June 1938 in History

Events in History

Jun 6 Sigmund Freud arrives in London

Jun 7 The Douglas DC-4E makes its 1st 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 11 5.0 Earthquake in Belgium kills 2, strongest in 45 years
Jun 13 Jews injured & property destroyed in Przemyal, Poland
Jun 14 Chlorophyll patented by Benjamin Grushkin
Jun 14 Dorothy Lathrop wins 1st Caldecott Medal (kid books author)
Jun 17 Japan declares war on China
Jun 19 "Olympian Flyer" express train crashes in Montana, killing 47
Jun 23 Civil Aeronautics Authority (US) established
Jun 23 Marineland opens in Florida-1st aquarium
Jun 24 500 ton meteorite lands near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Jun 25 US federal minimum wage law guarantees workers 25 cents per hour (rising to 40 cents by 1945) and a maximum 44 hour working week
Jun 30 Final game at Philadelphia's Baker Bowl, Giants beat Philadelphia 14-1
Jun 30 Superman 1st appears in DC Comics' Action Comics Series issue #1

Jun 2 Frits Wols [Eugene W Wong Loi Sing], Suriname, Secretary-General (UNESCO)
Jun 5 Marion Chapman, smallest known premature baby to survive (280 g), born in South Shields, England
Jun 6 Prince Luís of Orléans-Braganza, pretender to the Brazilian throne, born in Mandelieu-la-Napoule, France
Jun 7 Judy Ann Scott-Fox, literary agent, born in Devon, England (d. 1994)

Jun 8 Hong Kong politician (Democratic Party: 1985-2008) and barrister known as the "Father of Democracy" in Hong Kong, born in British Hong Kong

Jun 9 Jeremy Hardie, British economic and businessman (W H Smith Group, Monopoly and Mergers Commission)
Jun 9 Peter Sanders, British head of the Commission for Racial Equality
Jun 9 Roger Hurn, British businessman (Smith's Industries)
Jun 16 Joyce Carol Oates, American novelist (Garden of Earthly Delights), born in New York
Jun 16 Torgny Lindgren, Swedish writer (The Way of a Serpent), born in Norsjö, Sweden (d. 2017)
Jun 17 Peter Michael, English electronic manufacturer (UEI, Paintbox)
Jun 18 Joop Worrell, Dutch politician (PvdA)
Jun 18 Kevin Murray, Australian rules footballer
Jun 19 Charles Gwathmey, architect (5 Architects)
Jun 19 John Sheil, Northern Irish High Court judge
Jun 21 Dan Burton, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Indiana), born in Indianapolis, Indiana
Jun 24 Lawrence Block, American writer
Jun 26 Gerald North, American climatologist, born in Sweetwater, Tennessee
Jun 26 Neil Abercrombie, American politician (Rep-D-Hawaii, 1986-88), born in Buffalo, New York
Jun 27 Bruce Babbitt, American attorney and politician (47th United States Secretary of the Interior), born in Flagstaff, Arizona
Jun 28 Leon Panetta, American politician (23rd United States Secretary of Defense), born in Monterey, California
Jun 28 Moy Yat, Chinese martial artist (student of Yip Man) (d. 2001)

Jun 25 Economist Milton Friedman (25) weds Rose Friedman at the Jewish Seminary in New York City

Jun 1 Ödön von Horváth, Hungarian writer (A Child of Our Time), dies at 36
Jun 6 Rafael Guízar y Valencia, Mexican Catholic bishop (cared for the wounded, sick, and dying during the Mexican Revolution), dies at 60
Jun 7 Norbert Fonteyne, Flemish writer (How Flemings Came Late), dies
Jun 14 William Wallace Campbell, American astronomer and Director of Lick Observatory, dies at 76
Jun 15 Ernst L Kirchner, German painter, dies at 58
Jun 20 Fred L Noonan, US aviator and navigator, declared dead after having disappeared over Pacific Ocean with Amelia Earhart in 1937
Jun 22 C. J. Dennis, Australian poet (The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke), dies at 61
Jun 30 Milan Rakic, Serbian poet (Nove Pesme), dies at 61