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 13, 1938 – World News Roundup is broadcast for the first time on CBS Radio in the United States.
- March 27, 1938 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Taierzhuang takes place.
- April 30, 1938 – The animated cartoon short Porky’s Hare Hunt debuts in movie theaters, introducing Happy Rabbit (a prototype of Bugs Bunny).
- May 25, 1938 – Spanish Civil War: The bombing of Alicante takes place, with 313 deaths.
- June 11, 1938 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Wuhan starts.
- July 17, 1938 – Douglas Corrigan takes off from Brooklyn to fly the “wrong way” to Ireland and becomes known as “Wrong Way” Corrigan.
- 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.
- July 24, 1938 – First ascent of the Eiger north face.
- 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 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 30, 1938 – The League of Nations unanimously outlaws “intentional bombings of civilian populations”.
- October 10, 1938 – The Munich Agreement cedes the Sudetenland to Nazi Germany.
- October 14, 1938 – The first flight of the Curtiss Aircraft Company’s P-40 Warhawk fighter plane.
- 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”.
- 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 16, 1938 – LSD is first synthesized by Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Switzerland.
- December 13, 1938 – The Holocaust: The Neuengamme concentration camp opens in the Bergedorf district of Hamburg, Germany.
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