October 1938 in History

Events in History

Oct 1 Germany annexes Sudetenland (1/3 of Czechoslovakia) following the Munich Agreement

Oct 8 George S. Kaufman & Moss Hart's play "Fabulous Invalid" premieres in NYC

Oct 10 Germany completes its annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland
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 has 1st successful experiment in electrophotography, later sold to the Haloid Company and dubbed "Xerox copying"
Oct 22 President of Czechoslovakia Edvard Beneš goes into exile in London, in the aftermath of the Munich agreement and German annexation of Sudetenland
Oct 24 US forbids child labor in factories
Oct 25 Japanese troops occupies Hankou & Wuhan
Oct 27 DuPont announces its new synthetic polyamide fiber will be called "nylon"
Oct 28 Farewell parade of International Brigade (Barcelona)
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.

Oct 2 Lloyd Turner, journalist (Daily Express), born in Australia (d. 1996)
Oct 3 Dave Obey, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Wisconsin), born in Okmulgee, Oklahoma
Oct 3 Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, Peruvian economist and 66th President of Peru (2016-present), born in Lima, Peru
Oct 4 Kurt Wüthrich, Swiss chemist, Nobel laureate
Oct 5 Teresa Heinz Kerry, American philanthropist (wife of John Kerry), born in Lourenço Marques, Portuguese East Africa
Oct 6 Serge Nubret, French bodybuilder
Oct 8 Walter Gretzky, father of Wayne Gretzky, born in Canning, Ontario, Canada
Oct 9 Heinz Fischer, Austrian politician (11th President of Austria), born in Graz, Austria
Oct 10 Daidō Moriyama, Japanese photographer, born in Ikeda, Osaka
Oct 10 Marcus Jan Adriani, biologist and director (Weevers' Duin) (d. 1995)
Oct 10 Toby Roth, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Wisconsin), born in Strasburg, North Dakota
Oct 13 Hugo Young, British journalist (The Guardian), born in Sheffield, England (d. 2003)
Oct 14 Farah Pahlavi, Queen consort of Iran (1959-61), born in Tehran, Iran
Oct 14 John Dean, American attorney and former White House counsel (Watergate figure), born in Akron, Ohio
Oct 16 Carl Gunter Jr, Louisiana State Representative (d. 1999)

Oct 17 American motorcycle daredevil (Snake River Canyon), born in Butte, Montana

Oct 19 Ton Regtien, Dutch student leader
Oct 20 Iain Macmillan, Scottish Abbey Road photographer, born in Carnoustie, Scotland (d. 2006)
Oct 23 John Heinz, American businessman and Republican politician (Senator from Pennsylvania, 1977-1991), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1991)
Oct 26 Charles Stenholm, American politician (Rep-D-Texas, 1979-2005), born in Stamford, Texas
Oct 27 Maurice Hinchey, American politician (Rep-D-New York), born in NYC, New York
Oct 28 Anne Perry [Juliet Marion Hulme], English-born crime writer (convicted of murder as a child as filmed in "Heavenly Creatures"), born in London, England (d. 2023) [1]

Oct 29 President of Liberia (2006-2018) and the first elected female head of state in Africa, born in Monrovia, Liberia

Oct 23 SS Officer Amon Göth (29) weds Anny Geiger in a civil ceremony

Oct 2 Alexandru Averescu, Romanian soldier and politician (b. 1859)
Oct 5 Sister Faustina [Helena Kowalska], Polish Roman Catholic saint, nun and mystic, dies of suspected tuberculosis at 33
Oct 13 E. C. Segar, American cartoonist (Popeye), dies at 43
Oct 18 Karl Kautsky, Austrian philosopher and Marxist theorist (Socialist journal Neue Zeit), dies at 83
Oct 24 Ernst Barlach, German writer and artist, dies at 68
Oct 25 Alfonsina Storni, Argentine poet (La inquietud del rosal), dies at 46
Oct 27 Lascelles Abercrombie, English poet and critic (Revaluations), dies at 57