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Events on the year of 1938 in history

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02 Jan 1938 Book publisher Simon and Schuster founded
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03 Jan 1938 March of Dimes established to fight polio
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03 Jan 1938 The March of Dimes is established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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06 Jan 1938 Bronze memorial statue of Henry Hudson erected in Bronx
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08 Jan 1938 Bradman scores 107 for South Australia vs. Queensland (1st innings)
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09 Jan 1938 Paul of Greece marries Frederica of Hanover in Athens.
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10 Jan 1938 Paul Vincent Carroll's "White Seed" premieres in New York City NY
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10 Jan 1938 Jean Anouilh's "La Sauvage" premieres in Paris
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10 Jan 1938 Eduard van Beinum becomes world's 1st conductor at Concert Hall
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11 Jan 1938 Bradman scores a second inning 113 vs Queensland after a ton in the 1st
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11 Jan 1938 Frances Moulton elected 1st woman president of a US national bank
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14 Jan 1938 Norway claims Queen Maud Land in Antarctica.
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14 Jan 1938 National Society for the Legalization of Euthanasia formed (NY)
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16 Jan 1938 Benny Goodman, and his band, performed in concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City
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16 Jan 1938 Benny Goodman refuses to play Carnegie Hall when black members of his band were barred from performing
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17 Jan 1938 Supreme Soviet elects Michail Kalinin as presidium chairman
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18 Jan 1938 Bradman scores 104* for South Australia vs New South Wales at the SCG
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18 Jan 1938 Pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander is elected to the Hall of Fame
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19 Jan 1938 GM began mass production of diesel engines
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21 Jan 1938 Dutch government starts obligatory unemployment insurance
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22 Jan 1938 "Our Town", Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer-winner of small-town life in Grover's Corners NH, performed publicly for 1st time (New Jersey)
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25 Jan 1938 Ian Hay's "Bachelor Born" premieres in New York City NY
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28 Jan 1938 The World Land Speed Record on a public road is broken by Rudolf Caracciola in the Mercedes-Benz W195 at a speed of 432.7 kilometres per hour (268.9 mph).
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04 Feb 1938 "Our Town, " by Thornton Wilder opens on Broadway
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04 Feb 1938 Hitler seizes control of German army and puts Nazi in key posts
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05 Feb 1938 Hans Engnestangen skates world record 500m (41.8 seconds)
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10 Feb 1938 King Carol II of Romania drives out dictator Goga
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11 Feb 1938 BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television program, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Čapek play R.U.R., that coined the term "robot".
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11 Feb 1938 Steve Casey beats Lou Thesz in Boston, to become wrestling champion
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12 Feb 1938 Austrian chancellor Schuschnigg visits Hitler in Berchtesgaden
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12 Feb 1938 German troops entered Austria
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16 Feb 1938 US Federal Crop Insurance program authorized
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17 Feb 1938 1st public experimental demonstration of Baird color TV (London)
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18 Feb 1938 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.
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19 Feb 1938 Soviet arctic ice research station North Pole 1 evacuated, Denmark
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20 Feb 1938 UK Foreign Secretary Eden resigns, says Prime Minister Chamberlain appeased Germany
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23 Feb 1938 Joe Louis KOs Nathan Mann in 3 for heavyweight boxing title
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24 Feb 1938 Du Pont begins commercial production of nylon toothbrush bristles
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25 Feb 1938 British Lord Halifax becomes Foreign Minister
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26 Feb 1938 1st passenger ship equipped with radar
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26 Feb 1938 Rie Van Veen swims world record 200 meter free style (2:24.6)
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26 Feb 1938 US female Figure Skating championship won by Joan Tozzer
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27 Feb 1938 Britain & France recognize Franco government in Spain
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02 Mar 1938 Landslides and floods cause over 200 deaths (Los Angeles, California)
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02 Mar 1938 Trials of Soviet leaders begins in the Soviet Union
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03 Mar 1938 The Mallard the fastest steam driven train on the planet, was built by LNER Doncaster Works England
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03 Mar 1938 Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.
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11 Mar 1938 Artur Seyss-Inquart replaces Kurt von Schuschnigg as Chancellor of Austria; German troops also entered the country
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11 Mar 1938 Artur Seyss-Inquart replaces Kurt von Schuschnigg as Chancellor of Austria
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11 Mar 1938 German troops enter Austria
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12 Mar 1938 Anschluss: German troops occupy and absorb Austria.
