The following events occurred in April 1938:
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- Hitler spoke in Vienna to a national audience on the eve of the referendum on the Anschluss, making a final appeal to vote in its favour.[14]
- Born: Viktor Chernomyrdin, politician, in Chernyi Otrog, USSR (d. 2010); Don Meredith, NFL quarterback, sports commentator and actor, in Mount Vernon, Texas (d. 2010); Rockin' Sidney, zydeco musician, in Lebeau, Louisiana (d. 1998)
- Britain and Italy concluded the Easter Accords, a pact to reduce tensions in the Mediterranean region. The British recognized the Italian conquest of Ethiopia while Italy promised to withdraw its troops from Spain at the end of the Civil War and refrain from spreading propaganda in the Middle East.[3]
- Between 16 and 20 Arabs were killed in a battle with British troops at Jenin fought after three Jews were killed in an ambush at al-Bassa.[21]
- Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann accidentally discovered lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD).[4]
- Died: Steve Bloomer, 64, English footballer
- After holding out for all of spring training and missing Opening Day, Joe DiMaggio accepted a salary offer of $25,000 from the New York Yankees – a $10,000 raise over his 1937 salary.[28][29] DiMaggio had been holding out for $40,000 but Yankees owner Jacob Ruppert never budged from his first offer.[30]
- The Leni Riefenstahl-directed documentary film Olympia premiered in Germany.[4]
- The comedy-mystery film There's Always a Woman starring Joan Blondell and Melvyn Douglas was released.
- Born: Peter Snow, radio and television presenter and historian, in Dublin, Ireland; Eszter Tamási, actress and television announcer, in Mezőtúr, Hungary (d. 1991)
- Konstantin Päts became the 1st President of Estonia.
- Sudeten German leader Konrad Henlein presented a list of demands in a speech in Karlsbad. The principal demand was the creation of an autonomous German state within Czechoslovakia. Though left unsaid, it was readily inferred that this state could then vote to secede and join Germany.[33]
- On Budget Day in the United Kingdom, Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon introduced the biggest peacetime budget in the nation's history. Taxes on income, gasoline and tea were increased to help pay for the national rearmament program.[36]
- Nazi Germany enacted the Order for the Disclosure of Jewish Assets, requiring Jews to report all property in excess of 5,000 Reichsmarks.[32]
- 26 people died in riots in Mysore.[7]
- Born: Duane Eddy, guitarist, in Corning, New York (d. 2024); Maurice Williams, lead singer of Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs, in Lancaster, South Carolina
- Died: Edmund Husserl, 79, German philosopher
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Darrah, David (April 27, 1938). "Britain Boosts Income Taxes to Pay For Arms". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 7.
Smith, Thornton (April 29, 1938). "New National Party Formed by La Follette". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 1.