Notable Historical Events - 1938
1938 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 2 |
Book publisher Simon and Schuster founded |
Jan 3 |
March of Dimes established to fight polio |
Jan 6 |
Bronze memorial statue of Henry Hudson erected in Bronx |
Jan 8 |
Bradman scores 107 for South Australia v Qld (1st innings) |
Jan 10 |
Eduard van Beinum becomes world's 1st conductor at Concert Hall |
Jan 10 |
Jean Anouilh's "La Sauvage," premieres in Paris |
Jan 10 |
Paul Vincent Carroll's "White Seed," premieres in NYC |
Jan 11 |
Bradman scores a second innings 113 v Qld after a ton in the 1st |
Jan 11 |
Frances Moulton elected 1st woman president of a US national bank |
Jan 13 |
The Church of England accepts the theory of evolution. |
Jan 14 |
National Society for Legalization of Euthanasia forms (NY) |
Jan 16 |
1st jazz concert was held at Carnegie Hall (Benny Goodman) |
Jan 17 |
Supreme Soviet elects Michail Kalinin as presidium chairman |
Jan 17 |
Joseph P. Kennedy becomes the 44th United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom |
Jan 18 |
Bradman scores 104* for South Australia v NSW at the SCG |
Jan 18 |
Pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander is elected to Hall of Fame |
Jan 19 |
General Motors begins mass production of diesel engines |
Jan 21 |
Dutch government starts obligatory unemployment insurance |
Jan 22 |
"Our Town," Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer-winner of small-town life in Grover's Corners, NH, premieres (NJ) |
Jan 25 |
Ian Hay's "Bachelor Born," premieres in NYC |
Feb 3 |
Paul Osborn's "On Borrowed Time," premieres in NYC |
Feb 4 |
"Our Town," by Thornton Wilder opens on Broadway |
Feb 4 |
Hitler seizes control of German army & puts Nazi in key posts |
Feb 4 |
Disney's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" is officially released |
Feb 5 |
Hans Engnestangen skates world record 500m (41.8 sec) |
Feb 10 |
King Carol II of Romania drives out dictator Goga |
Feb 11 |
Steve Casey beats Lou Thesz in Boston, to become wrestling champ |
Feb 12 |
Austrian chancellor Schuschnigg visits Hitler in Berchtesgaden |
Feb 12 |
German troops entered Austria |
Feb 16 |
US Federal Crop Insurance program authorized |
Feb 17 |
1st public experimental demonstration of Baird color TV (London) |
Feb 19 |
Soviet arctic ice research station North Pole 1 evacuated, Denmark |
Feb 20 |
UK Foreign Sec Eden resigns, says PM Chamberlain appeased Germany |
Feb 23 |
Joe Louis KOs Nathan Mann in 3 for heavyweight boxing title |
Feb 24 |
Du Pont begins commercial production of nylon toothbrush bristles |
Feb 25 |
British Lord Halifax becomes Foreign Minister |
Feb 26 |
1st passenger ship equipped with radar |
Feb 26 |
Rie Van Veen swims world record 200m free style (2:24.6) |
Feb 26 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Joan Tozzer |
Feb 26 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee |
Feb 27 |
Britain & France recognize Franco government in Spain |
Mar 2 |
Landslides & floods cause over 200 deaths (Los Angeles California) |
Mar 2 |
Trials of Soviet leaders begins in the Soviet Union |
Mar 3 |
American Bowling Congress' largest tournament (24,765 competitors) |
Mar 10 |
10th Academy Awards - "The Life of Emile Zola", Spencer Tracy & Luise Rainer win |
Mar 11 |
Artur Seyss-Inquart replaces Kurt von Schuschnigg as Chancellor of Austria; German troops also entered the country |
Mar 12 |
Nazi Germany invades Austria (Anschluss) |
Mar 13 |
