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1938 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar).
Events
January-March
July-September
October-December
October 1 - German troops march into Sudetenland
October 5 - Edvard Beneš , president of Czechoslovakia , resigns
October 10 - The Blue Water Bridge opens, connecting Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario
October 17 - Jan Syrovy 's government begins in Czechoslovakia
October 27 - Du Pont announced a name for its new synthetic yarn: "nylon ".
October 30 - Orson Welles 's radio adaptation of The War of the Worlds is broadcast, causing mass panic in the eastern United States .
October 31 - Great Depression : In an effort to try restore investor confidence, the New York Stock Exchange unveils a fifteen-point program aimed to upgrade protection for the investing public.
November 9 - Holocaust : Kristallnacht begins - In Germany , the "night of broken glass" begins as Nazi troops and sympathizers loot and burn Jewish businesses (the all night affair saw 7,500 Jewish businesses destroyed, 267 synagogues burned, 91 Jews killed, and at least 25,000 Jewish men arrested).
November 10 - On the eve of Armistice Day , Kate Smith sings Irving Berlin 's God Bless America for the first time on her weekly radio show.
November 18 - Trade union members elect John L. Lewis as the first president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations .
November 30 - Czech parliament elects Emil Hácha as the new president of Czechoslovakia.
December 23 - Coelacanth , a fish thought to have been extinct , caught off the coast of South Africa near Chalumma River
Unknown dates
Ongoing events
Births
January-February
January 2 - Hans Herbjørnsrud , Norwegian author
January 2 - Ian Brady , British serial killer
January 5 - King Juan Carlos I of Spain
January 8 - Bob Eubanks , American game show host
January 10 - Donald Knuth , American mathematician and computer scientist
January 10 - Willie McCovey , baseball player
January 14 - Jack Jones , American singer and actor
January 18 - Curt Flood , baseball player (d. 1997 )
January 23 - Georg Baselitz , German painter and sculptor
January 25 - Etta James , American singer
January 31 - Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands
February 1 - Sherman Hemsley , American comedian and actor
February 8 - Prentice Gautt , American football player
February 11 - Bevan Congdon , New Zealand cricketer
February 11 - Manuel Noriega , Panamanian general and dictator
February 12 - Judy Blume , American author
February 13 - Oliver Reed , English actor (d. 1999 )
February 18 - Istvan Szabo , Hungarian director
February 24 - Phil Knight , American sportswear entrepreneur
February 25 - Herb Elliott , Australian runner
March-April
March 4 - Don Perkins , American football player
March 7 - Janet Guthrie , American race car driver
March 13 - Erma Franklin , American singer (d. 2002 )
March 17 - Rudolf Nureyev , Russian-born dancer and choreographer (d. 1993 )
March 18 - Charley Pride , American baseball player and musician
March 23 - Maynard Jackson , mayor of Atlanta, Georgia (d. 2003 )
March 25 - Hoyt Axton , American musician and actor (d. 1999 )
March 26 - Anthony James Leggett , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
April 1 - John Quade , American actor
April 4 - A. Bartlett Giamatti , American president of Yale University and baseball commissioner (d. 1989 )
April 8 - Kofi Annan , Ghanaian Secretary General of the United Nations , recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
April 10 - Don Merh , American football player and broadcaster
April 11 - Kurt Moll , German bass
April 12 - Roger Caron , Canadian author
April 26 - Duane Eddy , American musician
April 29 - Larry Niven , American author
May-July
May 22 - Richard Benjamin , American actor
May 26 - William Bolcom , American composer
May 26 - Teresa Stratas , Canadian soprano
May 31 - Johnny PayCheck , American singer (d. 2003 )
May 31 - Peter Yarrow , American singer
June 5 - Karin Balzer , German athlete
