Today in History for Year 1938

Months in Year 1938: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 324

Jan 2nd - Book publisher Simon and Schuster founded
Jan 3rd - March of Dimes established to fight polio
Jan 6th - Bronze memorial statue of Henry Hudson erected in Bronx
Jan 8th - Bradman scores 107 for South Australia v Qld (1st innings)
Jan 10th - Eduard van Beinum becomes world's 1st conductor at Concert Hall
Jan 10th - Jean Anouilh's "La Sauvage," premieres in Paris
Jan 10th - Paul Vincent Carroll's "White Seed," premieres in NYC
Jan 11th - Bradman scores a second innings 113 v Qld after a ton in the 1st
Jan 11th - Frances Moulton elected 1st woman president of a US national bank
Jan 13th - The Church of England accepts the theory of evolution.
Jan 14th - National Society for Legalization of Euthanasia forms (NY)
Jan 16th - 1st jazz concert was held at Carnegie Hall (Benny Goodman)
Jan 17th - Supreme Soviet elects Michail Kalinin as presidium chairman
Jan 18th - Bradman scores 104* for South Australia v NSW at the SCG
Jan 18th - Pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander is elected to Hall of Fame
Jan 19th - General Motors begins mass production of diesel engines
Jan 21st - Dutch government starts obligatory unemployment insurance
Jan 22nd - "Our Town," Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer-winner of small-town life in Grover's Corners, NH, premieres (NJ)
Jan 25th - Ian Hay's "Bachelor Born," premieres in NYC
Feb 3rd - Paul Osborn's "On Borrowed Time," premieres in NYC
Feb 4th - "Our Town," by Thornton Wilder opens on Broadway
Feb 4th - Hitler seizes control of German army & puts Nazi in key posts
Feb 5th - Hans Engnestangen skates world record 500m (41.8 sec)
Feb 10th - King Carol II of Romania drives out dictator Goga
Feb 11th - Steve Casey beats Lou Thesz in Boston, to become wrestling champ
Feb 12th - Austrian chancellor Schuschnigg visits Hitler in Berchtesgaden
Feb 12th - German troops entered Austria
Feb 16th - US Federal Crop Insurance program authorized
Feb 17th - 1st public experimental demonstration of Baird color TV (London)
Feb 19th - Soviet arctic ice research station North Pole 1 evacuated, Denmark
Feb 20th - UK Foreign Sec Eden resigns, says PM Chamberlain appeased Germany
Feb 23rd - Joe Louis KOs Nathan Mann in 3 for heavyweight boxing title
Feb 24th - Du Pont begins commercial production of nylon toothbrush bristles
Feb 25th - British Lord Halifax becomes Foreign Minister
Feb 26th - 1st passenger ship equipped with radar
Feb 26th - Rie Van Veen swims world record 200m free style (2:24.6)
Feb 26th - US female Figure Skating championship won by Joan Tozzer
Feb 26th - US male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee
Spanish Dictator Francisco Franco Feb 27th - Britain & France recognize Franco government in Spain
Mar 2nd - Landslides & floods cause over 200 deaths (LA California)
Mar 2nd - Trials of Soviet leaders begins in the Soviet Union
Mar 3rd - American Bowling Congress' largest tournament (24,765 competitors)
Mar 11th - Artur Seyss-Inquart replaces Kurt von Schuschnigg as Chancellor of Austria; German troops also entered the country
Mar 12th - Nazi Germany invades Austria (Anschluss)
Mar 13th - Anschluá-Austria annexed by Nazi Germany
Mar 13th - World News Roundup is broadcast for the first time on CBS Radio in the United States.
Mar 16th - Noel Coward's musical "Operette," premieres in London
Mar 16th - Temple defeats Colorado to win 1st NIT
Mar 18th - Mexico takes control of foreign-owned oil properties
Mar 18th - NY 1st requires serological blood tests of pregnant women
Mar 18th - Pres Cardena of Mexico nationalizes US & British oil companies
Mar 19th - Toronto Maple Leafs score 8 goals in 5 minutes
Mar 23rd - Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis frees 74 St L Cardinals minor leaguers
Mar 25th - 1st US bred and owned horse (Battleship) to win British Grand National Steeplechase
Mar 26th - NBC radio performance of Howard Hanson's 3rd Symphony
Mar 27th - The Battle of Taierzhuang takes place.
