January 1938

January 1, 1938 (Saturday)

January 2, 1938 (Sunday)

January 3, 1938 (Monday)

  • The BBC made its first non-English broadcast, in Arabic. Listeners throughout the Middle East tuned in to a one-hour broadcast mostly consisting of a news bulletin on regional events. The audience reportedly expressed disappointment that the broadcast was not interspersed with love songs like Italy's programming was.[5][6]
  • Egyptian Prime Minister Muhammad Mahmoud Pasha prorogued the fractious parliament for one month.[7] As the President of the Chamber read King Farouk's message of prorogation, the parliamentary deputies held a closed-door session in which they passed a motion of no-confidence against the government, 180-17. However, the government considered the motion illegal and ignored it.[5]
  • U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered the annual State of the Union address to Congress. Acknowledging that the world was in a state of "high tension and disorder," the president stated that "we must keep ourselves adequately strong in self-defense." Roosevelt also called for legislation to "end starvation wages and intolerable hours" as "an essential part of economic recovery."[8]
  • The musical play The Cradle Will Rock written by Marc Blitzstein and directed by Orson Welles made its Broadway debut at the Windsor Theatre.[9]
  • The March of Dimes was founded.

January 4, 1938 (Tuesday)

January 5, 1938 (Wednesday)

January 6, 1938 (Thursday)

January 7, 1938 (Friday)

  • Italy announced a massive new naval construction program. Two battleships were to be constructed by 1941.[10][15]
  • Born: Roland Topor, illustrator, writer and actor, in Paris, France (d. 1997)

January 8, 1938 (Saturday)

January 9, 1938 (Sunday)

January 10, 1938 (Monday)

January 11, 1938 (Tuesday)

January 12, 1938 (Wednesday)

January 13, 1938 (Thursday)

January 14, 1938 (Friday)

January 15, 1938 (Saturday)

  • The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union announced an expanded naval program and passed a war emergency measure allowing the Presidium to proclaim martial law or a state of war.[25]
  • Died: Harold R. Atteridge, 51, American composer, librettist and lyricist; Paul Raphael Montford, 69, English sculptor

January 16, 1938 (Sunday)

  • While the Chinese government was still considering how to respond to the Japanese ultimatum, Japan announced it was ending diplomatic relations with China. In Japanese, this was known as the aite ni sezu ("absolutely no dealing") declaration.[20]

January 17, 1938 (Monday)

January 18, 1938 (Tuesday)

January 19, 1938 (Wednesday)

January 20, 1938 (Thursday)

January 21, 1938 (Friday)

January 22, 1938 (Saturday)

January 23, 1938 (Sunday)

January 24, 1938 (Monday)

January 25, 1938 (Tuesday)

January 26, 1938 (Wednesday)

January 27, 1938 (Thursday)

  • Werner von Blomberg resigned his post "for reasons of health" and returned to his honeymoon in Capri, Italy. Hitler had promised to return von Blomberg to his post once the controversy passed, but he was never recalled for duty.[22][37][38]
  • The Honeymoon Bridge collapsed.[33]

January 28, 1938 (Friday)

  • 15 people, including three army officers, were arrested in Greece for plotting to assassinate Ioannis Metaxas.[39]
  • Experiencing great personal duress from the Blomberg–Fritsch Affair, Hitler cancelled plans to hold a special session of the Reichstag on Sunday to celebrate the fifth anniversary of coming to power. The official reason given was that the international situation made it an inopportune time to make any foreign policy statements.[35][40]
  • Died: Bernd Rosemeyer, 28, German racing driver (auto accident during a land speed record attempt)

January 29, 1938 (Saturday)

January 30, 1938 (Sunday)

January 31, 1938 (Monday)

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