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By Barry Boyce, CyclingRevealed
Historian |
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| Date |
Race |
Winner |
Distance |
| March
25, 1928 |
Milan-San
Remo |
Costante
Girardengo (Ita) |
287
km |
| March
25, 1928 |
Tour
of Flanders |
Jan
Mertens (Bel) |
225
km |
| April
8, 1928 |
Paris-Roubaix |
Andre
Leducq (Fra) |
260
km |
| May
13, 1928 |
Liege-Bastogne-Liege |
Ernest
Mottard (Bel) |
231
km |
| May
12-June 3, 1928 |
Giro
d'Italia |
Alfredo
Binda (Ita) |
12 Stages,
3,042 km |
| June
17-July 15, 1928 |
Tour
de France |
Nicholas
Frantz (Lux) |
22 Stages,
5,476 km |
| August 16, 1928 |
World
Championships |
George
Ronsse (Bel) |
Budapest,
Hungary, 192 km |
| November 3, 1928 |
Giro
di Lombardia |
Gaetano
Belloni (Ita) |
Milan-Milan,
248 km |
- England - Women were given the right to vote.
- Television - May 11, 1928, the first regularly schedule TV program was
aired by General
Electric. The programming was transmitted Tuesday, Thursday
and Friday from 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM.
- New
York City - RCA established the first television station, W2XBS.
- Olympic
Games 1928 - the games of Amsterdam were notable for being
the first Games to allow women to compete in track
and field.
- Music - Maurice Ravel composed his magical Bolero.
Notable
Deaths-
Alvin Christian Kraenzlein, 1876-1928, was an American
athlete
who won four Olympic titles in a single Olympics. At the
1900
Summer Olympics in Paris he won the four titles in the 60m, the 110m hurdles,
the
200m hurdles and the long jump. As of 2004 he is still the only
track and field athlete to have done so in four individual
events.
1927
1929
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