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Oct 21 Japanese troops occupies Canton; Oct 22 Chester...
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Mar 18 NY 1st requires serological blood tests of pregnant...
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Sep 21 RKO film comedy "Room Service", starring the Marx...
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Historical events in July 1938. Learn about 32 famous,...
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May 3 Concentration camp at Flossenburg goes into use; May 3...
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Sep 15 John Cobb sets world auto speed record at 350.2 MPH...
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Aug 7 Nazis close theologic department of Innsbruck...
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Main article: January 1938. January 20: King Farouk. January 16: Benny Goodman in New York City. January 1 – State-owned railway networks are created by merger, in France ( SNCF) and the Netherlands ( Nederlandse Spoorwegen – NS). [1] January 20 – King Farouk of Egypt marries Safinaz Zulficar, who becomes Queen Farida, in Cairo. [2]
Jan 1, 2008 · What events during 1938 might be examples? How did the events of Kristallnacht compare to previous anti-Jewish actions and violence in Germany under the Nazis?· How can “national emergencies” lead to human rights violations and even atrocities?
Historical Events for the Year 1938. 3rd January » The March of Dimes is established by President of the United States known as President Franklin D. Roosevelt. 9th January » Paul of Greece marries Frederica of Hanover in Athens. 14th January » Norway claims Queen Maud Land in Antarctica.
- United States -- Great New England Hurricane
- United States --- Seabiscuit and War Admiral
- Germany -- Nuclear Fission Discovered
- Atlantic Ocean - RMS Queen Mary Speed Record
- Czechoslovakia - Munich Agreement
- United States - Superman's First Appearance
- United States - Agricultural Adjustment Act
- United States --- Fair Labor Standards Act
- Germany --- Nazi Germany Escalation
- Hughes Breaks Around The World Record
1. The Great New England Hurricane began as a tropical cyclone near the Cape Verde Islands in early September. 2. It turned into a hurricane, which was officially unnamed, around September 9th and September 10 News Events. 3. The U.S. Weather Bureau was warned that the storm was spotted in the Caribbean around September 16th and was expected to hit...
Seabiscuit and War Admiral have their long awaited race to decide the best horse which Seabiscuit beats War Admiral More Information and Timeline for Seabiscuit and War Admiral 1. In 1937, War Admiral dominated the horse-racing scene in the Spring and won the Kentucky Derby. 2. War Admiral wins the Triple Crown in 1937, going so fast in one race th...
1. Enrico Fermi begins experimenting with radioactivity and atomic energy in the early 1930s, and unknowingly demonstrates nuclear fission with uranium in 1934. 2. Enrico Fermi is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1938 for the discovery of new elements related to the yet unidentified fission process (known then as "transuranic elements"). 3. Ph...
1. The RMS Queen Mary breaks the record for the fastest passenger liner to cross the Atlantic Ocean during August of 1938. 2. The Queen Mary was launched in 1934 and had previously held the honor in 1936. 3. It was bested by the SS Normandie in 1937but the RMS Queen Mary reclaimed its title with the fastest Eastbound and Westbound Atlantic crossing...
1. Germany, France, Italy, and the United Kingdom sign the Munich Agreement on September 30th. 2. The agreement allowed Germany to annex the Sudetenland area of Czechoslovakia, a region where about 3 million Germans lived. 3. Nazi Germany had already successfully annexed Austria in Marchwithout facing international consequences. 4. The agreement wa...
The popular comic superhero Superman makes his first appearance during April when Action Comics #1 is published (issue dated June 1938). The character was created by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster in 1933 when they were teenagers and it was one of the first major superhero characters. Siegel and Shuster created the Superman comic until ...
The U.S. Congress passes the Second Agricultural Adjustment Act during February. The law was created as a replacement for the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 which had been deemed unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in the United States v. Butler case during 1936. The act was a part of President Roosevelt’s New Deal program and it mandated pr...
Fair Labor Standards Act( Wages and Hours Bill ) passes regulations "labor of persons under eighteen years of age" More Information and Timeline for Fair Labor Standards Act Many believe that the Fair Labor Standards Act was one of the defining laws of the New Deal and one of the more important laws to come out of the Great Depression in the United...
Germany begins itspersecutionof Jews More Information and Timeline for Nazi Germany Escalation 1. While Germany had already been increasingly war-like and anti-Semitic since Hitler had taken over the country. Many more dramatic events happened to ramp up to the beginning of World War II in the following year and acts against Jewish persons in Europ...
Howard Hughes breaks the around-the-world flight record during July. Hughes and his four-person crew flew a Lockheed 14 Super Electra for 14,672 miles. The whole trip took 3 days, 19 hours, and 17 minutes. Hughes and his crew began their trip in New York City and made stops in Paris, Moscow, Omsk, Yakutsk, Fairbanks, and Minneapolis before returnin...
Oct 27, 2017 · Major Events. Sep 30 Treaty of Munich signed by Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Édouard Daladier and Neville Chamberlain, forces Czechoslovakia to give territory to Germany. Chamberlain infamously declares "Peace for our time" on his return to London.
September 21 – The New England Hurricane of 1938 strikes Long Island and southern New England, killing over 300 along the Rhode Island shoreline and approximately 600 in total. September 22 – Olsen and Johnson 's musical comedy revue Hellzapoppin' begins its 3-year run on Broadway.