Anschluss - Austria annexed by Nazi Germany |
Mar 13 |
World News Roundup is broadcast for the first time on CBS Radio in the United States. |
Mar 16 |
Noel Coward's musical "Operette" premieres in London |
Mar 16 |
Temple defeats Colorado to win 1st NIT |
Mar 18 |
Mexico takes control of foreign-owned oil properties |
Mar 18 |
NY 1st requires serological blood tests of pregnant women |
Mar 18 |
Pres Cardena of Mexico nationalizes US & British oil companies |
Mar 19 |
Toronto Maple Leafs score 8 goals in 5 minutes |
Mar 23 |
Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis frees 74 St L Cardinals minor leaguers |
Mar 25 |
1st US bred and owned horse (Battleship) to win British Grand National Steeplechase |
Mar 26 |
NBC radio performance of Howard Hanson's 3rd Symphony |
Mar 27 |
The Battle of Taierzhuang takes place. |
Apr 1 |
Joe Louis KOs Harry Thomas in 5 for heavyweight boxing title |
Apr 4 |
5th Golf Masters Championship: Henry Picard wins, shooting a 285 |
Apr 5 |
Anti-Jewish riots break out in Dabrowa Poland |
Apr 6 |
Teflon invented by Roy J Plunkett |
Apr 10 |
2nd government of Blum replaced by Daladier government in France |
Apr 10 |
Austria becomes a state of Germany |
Apr 10 |
NY makes syphilis test mandatory in order to get a marriage license |
Apr 12 |
1st US law requiring medical tests for marriage licenses (NY) |
Apr 12 |
Stanley Cup: Chicago Blackhawks beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 3 games to 1 |
Apr 12 |
US began requiring medical tests for marriage licenses |
Apr 13 |
Clifford Goldsmith' "What a Life" premieres in NYC |
Apr 16 |
Great Britain recognizes Italian annexation of Abyssinia |
Apr 18 |
Headless Mad Butcher victim found in Cleveland |
Apr 19 |
42nd Boston Marathon won by Leslie Pawson of RI in 2:35:34.8 |
Apr 19 |
Phil Emmett Mueller & Dodger Ernie Koy both homer in their 1st at bat |
Apr 23 |
Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia demand self government |
Apr 24 |
Lindenheuvel soccer team forms |
Apr 26 |
Austrian Jews required to register property above 5,000 Reichsmarks |
Apr 30 |
Bradman scores 258 Aust v Worcs, 293 mins, 33 fours 1 five |
Apr 30 |
The first televised FA Cup Final takes place between Huddersfield Town and Preston North End. |
May 2 |
Ella Fitzgerald records "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" |
May 2 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to Thornton Wilder (Our Town) |
May 3 |
Concentration camp at Flossenburg goes into use |
May 3 |
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 3 |
Vatican recognizes Franco-Spain |
May 4 |
Douglas Hyde (a protestant) becomes 1st president of Eire |
May 5 |
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 6 |
Dutch writer Maurits Dekker sentenced to 50 days for "offending a friendly head of state" (Hitler) |
May 7 |
64th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Lawrin wins in 2:04.8 |
May 7 |
Dutch Minister of Justice Goseling calls fugitives of Nazi-Germany "undesired strangers" |
May 8 |
Stravinsky's "Dumbarton Oaks" premieres in Washington, DC |
May 10 |
Banning speech on anti-fascism demonstration in Amsterdam |
May 12 |
Sandoz Labs manufactures LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) |
May 14 |
64th Preakness: Maurice Peters aboard Dauber wins in 1:59.8 |
May 14 |
England soccer team beats Nazi-Germany, 6-3 |
May 15 |
Paul-Henri Spak forms red coalition of Belgium |
May 16 |
1st animal breeding society forms (NJ) |
May 16 |
