|
|
1938 |
|||||||||||
| South America & Caribbean:Events of this year in this region influencing Louisiana. | |||||||||||
| North America:Events in North America this year influencing Louisiana. | |||||||||||
| Europe: Events in Europe this year influencing Louisiana. | |||||||||||
| January 1938
Allen Toussaint born in the Gerttown section of New Orleans on January 14. |
February 1938
|
March 1938
|
April 1938 |
May 1938
|
June 1938
|
July 1938
|
August 1938
|
September 1938
|
October 1938
|
November 1938
|
December 1938
Baseball commissioner Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis is in town in December 1938 at the Roosevelt Hotel. |
| Tennessee (Thomas Lanier) Williams (1911-1983) arrives in New Orleans from St. Louis and will live in the French Quarter intermittently until his death in 1983. He failed to acquire positions with the WPA in Chicago, then New Orleans. He moves into a boarding house at 722 Toulouse St. | The Buccaneer starring Frederick March as the swashbuckling Jean Lafitte, Akim Tamiroff as Dominique You. Cecil B. DeMille directs. | Santa Clara defeats Louisiana State 6-0 in this year's Sugar Bowl. | |||||||||
Go to the year 1939 | Go to the year 1939 | ||||||||||