Apr 1st - Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, NY
Apr 1st - Joe Louis KOs Harry Thomas in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
Apr 4th - 5th Golf Masters Championship: Henry Picard wins, shooting a 285
Apr 5th - Anti-Jewish riots break out in Dabrowa Poland
Apr 6th - Teflon invented by Roy J Plunkett
Apr 10th - 2nd government of Blum replaced by Daladier government in France
Apr 10th - Austria becomes a state of Germany
Apr 10th - NY makes syphilis test mandatory in order to get a marriage license
Apr 12th - 1st US law requiring medical tests for marriage licenses (NY)
Apr 12th - Stanley Cup: Chicago Blackhawks beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 3 games to 1
Apr 12th - US began requiring medical tests for marriage licenses
Apr 13th - Clifford Goldsmith' "What a Life," premieres in NYC
Apr 16th - Great-Britain recognizes Italian annexation of Abyssinia
Apr 18th - Headless Mad Butcher victim found in Cleveland
Apr 19th - 42nd Boston Marathon won by Leslie Pawson of RI in 2:35:34.8
Apr 19th - Phil Emmett Mueller & Dodger Ernie Koy both homer in their 1st at bat
Apr 23rd - Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia demand self government
Apr 24th - Lindenheuvel soccer team forms
Apr 26th - Austrian Jews required to register property above 5,000 Reichsmarks
Apr 30th - Bradman scores 258 Aust v Worcs, 293 mins, 33 fours 1 five
Apr 30th - The first televised FA Cup Final takes place between Huddersfield Town and Preston North End.
Jazz Singer Ella Fitzgerald May 2nd - Ella Fitzgerald records "A-Tisket, A-Tasket"
May 2nd - Pulitzer prize awarded to Thornton Wilder (Our Town)
May 3rd - Concentration camp at Flossenburg goes into use
May 3rd - Lefty Grove defeats Tigers 4-3 for 1st of record 20 consecutive wins at his home field Fenway Park; he doesn't lose there until May 12 1941
May 3rd - Vatican recognizes Franco-Spain
May 4th - Douglas Hyde (a protestant) becomes 1st president of Eire
May 5th - Phillies Harold Kelleher faces 16 batters in 6th, as Cubs score 12 runs, both marks are NL records off one hurler in a single inning
May 6th - Dutch writer Maurits Dekker sentenced to 50 days for "offending a friendly head of state" (Hitler)
May 7th - 64th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Lawrin wins in 2:04.8
May 7th - Dutch Minister of Justice Goseling calls fugitives of nazi-Germany "undesired strangers"
May 8th - Stravinsky's "Dumbarton Oaks," premieres in Washington, DC
May 10th - Banning speech on anti-fascism demonstration in Amsterdam
May 12th - Sandoz Labs manufactures LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide)
May 14th - 64th Preakness: Maurice Peters aboard Dauber wins in 1:59.8
May 14th - English soccer team beats Nazi-Germany, 6-3
May 15th - Paul-Henri Spak forms red coalition of Belgium
May 16th - 1st animal breeding society forms (NJ)
May 16th - 38 die in Terminal Hotel fire (Atlanta Ga)
May 16th - In cricket Bradman scores 278 Aust v MCC, 349 mins, 35 fours 1 six
May 17th - Congress approves Vinson Naval Act, which funds a two-ocean navy
May 17th - Radio quiz show "Information Please!" debuts on NBC Blue Network
May 21st - Bradman scores 143 Aust v Surrey, 198 mins, 11 fours
May 22nd - Dodgers announce contracts to install lights at Ebbets Field

