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1938
 
    
Leading British artists Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson marry       
1938
 
   
The House Un-American Activities Committee is formed by US congressmen to investigate politically subversive groups      
1938
 
   
The Aboriginal artist Albert Namatjira wins success with the first exhibition of his watercolours      
1938
 
   
Gloucestershire batsman Wally Hammond becomes captain of the England Test team      
1938
 
    
Thornton Wilder's play Our Town opens on Broadway       
1938
 
   
The first shipload of oil is exported from Saudi Arabia to the USA after the discovery of commercially viable resources in Dhahran      
1938
 
    
British author Evelyn Waugh publishes a classic Fleet Street novel, Scoop, introducing Lord Copper, proprietor of The Beast       
1938
 
    
The Du Pont Corporation begins manufacture of a new synthetic silk yarn, subsequently known as nylon       
1938
 
    
Delmore Schwartz publishes his first book of poems, In Dreams Begin Responsibilities       
1938
 
    
French writer Jean-Paul Sartre succeeds with his first novel, La Nausée ('Nausea')