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unusual facts about 1938–39 in English football


The Arsenal Stadium Mystery

The Trojans' body doubles on the pitch were players from Brentford, during the First Division fixture between the two sides on 6 May 1939; this was the last match of the 1938–39 season and Arsenal's last official league fixture before the outbreak of the Second World War.


1938 Academy Awards

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

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.

Arthur MacArthur IV

Arthur MacArthur IV (born February 21, 1938, Manila, Philippines) is a concert pianist, writer and artist, the only child of United States Army General and Field Marshal Douglas MacArthur and grandchild of United States Army General Arthur MacArthur.

Borsig Palace

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

Camp El Tesoro

Campers swam in Shannah’s Lagoon, a part of Fall Creek, until the first swimming pool was built 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.

Fred Ossanna

In 1938, he had acted as counsel in a debacle known as the "Bemidji Affair" where bidding irregularities had appeared on a project for the Bemidji State Teachers College (Bemidji State University).

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.

Geoffrey Bruun

He was the author of several books on European history, including Europe and the French Imperium, 1799–1814, published in 1938; Europe in Evolution, (1945) and Europe and America Since 1492 (1954), as well as a biography of Georges Clemenceau, the French statesman, published in 1943.

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.

His Lordship Regrets

His Lordship Regrets is a 1938 British comedy film durected by Maclean Rogers and starring Claude Hulbert, Winifred Shotter, Gina Malo and Aubrey Mallalieu.

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.

Lewis M. Long

He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1938 and for election in 1940 to the Seventy-seventh Congress.

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.

Louis Poterat

His first great successes dated to the end of the 1930s, and were his adaptations of foreign-language songs into French (J'attendrai, to music by the Italian composer Dino Olivieri, in 1938, sung by Rina Ketty ; Sur les quais du vieux Paris, to music by the German composer Ralph Erwin, the first success of the singer Lucienne Delyle, in 1939).

Lucette

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

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.

Protist

In 1938, Herbert Copeland resurrected Hogg's label, arguing that Haeckel's term protista included anucleated microbes such as bacteria, which the term "Protoctista" (literally meaning "first established beings") did not.

Rådhusplassen

In 1938, a competition for decoration of the area was launched, and won by Emil Lie and Per Hurum.

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.

Selah Jubilee Singers

The Selah Jubilee Singers first recorded on April 28, 1938 for Decca, a session which included popular songs such as "Take My Hand, Precious Lord" (DE 7598), and in February 1941, "I'll Fly Away" (DE 7831).

Smoke on the Mountain

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

Spokane, Portland and Seattle 700

700 was delivered on June 21, 1938, joining the 702 pulling overnight passenger trains between Spokane and Vancouver, Washington, along the north shore of the Columbia River, with the 701 providing backup and pulling freight.

Stachelberg

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

T. James Tumulty

He graduated from Xavier High School and attended Holy Cross University, graduated from Fordham University in 1935, from Seton Hall University in 1938 and from John Marshall Law School in Jersey City 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.

Tygarts Reservoir Dam and Lake

Tygarts Reservoir Dam was designed in part by architect Paul Philippe Cret and built between 1934 and 1938, as a project sponsored by the Public Works Administration to provide for flood control.

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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