August 1928
The following events occurred in August 1928: Wednesday, August 1, 1928 Croatian deputies withdrew from the Yugoslavian National Assembly and set up a separatist parliament in Zagreb. They said that they would not recognize any decisions made in Yugoslavian parliament as binding in Croatia. Thursday, August 2, 1928 Italy and Ethiopia signed a friendship treaty. The South Indian Railway Strike ended. Friday, August 3, 1928 The Easter Act was among many bills granted Royal Assent in Britain. The act fixed the date of Easter as the Sunday following the second Saturday of April. No government has ever followed up by issuing the implementation order, but the legislation has never been repealed. Born: Henning Moritzen, film actor, in Tårbæk, Denmark (d. 2012) Died: Jovan Avakumović, 87, President of the Ministry of Serbia 1892–1893 Saturday, August 4, 1928 A volcanic eruption occurred at Paluweh in the Dutch East Indies, causing a tsunami that killed at least 160 people and affecting the global climate. A group of 11,000 Britons conducted a pilgrimage to the battlefields of northern France on the fourteenth anniversary of the British declaration of war on Germany. The anniversary was marked in Berlin with a huge anti-war demonstration organized by