1938 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1938?
- January 3, 1938 – The March of Dimes is established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- January 16, 1938 – The Benny Goodman Orchestra performed the first jazz concert at Carnegie Hall.
- January 31, 1938 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Tiger in Chinese astrology.
- March 3, 1938 – Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.
- March 13, 1938 – Anschluss of Austria to the Third Reich.
- May 25, 1938 – Spanish Civil War: The bombing of Alicante takes place, with 313 deaths.
- May 26, 1938 – In the United States, the House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.
- June 7, 1938 – The Douglas DC-4E makes its first test flight.
- June 11, 1938 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Nationalist government creates the 1938 Yellow River flood to halt Japanese forces. 500,000 to 900,000 civilians are killed.
- June 24, 1938 – Pieces of a meteor, estimated to have weighed 450 metric tons when it hit the Earth’s atmosphere and exploded, land near Chicora, Pennsylvania.
- July 3, 1938 – World speed record for a steam railway locomotive is set in England, by the Mallard, which reaches a speed of 126 mph.
- August 7, 1938 – The Holocaust: The building of Mauthausen concentration camp begins.
- August 20, 1938 – Lou Gehrig hits his 23rd career grand slam – a record that still stands.
- September 5, 1938 – Chile: A group of youths affiliated with the fascist National Socialist Movement of Chile are assassinated in the Seguro Obrero massacre.
- September 23, 1938 – Mobilization of the Czechoslovak army in response to the Munich Crisis.
- September 27, 1938 – Ocean liner Queen Elizabeth launched in Glasgow.
- September 30, 1938 – At 2:00 am, Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, allowing Germany to occupy the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
- October 1, 1938 – Germany annexes the Sudetenland.
- October 25, 1938 – The Archbishop of Dubuque, Francis J. L. Beckman, denounces swing music as “a degenerated musical system.. turned loose to gnaw away at the moral fiber of young people”, warning that it leads down a “primrose path to hell”.
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