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 13, 1938 – Anschluss of Austria to the Third Reich.
- March 18, 1938 – Mexico nationalizes all foreign-owned oil properties within its borders.
- March 27, 1938 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Taierzhuang takes place.
- April 25, 1938 – U.S. Supreme Court delivers its opinion in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins and overturns a century of federal common law.
- April 30, 1938 – The animated cartoon short Porky’s Hare Hunt debuts in movie theaters, introducing Happy Rabbit (a prototype of Bugs Bunny).
- 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.
- 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 17, 1938 – Douglas Corrigan takes off from Brooklyn to fly the “wrong way” to Ireland and becomes known as “Wrong Way” Corrigan.
- July 24, 1938 – First ascent of the Eiger north face.
- July 31, 1938 – Bulgaria signs a non-aggression pact with Greece and other states of Balkan Antanti (Turkey, Romania, Yugoslavia).
- August 23, 1938 – English cricketer Len Hutton sets a world record for the highest individual Test innings of 364, during a Test match against Australia.
- September 30, 1938 – The League of Nations unanimously outlaws “intentional bombings of civilian populations”.
- 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.
- 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 16, 1938 – LSD is first synthesized by Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Switzerland.
- November 18, 1938 – Trade union members elect John L. Lewis as the first president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations.
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