Editing 1928 (section)

===May===
{{Main|May 1928}}
* [[May 3]] – [[Jinan incident]]: An armed conflict between the [[Imperial Japanese Army]] (allied with Northern Chinese warlords) and the [[Kuomintang]]'s southern army occurs in [[Jinan]], China.
* [[May 7]] – Passage of the [[Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Act 1928|Representation of the People Act]] in the United Kingdom lowers the voting age for women from 30 to 21, giving them equal suffrage with men from [[July 2]].<ref name="Pocket On This Day">{{cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-14-102715-0|year=2006}}</ref>
* [[May 10]] – The first regular schedule of television programming begins in [[Schenectady, New York]], by [[General Electric]]'s television station [[W2XB]] (the station is popularly known as WGY Television, after its sister radio station [[WGY (AM)|WGY]]).
* [[May 15]] – The [[Animation|animated short]] ''[[Plane Crazy]]'' is released by [[Walt Disney Pictures|Disney Studios]] in Los Angeles, featuring the first appearances of [[Mickey Mouse|Mickey]] and [[Minnie Mouse]] (in a non-distributed film).
* [[May 23]] – A bomb attack against the Italian consulate in [[Buenos Aires]], Argentina, kills 22 and injures 43.<ref>{{cite book|title=Annual Register|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GhNdAAAAIAAJ|year=1929|publisher=J. Dodsley|page=291}}</ref>
* [[May 24]] – The [[Airship Italia|airship ''Italia'']] crashes at the [[North Pole]]; one of the occupants is Italian general [[Umberto Nobile]]. A rescue expedition leaves for the Pole on [[May 30]]. [[Roald Amundsen]] will be among those who lose their lives in the search for survivors.
* [[May 30]] – Rookie driver [[Louis Meyer]] wins his first [[Indianapolis 500]] (he will win that race again, in [[1933]] and [[1936]]).
[[File:Flag of South Africa (1928–1994).svg|thumb|120px|Flag of South Africa from 1928 to 1994]]
* [[May 31]] – South Africa adopts a [[Flag of South Africa (1928–1994)|new national flag]], based upon the Van Riebeeck flag or Prinsevlag (originally the Dutch flag), to replace the [[Red Ensign]]. It later became infamously known as the "apartheid flag" for being the flag of South Africa under [[Apartheid]] from 1948 to 1994.