Important Historical Events of the year 1938, Year 1938 in History

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Date	Event
January 28, 1938	The World Land Speed Record on a public road is broken by Rudolf Caracciola in the Mercedes-Benz W125 Rekordwagen at a speed of 432.7 kilometres per hour (268.9 mph).
February 4, 1938	Adolf Hitler appoints himself as head of the Armed Forces High Command.
February 11, 1938	BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television programme, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Čapek play R.U.R., that coined the term "robot".
February 18, 1938	Second Sino-Japanese War: During the Nanking Massacre, the Nanking Safety Zone International Committee is renamed "Nanking International Rescue Committee", and the safety zone in place for refugees falls apart.
March 3, 1938	Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.
March 12, 1938	Anschluss: German troops occupy and absorb Austria.
March 18, 1938	Mexico creates Pemex by expropriating all foreign-owned oil reserves and facilities.
March 27, 1938	Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Taierzhuang begins, resulting several weeks later in the war's first major Chinese victory over Japan.
April 10, 1938	The 1938 German parliamentary election and referendum seeks approval for a single list of Nazi candidates and the recent annexation of Austria.
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 25, 1938	Spanish Civil War: The bombing of Alicante kills 313 people.
May 26, 1938	In the United States, the House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.
June 7, 1938	The Douglas DC-4E makes its first test flight.
June 7, 1938	Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Nationalist government creates the 1938 Yellow River flood to halt Japanese forces. Five hundred to nine hundred thousand civilians are killed.
June 11, 1938	Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Wuhan starts.
June 23, 1938	The Civil Aeronautics Act is signed into law, forming the Civil Aeronautics Authority in the United States.
June 24, 1938	Pieces of a meteorite land near Chicora, Pennsylvania. The meteorite is estimated to have weighed 450 metric tons when it hit the Earth's atmosphere and exploded.
June 25, 1938	Dr. Douglas Hyde is inaugurated as the first President of Ireland.
July 3, 1938	World speed record for a steam locomotive is set in England, by the Mallard, which reaches a speed of 125.88 miles per hour (202.58 km/h).
July 3, 1938	United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates the Eternal Light Peace Memorial and lights the eternal flame at Gettysburg Battlefield.
July 10, 1938	Howard Hughes begins a 91-hour airplane flight around the world that will set a new record.
July 17, 1938	Douglas Corrigan takes off from Brooklyn to fly the "wrong way" to Ireland and becomes known as "Wrong Way" Corrigan.
July 20, 1938	The United States Department of Justice files suit in New York City against the motion picture industry charging violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act in regards to the studio system. The case would eventually result in a break-up of the industry in 1948.
July 28, 1938	Hawaii Clipper disappears between Guam and Manila as the first loss of an airliner in trans-Pacific China Clipper service.
July 31, 1938	Bulgaria signs a non-aggression pact with Greece and other states of Balkan Antanti (Turkey, Romania, Yugoslavia).
July 31, 1938	Archaeologists discover engraved gold and silver plates from King Darius the Great in Persepolis.
August 18, 1938	The Thousand Islands Bridge, connecting New York, United States, with Ontario, Canada, over the Saint Lawrence River, is dedicated by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
August 20, 1938	Lou Gehrig hits his 23rd career grand slam, a record that stood for 75 years until it was broken by Alex Rodriguez.
August 24, 1938	Kweilin incident: A Japanese warplane shoots down the Kweilin, a Chinese civilian airliner, killing 14. It is the first recorded instance of a civilian airliner being shot down.
September 5, 1938	Chile: A group of youths affiliated with the fascist National Socialist Movement of Chile are executed after surrendering during a failed coup.
September 12, 1938	Adolf Hitler demands autonomy and self-determination for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
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 27, 1938	The ocean liner Queen Elizabeth is launched in Glasgow.
September 30, 1938	Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, whereby Germany annexes the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
September 30, 1938	The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations".
October 1, 1938	Pursuant to the Munich Agreement signed the day before, Nazi Germany begins the military occupation and annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland.
October 5, 1938	In Nazi Germany, Jews' passports are invalidated.
October 10, 1938	Abiding by the Munich Agreement, Czechoslovakia completes its withdrawal from the Sudetenland.
October 30, 1938	Orson Welles broadcasts a radio adaptation of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing a massive panic in some of the audience in the United States.
October 31, 1938	Great Depression: In an effort to restore investor confidence, the New York Stock Exchange unveils a fifteen-point program aimed to upgrade protection for the investing public.
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 9, 1938	Kristallnacht occurs, instigated by the Nazis using the killing of German diplomat Ernst vom Rath by Herschel Grynszpan as justification.
November 12, 1938	Nazi Germany issues the Decree on the Elimination of Jews from Economic Life prohibiting Jews from selling goods and services or working in a trade, totally segregating Jews from the German economy.
November 14, 1938	The Lions Gate Bridge, connecting Vancouver to the North Shore region, opens to traffic.
November 15, 1938	Nazi Germany bans Jewish children from public schools in the aftermath of Kristallnacht.
November 16, 1938	LSD is first synthesized by Albert Hofmann from ergotamine at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel.
December 3, 1938	Nazi Germany issues the Decree on the Utilization of Jewish Property forcing Jews to sell real property, businesses, and stocks at below market value as part of Aryanization.
December 13, 1938	The Holocaust: The Neuengamme concentration camp opens in the Bergedorf district of Hamburg, Germany.
December 17, 1938	Otto Hahn discovers the nuclear fission of the heavy element uranium, the scientific and technological basis of nuclear energy.