1938 Calendar
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1938 Historical Event(s)
January 31, 1938
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Tiger in Chinese astrology.
March 13, 1938
– Anschluss of Austria to the Third Reich.
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 first televised FA Cup Final takes place between Huddersfield Town and Preston North End.
August 23, 1938
– English cricketer Len Hutton sets a world record for the highest individual Test innings of 364, during a Test match against Australia.
September 30, 1938
– At 2:00 am, Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, allowing Germany to occupy the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
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 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.
December 13, 1938
– The Holocaust: The Neuengamme concentration camp opens in the Bergedorf district of Hamburg, Germany.
December 16, 1938
– Adolf Hitler institutes the Cross of Honor of the German Mother
Who Were Born On 1938?
January 29, 1938
– Shuji Tsurumi, Men’s artistic gymnastics
April 20, 1938
– Johnny Tillotson, American singer and songwriter
July 4, 1938
– Sergio Oliva, Cuban born American bodybuilder
July 11, 1938
– Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, American feminist scholar and historian
July 17, 1938
– Hermann Huppen, Belgian comic book artist (Bernard Prince, Comanche, Jeremiah)
July 27, 1938
– Gary Gygax, American role-playing game creator (Dungeons & Dragons) (d. 2008)
August 21, 1938
– Kenny Rogers, American singer and actor
August 28, 1938
– Paul Martin, Canadian politician
September 22, 1938
– Gene Mingo, American football player
October 13, 1938
– Hugo Young, English journalist (d. 2003)