Timeline June 1938

Events in June 1938 12

• 1880 – 1938 Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938) Died 15 June 1938, aged 58 Kirchner was a German Expressionist painter and a founder of Die Brücke. The Nazis condemned his work as degenerate, and he took his own life in Switzerland.
• 1890 – 1938 Nikolai Trubetzkoy (1890-1938) Died 25 June 1938, aged 48 Trubetzkoy was a Russian linguist and a founder of the Prague School of structural phonology.
• 1901 – 1938 Ödön von Horváth (1901-1938) Died 1 June 1938, aged 36 Horváth was an Austro-Hungarian playwright and novelist, known for Tales from the Vienna Woods. He was killed in Paris by a falling branch during a storm.
• 1938 French Open 1938 Men: Don Budge · Women: Simone Mathieu Budge won all four Grand Slams in 1938 — the first ever calendar Grand Slam.
• 1938 PhD at Princeton Under Church, alongside von Neumann Turing completes a doctorate at Princeton under Alonzo Church, whose lambda calculus had reached the same conclusion by an entirely different route. He also builds an electric multiplier in the physics department machine shop and starts thinking about cipher machines. Von Neumann offers him a post. He goes home instead.
• 1938 1938 FIFA World Cup Pre-War Tournament Italy became the first team to successfully defend their title. Winner: Italy.
• 1938 FIFA World Cup in France Italy retains the world title The third World Cup was played in France. Italy beat Hungary 4-2 in the final in Paris, becoming the first team to defend the title.
• 1938 Yellow River flood Chinese Nationalists breach the dikes to halt the Japanese Nationalist forces broke the Yellow River dikes at Huayuankou to slow the Japanese advance. The resulting floods killed hundreds of thousands of civilians and left millions homeless.
• 1938 Battle of Wuhan Japan captures China's temporary capital after months of fighting More than a million Chinese troops fought a long defence of Wuhan against the Japanese advance up the Yangtze. The city fell in October, but the delay allowed the Nationalist government to move to Chongqing.
• 1938 Bíró patents the ballpoint pen László Bíró files a British patent Hungarian journalist László Bíró and his brother György patented a pen that used quick-drying ink and a rotating ball. The design was later developed in Argentina and spread worldwide.
• 1938 Joe Louis defeats Max Schmeling Louis knocks out Schmeling in the first round In a rematch at Yankee Stadium, heavyweight champion Joe Louis knocked out the German Max Schmeling in two minutes and four seconds. The fight carried strong political meaning on the eve of the war, and Louis became an American hero.
• 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act signed US establishes a federal minimum wage President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the act, which introduced a national minimum wage and a 40-hour standard work week with overtime pay. It also banned most child labour.