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1938 Calendar

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•  January 3, 1938 – The March of Dimes is established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
•  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.
•  March 3, 1938 – Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.
•  March 13, 1938 – World News Roundup is broadcast for the first time on CBS Radio in the United States.
•  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 23, 1938 – The Civil Aeronautics Act is signed into law, forming the Civil Aeronautics Authority in the United States.
•  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 30, 1938 – At 2:00 am, Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, allowing Germany to occupy the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.

•  January 13, 1938 – Tord Grip, Swedish football manager
•  March 17, 1938 – Rudolf Nureyev, Russian-born dancer and choreographer (d. 1993)
•  March 26, 1938 – Anthony James Leggett, American physicist, Nobel laureate
•  July 21, 1938 – Janet Reno, 79th United States Attorney General
•  July 29, 1938 – Peter Jennings, Canadian-born American journalist (d. 2005)
•  August 24, 1938 – Halldór Blöndal, Icelandic politician
•  September 25, 1938 – Ron Hill, British runner
•  November 26, 1938 – Rodney Jory, Australian physicist
•  November 29, 1938 – Kashiwado Tsuyoshi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 47th Yokozuna (d. 1996)
•  December 13, 1938 – Heino, German folk singer