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 701

Jan 1st - Bill Emerson, (Rep-R-MO, 1981- )
Jan 1st - Robert Jankel, British coachbuilder (d. 2005)
Jan 2nd - John Considine, actor (Reginald Love-Another World)
Jan 2nd - Ian Brady, British serial killer
Jan 2nd - Hans Herbjørnsrud, Norwegian author
Jan 4th - Louis Krebs Graham, Nashville TN, PGA golfer (1975 US Open)
Jan 5th - Edwin Elliason, Washington, US archer (Olympic-92)
Jan 5th - Jim Otto, NFL center (Oakland Raiders)
Jan 5th - Juan Carlos I, king of Spain (1975- )
Jan 5th - Leo Avery, abbot of Quarr
Jan 5th - Piet Kruiver, Dutch soccer star
Jan 5th - Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Kenyan writer
Jan 6th - Adriano Celentano, Italian singer and actor
Jan 6th - Prof Adrienne Clarke, Australian botanist, Lieutenant Governor of Victoria
Jan 6th - Mario Rodríguez Cobos "Silo", Argentine writer and spiritual leader
Jan 7th - Jasperina de Jong, Dutch cabaret performer (Jan Rao en z'n Maat)
Jan 7th - Paul Revere, Harvard Nebraska, pianist (Paul Revere & Raiders)
Jan 7th - Roland Topor, French illustrator (d. 1997)
Jan 8th - Bob Eubanks, Flint Mich, TV host (Newlywed Game)
Jan 9th - Aad Kosto, Dutch theologist/actor/asst secretary of Justice
Jan 10th - Francis W "Frank" Mahovlich, Canadian ice hockey player
Jan 10th - Frank Mahovlich, NHL Hall of Famer (Mont Canadians)
Jan 10th - Ivan Twigden, English contractor/multi-millionaire (Twigden PLC)
Jan 10th - Willie "Stretch" McCovey, 1st baseman (SF Giant #44)
Jan 10th - Donald Knuth, American mathematician and computer scientist
Jan 11th - Fischer S Black Jr, financial theorist
Jan 11th - Michael Fenn, docker/socialist
Jan 11th - Arthur Scargill, Socialist Labour Party (UK) leader
Jan 12th - Lewis Fiander, Australian actor
Jan 13th - Billy Gray, LA California, actor (Bud-Father Knows Best)
Jan 13th - Paavo Johannes Heininen, composer
Jan 13th - William B. Davis, Canadian actor
Jan 13th - Tord Grip, Swedish football manager
Jan 14th - Allen Toussaint, [Naomi Neville], pianist/songwriter (Ride Your Pony)
Jan 14th - Jack Jones, LA California, singer (Love Boat Theme)
Jan 15th - Chuni Goswami, Indian footballer and cricketer
Jan 16th - Michael Pataki, Youngstown Ohio, actor (Get Christie Love)
Jan 16th - Jô Soares, Brazilian author, musician and TV personality
Jan 17th - John Bellairs, US, sci-fi author (Chessmen of Doom)
Jan 18th - Curt Flood, American baseball player (d. 1997)
Jan 19th - Denny Smith, (Rep-R-OR, 1981- )
Jan 19th - Eskil Hemberg, composer
Jan 19th - Phil Everly, Brownie Ky, singer (Everly Bros-Wake Up Little Susie)
Jan 20th - William Berger, Austrian actor (d. 1993)
Jan 21st - Wolfman Jack, [Bob Smith], Bkln NY, DJ (Midnight Special)
Jan 21st - John Savident, British actor
Jan 22nd - Altair, Brazilian footballer
Jan 23rd - Anatoly Marchenko, Siberia, Soviet dissident
Jan 23rd - Shohei Baba, Japanese professional wrestler (d. 1999)
Jan 24th - Julius Arthur Hemphill, saxophonist
Jan 25th - Betico Croes, Arubian politician (Status Aparte)
Jan 25th - Etta James [Jamesette Hawkins], Los Angeles, California, singer (Roll with Me, At Last), (d. 2012)
Jan 25th - Shotaro Ishinomori, Japanese manga author (d. 1998)
Jan 25th - Leiji Matsumoto, sJapanese creator of anime.
