1938 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1938?
- 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.
- February 11, 1938 – BBC Television produces the world’s first ever science fiction television program, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Capek play R.U.R., that coined the term “robot”.
- March 3, 1938 – Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 31, 1938 – Bulgaria signs a non-aggression pact with Greece and other states of Balkan Antanti (Turkey, Romania, Yugoslavia).
- August 20, 1938 – Lou Gehrig hits his 23rd career grand slam – a record that still stands.
- 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”.
- 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.
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