Qazi Hussain Ahmad was an Islamic scholar, pro-Islamic democracy activist and former Emir of Jamaat-e-Islami, the social conservative Islamist political party in Pakistan.

1938Alan Rees, British racing driver (died 2024)^[†]

Alan Brinley Rees was a British racing driver. He participated in three World Championship Grands Prix in the 1960s, although two of those appearances were driving Formula 2 cars. He scored no championship points. His best result was seventh place in the 1967 German Grand Prix.

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1938Oscar Florianus Bluemner, German-American painter and illustrator (born 1867)^[†]

Oscar Bluemner, born Friedrich Julius Oskar Blümner and after 1933 known as Oscar Florianus Bluemner, was a Prussian-born American Modernist painter.

Headlines from January 12, 1938

IMPERIAL COUNCIL FIXES JAPAN'S AIM; CHINA LISTS GAINS; Tokyo Is Expected to Reveal Secret Decisions of Leaders in a Few Days

SAYS 'WATCH DOG' EXCEEDS AUTHORITY; Morgenthau Accuses Controller General of 'Snapping' at the Heels of the Treasury

Japan Rocked by Quake; Forest Fire Is Started

Wallace Warns of Idle Millions Flocking From Farms to Cities; Col. Ayres Tells Senators the Utilities Are Key-Logs of Economic Jam, and Aid There Will Speed Recovery

VALENTINE ORDERS CLEAN-UP OF CITY; Shifts 25 High Lieutenants to Morals Squad in Drive on Vice and Gambling

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