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12 Mar 1938 Nazi Germany invades Austria (Anschluss)
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13 Mar 1938 World News Roundup is broadcast for the first time on CBS Radio in the United States.
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13 Mar 1938 Anschlu
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16 Mar 1938 No
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16 Mar 1938 Temple defeats Colorado to win 1st NIT
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18 Mar 1938 Mexico takes control of foreign-owned oil properties
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18 Mar 1938 Mexico nationalizes all foreign-owned oil properties within its borders.
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18 Mar 1938 New York 1st requires serological blood tests of pregnant women
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18 Mar 1938 President Cardena of Mexico nationalizes US & British oil companies
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19 Mar 1938 Toronto Maple Leafs score 8 goals in 5 minutes
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23 Mar 1938 Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis frees 74 St L Cardinals minor leaguers
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25 Mar 1938 1st US bred horse (Battleship) to win Grand National Steeplechase
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26 Mar 1938 NBC radio performance of Howard Hanson's 3rd Symphony
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27 Mar 1938 Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Taierzhuang begins, resulting several weeks later in the war's first major Chinese victory over Japan.
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01 Apr 1938 Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, New York
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01 Apr 1938 Joe Louis KOs Harry Thomas in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
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04 Apr 1938 5th Golf Masters Championship: Henry Picard wins, shooting a 285
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05 Apr 1938 Anti-Jewish riots break out in Dabrowa Poland
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06 Apr 1938 Teflon invented by Roy J Plunkett
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10 Apr 1938 Austria becomes a state of Germany
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10 Apr 1938 2nd government of Blum replaced by Daladier government in France
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10 Apr 1938 New York makes syphilis test mandatory in order to get a marriage license
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12 Apr 1938 1st US law requiring medical tests for marriage licenses (New York)
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12 Apr 1938 Stanley Cup Chicago Blackhawks beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 3 games to 1
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13 Apr 1938 Clifford Goldsmith' "What a Life", premieres in NYC
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16 Apr 1938 Great-Britain recognizes Italian annexation of Abyssinia
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18 Apr 1938 Headless Mad Butcher victim found in Cleveland
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19 Apr 1938 42nd Boston Marathon won by Leslie Pawson of Rhode Island in 2:35:34.8
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19 Apr 1938 Phil Emmett Mueller & Dodger Ernie Koy both homer in their 1st at bat
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23 Apr 1938 Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia demand self government
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24 Apr 1938 Lindenheuvel soccer team forms
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25 Apr 1938 U.S. Supreme Court delivers its opinion in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins and overturns a century of federal common law.
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25 Apr 1938 1st use of seeing eye dog
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26 Apr 1938 Austrian Jews required to register property above 5,000 Reichsmarks
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28 Apr 1938 King Zog of Albania marries Countess Geraldine of Hungary
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30 Apr 1938 The first televised FA Cup Final takes place between Huddersfield Town and Preston North End.
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30 Apr 1938 The animated cartoon short Porky's Hare Hunt debuts in movie theaters, introducing Happy Rabbit (a prototype of Bugs Bunny).
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30 Apr 1938 Bradman scores 258 Australia vs Worcestershire, 293 minutes, 33 fours 1 five
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02 May 1938 Ella Fitzgerald records "A-Tisket, A-Tasket"
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02 May 1938 Pulitzer prize awarded to Thornton Wilder (Our Town)
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03 May 1938 Vatican recognizes Franco-Spain
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04 May 1938 Douglas Hyde (a protestant) becomes 1st President of Eire
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05 May 1938 Phillies Harold Kelleher faces 16 batters in 6th, as Cubs score 12 runs, both marks are NL records off one hurler in a single inning
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06 May 1938 Dutch writer Maurits Dekker sentenced to 50 days for "offending a friendly head of state" (Hitler)
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07 May 1938 64th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Lawrin wins in 2:04.8
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07 May 1938 Dutch Minister of Justice Goseling calls fugitives of Nazi-Germany "undesired strangers"
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10 May 1938 Banning speech on anti-fascism demonstration in Amsterdam
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12 May 1938 Sandoz Labs manufactures LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide)
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14 May 1938 64th Preakness: Maurice Peters aboard Dauber wins in 1:59.8
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14 May 1938 English soccer team beats Nazi-Germany, 6-3
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15 May 1938 Paul-Henri Spak forms red coalition of Belgium
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16 May 1938 1st animal breeding society forms (New Jersey)
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16 May 1938 38 die in Terminal Hotel fire (Atlanta GA)
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16 May 1938 In cricket Bradman scores 278 Australia vs MCC, 349 minutes, 35 fours 1 six
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17 May 1938 Radio quiz show "Information Please!" debuts on NBC Blue Network
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17 May 1938 Congress approves Vinson Naval Act, which funds a two-ocean navy
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21 May 1938 Bradman scores 143 Australia vs Surrey, 198 minutes, 11 fours
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22 May 1938 Dodgers announce contracts to install lights at Ebbets Field
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25 May 1938 Spanish Civil War: The bombing of Alicante takes place, with 313 deaths.
