1938 Calendar
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1938 Historical Event(s)
- January 3, 1938 – The March of Dimes is established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- January 14, 1938 – Norway claims Queen Maud Land in Antarctica.
- January 31, 1938 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Tiger in Chinese astrology.
- April 25, 1938 – U.S. Supreme Court delivers its opinion in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins and overturns a century of federal common law.
- July 10, 1938 – Howard Hughes sets a new record by completing a 91 hour airplane flight around the world.
- July 17, 1938 – Douglas Corrigan takes off from Brooklyn to fly the “wrong way” to Ireland and becomes known as “Wrong Way” Corrigan.
- July 31, 1938 – Bulgaria signs a non-aggression pact with Greece and other states of Balkan Antanti (Turkey, Romania, Yugoslavia).
- October 1, 1938 – Germany annexes the Sudetenland.
- October 30, 1938 – Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds, causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United States.
- November 16, 1938 – LSD is first synthesized by Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Switzerland.
Who Were Born On 1938?
- February 13, 1938 – Oliver Reed, English actor (d. 1999)
- March 8, 1938 – Pete Dawkins, American football player
- April 7, 1938 – Spencer Dryden, American drummer (Jefferson Airplane) (d. 2005)
- May 26, 1938 – Pauline Parker, New Zealander murderer
- September 1, 1938 – Per Kirkeby, Danish artist
- September 13, 1938 – John Smith, Labour Party Leader 1992 – 1994 (d. 1994)
- October 16, 1938 – Nico, German musician, fashion model and actress (d. 1988)
- October 18, 1938 – Dawn Wells, American actress
- November 22, 1938 – John du Pont, American member of the Du Pont family and convicted murderer (d. 2010)
- November 29, 1938 – Kashiwado Tsuyoshi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 47th Yokozuna (d. 1996)