Timeline February 1928

Events in February 1928 11

• 1852 – 1928 H. H. Asquith (1852-1928) Died 15 February 1928, aged 75 Liberal Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916. His government passed the Parliament Act 1911 and old-age pensions, and it took Britain into the First World War. He was created Earl of Oxford and Asquith in 1925.
• 1853 – 1928 Hendrik Lorentz (1853-1928) Died 4 February 1928, aged 74 Dutch physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics for work on the Zeeman effect. The Lorentz transformation equations became central to Einstein's special relativity. He also led the engineering studies for the Zuiderzee Works.
• 1928 Dirac equation published Relativistic wave equation for the electron Paul Dirac published a relativistic quantum equation for the electron in the Proceedings of the Royal Society. The equation accounted for electron spin and predicted the existence of antimatter. The positron was discovered in 1932.
• 1928 Simon Commission arrives in India All-British constitutional commission meets nationwide boycott The Indian Statutory Commission under Sir John Simon landed in Bombay to review India's constitution. It had no Indian members, and it met hartals and "Simon Go Back" protests across the country. A police charge on a protest in Lahore fatally injured Lala Lajpat Rai.
• 1928 First transatlantic television transmission John Logie Baird sends images from London to New York John Logie Baird transmitted television images by shortwave radio from London to Hartsdale, New York. It was the first transatlantic television broadcast. The demonstration drew wide press attention to mechanical television.
• 1928 1928 Winter Olympics II Winter Games - St. Moritz First games held in a different nation than the Summer Games. Winner: Norway.
• 1928 Japanese general election First election under universal male suffrage Japan held its first general election after the 1925 law extending the vote to all men aged 25 and over. The Rikken Seiyukai won the most seats by a narrow margin. Several proletarian party candidates entered the Diet, which led to a mass arrest of communists weeks later.
• 1928 – 2014 Ariel Sharon (1928-2014) Died 11 January 2014, aged 85 Ariel Sharon, the Israeli general and prime minister who withdrew Israeli settlers from Gaza in 2005, died in Israel after eight years in a coma following a stroke. He was a dominant and divisive figure in Israeli politics and military history for decades. His coma began in 2006 while still in office.
• 1928 – 2017 Fats Domino (1928-2017) Died 24 October 2017, aged 89 American pianist and singer who was one of the first stars of rock and roll, selling more records in the 1950s than any artist besides Elvis Presley. His hits included "Blueberry Hill" and "Ain't That a Shame." He remained closely associated with his native New Orleans throughout his life.
• 1928 Fats Domino born in New Orleans Antoine Domino Jr. Grows up in the Lower Ninth Ward.
• 1928 Raman effect discovered C. V. Raman observes inelastic scattering of light In Calcutta, C. V. Raman and K. S. Krishnan found that light scattered by a substance includes wavelengths shifted from the incident light. The discovery earned Raman the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics. India marks the date as National Science Day.