May 1938 calendar

Events

• 02 May 1938 Ella Fitzgerald records A-Tisket, A-Tasket
• 03 May 1938 Vatican recognizes Francesco Franco as head of Spain.
• 04 May 1938 Douglas Hyde (a Protestant) becomes first president of Eire.
• 06 May 1938 Dutch writer Maurits Dekker sentenced to 50 days for "offending a friendly head of state" (Adolf Hitler).
• 07 May 1938 Dutch Minister of Justice Goseling calls fugitives of Nazi-Germany undesired strangers
• 09 May 1938 Kaarel Eenpalu becomes prime minister of Estonia.
• 10 May 1938 Banning speech on anti-fascism demonstration in Amsterdam
• 12 May 1938 Sandoz Labs manufactures LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide).
• 13 May 1938 US Congress passes the $1.156 billion Naval Expansion Bill.
• 14 May 1938 English soccer team beats Nazi-Germany, 6-3
• 15 May 1938 Paul-Henri Spak forms red coalition of Belgium.
• 16 May 1938 38 die in Terminal Hotel fire (Atlanta, Georgia, USA).
• 17 May 1938 Radio quiz show Information Please! debuts on NBC Blue Network.
• 20 May 1938 Czechoslovakia orders a partial mobilization of its armed forces along the German border.
• 21 May 1938 Matsuo Toi kills 30 people in a village in Okayama, Japan, in the Tsuyama massacre, the world's worst spree killing by an individual until 1982.
• 22 May 1938 Dodgers announce contracts to install lights at Ebbets Field
• 23 May 1938 Temporarily frustrated by the Czechoslovak mobilization and international diplomatic unity in the face of German demands over the Sudetenland, Hitler orders the Foreign Office to assure the Czechoslovaks that he has no demands on their territory. The world at large mistakenly believes the crisis is averted.
• 25 May 1938 Spanish Civil War: The bombing of Alicante takes place, with 313 deaths.
• 26 May 1938 House Committee on Un-American Activities begins work.
• 28 May 1938 Foundation for Tel Aviv harbor is laid.
• 30 May 1938 Poland who had its eyes on the Teschen region of Czechoslovakia was reassured by Rumania that it would block any attempt by the Soviet Union to come to the aid of the Czechs in the event of a Polish invasion.

Famous Birthday

• Mireille Darc

  French actress; her films include "Galia," "The Blonde From Peking," and "Many in a Hurry," both French and foreign language films.

• Marina Vlady

  French actress, an exquisite blond of international fame.

• Jean Giraud

  French artist, a cartoonist and illustrator widely acknowledged as being one of the major modern day influences in the visual arts field.

• Marc Blondel

  French union leader, elected General Secretary (Chairman) of F.O.

• Jerry West

  American athlete, one of the greatest basketball players in a career from 1960-74, a great shooter with a mind like a computer.

• André Valardy
• Marie-Josée Roig

  French politician who served as a member of the National Assembly from 2007 to 2012, representing the 1st District of Vaucluse.

• Teresa Stratas

  Canadian opera singer, a soprano of Greek heritage.

• Susan Strasberg

  American actress who made her film debut in 1954, followed by playing the lead in, "The Diary Of Anne Frank" in 1955.

• Tommy Chong

  Movie Actor.

• Raymond Carver

  American poet/short story writer (Furious Season), dies at age 50 (born 1938).

• Louis Tobback
• Michael Brown (director)
• Peter Yarrow

  American musician, guitarist and vocalist with the noted group "Peter, Paul and Mary" since 1961.

• David Viscott

  American psychologist, a best-selling author and host of an enormously popular national syndicated radio program.

• Gérard Lindeperg
• Giuliano Amato

  Italian constitutional director of the University of Rome.

• Paolo Bortoluzzi

  Italian ballet dancer who made his debut in 1957, and then joined Bejart's Ballet.

• Pierre Claverie

  French ecclesiastic, Roman Catholic Bishop of Oran from 1981.

• Richard Benjamin

  American actor on-screen from 1969.

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Famous Deaths

• Stephen Fairbairn

  Oarsman / coach.

• Arnold Sauwen

  Flemish Poet (Hours of Solitude), dies at 81.

• Jacobus C J "Jacques" Hermans

  Actor (Ghetto), dies at 81.

• Philip Kleintjes

  Republic leader, dies at 70.

• Carl von Ossietzky

  German pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (Born 1889).

• Thomas B Thrige

  Danish industrialist (Born 1866).

• Charles Edouard Guillaume

  Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1861).

• Raden Sutomo

  Indonesian freedom fighter, dies at age 49.

• Jakob Ehrlich

  Austrian politician and zionist (Born 1877).

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