Jan 26th - Margaret Daly, British MEP
Jan 27th - Kim Gardner, rocker (Byrds)
Jan 27th - Timothy Elworthy, Captain of The Queen's Flight
Jan 28th - Leonid Zhabotynsky, Ukrainian weightlifter
Jan 29th - Bill Christian, US, ice hockey player (Olympic-gold-1960)
Jan 30th - Marcel P A van Dam, Dutch politician/CEO (VARA Radio/TV)
Jan 30th - Marlies van Alcmaer, [Smal], Dutch actress/director (Bridge too Far)
Jan 30th - Islom Karimov, President of Uzbekistan
Jan 31st - Ajip Rosidi, Indonesian poet/writer (Madjalah Sunda, Pesta)
Jan 31st - Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard, queen of Netherlands (1980- )
Jan 31st - James G Watt, Colo, US Secretary of Interior (1981-83)
Feb 1st - Jacky Cupit, golfer (Rookie of Year 1961)
Feb 1st - Jimmy Carl Black, rocker (Mothers Of Invention)
Feb 1st - Sherman Hemsley, Phila, actor (All in the Family, Jeffersons, Amen), (d. 2012)
Feb 3rd - Victor Buono, SD California, actor (Man from Atlantis, Untouchables)
Feb 3rd - Vladimir Grigoryevich Fartushny, Russia, cosmonaut
Feb 3rd - Emile Griffith, US Virgin Islands professional boxer
Feb 4th - Donald W Riegle Jr, (Sen-D-MI, 1976- )
Feb 5th - Dick van Niehoff, Dutch vocalist (Fouryo)
Feb 6th - Ellsworth Milburn, composer
Feb 7th - Juan Pizarro, baseball player
Feb 7th - Robert Frank Baksa, composer
Feb 7th - S. Ramachandran Pillai, Indian communist leader
Feb 8th - Ray Sharpe, singer
Feb 11th - Bevan Congdon, cricketer (NZ batsman of 60s & 70s)
Feb 11th - Boris Majorov, USSR, ice hockey (Olympic-gold-1964)
Feb 11th - Manuel Antonio Noriega, Panamanian general/dictator (-1990)
Feb 11th - Willy Correa de Oliveira, composer
Feb 11th - Yevgeniy Majorov, USSR, ice hockey (Olympic-gold-1964)
Feb 11th - Simone de Oliveira, Portuguese actress
Feb 12th - Judy Blume, author (Wifey)
Feb 13th - Oliver Reed, London England, actor (Big Sleep)
Feb 14th - Lee Chamberlin, NYC, actor (Once Upon a Family, Rupture Fatale)
Feb 15th - Jack Tinker, drama critic
Feb 15th - Lord Justice Ward, British judge
Feb 16th - Barry Primus, NYC, actor (Sgt McKenna-Cagney & Lacey, Boxcar Bertha)
Feb 16th - John Corigliano, NYC, composer (Fern Hill, Ghosts of Versailles)
Feb 17th - Mary Frances Berry, educator/head (US Commission on Civil Rights)
Feb 18th - Barry Knight, cricketer (England all-rounder mid-60s)
Feb 18th - Elke Erb, writer
Feb 18th - Manny Mota, baseball outfielder (LA Dodgers)
Feb 18th - István Szabó, Hungarian film director
Feb 19th - Penny Zavichas, LPGA golfer
Feb 20th - Jack Bicknell, WLAF head coach (Barcelona Dragons)
Feb 20th - Mona Mitchell, Lady-in-Waiting to Princess Alexandra
Feb 21st - Beryl F Anthony Jr, (Rep-D-CA, 1979- )

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 1 of 1

Apr 28th - King Zog of Albania marries Countess Geraldine of Hungary

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 138

Jan 3rd - Arthur Boon, Flemish priest/philologist, dies at 54
Jan 8th - Johnny Gruelle, Creator of Raggedy Ann and Andy (b. 1880)
Jan 10th - Willem de Vreese, Flemish linguist, dies at 68
Jan 12th - Gösta Ekman (senior), Swedish actor (b. 1890)
Jan 17th - William H Pickering, astronomer (predicted Pluto), dies at 79