38 die in Terminal Hotel fire (Atlanta Ga) |
May 16 |
In cricket Bradman scores 278 Aust v MCC, 349 mins, 35 fours 1 six |
May 17 |
US Congress approves Vinson Naval Act, which funds a two-ocean navy |
May 17 |
Radio quiz show "Information Please!" debuts on NBC Blue Network |
May 21 |
Don Bradman scores 143 Austalia v Surrey, 198 mins, 11 fours |
May 22 |
Dodgers announce contracts to install lights at Ebbets Field |
May 25 |
Spanish Civil War: The bombing of Alicante takes place, with 313 deaths. |
May 26 |
US House of Representatives Committee on un-American Activities forms |
May 27 |
Bradman scores his 1000th cricket run of English season, earliest to do so |
May 28 |
Foundation for Tel Aviv harbor laid |
May 28 |
Hindemiths opera "Mathis der Maler" premieres in Zurich |
May 30 |
Yanks sweep Red Sox 10-0 & 5-4 in front of 83,533 at Yankee Stadium |
May 30 |
Indianapolis 500: Floyd Roberts wins in 4:15:58.362 (188.615 km/h) |
May 31 |
Bill Edrich scores his 1,000th run of cricket season, all at Lord's |
Jun 1 |
Protective baseball helmets 1st worn by batters |
Jun 3 |
German law on "Entartete Art" legalizes art robbery |
Jun 4 |
10th Walker Cup: Britain-Ireland wins 7½-4½ at the Old Course at St Andrews |
Jun 4 |
70th Belmont: James Stout aboard Pasteurized wins in 2:29.6 |
Jun 6 |
Sigmund Freud arrives in London |
Jun 7 |
1st play telecast with original Broadway cast, "Susan & God" |
Jun 7 |
Boeing 314 Clipper flying boat 1st flown (Eddie Allen) |
Jun 7 |
The Douglas DC-4E makes its first test flight. |
Jun 8 |
Gert Terblanche, a local school boy, discovers fossils of an unknown 'robust-type' human ancestor, later named Paranthropus robustus by Robert Broom, at Kromdraai, Blaauwbank River Valley in South Africa |
Jun 10 |
Charlie Barnett makes 98 by lunch v Australia at Trent Bridge |
Jun 11 |
42nd US Golf Open: Ralph Guldahl shoots a 284 at Cherry Hills Denver |
Jun 11 |
Cin Red Johnny Vander Meer no-hits Boston Braves, 3-0 |
Jun 11 |
Compton scores 1st Test Cricket ton (102 v Aust) aged 20 yrs 19 days |
Jun 11 |
Earthquake in Belgium |
Jun 11 |
England declare at 8 for 658 v Australia at Trent Bridge |
Jun 13 |
Great Cricket innings of 232 by Stan McCabe v England at Trent Bridge |
Jun 13 |
Jews injured & property destroyed in Przemyal, Poland |
Jun 14 |
Bradman scores 144* in 1st Test Cricket at Trent Bridge |
Jun 14 |
Chlorophyll patented by Benjamin Grushkin |
Jun 14 |
Dorothy Lathrop wins 1st Caldecott Medal (kid books author) |
Jun 15 |
1st night game at Brooklyn Ebbets Field (Reds 6, Dodgers 0) as Cin Red Johnny Vander Meer hurls unprecedented 2nd consecutive no-hitter |
Jun 16 |
Boston Red Sox Jimmie Foxx is walked a record 6 consecutive times by St Louis Browns |
Jun 17 |
Japan declares war on China |
Jun 18 |
Babe Ruth is signed as a Dodgers coach for the rest of the season |
Jun 19 |
"Olympian Flyer" express train crashes in Montana, killing 47 |
Jun 19 |
Italy beats Hungary 4-1 in soccer's 3rd World Cup at Paris |
Jun 19 |
Paul Waner (Pirates) homers off Pete Sivess (Phillies) in DH |
Jun 19 |
Reds Johnny Vander Meer extends his string of hitless baseball innings to 21 2/3 before Debs Garms singles for Boston in 4th |
Jun 21 |
Baseball's Pinky Higgins gets 12th straight hit |
Jun 21 |
Bradman scores 101* in 77 minutes, Australia v Lancashire |
Jun 22 |
Joe Louis KOs Max Schmeling at 2:04 of 1st round at Yankee Stadium |
Jun 23 |
Civil Aeronautics Authority (US) established |
Jun 23 |