June 7 - Goose Gonsoulin , American football player
June 15 - Billy Williams , baseball player
June 19 - Wahoo McDaniel , American football player and professional wrestler (d. 2002 )
June 28 - Moy Yat , Chinese martial artist
July 4 - Bill Withers , American singer and songwriter
July 6 - Tony Lewis , English cricketer
July 20 - Natalie Wood , American actress (d. 1981 )
July 23 - Juliet Anderson , American actress
July 23 - Bert Newton , Australian actor and televison show host
July 27 - Gary Gygax , American author
July 29 - Peter Jennings , Canadian-born television news reporter (d. 2005 )
August-October
August 9 - Ezola Broussard Foster , Vice President of the United States
August 9 - Rod Laver , Australian tennis player
August 15 - Janusz A. Zajdel , Polish writer
August 19 - Diana Muldaur , American actress
August 22 - Paul Maguire , American football player
August 24 - Halldór Blöndal , Icelandic politician
August 24 - David Freiberg , American musician (Quicksilver Messenger Service and Jefferson Starship )
August 28 - Maurizio Costanzo , Italian television news reporter
August 28 - Paul Martin , Prime Minister of Canada
August 31 - Martin Bell , British journalist and politician
September 3 - Ryoji Noyori , Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
September 10 - Karl Lagerfeld , German fashion designer and photographer
September 13 - John Smith , Scottish politician (d. 1994 )
September 22 - Gene Mingo , American football player
September 25 - Jonathan Motzfeldt , Prime Minister of Greenland
September 29 - Wim Kok , Prime Minister of the Netherlands
October 4 - Kurt Wüthrich , Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
October 9 - Heinz Fischer , Austrian politician
October 14 - Farah Diba , Empress of Iran
October 15 - Fela Kuti , Nigerian musician and activist (d. 1997 )
October 23 - H. John Heinz III , U.S. Senator (d. 1991 )
November-December
Deaths
January 20 - Émile Cohl , French caricaturist and animator (b. 1857 )
January 21 - Georges Méliès , French film director (b. 1861 )
January 28 - Bernd Rosemeyer , German racing driver (b. 1909 )
February 2 - Frederick William Vanderbilt , American railway magnate (b. 1856 )
February 7 - Harvey Firestone , American manufacturer (b. 1868 )
February 18 - David King Udall , American politician (b. 1851 )
February 19 - Edmund Landau , German mathematician (b. 1877 )
March 1 - Gabriele D'Annunzio , Italian writer, war hero, and politician (b. 1863 )
March 2 - Ben Harney , American composer and pianist (b. 1871 )
March 13 - Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin , Soviet politician (b. 1888 )
March 13 - Clarence Darrow , American attorney (b. 1857 )
April 8 - Joe "King" Oliver , American musician (b. 1885 )
April 12 - Feodor Chaliapin , Russian bass (b. 1873 )
April 16 - Steve Bloomer , English footballer (b. 1874 )
April 21 - Allama Iqbal , Indian philosopher and poet (b. 1877 )
April 26 - Edmund Husserl , Austrian philosopher (b. 1859 )
May 4 - Carl von Ossietzky , German pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1889 )
May 13 - Charles Edouard Guillaume , French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861 )
May 26 - John Jacob Abel , American pharmacologist (b. 1857 )
August 1 - Edmund Charles Tarbell , American artist (b. 1862 )
August 7 - Konstantin Stanislavski , Russian actor (b. 1863 )
August 16 - Robert Johnson , American musician (b. 1911 )
September 17 - Bruno Jasieński , Polish poet (b. 1901 )
October 22 - May Irwin , Canadian actress and singer (b. 1862 )
October 24 - Ernst Barlach , German sculptor and poet (b. 1870 )
October 27 - Lascelles Abercrombie , English poet and critic (b. 1881 )
November 10 - Kemal Atatürk , President of Turkey (b. 1881 )
December 11 - Christian Lous Lange , Norwegian pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1869 )
December 25 - Karel Čapek , Czech author (b. 1890 )
December 28 - Florence Lawrence , Canadian actress (b. 1886 )
Nobel Prizes
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