Events Date 1938 June | History by KabAstro

Freud Flees to London

Jun 6 Sigmund Freud arrives in London, fleeing the Nazi annexation of Austria

Jun 7 The Douglas DC-4E makes its 1st test flight

Jun 8 Gert Terblanche, a local school boy, discovers fossils of an unknown 'robust-type' human ancestor, later named Paranthropus robustus by Robert Broom, at Kromdraai, Blaauwbank River Valley in South Africa
Jun 10 English cricketer Charlie Barnett makes 98 by lunch in England v Australia test match at Trent Bridge (closest any Englishman has come to scoring 100 runs before lunch)
Jun 11 5.0 Earthquake in Belgium kills 2, strongest in 45 years
Jun 11 Cincinnati Red Johnny Vander Meer no-hits Boston Braves, 3-0
Jun 11 Compton scores 1st Test Cricket ton (102 v Aust) aged 20 yrs 19 days
Jun 11 England cricket team declare at 8 for 658 v Australia at Trent Bridge
Jun 11 French Championships Men's Tennis: American Don Budge beats Roderich Menzel of Czechoslovakia 6-3, 6-2, 6-4 for the 2nd leg of his Grand Slam
Jun 11 French Championships Women's Tennis: In an all-French final Simonne Mathieu wins first of consecutive titles; beats Nelly Adamson 6-0, 6-3

Jun 11 US Open Men's Golf, Cherry Hills CC: Ralph Guldahl wins back-to-back Open titles, 6 strokes ahead of runner-up Dick Metz

Jun 14 Bradman scores 144* in 1st Test Cricket at Trent Bridge

Jun 14 Chlorophyll patented by Benjamin Grushkin
Jun 14 Dorothy Lathrop wins 1st Caldecott Medal (kid books author)
Jun 15 1st night game at Brooklyn Ebbets Field (Reds 6, Dodgers 0) as Cincinnati Red Johnny Vander Meer hurls unprecedented 2nd consecutive no-hitter

Jun 16 Boston first baseman Jimmie Foxx is walked a record 6 consecutive times by St Louis Browns; Red Sox still win, 12-8

Jun 18 Baseball slugger Babe Ruth is signed as a Brooklyn Dodgers coach for the remainder of the season

Jun 19 "Olympian Flyer" express train crashes in Montana, killing 47
Jun 19 FIFA World Cup Final, Stade Olympique de Colombes, Paris, France: Luigi Colausig & Silvio Piola each score 2 goals as Italy beats Hungary, 4-1
Jun 19 Reds Johnny Vander Meer extends his string of hitless baseball innings to 21 2/3 before Debs Garms singles for Boston in 4th
Jun 21 Baseball's Pinky Higgins gets 12th straight hit
Jun 21 Bradman scores 101* in 77 minutes, Australia v Lancashire

Jun 22 Joe Louis scores a stunning 1st round KO of German Max Schmeling at Yankee Stadium, NYC to retain his world heavyweight boxing title

Jun 25 "A Tisket, A Tasket" by Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb hits #1

Jun 25 US federal minimum wage law guarantees workers 25 cents per hour (rising to 40 cents by 1945) and a maximum 44 hour working week
Jun 26 Cincinnati Red Lonny Frey hits 8 doubles in a doubleheader
Jun 28 Bradman scores 102* in drawn 2nd Test cricket at Lord's
Jun 30 Final game at Philadelphia's Baker Bowl, Giants beat Philadelphia 14-1
Jun 30 Superman first appears in DC Comics' Action Comics Series issue #1