Marineland opens in Florida-1st aquarium |
Jun 23 |
NYC Mayor LaGuardia assigns 21 cops to patrol subway |
Jun 24 |
500 ton meteorite lands near Pittsburgh Pennsylvania |
Jun 25 |
"A Tisket A Tasket" by Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb hits #1 |
Jun 25 |
Federal minimum wage law guarantees workers 25 cents per hour (rising to 40 cents by 1945) and a maximum 44 hour working week |
Jun 26 |
Cin Red Lonny Frey hits 8 doubles in a doubleheader |
Jun 28 |
Bradman scores 102* in drawn 2nd Test cricket at Lord's |
Jun 30 |
Superman 1st appears in DC Comics' Action Comics Series issue #1 |
Jun 30 |
Final game at Phila's Baker Bowl, Giants beat Phils 14-1 |
Jul 1 |
58th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Don Budge beats Henry Austin (61 60 63) |
Jul 1 |
The South African Press Association (SAPA) is established as a non-governmental institution by South Africa's major newspapers to facilitate the sharing of news, both national and international |
Jul 2 |
51st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Helen Jacobs (6-4 6-0) |
Jul 3 |
President Franklin Roosevelt dedicates the Eternal Light Peace Memorial and lights the eternal flame at Gettysburg Battlefield. |
Jul 4 |
1st game at Shribe Park, Phila; Braves beat Phillies 10-5 |
Jul 4 |
France-Turkish friendship treaty |
Jul 5 |
Herb Caen's 1st column in SF Chronicle |
Jul 6 |
6th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-1 at Crosley Field, Cincinnati |
Jul 8 |
Would be start of England v Australia Test Cricket at Old Trafford Washout |
Jul 8 |
73rd British Golf Open: Reg Whitcombe shoots a 295 at Royal St George's Golf Club |
Jul 10 |
"Yankee Clipper" completes 1st passenger flight over Atlantic |
Jul 10 |
Howard Hughes flies around the world in 91 hours |
Jul 13 |
Kroller-Muller museum opens in Holland |
Jul 14 |
Benito Mussolini publishes anti-Jewish/African manifesto |
Jul 15 |
Arthur Fagg completes 244 & 202 in the same cricket game for Kent |
Jul 16 |
21st PGA Championship: Paul Runyan at Shawnee CC Shawnee-on-Del Pa |
Jul 17 |
Douglas (Wrong Way) Corrigan leaves NY for LA, wound up in Ireland |
Jul 18 |
Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan arrives in Ireland-left NY for Calif |
Jul 20 |
Finland awarded 1940 Olympic games after Japan withdraws |
Jul 21 |
Paul Hindemith & Leonide Massines ballet premieres in London |
Jul 23 |
Bradman scores 103 in 178 mins on a Headingley sticky, 3rd Test |
Jul 24 |
Instant coffee invented |
Jul 25 |
Jewish artisans not allowed in Germany |
Jul 25 |
Revolutionary offensive of Ebro Spain (Hollander Piet) |
Jul 26 |
1st radio broadcast of "Young Widder Brown" on NBC |
Jul 28 |
34,000-ton Cunard-White Star liner Mauretania launched at Birkenhead |
Jul 28 |
Bradman scores 202 Aust v Somerset, 225 mins, 32 fours |
Jul 29 |
Comic strip "Dennis the Menace," 1st appears |
Jul 29 |
Olympic National Park forms |
Jul 30 |
Gen Metaxas names himself premier of Greece |
Jul 31 |
NY Yanks suspend Jake Powell, after he said on Chicago radio he'd "hit every colored person in Chicago over head with a club" |
Jul 31 |
Archaeologists discover engraved gold and silver plates from King Darius in Persepolis. |
Aug 2 |
1st test of a yellow baseball (Dodgers vs Cardinals) |
Aug 5 |
33rd Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Philadelphia (3-2) |
Aug 7 |
Leo Durocher, hits 2,000th Dodger home run |
Aug 7 |
Nazis close theologic department of Innsbruck university |
Aug 8 |
