1938 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1938?
- 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 12, 1938 – Anschluss: German troops occupy Austria.
- March 13, 1938 – Anschluss of Austria to the Third Reich.
- March 27, 1938 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Taierzhuang takes place.
- May 26, 1938 – In the United States, the House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.
- 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.
- June 25, 1938 – Dr. Douglas Hyde is inaugurated as the first President of Ireland.
- July 3, 1938 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates the Eternal Light Peace Memorial and lights the eternal flame at Gettysburg Battlefield.
- August 20, 1938 – Lou Gehrig hits his 23rd career grand slam – a record that still stands.
- September 21, 1938 – The Great Hurricane of 1938 makes landfall on Long Island in New York. The death toll is estimated at 500-700 people.
- September 27, 1938 – Ocean liner Queen Elizabeth launched in Glasgow.
- September 29, 1938 – Munich Agreement: Germany was given permission from France, Italy, and Great Britain to seize the territory of Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia. The meeting occurred in Munich, and leaders from neither the Soviet Union nor Czechoslovakia attended.
- October 30, 1938 – Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds, causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United States.
- November 9, 1938 – Nazi German diplomat Ernst vom Rath dies from the fatal gunshot wounds of Jewish resistance fighter Herschel Grynszpan, an act which the Nazis used as an excuse to instigate the 1938 national pogrom, also known as Kristallnacht.
- 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.
- December 23, 1938 – Discovery of the first modern coelacanth in South Africa.
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