1938 Events

1938 André Breton Friends Frida Kahlo
In 1938, Kahlo met André Breton, who helped arrange for some exhibits of her work. After a few minor exhibitions as well as one major solo exhibit at the Julian Levy Gallery of New York C...
1938 Ford 7Y is First Produced
Ford 7Y is a car from Ford built in the United Kingdom between 1938 and 1939. It was officially marketed as a Ford "Eight", and was a rebodied and slightly larger version of the Ford Mod...
1938 Ford Prefect is First Produced
The Ford Prefect is a line of British cars produced by the UK section of the Ford Motor Company, and a more upmarket version of its direct siblings the Ford Popular and Ford Anglia. It wa...
1938 Frank Sinatra is arrested
In 1938, a 23-year-old Frank Sinatra was arrested in Bergen County, N.J. on charges of seduction and adultery. According to the FBI reports, "On the second and ninth days of November 1938...
1938
to 1941
Gerald Ford Attends Yale Law School
Ford hoped to attend Yale's law school beginning in 1935 while serving as boxing coach, assistant varsity football coach, and teacher of JV cheerleading, at which he was very good because...
1938
to 2009
Grandma's life
1938 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Moves to Chicago
In 1938 the Armour Institute of Technology, a modest technical training school on Chicago's near south side, engaged German- born architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886- 1969) as the di...
1938
to 1944
Mondrian Moves to London and New York
In September 1938, Mondrian left Paris in the face of advancing fascism and moved to London. After the Netherlands were invaded and Paris fell in 1940, he left London for New York City, w...
1938 Office International Nansen pour les Réfugiés Wins the Nobel Peace Prize
The Office International Nansen pour les Réfugiés was established in 1930 by the League of Nations, shortly after the death of its name patron Fridtjof Nansen in order to continue his suc...
1938 Pearl S. Buck Becomes the First American Woman to be Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1938 was awarded to Pearl Buck "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces".
1938 Philmont Scout Ranch is Founded
Waite Phillips believed in sharing his wealth with people outside his family. In this spirit, he offered 35,857 acres of his ranch to the Boy Scouts of America in 1938 to serve as a nat...
1938
to 1939
Road to War
Under the Versailles Settlement, Czechoslovakia was created, including the Sudetenland, which had a large German population.Hitler,on its first course of territorial aggression formed a p...
1938 Ronald Reagan Appears as Jack Withering in "Going Places"
Dick Powell and Anita Louise are the nominal stars of the horse-racing comedy Going Places (1938), but Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong steals the show as a groom whose rendition of "Jeepers Cre...
1938 Ronald Reagan Appears in "Boy Meets Girl"
Boy Meets Girl (1938) is a perfect example of why Warners' contract actors and directors were called The Warner Bros. Stock Company. The film marked James Cagney's eighth time working wit...
1938 Volvo PV800 is First Produced
The Volvo PV800 Series (affectionately known as Volvo-suggan or the Sow) was a taxicab manufactured by Volvo between 1938 and 1958. The Sow dominated the Swedish taxicab market during the...
1938 Xerography is Invented by Chester Carlson
It took Carlson 15 years to establish the basic principles of electrophotography, and he patented his developments every step along the way. He filed his first preliminary patent applicat...
1938 Jan 1 Ronald Reagan Appears at Private Dennis Reilley in "Sergeant Murphy"
Private Dennis Reilly has followed his horse, Sergeant Murphy, into the army and when Murphy is transferred to the cavalry, Dennis transfers also. Because he wants the horse to be dischar...
1938 Jan 8 Ronald Reagan Appears as Jack Miller in Swing Your Lady
Wrestler Joe Skopapolous, together with his manager, Ed, and his trainers, Popeye and Shiner, arrives in a small town in the Ozarks hoping to promote a wrestling match. Things look hopele...
1938 Jan 10 Northwest Airlines Flight 2 Crashes into the Bridger Mountains, Killing 10
Northwest Airlines Flight 2, registration NC17388, was a Lockheed 14H Super Electra aircraft which crashed into the Bridger Mountains about 12 miles northeast of Bozeman, Montana, on Janu...
