomes Director of the State Council of China

Chinese Military and Political Leader Chiang Kai-shek

Oct 12 1st use of iron lung (Boston's Children Hospital)

The Age of Zeppelins

Oct 15 German dirigible "Graf Zeppelin" lands in Lakehurst, New Jersey

The Hindenburg bursts into flames as it approaches its mooring mast. Thirty-six people died.

Johnson Signs for Senators

Oct 15 Walter Johnson signs a 3-year contract to manage the Senators

Mickey Cochrane

Oct 16 Mickey Cochrane wins AL MVP honors, edging Heinie Manush by 2 points

Wien Alaska Airways

Oct 20 Wien Alaska Airways, Inc. incorporated; the first airline in Alaska and one of the 1st in the US with Noel Wien as president

Oct 22 China expels all Russian instructors & civil servants
Oct 22 ESL Robinson's "Far-Off Hills" premieres in Dublin

Rugged Individualism

Oct 22 Herbert Hoover speaks of "American system of rugged individualism"

Oct 22 Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity is founded at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus.
Oct 28 Indian freedom fighter Lala Lajpat Rai injured leading silent protest against visiting British commission in Lahore (dies of injuries 17th November)
Oct 28 Indonesian child laws enforced in Bahasa Indonesia