Page 8: Historical Events In 1938

Jul 08   Would be start of Eng/Aust Test Cricket at Old Trafford Washout on this day in history.   

Jul 10   "Yankee Clipper" completes 1st passenger flight over Atlantic on this day in history.   

Jul 12   Mickey Stratton, Meriden Ct, softball catcher (Hall of Fame 1969) in the year 1938.   

Jul 13   On this day in history kroller-Muller museum opens in Holland   

Jul 14   In the year 1938 mussolini publishes anti-Jewish/African manifest   

Jul 14   In the year 1938 robert Poore, cricketer (3 Tests for S Africa in 1895-96 series), dies   

Jul 15   Arthur Fagg completes 244 & 202 in the same cricket game for Kent on this day in history.   

Jul 16   21st PGA Championship: Paul Runyan at Shawnee CC Shawnee-on-Del Pa on this day in history.   

Jul 17   On this day in history douglas (Wrong Way) Corrigan leaves NY for LA, wound up in Ireland   

Jul 17   Stan Bronstein, rocker in the year 1938.   

Jul 18   Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan arrives in Ireland-left NY for Calif in the year 1938.   

Jul 18   On this day in history vladimir M Kirshon, Russian playwright, executed at 35   

Jul 19   On this day in history richard Jordan, NYC, actor (Dune, Old Boyfriends, Interiors)   

Jul 20   In the year 1938 finland awarded 1940 Olympic games after Japan withdraws   

Jul 20   On this day in history the birth of Dianna Rigg, English actress   

Jul 21   Anton Emil Kuerti, composer in the year 1938.   

Jul 21   Paul Hindemith & Leonide Massines ballet premieres in London on this day in history.   

Jul 22   Opening of Australian National War Memorial at Villers-Bretonneux, France in the year 1938.   

Jul 23   Bradman scores 103 in 178 mins on a Headingley sticky, 3rd Test on this day in history.   

Jul 23   In the year 1938 c Jackson discovers asteroid #1468 Zomba   

Jul 24   On this day in history instant coffee invented   

Jul 25   Jewish artisans not allowed in Germany on this day in history.   

Jul 26   1st radio broadcast of "Young Widder Brown" on NBC in the year 1938.   

Jul 28   In the year 1938 34,000-ton Cunard-White Star liner Mauretania launched at Birkenhead   

Jul 28   In the year 1938 alberto Fujimoro, president of Peru (1990- )   

Jul 28   K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1485 Isa on this day in history.   

Jul 29   Comic strip "Dennis the Menace," 1st appears on this day in history.   

Jul 29   In the year 1938 olympic National Park established   

Jul 30   On this day in history c Jackson discovers asteroid #1467 Mashona   

Jul 30   In the year 1938 gen Metaxas names himself premier of Greece   

Jul 30   Vayachselav Ivanenko, USSR, 50K walker (Olympic-gold-1988) in the year 1938.   

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" on this day in history.   

Jul 31   NY Yanks suspend Jake Powell, after he said on Chicago radio he'd "hit every colored person in Chicago over the head with a club" in the year 1938.   

Aug 02   1st test of a yellow baseball (Dodgers vs Cardinals) in the year 1938.   

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Jan 02   John Considine, actor (Reginald Love-Another World) was born in the year 1938.   

Jan 02   Ian Brady, British serial killer was born on this day in history.   

Jan 02   Hans Herbjørnsrud, Norwegian author was born in the year 1938.   

Jan 04   Louis Krebs Graham, Nashville TN, PGA golfer (1975 US Open) was born in the year 1938.   

Jan 05   In the year 1938 birth of edwin Elliason, Washington, US archer (Olympic-92)   

Jan 05   Jim Otto, NFL center (Oakland Raiders) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 05   Juan Carlos I, king of Spain (1975- ) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 05   In the year 1938 birth of leo Avery, abbot of Quarr   

Jan 03   In the year 1938 arthur Boon, Flemish priest/philologist, dies at 54   

Jan 08   In the year 1938 death of johnny Gruelle, Creator of Raggedy Ann and Andy (b. 1880)   

Jan 10   In the year 1938 willem de Vreese, Flemish linguist, dies at 68   

Jan 12   In the year 1938 death of gösta Ekman (senior), Swedish actor (b. 1890)   

Jan 17   On this day in history william H Pickering, astronomer (predicted Pluto), dies at 79   

Jan 28   Bernd Rosemeyer, German race car driver, dies at 28 on this day in history.   

Feb 05   In the year 1938 death of hans Litten, German jurist (b. 1903)   

Feb 06   Marianne V von Werefkin, Russ/German/Swiss house painter, dies at 77 in the year 1938.