Great Trek Centenary Celebrations commence; the Great Trek was a migration involving Boers leaving the Cape Colony and settling in the interior of South Africa |
Aug 10 |
119°F (48°C), Pendleton, Oregon (state record) |
Aug 14 |
BBC's 1st feature film on TV (Student of Prague) |
Aug 17 |
1st aircraft owned by US Forest Service in service (Oakland) |
Aug 17 |
Henry Armstrong won his 3rd concurrent boxing championship |
Aug 18 |
FDR dedicates Thousand Islands Bridge connecting US & Canada |
Aug 20 |
Lou Gehrig hits record 23rd & last grand slam |
Aug 21 |
Italy bars all Jewish teachers in Public & High School |
Aug 23 |
England score 7-903 decl v Australia Hutton 364 |
Aug 24 |
England beat Australia by an innings & 579 runs at The Oval |
Aug 24 |
Virgil Trucks strikes out his 418th batter, highest season total in organized ball-for Andalusia in an Alabama-Florida League game |
Aug 26 |
British leaders & Arabians fight in Palestine |
Aug 26 |
Montreal Maroons dropped from NHL |
Aug 27 |
Two NYC subway trains collide at 116th Street killing 2 and injuring 51 |
Aug 27 |
Yanks Monte Pearson no-hits Indians 13-0, DiMaggio hits 3 triples |
Aug 28 |
Mauthausen concentration camp opens in Austria |
Aug 28 |
Northwestern University awards honorary degree to dummy Charlie McCarthy |
Aug 28 |
On Connie Mack Day at Shibe Park, the A's win a doubleheader |
Aug 31 |
5th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 28, Washington 16 (74,250) |
Sep 1 |
Benito Mussolini cancels civil rights of Italian Jews |
Sep 3 |
1940 Olympic site changed from Tokyo Japan to Helsinki Finland |
Sep 4 |
Vainio Muinonen wins 2nd European marathoner (2:37:28.8) |
Sep 6 |
Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands celebrates 40th anniversary |
Sep 12 |
Adolf Hitler demands self-determination for Sudeten Germans in Czech |
Sep 13 |
Alexander Cartwright selects to Baseball's Hall of Fame |
Sep 14 |
Graf Zeppelin II, world's largest airship, makes maiden flight |
Sep 15 |
British PM Chamberlain visits Hitler at Berchtesgarden |
Sep 15 |
John Cobb sets world auto speed record at 350.2 MPH (lasts 1 day) |
Sep 15 |
Only time brothers hit back-to-back HRs (Lloyd & Paul Waner, Pitts) |
Sep 16 |
George E T Eyston sets world auto speed record at 357.5 MPH |
Sep 17 |
52nd US Womens Tennis: Alice Marble beats Nancye Wynne Bolton (6-0 6-3) |
Sep 17 |
58th US Mens Tennis: J Donald Budge beats C Gene Mako (6-3 6-8 6-2 6-1) |
Sep 17 |
British premier Neville Chamberlain leaves Munich |
Sep 17 |
Don Budge wins US Tennis open & completes Grand Slam |
Sep 18 |
Chicago Bears beat Green Bay Packers 2-0 |
Sep 18 |
Despite losing a double header, Yanks clinch pennant #10 |
Sep 20 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch's Suite for jazz orchestra, premieres |
Sep 20 |
Emlyn Williams' "Corn is Green," premieres in London |
Sep 21 |
Hurricane (183 MPH winds) in New England kills 700 |
Sep 21 |
Winston Churchill condemns Hitler's annexation of Czechoslovakia |
Sep 21 |
The Great Hurricane of 1938 makes landfall on Long Island in New York. The death toll is estimated at 500-700 people. |
Sep 23 |
British premier Neville Chamberlain flies to Munich |
Sep 23 |
Time capsule, to be opened in 6939, buried at World's Fair in NYC (capsule contained a woman's hat, man's pipe & 1,100' of microfilm) |
Sep 24 |
Alice Marble wins her 2nd singles US tennis title |
Sep 24 |
Don Budge becomes 1st tennis player to win a grand slam |
Sep 26 |
Hitler issues ultimatum to Czech government, demanding Sudenten Land |