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26 May 1938 In the United States, the House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.
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26 May 1938 House Committee on Un-American Activities begins work
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27 May 1938 Bradman scores his 1000th cricket run of England season, earliest to do so
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28 May 1938 Foundation for Tel Aviv harbor laid
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28 May 1938 Hindemiths opera "Mathis der Maler" premieres in Z
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30 May 1938 Yankees sweep Red Sox 10-0 & 5-4 in front of 83,533 at Yankee Stadium
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31 May 1938 Bill Edrich scores his 1,000th run of cricket season, all at Lord's
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01 Jun 1938 Protective baseball helmets 1st worn by batters
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03 Jun 1938 German law on "Entartete Art" legalizes art robbery
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04 Jun 1938 70th Belmont: James Stout aboard Pasteurized wins in 2:29.6
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06 Jun 1938 Sigmund Freud arrives in London
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07 Jun 1938 1st play telecast with original Broadway cast, "Susan & God"
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07 Jun 1938 Boeing 314 Clipper flying boat 1st flown (Eddie Allen)
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07 Jun 1938 The Douglas DC-4E makes its first test flight.
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07 Jun 1938 Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Nationalist government creates the 1938 Yellow River flood to halt Japanese forces. 500,000 to 900,000 civilians are killed.
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09 Jun 1938 Second Chamber agrees to return Jews to Nazi-Germany
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10 Jun 1938 Charlie Barnett makes 98 by lunch vs. Australia at Trent Bridge
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11 Jun 1938 42nd US Golf Open: Ralph Guldahl shoots a 284 at Cherry Hills Denver
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11 Jun 1938 Earthquake in Belgium
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11 Jun 1938 England declare at 8 for 658 vs. Australia at Trent Bridge
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11 Jun 1938 Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Wuhan starts.
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11 Jun 1938 Cin Red Johnny Vander Meer no-hits Boston Braves, 3-0
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13 Jun 1938 Jews injured and property destroyed in Przemyal Poland
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14 Jun 1938 Chlorophyll patented by Benjamin Grushkin
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14 Jun 1938 Dorothy Lathrop wins the 1st Caldecott Medal (kid books author)
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15 Jun 1938 1st night game at Brooklyn Ebbets Field (Reds 6, Dodgers 0) as Cin Red Johnny Vander Meer hurls unprecedented 2nd consecutive no-hitter
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15 Jun 1938 1st night game at Bkln Ebbets Field (Reds 6, Dodgers 0) as Cin Red
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16 Jun 1938 Jimmie Foxx is walked a record 6 consecutive times by Browns
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16 Jun 1938 St Louis Browns walk Boston Red Sox Jimmy Foxx 6 times in a row
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17 Jun 1938 Japan declares war on China
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18 Jun 1938 Babe Ruth is signed as a Dodgers coach for the rest of the season
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19 Jun 1938 "Olympian Flyer" express train crashes in Montana, killing 47
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19 Jun 1938 Paul Waner (Pirates) homers off Pete Sivess (Phillies) in DH
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19 Jun 1938 Reds Johnny Vander Meer extends his string of hitless innings to 21 2 / 3 before Debs Garms singles for Boston in 4th
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19 Jun 1938 Italy beats Hungary 4-1 in soccer's 3rd World Cup at Paris
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21 Jun 1938 Baseball's Pinky Higgins gets 12th straight hit
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22 Jun 1938 Joe Louis KOs Max Schmeling at 2:04 of 1st round at Yankee Stadium
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23 Jun 1938 New York City Mayor LaGuardia assigns 21 cops to patrol subway
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23 Jun 1938 The Civil Aeronautics Act is signed into law, forming the Civil Aeronautics Authority in the United States.