Jan 28th - Bernd Rosemeyer, German race car driver, dies at 28
Jan 28th - John Sharp, cricketer (England bat 1909, also soccer intl), dies
Feb 5th - Hans Litten, German jurist (b. 1903)
Feb 6th - Marianne V von Werefkin, Russ/German/Swiss house painter, dies at 77
Feb 7th - Harvey Firestone, American manufacturer, dies at 69
Feb 9th - Truby King, pioneer of mothercraft, dies
Feb 16th - Otto zur Linde, German author (Lieder of the Leids), dies at 64
Feb 18th - Alida JM Tartaud-Little, actress (Rotterdam Stage), dies at 64
Feb 18th - Edward Anseele, Belgian minister of Rail, dies at 81
Feb 18th - David King Udall, American politician (b. 1851)
Feb 21st - Albert Huybrechts, composer, dies at 39
Feb 21st - George Ellery Hale, astronomer, dies
Mar 1st - G D'Annunzio, writer, dies at 74
Mar 1st - Gabrielle d'Annunzio, Italian poet/fascist (Il fuoco), dies at 74
Tire Industrialist Harvey Firestone (Feb 7th) Mar 2nd - Ben Harney, American composer and pianist (b. 1871)
Mar 3rd - Arthur Koestler, writer, dies at 32
Mar 4th - George Foster Peabody, American politician (b. 1852)
Mar 4th - Jack Taylor, American baseball player (b. 1874)
Mar 7th - Andreas Michalakopoulos, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1876)
Mar 9th - Sydney Baynes, composer, dies at 59
Mar 13th - Clarence S Darrow, Scopes Monkey Trial attorney, dies in Chicago at 80
Mar 13th - Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Russian politician and intellectual (b. 1888)
Mar 15th - Edmund Tylecote, cricketer (England keeper in 6 Tests 1882-86), dies
Mar 16th - Egon Friedell, writer, dies
Mar 18th - Cyril Rootham, composer, dies at 62
Mar 21st - Oscar Apfel, actor (Inspiration), dies at 60
Mar 27th - Louis William Stern, German/US philosopher/psychologist, dies at 66
Mar 31st - Willem J T Kloos, Dutch poet/critic (New Guide), dies at 78
Apr 2nd - Alice Berend, writer, dies
Apr 4th - Cyril Christiani, cricket wicket keep (WI 1935), dies of malaria at 24
Apr 8th - Harold Baumgartner, cricketer (took 2-99 lefty in test for S Af), dies
Apr 10th - Nana Annor Adjaye, Pan-Africanist, dies in W Nzima Ghana
Apr 10th - Joe "King" Oliver, American musician (b. 1885)
Apr 12th - Feodor Chaliapine, Russian author (Man & Mark), dies at 65
Apr 13th - Archibald Belaney, Canadian conservationist (b. 1888)
Apr 15th - Caesar Vallejo, Peru/French poet (Trilce, Russia & 1931), dies at 46
Apr 16th - Bertram Wagstaff Mills, circus proprietor, dies
Apr 16th - Steve Bloomer, English footballer (b. 1874)
Apr 18th - Richard Runciman Terry, musicologist, dies
Apr 19th - Henry John Newbolt, poet/author (Studies Green & Gray), dies at 75
Apr 21st - Muhammad Iqbal, Brt E Indies lawyer/Pakistan national hero, dies at 65
Apr 21st - Allama Iqbal, Indian philosopher and poet (b. 1877)
Apr 24th - George Grey Barnard, American sculptor (b. 1863)
Apr 26th - Edmund Husserl, German philosopher (study of phenomenon), dies at 79
Apr 27th - Edmond Rubbens, Belgian minister to Colonies, dies at 44
May 4th - Carl von Ossietzky, German pacifist/writer (Nobel 1935), dies at 48
May 9th - Thomas B. Thrige, Danish industrialist (b. 1866)
