1938 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1938?
- January 14, 1938 – Norway claims Queen Maud Land in Antarctica.
- January 16, 1938 – The Benny Goodman Orchestra performed the first jazz concert at Carnegie Hall.
- January 28, 1938 – The World Land Speed Record on a public road is broken by driver Rudolf Caracciola in the Mercedes-Benz W195 at a speed of 432.7 km/h.
- January 31, 1938 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Tiger in Chinese astrology.
- March 12, 1938 – Anschluss: German troops occupy Austria.
- March 13, 1938 – World News Roundup is broadcast for the first time on CBS Radio in the United States.
- 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 23, 1938 – The Civil Aeronautics Act is signed into law, forming the Civil Aeronautics Authority in the United States.
- 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.
- July 10, 1938 – Howard Hughes sets a new record by completing a 91 hour airplane flight around the world.
- July 24, 1938 – First ascent of the Eiger north face.
- August 18, 1938 – The Thousand Islands Bridge, connecting New York State, United States with Ontario, Canada over the St. Lawrence River, is dedicated by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- 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.
- 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”.
- 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 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 16, 1938 – LSD is first synthesized by Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Switzerland.
- December 23, 1938 – Discovery of the first modern coelacanth in South Africa.
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