Events Date 1938 October | History by KabAstro

Annexation of Sudetenland

Oct 1 Germany annexes Sudetenland (1/3 of Czechoslovakia) following the Munich Agreement

Oct 2 Future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Feller strikes out record 18 Detroit Tigers; his Cleveland Indians still lose 4-1 at Cleveland Stadium

Oct 2 New York Yankees pitcher Lefty Gomez beats Chicago Cubs, 6-3 in Game 2 at Wrigley Field; sets record of 6 World Series wins without a loss
Oct 4 Baseball World Series: NY Yankees win third straight championship; beat Chicago Cubs, 8-3 at Yankee Stadium for 4-0 sweep
Oct 7 Germany requires all Jewish passports be stamped with letter J

Oct 8 George S. Kaufman & Moss Hart's play "Fabulous Invalid" premieres in NYC

Oct 9 Cleveland Rams and Chicago Bears play one of only 4 penalty free games in NFL history; Rams win 14-7 at Cleveland Stadium
Oct 10 Germany completes its annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland

Oct 10 Premiere performance of Dmitri Shostakovich's 1st String Quartet

Oct 14 Nazis plan Jewish ghettos for all major cities
Oct 15 Robert E Sherwood's stage drama "Abe Lincoln in Illinois", starring Raymond Massey, opens at the Plymouth Theatre, NYC; runs for 472 performances

Oct 16 Aaron Copland's & Eugene Loring's ballet "Billy the Kid" premieres in Chicago

Oct 21 Japanese troops occupies Canton
Oct 22 Chester Carlson has 1st successful experiment in electrophotography, later sold to the Haloid Company and dubbed "Xerox copying"
Oct 22 President of Czechoslovakia Edvard Beneš goes into exile in London, in the aftermath of the Munich agreement and German annexation of Sudetenland
Oct 24 US forbids child labor in factories
Oct 25 American Archbishop of Dubuque (Iowa), Francis J. L. Beckman, denounces Swing music as "a degenerated musical system... turned loose to gnaw away at the moral fiber of young people", warning that it leads down a "primrose path to hell".
Oct 25 Japanese troops occupies Hankou & Wuhan
Oct 27 DuPont announces its new synthetic polyamide fiber will be called "nylon"
Oct 28 Farewell parade of International Brigade (Barcelona)

Oct 30 A radio broadcast of H. G. Wells "The War of the Worlds", narrated by Orson Welles, allegedly causes a mass panic

Oct 31 Great Depression: In an effort to try restore investor confidence, the New York Stock Exchange unveils a fifteen-point program aimed to upgrade protection for the investing public.