May 10th - Percy McAlister, cricketer (8 Tests, punches Clem Hill in 1912), dies
May 11th - Arnold Sauwen, Flemish poet (Hours of Solitude), dies at 81
May 13th - Charles Edouard Guillaume, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
May 14th - Jacobus C J "Jacques" Hermans, actor (Ghetto), dies at 81
May 16th - Stephen Fairbairn, oarsman/coach, dies
May 17th - Jakob Ehrlich, Austrian politician and zionist (b. 1877)
May 23rd - Philip Kleintjes, republic leader, dies at 70
May 30th - Raden Sutomo, Indonesian freedom fighter, dies at 49
Jun 7th - Norbert Fonteyne, Flemish writer (How Flemings Came Late), dies
Jun 14th - William W Campbell, US astronomer (Stellar Motions), dies at 76
Jun 15th - Ernst L Kirchner, German painter, dies at 58
Jun 17th - H V "Ranji" Hordern, cricketer (7 Tests for Australia 1910-12, dies
Jun 17th - Peter Michael, CEO (Cray Electronics), dies
Jun 22nd - C.J. Dennis, Australian writer and poet (b. 1876)
Jun 24th - "Digger" Robertson, cricketer (Test for Australia 1885), dies
Jun 26th - James Weldon Johnson, black leader (NAACP), dies in car crash at 67
Jun 30th - Milan Rakic, Serbian poet (Nove Pesme), dies at 61
Jul 4th - Otto Bauer, Austrian social democrat, dies at 56
Jul 4th - Suzanne Lenglen, 6 time Wimbledon champ, dies at 39 of anemia
Jul 5th - John McIlwraith, cricketer (Tests for Australia), dies
Jul 9th - Benjamin Cardozo, American jurist (b. 1870)
Jul 14th - Robert Poore, cricketer (3 Tests for South Africa in 1895-96 series), dies
Jul 18th - Vladimir M Kirshon, Russian playwright, executed at 35
Jul 21st - Owen Wister, American author (b. 1860)
Jul 29th - Nikolai Krylenko, Russian/Soviet jurist and politician (b. 1885)
Aug 2nd - Bjarni Thorsteinsson, composer, dies at 76
Aug 3rd - Alexander Malyschkin, writer, dies
Aug 4th - L H Perquin, Dutch radio announcer, dies at 73
Aug 4th - Pearl White, US actress/stunt woman (Perils of Pauline), dies at 49
Aug 4th - Rudolf G Binding, German poet/writer, dies at 70
Aug 6th - Warner Oland, actor (Werewolf of London, Jazz Singer), dies at 57
Aug 7th - Konstantin S Stanislavski, Russian director (S Method), dies at 75
Aug 10th - Joseph Moorat, composer, dies at 73
Aug 12th - Ludwig Borchardt, German egyptologist, dies at 74
Aug 14th - Hugh Trumble, cricketer (32 Tests for Australia, 141 wickets), dies
Aug 14th - J J Kelly, cricketer (36 Tests for Aust 1896-1905, stumped 20), dies
Aug 14th - Landon Ronald, composer/pianist, dies at 65
Aug 16th - Robert Johnson, US Delta-blues singer/guitarist, poisoned at 27
Aug 16th - Andrej Hlinka, Slovak politician and priest (b. 1864)
Aug 25th - Aleksander Kuprin, Russian author (Jama), dies at 67
Aug 30th - Max Factor, make-up artist and cosmetic manufacturer (b. 1877)
Sep 3rd - Bart de Ligt, anti military theologist, dies at 77
Sep 4th - Clifford Dempsey, actor (Salute), dies at 73
Sep 6th - John Stuart Hindmarsh, British racing driver and aviator (b. 1907)
Sep 13th - Samuel Alexander, Engl philosopher (Space, time & deity), dies at 79
Sep 15th - Thomas Wolfe, US writer (Enigma), dies at 62
Sep 17th - Bruno Jasieński, Polish poet (b. 1901)
Sep 19th - Pauline Frederick, American actress (b. 1883)