1938 Jan 15 Ronald Reagan Appears in "Hollywood Hotel"
Hollywood Hotel is a 1937 American film, directed by Busby Berkeley. It stars Dick Powell, Rosemary Lane, Lola Lane, and Ted Healy. Ronald Reagan and Benny Goodman also appear. Product...
1938 Feb 15 'The Unvanquished' Is Published
The Unvanquished is a novel by the American author William Faulkner, set in Yoknapatawpha County. It tells the story of the Sartoris family, who first appeared in the novel Sartoris (or F...
1938 Feb 18 "Bringing Up Baby" Is Released
Bringing Up Baby is a 1938 screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks and starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant. It tells the story of a scientist winding up in various predicamen...
1938 Feb 18 Japanese Army Begins Sustained Bombing of Chongqing
The bombing of Chongqing (Traditional Chinese: 重慶大轟炸, Simplified Chinese: 重庆大轰炸, Japanese: 重慶爆撃, from 18 February 1938 to 23 August 1943) was part of an Imperial Japanese Army Air Service...
1938 Feb 26 "A Slight Case Of Murder" Is Released
A Slight Case of Murder is a 1938 comedy film directed by Lloyd Bacon. The film is based on a play by Damon Runyon and Harold Lindsay. The offbeat comedy stars Edward G. Robinson spoofing...
1938 Feb 27
to 1938 Mar 3
 Los Angeles Flood of 1938
The 1938 flood event resulted in the deaths of 115 people. It destroyed 5,601 homes and damaged 1,500 homes making them uninhabitable. For many Angelenos, the storm evoked grim memories o...
1938 Mar 10 10th Academy Awards
The 10th Academy Awards were held on March 10, 1938 at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California. Originally scheduled to be held on March 3, 1938, the ceremony was postponed due t...
1938 Mar 13 Edward R. Murrow and William Shirer Report on Hitler's Anschluss
Murrow gained his first glimpse of fame during the March 1938 Anschluss, in which Adolf Hitler engineered the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany. While Murrow was in Poland arranging a...
1938 Mar 24
to 1938 Apr 7
 Battle of Taierzhuang
The Battle of Tai'erzhuang (simplified Chinese: 台儿庄会战; traditional Chinese: 臺兒莊會戰; pinyin: Tái'érzhūang Huìzhàn) was a battle of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1938, between armies of Ch...
1938 Mar 24
to 1938 May 1
 Battle of Xuzhou
The Battle of Xuzhou was fought between Japanese and Chinese forces in May 1938 during Second Sino-Japanese War. In contemporary accounts in English, the event was usually referred to as ...
1938 Apr 1
to 1938 Apr 4
 Henry Picard wins the 5th Masters Tournament
Henry Picard fired a final round 70 to defeat Harry Cooper and Ralph Guldahl by two strokes.The only scheduled Friday start. Play began, then was suspended due to adverse weather. Round 1...
1938 Apr 9 Ronald Reagan Appears as Eric Gregg in "Accidents Will Happen"
Insurance investigator Eric Gregg shows great promise, but he is not advancing fast enough in his career to suit his wife Nona. Eric's shrewd investigation saves the company from liabilit...
1938 Apr 12 Chicago Blackhawks win Stanley Cup
The 1938 Stanley Cup Finals was a best-of-five series between the Chicago Black Hawks and the Toronto Maple Leafs. Chicago would win the series 3–1 to win their second Stanley Cup. Chi...
1938 Apr 25 "The Adventures Of Robin Hood" Is Released
The Adventures of Robin Hood is a 1938 American swashbuckler film directed by Michael Curtiz and William Keighley. Filmed in Technicolor, the picture stars Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havillan...
1938 Apr 29 Bernard Madoff is Born
Madoff was born to Ralph and Sylvia (née Muntner) Madoff in the New York City borough of Queens, on April 29, 1938. Ralph Madoff was a plumber before becoming a stockbroker. Madoff gradua...