Sep 27 |
British ocean liner "Queen Elizabeth" launches at Clydebank Scotland |
Sep 27 |
Jewish lawyers forbidden to practice in Germany |
Sep 27 |
League of Nations declares Japan the aggressor against China |
Sep 28 |
Clare Boothe's "Boys Goodbye" premieres in NYC |
Sep 28 |
Dutch Premier Colijn sends radio message "No war coming" |
Sep 29 |
1st archival course is offered at Columbia University in NYC |
Sep 30 |
Treaty of Munich signed by Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Daladier and Chamberlain, forces Czechoslovakia to give territory to Germany |
Oct 1 |
Cubs clinch NL pennant |
Oct 1 |
Germany annexes Sudetenland (1/3 of Czechoslovakia) following the Munich Agreement. |
Oct 2 |
Indian Bob Feller strikes out record 18 Tigers (Chester Laabs 5 times) |
Oct 6 |
Yanks Lefty Gomez sets record of 6 World Series wins without a loss |
Oct 7 |
Germany requires all Jewish passports be stamped with letter J |
Oct 8 |
G Kaufman & Moss Hart's "Fabulous Invalid" premieres in NYC |
Oct 9 |
Aaron Copland's & Eugene Loring's ballet "Billy the Kid" premieres in Chicago |
Oct 9 |
Cleveland Browns & Chicago Bears play a penalty free NFL game |
Oct 9 |
NY Yankees sweep Cubs in 35th World Series, 3rd straight WS win |
Oct 10 |
Germany completed annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland |
Oct 10 |
Premier of Dmitri Shostakovitch's 1st String Quartet |
Oct 14 |
Nazis plan Jewish ghettos for all major cities |
Oct 15 |
Robert Sherwoods "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" premieres in NYC |
Oct 21 |
Japanese troops occupies Canton |
Oct 22 |
Chester Carlson demonstrates 1st Xerox copying machine |
Oct 24 |
US forbids child labor in factories |
Oct 25 |
Japanese troops occupies Hankou & Wuhan |
Oct 25 |
The Archbishop of Dubuque, Francis J. L. Beckman, denounces Swing music as "a degenerated musical system... turned loose to gnaw away at the moral fiber of young people", warning that it leads down a "primrose path to hell". |
Oct 27 |
DuPont announces its new synthetic fiber will be called "nylon" |
Oct 28 |
Farewell parade of International Brigade (Barcelona) |
Oct 30 |
Orson Welles panics the USA with broadcast of HG Welles' "War of the Worlds" |
Oct 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. |
Nov 1 |
German colonel-general Gerd von Runstedt retires |
Nov 1 |
NL batting champ Ernie Lombardi is named MVP |
Nov 1 |
Seabiscuit beats War Admiral in a match race at Pimlico |
Nov 2 |
Babe Ruth applies for job of St Louis Browns' manager |
Nov 2 |
Jimmie Foxx wins his 3rd AL MVP |
Nov 5 |
Ottawa Roughriders score on 5-man, 4-lateral, 65-yard punt return |
Nov 5 |
Rugers beats Princeton 1st time in 60 yrs as Rutgers Stad dedicated |
Nov 6 |
3 DiMaggio brothers play together for 1st time, charity all star game |
Nov 8 |
1st black woman legislator, Crystal Bird Fauset of Phila |
Nov 8 |
A pogrom against the Jews of Germany and Austria takes place in response to the assassination of a German diplomat in Paris. |
Nov 9 |
Al Capp, cartoonist of Lil' Abner creates Sadie Hawkins Day |
Nov 9 |
Kristallnacht, Nazi Germany's first large-scale physical act of anti-Jewish violence, begins. |
Nov 10 |
8.3 earthquake shakes East of Shumagin Islands, Alaska |
Nov 10 |
Nobel for literature awarded to Pearl Buck (Good Earth) |
Nov 11 |
German & Austrian Jewish suffer 1 billion Mark damage in nazi |
Nov 11 |
Kristallnacht; Jews forced to wear Star of David |
Nov 12 |
