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2 unusual facts about 1938–39 Birmingham F.C. season


1938–39 Birmingham F.C. season

Farrage was killed in action in September 1944, serving as a private in the 10th Battalion, the Parachute Regiment during Operation Market Garden.

When the Second World War began, the 1939–40 Football League season was abandoned after three Second Division matches had been played.


1897–98 Thames Ironworks F.C. season

On 11 September 1897, in their first game of the new season of the London League and also at their new ground, Thames beat Brentford F.C. 1–0.

1916–17 Blackpool F.C. season

Staff and recovering patients from the King's Lancashire Medical Convalescent Hospital (KLMCH) and staff from the Royal Army Medical Corps Depot (RAMC), both based at Squires Gate, provided players throughout the season.

1920–21 Burnley F.C. season

After the match, the Athletic News described Burnley as the best team in the country.

1921–22 Torquay United F.C. season

Crad Evans, Torquay Town's star striker, was installed as player-manager and the new team adopted a black and white strip which soon earned them the nickname of 'the Magpies'.

1923–24 Cardiff City F.C. season

In a goalless draw for most of the game, Cardiff were awarded a penalty and leading scorer Len Davies stepped up to take it, but missed and the game resulted in a goalless draw meaning Cardiff wouldn't win the title and would instead finish as runners-up.

1923–24 Nelson F.C. season

Six matches were played during the trip, two each against Real Madrid, Racing de Santander and Real Oviedo.

1938 Academy Awards

10th Academy Awards, the Academy Awards ceremony that took place in 1938

1978–79 Wigan Athletic F.C. season

Peter Houghton was the team's top goalscorer with a total of 13 league goals (14 in all competitions).

1979–80 West Ham United F.C. season

Winning the Cup for the third time, West Ham manager John Lyall tactically outsmarted his Arsenal counterpart Terry Neill by paying a 4–5–1 system, stifling Arsenal's creative midfield that included future West Ham signing Liam Brady and the steely Brian Talbot.

1989–90 Arsenal F.C. season

The 1989–90 season was Arsenal's 70th consecutive season in the top division of English football.

1992–93 Sheffield United F.C. season

At the end of the season, the newly formed League Managers Association presented its "Manager of the Year" award for the first time, specifically designed to recognise "the manager who made best use of the resources available to him".

1995–96 Blackpool F.C. season

They competed in the 24-team Division Two, then the third tier of English league football, finishing third, their highest league finish since the 1976-77 season.

2003–04 Luton Town F.C. season

January began with Luton beating Bradford City 2–1 in the FA Cup, ensuring the club reached the fourth round of the competition for the first time since the 1994–95 season.

73079 Davidbaltimore

The asteroid was named after David Baltimore (b. 1938), renowned for his Nobel Prize-winning biological research and for his vision and leadership as the seventh president of the California Institute of Technology (1997–2006).

Aleksei German

Aleksei Yuryevich German (born 1938–2013), Russian film director and screenwriter

Alexandrina Maria da Costa

In June 1938, based on the request of Father Mariano Pinho, a jesuit priest, several bishops from Portugal wrote to Pope Pius XI, asking him to consecrate the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, based on the reported messages received directly from Jesus and Virgin Mary by Alexandrina Maria da Costa.

Borsig Palace

It was then integrated into the New Reich Chancellery by Albert Speer in 1938.

Cayetano Ré

Cayetano Ré Ramírez (7 February 1938 – 26 November 2013) was a Paraguayan footballer striker and coach who was born in Asunción.

Dewoitine D.500

In 1938, 18 Chinese D.510s saw action against the Japanese, including the defense of Chengdu and the Chinese wartime capital Chongqing.

Eliza Grant

Her only records are a result of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Federal Writers’ Project, which she was interviewed for in 1938.

F.W. Bernstein

F.W. Bernstein (originally Fritz Weigle; born March 4, 1938, Göppingen) is a German poet, cartoonist, and satirist.

Gayraud Wilmore

In high school Wilmore was active in drama club, wrote for the school newspaper, and briefly joined the Young Communist League before graduating in 1938.

Georges Bernanos

He emigrated to South America in 1938, and stayed there until 1945, for most of the time in Barbacena, Brazil, where he tried his hand at managing a farm.

Gérard de Cortanze

He translated works of Spanish writers, such as the Mexican Jose Emilio Pacheco, the Nicaraguan Rubén Darío, Argentine exile in France Juan José Saer, the notebooks of the Spanish painter Antonio Saura (1930–1998), and poems, like those of Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo (1892–1938) and the Chilean Vicente Huidobro (1893–1948).