1938 May 2 Agatha Christie publishes Appointment with Death
The book features the Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot and reflects Christie's experiences travelling in the Middle East with her husband, the archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan. Holidayi...
1938 Jun John and Joe Kennedy Travel to England to Work for Their Father During His Tenure as Ambassador
In late June 1938, Kennedy sailed with his father and his brother Joe on the SS Normandie to spend July working with his father, recently appointed U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. Jam...
1938 Jun 5 First Asian Country Indonesia (Dutch East Indies) at the 1938 FIFA World Cup
Indonesia, under the name Dutch East Indies, was the first Asian team to participate in the World Cup when they qualified to the 1938 tournament. A 6-0 first-round loss in Reims to eventu...
1938 Jun 13 Japanese Forces Capture Anqing, Setting off Battle of Wuhan
On 13 June, the Japanese made a naval landing that captured Anqing, which signalled the onset of the Battle of Wuhan. On the southern shore of Yangtze River, the Chinese 9th Military Regi...
1938 Jun 19 Italy Defeats Hungary to Win the 1938 FIFA World Cup
The World Cup in France was played in the play-off system. In the first round, after a fierce match and additional time Poland, a first-time player in the cup, lost to Brazil 5:6. In the ...
1938 Jul 9 Ronald Reagan Appears as Pat Dunn in "Cowboy from Brooklyn"
Cowboy from Brooklyn is a 1938 American film. Ronald Reagan starred in the film. Plot Singer Elly Jordan, a Brooklyn man who is terrified of animals, ends up broke along with his...
1938 Jul 20 Ronald Reagan Appears in "The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse"
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse is a 1938 Warner Bros. crime film starring Edward G. Robinson, Claire Trevor and Humphrey Bogart. It was directed by Anatole Litvak and written by John Wexley...
1938 Jul 29 Peter Jennings is Born
Peter Charles Archibald Ewart Jennings, CM (July 29, 1938 – August 7, 2005) was a Canadian-American journalist and news anchor. He was the sole anchor of ABC's World News Tonight from 198...
1938 Aug 10 University Of Sonora Is Founded
The University of Sonora (Universidad de Sonora, abbreviated as Unison) is located in the state of Sonora, Mexico. It was founded in 1942 after a committee to create a state university wa...
1938 Aug 16 Robert Johnson Dies
Robert Leroy Johnson (May 8, 1911 – August 16, 1938) was an American blues musician, among the most famous of Delta blues musicians. His landmark recordings from 1936–1937 display a remar...
1938 Sep 1 'The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins' is Published
Set in feudal times, the story begins in the Kingdom of Didd, when King Derwin is riding through a street past Bartholomew Cubbins, a poor boy in the market. Bartholomew removes his hat, ...
1938 Sep 7 "The Baker's Wife" Is Released
The Baker's Wife (La femme du boulanger) is a 1938 French comedy film directed by Marcel Pagnol. It is based on the novella Jean le Bleu by French author Jean Giono and became the basis o...
1938 Sep 10
to 1938 Sep 22
 New England Hurricane of 1938
In the days following the cyclone southern Rhode Islanders were in a state of grief-stricken shock. The first days after the storm were a somber time - the dead and injured were everywher...
1938 Sep 14 Members Of The Russian Molokan Church Hold Religious Services In Their New Church Building
On Sunday, September 14, 1938, members of the Russian Molokan Church held religious services in their new church building on Potrero Hill in San Francisco, California. Folklorist Sidney R...
1938 Sep 30 Munich Agreement
The Munich Agreement was an agreement regarding the Sudetenland, which were areas along borders of Czechoslovakia, mainly inhabited by Czech Germans. The agreement was negotiated at a con...
1938 Oct 1
to 1938 Oct 11
 Battle of Wanjialing
Battle of Wanjialing, well known in Chinese text as the Victory of Wanjialing (simplified Chinese: 万家岭大捷; traditional Chinese: 萬家嶺大捷; pinyin: Wànjīalîng Dàjíe) refers to the Chinese Army'...