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01-10-1938 Munich Agreement Pursuant to the Munich Agreement signed the day before, Nazi Germany begins the military occupation and annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland.
01-11-1938 Seabiscuit Seabiscuit defeats War Admiral in an upset victory during a match race deemed "the match of the century" in horse racing.
03-03-1938 Petroleum Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.
03-07-1938 Steam locomotive World speed record for a steam locomotive is set in England, by the Mallard, which reaches a speed of 125.88 miles per hour (202.58 km/h).
03-07-1938 Franklin D. Roosevelt United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates the Eternal Light Peace Memorial and lights the eternal flame at Gettysburg Battlefield.
03-12-1938 Nazi Germany Nazi Germany issues the Decree on the Utilization of Jewish Property forcing Jews to sell real property, businesses, and stocks at below market value as part of Aryanization.
04-02-1938 Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler appoints himself as head of the Armed Forces High Command.
05-04-1938 Spanish Civil War Spanish Civil War: Two days after the Nationalist army occupied the Catalan city of Lleida, dictator Francisco Franco decrees the abolition of the Generalitat (the autonomous government of Catalonia), the self-government granted by the Republic, and the official status of the Catalan language.
05-09-1938 Chile Chile: A group of youths affiliated with the fascist National Socialist Movement of Chile are executed after surrendering during a failed coup.
05-10-1938 The Holocaust Holocaust: In Nazi Germany, Jews' passports are invalidated.
07-06-1938 Douglas DC-4E The Douglas DC-4E makes its first test flight.
07-06-1938 Second Sino-Japanese War Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Nationalist government creates the 1938 Yellow River flood to halt Japanese forces. Five hundred thousand to nine hundred thousand civilians are killed.
09-11-1938 Kristallnacht Kristallnacht occurs, instigated by the Nazis using the killing of German diplomat Ernst vom Rath by Herschel Grynszpan as justification.
10-04-1938 1938 German parliamentary election and referendum The 1938 German parliamentary election and referendum seeks approval for a single list of Nazi candidates and the recent annexation of Austria.
10-07-1938 Howard Hughes Howard Hughes begins a 91-hour airplane flight around the world that will set a new record.
10-10-1938 Munich Agreement Abiding by the Munich Agreement, Czechoslovakia completes its withdrawal from the Sudetenland.
11-02-1938 BBC One BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television programme, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Čapek play R.U.R., that coined the term "robot".
11-06-1938 Second Sino-Japanese War Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Wuhan starts.
12-03-1938 Anschluss Anschluss: German troops occupy and annex Austria.
12-09-1938 Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler demands autonomy and self-determination for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
12-11-1938 Economy of Nazi Germany Nazi Germany issues the Decree on the Elimination of Jews from Economic Life prohibiting Jews from selling goods and services or working in a trade, totally segregating Jews from the German economy.
13-12-1938 The Holocaust The Holocaust: The Neuengamme concentration camp opens in the Bergedorf district of Hamburg, Germany.
14-11-1938 Lions Gate Bridge The Lions Gate Bridge, connecting Vancouver to the North Shore region, opens to traffic.
15-11-1938 Nazi Germany Nazi Germany bans Jewish children from public schools in the aftermath of Kristallnacht.
16-11-1938 LSD LSD is first synthesized by Albert Hofmann from ergotamine at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel.
17-07-1938 Douglas Corrigan Douglas Corrigan takes off from Brooklyn to fly the "wrong way" to Ireland and becomes known as "Wrong Way" Corrigan.
17-12-1938 Otto Hahn Otto Hahn discovers the nuclear fission of the heavy element uranium, the scientific and technological basis of nuclear energy.
18-02-1938 Second Sino-Japanese War Second Sino-Japanese War: During the Nanking Massacre, the Nanking Safety Zone International Committee is renamed "Nanking International Rescue Committee", and the safety zone in place for refugees falls apart.
18-03-1938 Pemex Mexico creates Pemex by expropriating all foreign-owned oil reserves and facilities.
18-04-1938 Superman Superman debuts in Action Comics #1 (cover dated June 1938).
18-08-1938 Thousand Islands Bridge The Thousand Islands Bridge, connecting New York, United States, with Ontario, Canada, over the Saint Lawrence River, is dedicated by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
20-07-1938 United States Department of Justice 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.
20-08-1938 Lou Gehrig Lou Gehrig hits his 23rd career grand slam, a record that stood for 75 years until it was broken by Alex Rodriguez.
21-09-1938 1938 New England hurricane The Great Hurricane of 1938 makes landfall on Long Island in New York. The death toll is estimated at 500–700 people.
23-06-1938 United States government role in civil aviation The Civil Aeronautics Act is signed into law, forming the Civil Aeronautics Authority in the United States.
24-06-1938 Meteorite Pieces of a meteorite land near Chicora, Pennsylvania. The meteorite is estimated to have weighed 450 metric tons when it hit the Earth's atmosphere and exploded.
24-08-1938 Kweilin incident Kweilin incident: A Japanese warplane shoots down the Kweilin, a Chinese civilian airliner, killing 14. It is the first recorded instance of a civilian airliner being shot down.
25-04-1938 Supreme Court of the United States U.S. Supreme Court delivers its opinion in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins and overturns a century of federal common law.
25-05-1938 Spanish Civil War Spanish Civil War: The bombing of Alicante kills 313 people.
25-06-1938 Douglas Hyde Dr. Douglas Hyde is inaugurated as the first President of Ireland.
26-05-1938 House Un-American Activities Committee In the United States, the House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.
27-03-1938 Second Sino-Japanese War Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Taierzhuang begins, resulting several weeks later in the war's first major Chinese victory over Japan.
27-09-1938 RMS Queen Elizabeth The ocean liner Queen Elizabeth is launched in Glasgow.
28-01-1938 Land speed record The World Land Speed Record on a public road is broken by Rudolf Caracciola in the Mercedes-Benz W125 Rekordwagen at a speed of 432.7 kilometres per hour (268.9 mph).
28-07-1938 Pan Am Flight 229 Hawaii Clipper disappears between Guam and Manila as the first loss of an airliner in trans-Pacific China Clipper service.
30-09-1938 Munich Agreement Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, whereby Germany annexes the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
30-09-1938 League of Nations The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations".
30-10-1938 Orson Welles Orson Welles broadcasts a radio adaptation of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing a massive panic in some of the audience in the United States.
31-07-1938 Bulgaria Bulgaria signs a non-aggression pact with Greece and other states of Balkan Antanti (Turkey, Romania, Yugoslavia).
31-07-1938 Gold Archaeologists discover engraved gold and silver plates from King Darius the Great in Persepolis.
31-10-1938 Great Depression 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.
PTA : 2823710 | PTC : 75