1938
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"No, by the grace of God, who evidently does hear very well, even down here, and the margin of half an hour, we keep our world, and the planets of the system too. Anti-gravity, you know, and atomic power. Because They came from another sun, a star beyond the stars. They came from a world with a bluer sun."--Who Goes There? (1938) by John W. Campbell, Jr. |
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1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a the 938th year of the 2nd millennium, the 38th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1930s decade.
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Art and culture
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Visual art
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Events
- Salvador Dali meets Sigmund Freud
- Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme in Paris
- Hitler man of the year in Time Magazine
- LSD - Dr. Albert Hoffman, a chemist at Sandoz Laboratories in Basle, Switzerland, synthesizes LSD. Five years later he inadvertently ingests a small amount of it, and observes and reports effects on himself.
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Music
- Degenerate music was a label applied by the Nazi government in Germany to certain forms of music that it considered to be harmful or decadent. The Nazi government's concern for degenerate music was a part of its larger and more well-known interest in degenerate art. In both cases, the government attempted to isolate, discredit, discourage, or ban the works.
- Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 2 (Shostakovich)
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Literature
- The Psychoanalysis of Fire by Gaston Bachelard
- The Theatre and Its Double by Antonin Artaud
- La Nausée by Sartre
- Guide to Kulchur by Ezra Pound
- The Castle of Argol by Julien Gracq
- Ceux de la soif by Georges Simenon
- Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo
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Film
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Births
- January 2 - Robert Smithson, American artist (land art) (d. 1973)
- January 2 - Ian Brady, British serial killer (d. 2017)
- January 7 - Roland Topor, French illustrator (d. 1997)
- January 23 - Georg Baselitz, German painter and sculptor
- March 17 - Rudolf Nureyev, Russian-born dancer and choreographer (d. 1993)
- October 15 - Fela Kuti, Nigerian musician and activist (d. 1997)
- October 29 - Ralph Bakshi, Israeli cartoonist, film director, and video producer
- November 13 - Jean Seberg, American actress (d. 1979)
- November 16 - Robert Nozick, American philosopher (d. 2002)
- December 16 - Liv Ullmann, Norwegian actress
- Holger Czukay, German musician (d. 2017)
- Paul Bartel (1938 - 2000)
- Romy Schneider (1938 - 1982)
- Jean Giraud (1938 - 2012)
- Hermann Nitsch (1938 - 2022)
- Joyce Carol Oates (1938 - )
- Andrea Branzi (1938 - )
- Paul Morrissey (1938 - )
- Vladimir Vysotsky (1938 – 1980), a Soviet singer, songwriter, poet, and actor
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Deaths
- January 20 - Émile Cohl, French caricaturist and animator (b. 1857)
- January 21 - Georges Méliès, French film director (b. 1861)
- March 1 - Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian writer, war hero, and politician (b. 1863)
- April 26 - Edmund Husserl, Austrian philosopher (b. 1859)
- June 16 - Robert Wiene, German filmmaker (b. 1880)
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