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1938
 
    
In Homage to Catalonia George Orwell describes his experiences fighting for the International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War       
1938
 
     
Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek) builds the Burma Road as a supply route        
1938
 
   
American naïve painter Grandma Moses has her first exhibition in a local drug store at the age of 78      
1938
 
   
Yorkshire batsman Len Hutton scores a record 364 in a Test match against Australia at the Oval      
1938
 
    
British author Graham Greene publishes Brighton Rock, a novel following 17-year-old Pinkie in the criminal underworld of the seaside town       
Graham Greene by Bassano, 1939
National Portrait Gallery, London

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1938
 
   
Wind erosion makes this the worst year of the Dust Bowl crisis in the midwest USA      
1938
 
    
Maxim de Winter's house, Manderley, holds dark secrets in Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca       
1938
 
     
Russian film-maker Sergei Eisenstein directs Alexander Nevsky, with music by Prokofiev        
1938
 
    
Irish author Samuel Beckett publishes his first novel, Murphy       
1938
 
   
23-year-old Rangoon student Aung San, later the father of Aung San Suu Kyi, becomes general secretary of a freedom party, Dobama Asiayone (Our Burma Union)