* Tex Austin ( 1886 – 1938 ), American rodeo promoter

* 1938 – Paul Daniels, English magician

* 1938 – Roy Thinnes, American actor

* 1938 – The animated cartoon short Porky's Hare Hunt debuts in movie theaters, introducing Happy Rabbit ( a prototype of Bugs Bunny ).

* 1938 – Juraj Jakubisko, Slovak director

* 1938 – Gary Collins, American actor

* 1938 – Larry Niven, American author

* 1938 – Paul Bartel, American actor ( d. 2000 )

* 1938 – Peter Bonerz, American actor

* 1938 – Leonid Kuchma, Ukrainian politician

* 1938 – Rod Laver, Australian tennis player

* 1938 – Otto Rehhagel, German footballer and coach

* 1938 – Dave " Baby " Cortez, American pianist

The 1938 series was high-scoring affair with many high-scoring draws, resulting in a 1 – 1 result, Australia retaining the Ashes.

The remaining five series were drawn, with Australia retaining the Ashes four times ( 1938, 1962 – 63, 1965 – 66, 1968 ) and England retaining it once ( 1972 ).

Ashes series have generally been played over five Test matches, although there have been four-match series ( 1938 ; 1975 ) and six-match series ( 1970 – 71 ; 1974 – 75 ; 1978 – 79 ; 1981 ; 1985 ; 1989 ; 1993 and 1997 ).

* 1938 – Dave Balon, Canadian ice hockey player ( d. 2007 )

* 1938 – Pierre de Bané, Canadian politician

* 1938 – Terry Peck, Falkland Islander soldier ( d. 2006 )

4, No. 1 ( Feb., 1938 ), pp. 14 – 33 in JSTOR

* 1938 – Terry Wogan, Irish-English broadcaster

Our last joint venture, Sainted Lady, a deeply religious film based on the life of Mother Cabrini, and timed so that its release date would coincide with the beatification of America's first saint in November, 1938, was a fiasco from start to finish.

Though that may be unfair since Ben Cooper, John's first son, came along early in 1938, the cutest baby you ever saw and a blessing that he looked all Cooper from fontanel to pink toes, nary a trace of Edythe.

According to Lovecraft's " History of the Necronomicon " ( written 1927, first published 1938 ), Alhazred was:

The CAB investigation of the accident is the first investigation to be conducted under the Bureau of Air Commerce act of 1938.

In 1938, the first formal men's barbershop organization was formed, known as the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America ( S. P. E. B. S. Q. S. A ), and in 2004 rebranded itself and officially changed its public name to the Barbershop Harmony Society ( BHS ).

The comic first appeared on 30 July 1938, and was published weekly.

The first of these publications, The Dandy, commenced in 1937 and was followed by The Beano on 26 July 1938.

The first edition of The Beano was dated 30 July 1938, and the 3000th issue was published in January 2000.

From 1938 to 1945, he held a succession of positions, first becoming senior history master at Blundell's School in Tiverton, Devon in 1938 ( and also a Captain in the school's OTC ), then instructor at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth in 1939.

Caving was pioneered by Édouard-Alfred Martel ( 1859 – 1938 ) who first achieved the descent and exploration of the Gouffre de Padirac, France as early as 1889 and the first complete descent of a 110 metre wet vertical shaft at Gaping Gill, in Yorkshire, England in 1895.

Near the end of the first decade of the double-Bills ' guidance, the Cubs won the NL pennant in 1929 and then achieved the unusual feat of winning a pennant every three years, following up the 1929 flag with league titles in 1932, 1935, and 1938.

In 1938 the Rosenwald Fund provided money for Alston to travel to the South, which was his first return there since leaving as a child.

From his first introduction in 1938 to the mid-1980s, " Clark Kent " was seen mostly as a disguise for Superman, enabling him to mix with ordinary people.

* The Night Watchman ( 1938, his first )

His book, The Chaos of Cults, which was first published in 1938, became a classic in the field as it was repeatedly revised and updated until 1962.

In 1938, the Wings and the Montreal Canadiens became the first NHL teams to play in Europe, playing in Paris and London.

Irving Fisher in his 1930 book " The Theory of Interest " and John Burr Williams's 1938 text ' The Theory of Investment Value ' first formally expressed the DCF method in modern economic terms.

Action Comics # 1 ( June 1938 ), the first comic book to feature the new character archetype — soon known as " superheroes " — proved a major sales hit.

During the Era of Silence political parties were banned and the parliament was not in session between 1934 and 1938 as the country was ruled by decree by Konstantin Päts, who was elected as the first President of Estonia in 1938.

The first practical electron microscope was constructed in 1938, at the University of Toronto, by Eli Franklin Burton and students Cecil Hall, James Hillier, and Albert Prebus ; and Siemens produced the first commercial transmission electron microscope ( TEM ) in 1939.