April 1938 calendar

Events

• 01 Apr 1938 Joe Louis knocks out Harry Thomas in five rounds for heavyweight boxing title.
• 04 Apr 1938 5th Golf Masters Championship: Henry Picard wins, shooting a 285.
• 05 Apr 1938 Anti-Jewish riots break out in Dabrowa, Poland.
• 08 Apr 1938 The House of Representatives kills the Reorganization Bill.
• 10 Apr 1938 2nd government of Blum replaced by Daladier government in France
• 12 Apr 1938 First US law requiring medical tests (syphilis test) for marriage licenses (New York).
• 15 Apr 1938 Disney's Donald Duck film Donald's Nephews is released to theaters in the USA. Characters Huey, Dewey, and Louie make their film debut.
• 16 Apr 1938 Great-Britain recognizes Italian annexation of Abyssinia
• 18 Apr 1938 Headless Mad Butcher victim found in Cleveland
• 19 Apr 1938 42nd Boston Marathon won by Leslie Pawson of Rhode Island in 2:35:34.8.
• 23 Apr 1938 Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia demand self-government.
• 24 Apr 1938 Lindenheuvel soccer team forms.
• 26 Apr 1938 Austrian Jews required to register property above 5,000 Reichsmarks.
• 28 Apr 1938 King Zog of Albania marries Countess Geraldine of Hungary.
• 30 Apr 1938 Bradman scores 258 Aust vs. Worcs, 293 mins, 33 fours 1 five

Famous Birthday

• Claudia Cardinale

  Italian actress, internationally known.

• Bernard Madoff

  American convict, Ponzi scheme operator.

• Ali MacGraw
• Kofi Annan

  African politician, the U.N.

• Issey Miyake

  Japanese fashion designer.

• Don Meredith (football)
• Gary Collins

  American actor and television host.

• Jerry Brown

  American politician and noted family, born into politics as the son of Governor Pat Brown.

• Roy Thinnes

  American actor.

• Émile Daems
• Marilyn Ferguson

  American writer and publisher of journals.

• André Vauchez
• Paul Daniels

  British entertainer, magician and former government employee.

• Julio Cesar Melatti
• Berthe Meijer

  Dutch professional chef and author of 17 cookbooks.

• Hans-Michael Rehberg
• Hannes Androsch

  Austrian politician, a tax adviser and economist.

• Johan van der Keuken
• Pete La Roca

  American jazz drummer.

• Nino Benvenuti

  Italian Olympic and World Boxing champion.

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Famous Deaths

• Richard Runciman Terry

  Musicologist.

• Henry John Newbolt

  Poet / Author (Studies Green & Gray), dies at 75.

• Alice Berend

  Writer.

• Feodor Chaliapine

  Russian Author (Man & Mark), dies at 65.

• Steve Bloomer

  English footballer (Born 1874).

• Allama Iqbal

  Urdu philosopher and poet (Born 1877).

• George Grey Barnard

  American sculptor (Born 1863).

• Nana Annor Adjaye

  Pan-Africanist, dies in West Nzima, Ghana.

• Bertram Wagstaff Mills

  circus proprietor, dies.

• Joe ''King'' Oliver

  American musician (Born 1885).

• Archibald Belaney

  Canadian conservationist (Born 1888).

• Cesar Vallejo

  Peruvian poet (Born 1892).

• Muhammad Iqbal

  Indian Muslim philosopher, poet and politician in British India who is widely regarded as having inspired the Pakistan Movement.

• Edmond Rubbens

  Belgian minister to Colonies, dies at age 44.

• Edmund Husserl

  German philosopher (study of phenomenon), dies at age 79.

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Top #1 songs in the USA

1. Fats Waller - I Love to Whistle