MultiEducator · The 20th Century Almanac
HistoryCentral Est. 1996
3820th C.
1938
The 20th Century Almanac · The Thirties

1938

Major Events · Sports · Music · Screen · Prizes

Hitler annexed Austria in the Anschluss and the Munich Agreement ceded the Sudetenland as Chamberlain proclaimed "peace for our time." Kristallnacht unleashed anti-Jewish violence, Orson Welles panicked listeners with War of the Worlds, and You Can't Take It with You won Best Picture.

A Year in Review
Best Picture
You Can't Take it With You
Nobel · Literature
Buck
World Series
No. 1 Song
Top TV
Academy · Actor
Spencer Tracy

Sports Highlights

Champions of 1938

Champions

NCAA FootballTexas Christian University Record: 11-0-0
Heisman TrophyDavey O'Brien, tcu, QB points: 519 US Open Golf: Ralph Guldahl Score: 284 Course: Cherry Hills CC Location: Denver

Screen & Television

At the box office & on the air

Top Movies

  1. Angels with Dirty Faces
  2. Boys Town
  3. Dodge City
  4. Goodbye Mr. Chips
  5. Gunga Din
  6. The Hardys Ride High
  7. Jesse James
  8. Juarez
  9. Out West with the Hardys
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Academy Awards

Honoring 1938
Best Picture
You Can't Take it With You
Best Director
Frank Capra
You Can't Take It with You
Best Actor
Spencer Tracy
Boys Town
Best Actress
Bette Davis
Jezebel

Nobel & Pulitzer Prizes

The year in letters & science

Nobel Prizes

Chemistry
KUHN, RICHARD, Germany, Heidelberg University and Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut (now Max-Planck-Institut) fŸr medizinische Forschung, Heidelberg, b. 1900 (in Vienna,Austria), d. 1967: "for his work on carotenoids and vitamins" (Caused by the
Literature
BUCK, PEARL (pen-name of WALSH, PEARL, nŽe SYDENSTRICKER), U.S.A., b. 1892, d. 1973: "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces"
Peace
OFFICE INTERNATIONAL NANSEN POUR LES RƒFUGIƒS (NANSEN INTERNATIONAL OFFICE FOR REFUGEES) an international relief organization in Geneva started by Fridtjof Nansen in 1921
Physiology or Medicine
HEYMANS, CORNEILLE JEAN FRAN‚OIS, Belgium, Ghent University, b. 1892, d. 1968: "for the discovery of the role played by the sinus and aortic mechanisms in the regulation of respiration"
Physics
FERMI, ENRICO, Italy, Rome University, b. 1901, d. 1954: "for his demonstrations of the existence of new radioactive elements produced by neutron irradiation, and for his related discovery of nuclear reactions brought about by slow neutrons

Pulitzer Prizes

Drama
Thornton Wilder ... "Our Town"
Fiction
John Philips Marquand ... "The Late George Apley"
History
Paul Herman Buck ... "The Road to Reunion 1865-1900"
Public Service
"Bismark (ND) Tribune"