Günther Hessler

On 2 October 1936 he was appointed watch officer on the Aviso Grille, Adolf Hitler's state yacht, and on 30 March 1938 transferred to the battleship Gneisenau.

Helmut Bauer

In November 1938 he volunteered to join the SS and was posted to the 17th Company, SS Deutschland Regiment stationed in Ellwangen.

Henry Joy Fynes-Clinton

In 1937 and 1938 he organized visits to allow Fr Paul Couturier to meet active parishes in the Anglican Catholic tradition and visit a number of the then vigorous Anglican religious communities.

James Celebrezze

James Patrick Celebrezze (born February 7, 1938) is an American politician and jurist of the Ohio Democratic party, who served as a judge of the Cuyahoga County, Ohio, common pleas court (domestic relations division).

Jean-Claude Risset

Jean-Claude Risset (18 March 1938, in Le Puy-en-Velay, France) is a French composer, best known for his pioneering contributions to computer music.

John Morris, Baron Morris of Borth-y-Gest

He was also Judge of Appeal in the Isle of Man from 1938 to 1947 - the youngest ever to hold such position.

Jörgen Lehmann

Lehmann was appointed professor of physiology in Aarhus in 1937, and became head of the central laboratory at the Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg 1938.

José Alfonso Belloso y Sánchez

José Alfonso Belloso y Sánchez (30 October 1873 – 9 August 1938) was the sixth Bishop and second Archbishop of San Salvador, El Salvador.

Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin

In 1938, following the resignation of lieutenant governor Henry Gunderson, Governor Philip La Follette appointed Herman Ekern lieutenant governor to fill the vacancy.

Lisel Haas

Following Kristallnacht in November 1938 she abandoned her studio and left Germany with her father.

Lucette

Lucette Aldous (born 1938), Australian ballet dancer and ballet teacher

Luka Modrić

In the Champions League, Modrić participated and helped the club reach its first involment with the competition.

Mary McLeod

Mary Adelia McLeod (born 1938), first woman Diocesan Bishop in the Episcopal Church

Ohio Northern University

Elected in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth U.S. Congress, and elected for three subsequent terms to Congress, serving from 1939 - 1947.

Phyllis Hartnoll

A collection of her poems The maid's song and other poems was published by Macmillan in 1938 and she wrote the introduction to the Gothic novel Zastrozzi by Percy Bysshe Shelley which was republished in a limited edition by The Golden Cockerel Press in 1955.

Raoul Weiler

Raoul Weiler (Anderlecht (Belgium) 20 October 1938) is President of the EU-Chapter of The Club of Rome.

Richard Waugh

Richard Deans Waugh (1868-1938), Canadian politician, mayor of Winnipeg

Richard Whiting

Richard A. Whiting (1891–1938), writer of popular songs, father of singer Margaret Whiting and actress Barbara Whiting Smith

Robert J. Corbett

He was elected as a Republican to the 76th United States Congress in 1938, but was unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1940.

Smoke on the Mountain

The setting is in Mount Pleasant, North Carolina Baptist church in 1938 and it revolves around the Sanders family.

Stachelberg

However, the process of construction was stopped due to the Munich Agreement in 1938.

Tahir Hussain

Tahir Hussain (1938 – 2 February 2010) was the younger brother of producer, director, and writer Nasir Hussain and the father of Bollywood actor Aamir Khan.

Tennis male players statistics

Another example is John Bromwich, the best Australian player, who was prevented by Norman Brookes, president of the Australian Lawn Tennis Association, from playing Wimbledon three consecutive years (1938, 1939, 1946) because Brookes' priority was to win the Davis Cup.

The Alamo: Shrine of Texas Liberty

The Alamo: Shrine of Texas Liberty is a 1938 American black-and-white war film directed by Stuart Paton and produced by H. W. Kier and Norman Sheldon.

William Graham-Harrison

He took silk in 1930 and was appointed Chancellor of the Diocese of Durham in 1934, the Diocese of Truro in 1935, the Diocese of Gloucester in 1937, and the Diocese of Portsmouth in 1938.

Written works of L. Ron Hubbard

Hubbard wrote the script for The Secret of Treasure Island, a 1938 Columbia Pictures movie serial After his work on The Secret of Treasure Island, L. Ron Hubbard also helped with the script for the 1941 Columbia movie serial, The Spider Returns.


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