1938 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1938?
- January 3, 1938 – The March of Dimes is established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- January 14, 1938 – Norway claims Queen Maud Land in Antarctica.
- January 31, 1938 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Tiger in Chinese astrology.
- March 13, 1938 – Anschluss of Austria to the Third Reich.
- April 30, 1938 – The animated cartoon short Porky’s Hare Hunt debuts in movie theaters, introducing Happy Rabbit (a prototype of Bugs Bunny).
- 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 Battle of Wuhan starts.
- 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.
- July 20, 1938 – The United States Department of Justice files suit in New York City against the motion picture industry charging violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act in regards to the studio system. The case would eventually result in a break-up of the industry in 1948.
- September 12, 1938 – Adolf Hitler demands autonomy and self-determination for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
- September 23, 1938 – Mobilization of the Czechoslovak army in response to the Munich Crisis.
- September 27, 1938 – Ocean liner Queen Elizabeth launched in Glasgow.
- October 10, 1938 – The Munich Agreement cedes the Sudetenland to Nazi Germany.
- October 31, 1938 – Great Depression: In an effort to restore investor confidence, the New York Stock Exchange unveils a fifteen-point program aimed to upgrade protection for the investing public.
- November 1, 1938 – Seabiscuit defeats War Admiral in an upset victory during a match race deemed “the match of the century” in horse racing.
- November 12, 1938 – Hermann Göring proposes plans to make Madagascar the “Jewish homeland”, an idea that had first been considered by 19th century journalist Theodor Herzl.
- November 18, 1938 – Trade union members elect John L. Lewis as the first president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations.
- December 13, 1938 – The Holocaust: The Neuengamme concentration camp opens in the Bergedorf district of Hamburg, Germany.
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