Hermann Goering announces he wants Madagascar as a Jewish homeland |
Nov 13 |
America's first saint, Mother Frances Cabrini, beatified |
Nov 14 |
Dutch DC3 crashes at Schiphol, 6 die |
Nov 15 |
First telecast of an unscheduled event (fire), W2XBT, NY |
Nov 15 |
Farewell Parade of International Brigades in Barcelona |
Nov 16 |
K B Regiment refuses round-table conference in East-India |
Nov 16 |
LSD is first synthesized by Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Switzerland. |
Nov 17 |
Italy passes its own version of anti-Jewish Nuremberg laws |
Nov 18 |
Trade union members elect John L. Lewis as the first president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations. |
Nov 20 |
1st documented anti-semitic remarks over US radio (by Father Coughlin) |
Nov 21 |
-24] Belgian king Leopold III visits Netherlands |
Nov 21 |
Nazi forces occupy western Czechoslovakia & declared them German citizens |
Nov 24 |
Clifford Odets' "Rocket to the Moon" premieres in NYC |
Nov 24 |
National Semi-Pro Basketball Congress authorizes yellow basketball |
Nov 28 |
4th Heisman Trophy Award: Davey O'Brien, Texas Christian (QB) |
Nov 29 |
Mayor Oud of Rotterdam forbids soccer match between Neth-Germany |
Nov 30 |
Fascist coup in Romania, fails |
Nov 30 |
Germany bans Jews being lawyers |
Dec 1 |
School bus & train collide in Salt Lake City Utah |
Dec 3 |
AAUs decides to continue linear measuring system over metric |
Dec 6 |
117 Spanish knights under capt Piet Laros return to Netherlands |
Dec 6 |
French/German non-attack treaty drawn (Ribbentrop-Bonnet Pact) |
Dec 7 |
Philip Barry's "Here Come the Clowns" premieres in NYC |
Dec 7 |
W9XZY broadcasts facsimile of St Louis Post-Dispatch by radio |
Dec 8 |
Highest temperature for December in US recorded in La Mesa Calif |
Dec 8 |
LP Beria follows Nikolai Jezjov as head of Russian secret police |
Dec 10 |
26th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 30-7 |
Dec 10 |
Ruth Fuller Sasaki, Zen teacher, Rinzai line, enters Zen priesthood |
Dec 11 |
NY Giants win NFL championship |
Dec 13 |
Los Angeles freezes at 28°F |
Dec 14 |
AL permits Cleveland & Philadelphia to play night games |
Dec 14 |
Major leagues agrees on standard ball |
Dec 14 |
Major leagues disagree on increasing rosters from 23 to 25 |
Dec 14 |
Will Harridge is elected to a 10-year-term as AL president |
Dec 15 |
Groundbreaking begins for Jefferson Memorial in Wash DC |
Dec 16 |
Bradman scores 143 South Aust v NSW, 11 fours 91 singles |
Dec 17 |
Discovery of nuclear fission using uranium by Otto Hahn and his assistant Fritz Strassmann |
Dec 17 |
Utrecht Central Station destroyed by fire |
Dec 20 |
Vladimir K Zworykin (Penn) receives patent on Iconoscope TV system |
Dec 23 |
Margaret Hamilton's costume catches fire in filming of "Wizard of Oz" |
Dec 23 |
Discovery of the first modern coelacanth in South Africa. |
Dec 25 |
George Cukor announces Vivien Leigh will play Scarlett O'Hara |
Dec 26 |
Bradman scores 225 South Aust v Qld before Christ gets him out |
Dec 26 |
Tom Goddard takes a cricket hat-trick for England v South Africa |
Dec 28 |
Paul Gibb scores 106 on Test Cricket debut v South Africa |
Dec 29 |
Construction on Lake Washington Floating Bridge, Seattle, begins |
Dec 30 |
Electronic television system patented (V K Zworykin) |
Dec 31 |
Dr R N Harger's "drunkometer," 1st breath test, introduced in Indiana |
Dec 31 |
Dutch national debt hits ƒ3,986,629,805.70 |
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