1938

timeline
years:	1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 (stardates unknown)
decades:	1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1950s
centuries:	19th century - 20th century - 21st century

EventsEdit

• Emma Russell, the mother of Benny Russell, died.^[1]
• 30 October - Orson Welles and The Mercury Theatre on the Air presented a radio adaptation of The War of the Worlds, a late 19th century science fiction novel by H.G. Wells which depicted a Martian invasion of Earth.^[2] The broadcast caused a mass panic in the United States of America as many believed that it was in fact a news report about a real Martian invasion. James Wainwright, who was then 21, did not hear the broadcast but read about it in the newspapers the next day. On 23 September 1947, Professor Jeffrey Carlson told him that there was a theory that the broadcast was used as a cover story for the discovery of an actual alien spaceship. However, Wainwright dismissed this theory, branding it "crazy."^[3]

References and NotesEdit

1. ↑ DS9 novelization: Far Beyond the Stars
2. ↑ DS9 short story: "Captain Proton and the Orb of Bajor"
3. ↑ TOS novel: From History's Shadow

StoriesEdit

Title	Series	Date	Media	Notes	Image
Strange New Worlds IV Captain Proton and the Orb of Bajor	Deep Space Nine	28 October 1938	short story

ConnectionsEdit

• 1938 article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
• 1938 article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.