Timeline September 1928

Events in September 1928 9

• 1861 – 1928 Italo Svevo (1861-1928) Died 13 September 1928, aged 66 Italian novelist from Trieste, author of Zeno's Conscience. He gained recognition late in life, partly through the advocacy of his friend James Joyce. He died after a car accident.
• 1928 Zog I proclaimed King of the Albanians Albania becomes a kingdom President Ahmet Zogu declared Albania a monarchy and took the throne as Zog I. He ruled until the Italian invasion of 1939. The kingdom depended heavily on Italian loans and influence.
• 1928 Okeechobee hurricane Category 4 storm devastates Puerto Rico and Florida A powerful hurricane hit Guadeloupe, Puerto Rico and the Bahamas, and then made landfall near West Palm Beach, Florida. Storm surge from Lake Okeechobee drowned about 2,500 people in Florida, most of them Black migrant farm workers. It prompted the construction of the Herbert Hoover Dike.
• 1928 – 1998 Roddy McDowall (1928-1998) English-American actor, a child star of How Green Was My Valley, later Cornelius in Planet of the Apes.
• 1928 Roddy McDowall born in London Roddy McDowall is born in London.
• 1928 – 2017 Adam West (1928-2017) Died 9 June 2017, aged 88 American actor best known for playing the title role in the 1960s television series Batman, a campy portrayal that became iconic. He later found a new generation of fans voicing Mayor Adam West on Family Guy. He died of leukemia.
• 1928 – 2024 James Lawson (1928-2024) Died 9 June 2024, aged 95 American civil rights activist who devised the movement's strategy of nonviolent direct action.
• 1928 Galvin Manufacturing Corporation founded The company later known as Motorola is established Brothers Paul and Joseph Galvin founded the Galvin Manufacturing Corporation in Chicago to make battery eliminators for radios. The company introduced the Motorola car radio in 1930. It took the Motorola name in 1947.
• 1928 – 2016 Elie Wiesel (1928-2016) Died 2 July 2016, aged 87 Wiesel was a Romanian-born American writer and Holocaust survivor whose memoir Night became one of the most widely read accounts of the Holocaust. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 for his work as a human rights advocate. He testified before Congress and world leaders on genocide and human rights throughout his life.