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23 Jun 1938 Civil Aeronautics Authority (US) established
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23 Jun 1938 Marineland opens in Florida-1st aquarium
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24 Jun 1938 500 ton meteorite lands near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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24 Jun 1938 Pieces of a meteor, estimated to have weighed 450 metric tons when it hit the Earth's atmosphere and exploded, land near Chicora, Pennsylvania.
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25 Jun 1938 "A Tisket A Tasket" by Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb hits #1
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25 Jun 1938 Federal minimum wage law guarantees workers 40 cents per hour
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25 Jun 1938 Dr. Douglas Hyde is inaugurated as the first President of Ireland.
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26 Jun 1938 Cin Red Lonny Frey hits 8 doubles in a doubleheader
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28 Jun 1938 Queen Victoria ascends to British throne
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30 Jun 1938 Final game at Phila's Baker Bowl, Giants beat Phils 14-1
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01 Jul 1938 58th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Don Budge beats Henry Austin (61 60 63)
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02 Jul 1938 51st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Helen Jacobs (64 60)
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03 Jul 1938 World speed record for a steam railway locomotive is set in England, by the Mallard, which reaches a speed of 125.88 miles per hour (202.58 km/h).
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03 Jul 1938 United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates the Eternal Light Peace Memorial and lights the eternal flame at Gettysburg Battlefield.
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04 Jul 1938 1st game at Shribe Park, Phila; Braves beat Phillies 10-5
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04 Jul 1938 France-Turkish friendship treaty
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06 Jul 1938 6th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-1 at Crosley Field, Cincinnati
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10 Jul 1938 "Yankee Clipper" completes 1st passenger flight over Atlantic
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10 Jul 1938 Howard Hughes flies around the world in 91 hours
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10 Jul 1938 Howard Hughes sets a new record by completing a 91-hour airplane flight around the world.
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14 Jul 1938 Mussolini publishes anti-Jewish / African manifest
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16 Jul 1938 21st PGA Championship: Paul Runyan at Shawnee Country Club - Shawnee-on-Del, Pennsylvania
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17 Jul 1938 Douglas (Wrong Way) Corrigan leaves New York for LA, wound up in Ireland
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17 Jul 1938 Douglas Corrigan takes off from Brooklyn to fly the "wrong way" to Ireland and becomes known as "Wrong Way" Corrigan.
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18 Jul 1938 Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan arrives in Ireland-left New York for California
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18 Jul 1938 Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan arrives in Ireland-left NY for Calif
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20 Jul 1938 The United States Department of Justice files suit in New York, New York 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.
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20 Jul 1938 Finland awarded 1940 Olympic games after Japan withdraws
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21 Jul 1938 Paul Hindemith and Leonide Massines ballet premieres in London
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23 Jul 1938 Bradman scores 103 in 178 minutes on a Headingley sticky, 3rd Test
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23 Jul 1938 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1468 Zomba
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24 Jul 1938 Instant coffee invented
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24 Jul 1938 First ascent of the Eiger north face.
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25 Jul 1938 Jewish artisans not allowed in Germany
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25 Jul 1938 Revolutionary offensive of Ebro Spain (Hollander Piet)
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26 Jul 1938 1st radio broadcast of "Young Widder Brown" on NBC
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28 Jul 1938 34,000-ton Cunard-White Star liner Mauretania launched at Birkenhead
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28 Jul 1938 Bradman scores 202 Aust vs. Somerset, 225 mins, 32 fours
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28 Jul 1938 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1485 Isa
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29 Jul 1938 Comic strip "Dennis the Menace, " 1st appears
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29 Jul 1938 Olympic National Park forms
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29 Jul 1938 Olympic National Park established
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30 Jul 1938 Gen Metaxas names himself Premier of Greece
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30 Jul 1938 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1467 Mashona
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31 Jul 1938 Bulgaria signs a non-aggression pact with Greece and other states of Balkan Antanti (Turkey, Romania, Yugoslavia).
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31 Jul 1938 Archaeologists discover engraved gold and silver plates from King Darius the Great in Persepolis.
