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1938 Calendar

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•  January 31, 1938 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Tiger in Chinese astrology.
•  March 27, 1938 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Taierzhuang takes place.
•  May 25, 1938 – Spanish Civil War: The bombing of Alicante takes place, with 313 deaths.
•  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 3, 1938 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates the Eternal Light Peace Memorial and lights the eternal flame at Gettysburg Battlefield.
•  July 31, 1938 – Bulgaria signs a non-aggression pact with Greece and other states of Balkan Antanti (Turkey, Romania, Yugoslavia).
•  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 29, 1938 – Munich Agreement: Germany was given permission from France, Italy, and Great Britain to seize the territory of Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia. The meeting occurred in Munich, and leaders from neither the Soviet Union nor Czechoslovakia attended.
•  November 1, 1938 – Seabiscuit defeats War Admiral in an upset victory during a match race deemed “the match of the century” in horse racing.
•  November 16, 1938 – LSD is first synthesized by Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Switzerland.

•  January 7, 1938 – Roland Topor, French illustrator (d. 1997)
•  January 22, 1938 – Altair, Brazilian footballer
•  February 3, 1938 – Victor Buono, American actor (d. 1982)
•  March 2, 1938 – Ricardo Lagos, former President of Chile
•  April 29, 1938 – Fred Dibnah, British television personality (d. 2004)
•  June 30, 1938 – Apostolos Nikolaidis, Greek singer (d. 1999)
•  July 30, 1938 – Hervé de Charette, French politician
•  September 11, 1938 – David Higgins, British composer and conductor (d. 2006)
•  October 17, 1938 – Evel Knievel, American motorcycle daredevil (d. 2007)
•  November 26, 1938 – Rodney Jory, Australian physicist