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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.
April 25, 1938
– U.S. Supreme Court delivers its opinion in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins and overturns a century of federal common law.
May 26, 1938
– In the United States, the House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.
June 23, 1938
– The Civil Aeronautics Act is signed into law, forming the Civil Aeronautics Authority in the United States.
July 17, 1938
– Douglas Corrigan takes off from Brooklyn to fly the “wrong way” to Ireland and becomes known as “Wrong Way” Corrigan.
August 18, 1938
– The Thousand Islands Bridge, connecting New York State, United States with Ontario, Canada over the St. Lawrence River, is dedicated by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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.
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 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.
Who Were Born On 1938?
March 4, 1938
– Paula Prentiss, American actress
March 31, 1938
– Michiko Nomura, Japanese voice actor
May 18, 1938
– Joan Blackman, American actress
June 19, 1938
– Ian Smith, Australian actor
June 26, 1938
– Billy Davis, Jr., American singer (The 5th Dimension)
July 18, 1938
– Paul Verhoeven, Dutch film director
October 3, 1938
– Jack Hodgins, Canadian author
October 16, 1938
– Carl Gunter Jr, American state legislator (d. 1999)