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1938

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Years :	1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941
Years:	1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941
Decades:	1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s
Centuries:	19th century · 20th century · 21st century

1938 by topic:
Arts
Architecture - Art - Film - Literature - Music - Television
Science and technology
Archaeology - Aviation - Meteorology - Rail transport - Radio - Science
By country
Australia - Canada - India - Ireland - Mexico - South Africa
Other topics
Awards - Sport - Law - State leaders - Religious leaders Video gaming
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths

1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar).

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Nobel Prizes

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Events

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January-March

January 3 - The March of Dimes is established by Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
January 5 - H.R.H. Prince Juan Carlos of Spain is born.
January 11 - Frances Moulton is the first woman to become president of a US national bank.
January 20 - Wedding of King Farouk I of Egypt and Queen Farida Zulficar in Cairo
January 28 - The first ski tow in America begins operation in Vermont.
January 31 - Crown princess Beatrix is born in Netherlands
February 4 - Thornton Wilder's play Our Town opens (New York City).
February 10 - Carol II of Romania takes dictatorial powers
February 12 - World War II: German troops enter Austria
February 24 - A nylon bristle toothbrush becomes the first commercial product to be made with nylon yarn.
March 3 - Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.
March 12 - Anschluss: German troops occupy Austria; annexation declared the following day.
March 15 - Soviet Union announces officially that Nikholai Bukharin has been executed
March 18 - Mexico nationalizes all foreign-owned oil properties within its borders.

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April-June

April 12 - Edouard Daladier becomes president of France
April 25 - U.S. Supreme Court delivers opinion in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins and overturns a century of federal common law.
April 28 - The towns of Dana, Enfield, Greenwich, and Prescott in Massachusetts are disincorporated to make way for the Quabbin Reservoir.
May 5 - Vatican recognizes Franco's government in Spain
May 25 - Bombing of Alicante, Spain, in the Spanish Civil War, with 313 deads.
June 1 - Action Comics issues the first Superman comic.
June 11 - Fire destroys 212 buildings in Ludes, Latvia
June 12-18 - Roma and Sinti in Germany and Austria are rounded up, beaten up and jailed
June 19 - Italy beat Hungary 4-2 to win the 1938 World Cup
June 23 - The Civil Aeronautics Act is signed into law, forming the Civil Aeronautics Authority in the United States.
June 23 - Marineland opens near St. Augustine, Florida.
June 25 - Dr. Douglas Hyde is elected the first President of Ireland.
June 28 - A 450 metric ton meteorite struck the earth in an empty field near Chicora, Pennsylvania

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July-September

July 3 - Steam locomotive "Mallard" sets the world speed record for steam by reaching 126 mph.
July 3 - The last reunion of the Blue and Gray commemerates the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
July 10 - Howard Hughes sets a new record by completing a 91 hour airplane flight around the world.
July - Building of the concentration camp Mauthausen
August 18 - The Thousand Islands Bridge, connecting the United States with Canada, is dedicated by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
September - European crisis over German demand for annexation of Sudeten borderland of Czechoslovakia.
September 21 - A large hurricane (the New England Hurricane of 1938) strikes Long Island, killing 600 people.
September 29 - Munich agreement of German, Italian, British and French leaders agrees to German demands regarding annexation of Sudetenland.
September 29 - Republic of Hatay declared in Syria

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October-December

October 1 - German troops march into Sudetenland
October 5 - Edvard Beneš, president of Czechoslovakia, resigns
October 10 - The Blue Water Bridge opens, connecting Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario
October 17 - Jan Syrovy's government begins in Czechoslovakia
October 27 - Du Pont announced a name for its new synthetic yarn: "nylon".
October 30 - Orson Welles's radio adaptation of The War of the Worlds is broadcast, causing mass panic in the eastern United States.
October 31 - Great Depression: In an effort to try restore investor confidence, the New York Stock Exchange unveils a fifteen-point program aimed to upgrade protection for the investing public.
November 9 - Holocaust: Kristallnacht begins - In Germany, the "night of broken glass" begins as Nazi troops and sympathizers loot and burn Jewish businesses (the all night affair saw 7,500 Jewish businesses destroyed, 267 synagogues burned, 91 Jews killed, and at least 25,000 Jewish men arrested).
November 10 - On the eve of Armistice Day, Kate Smith sings Irving Berlin's God Bless America for the first time on her weekly radio show.
November 18 - Trade union members elect John L. Lewis as the first president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations.
November 30 - Czech parliament elects Emil Hácha as the new president of Czechoslovakia.
Decemver 16 - Ground is broken on the future site of Mark Keppel High School
December 19 - Construction begins at Mark Keppel High School
December 23 - Coelacanth, a fish thought to have been extinct, caught off the coast of South Africa near Chalumna River

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Unknown dates

Italian mathematician Ettore Majorano disappears
In West Java, Daeng Soetigna tuned traditional angklung to play also diatonic scale.
The Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg.
Adolf Hitler is Time magazine's "Man of the Year" (as most influential during the course of the year, not as 'best' man of the year)
Enoch A. Holtwick began long political career.