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31 Jul 1938 NY Yanks suspend Jake Powell, after he said on Chicago radio he'd
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02 Aug 1938 1st test of a yellow baseball (Dodgers vs. Cardinals)
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05 Aug 1938 33rd Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Philadelphia (3-2)
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07 Aug 1938 Leo Durocher, hits 2,000th Dodger home run
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07 Aug 1938 The Holocaust: The building of Mauthausen concentration camp begins.
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10 Aug 1938 119
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17 Aug 1938 1st aircraft owned by Forest Service in service (Oakland)
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17 Aug 1938 Henry Armstrong won his 3rd concurrent boxing championship
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18 Aug 1938 FDR dedicates Thousand Islands Bridge connecting US & Canada
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20 Aug 1938 Lou Gehrig hits record 23rd and last grand slam
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21 Aug 1938 Italy bars all Jewish teachers in Public and High School
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24 Aug 1938 England beat Australia by an innings and 579 runs at The Oval
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24 Aug 1938 Virgil Trucks strikes out his 418th batter, highest season total in organized ball-for Andalusia in an Alabama-Florida League game
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26 Aug 1938 British leaders and Arabians fight in Palestine
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26 Aug 1938 Montreal Maroons dropped from the NHL
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27 Aug 1938 Yanks Monte Pearson no-hits Indians 13-0, DiMaggio hits 3 triples
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28 Aug 1938 Mauthausen concentration camp opens in Austria
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28 Aug 1938 Northwestern University awards honorary degree to dummy Charlie McCarthy
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31 Aug 1938 5th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 28, Washington 16 (74,250)
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01 Sep 1938 Mussolini cancels civil rights of Italian Jews
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03 Sep 1938 1940 Olympic site changed from Tokyo Japan to Helsinki Finland
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04 Sep 1938 Vainio Muinonen wins 2nd European marathoner (2:37:28.8)
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05 Sep 1938 Chile: A group of youths affiliated with the fascist National Socialist Movement of Chile are assassinated in the Seguro Obrero massacre.
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06 Sep 1938 Wilhelmina celebrates 40th anniversary jubilee as Dutch Queen
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12 Sep 1938 Adolf Hitler demands autonomy and self-determination for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
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12 Sep 1938 Adolph Hitler demands self-determination for Sudeten Germans in Czech
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14 Sep 1938 Graf Zeppelin II, world's largest airship, makes maiden flight
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15 Sep 1938 British Prime Minister Chamberlain visits Hitler at Berchtesgarden
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15 Sep 1938 Only time brothers hit back-to-back HRs (Lloyd & Paul Waner, Pittsburgh)
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15 Sep 1938 John Cobb sets world auto speed record at 350.2 MPH (lasts 1 day)
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16 Sep 1938 George E.T. Eyston sets world auto speed record at 357.5 MPH
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17 Sep 1938 52nd US Womens Tennis: Alice Marble beats Nancye Wynne Bolton (60 63)
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17 Sep 1938 58th US Mens Tennis: J Donald Budge beats C Gene Mako (63 68 62 61)
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17 Sep 1938 British Premier Neville Chamberlain leaves Munich
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17 Sep 1938 Don Budge wins US Tennis open and completes Grand Slam
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18 Sep 1938 Chicago Bears beat Green Bay Packers 2-0
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18 Sep 1938 Despite losing a double header, Yanks clinch pennant #10
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21 Sep 1938 The Great Hurricane of 1938 makes landfall on Long Island in New York. The death toll is estimated at 500-700 people.
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21 Sep 1938 Hurricane (winds 183 MPH) in New England kills 700
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23 Sep 1938 British Premier Neville Chamberlain flies to Munich
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23 Sep 1938 Mobilization of the Czechoslovak army in response to the Munich Crisis.
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23 Sep 1938 Time capsule, to be opened in 6939, buried at World's Fair in NYC (capsule contained a woman's hat, man's pipe & 1,100' of microfilm)
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24 Sep 1938 Alice Marble wins her 2nd singles US tennis title
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24 Sep 1938 Don Budge becomes 1st tennis player to grand slam
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26 Sep 1938 Hitler issues ultimatum to Czech government, demanding Sudenten Land
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27 Sep 1938 British ocean liner "Queen Elizabeth, " launches at Clydebank Scotland
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27 Sep 1938 Jewish lawyers forbidden to practice in Germany
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27 Sep 1938 League of Nations declares Japan the aggressor against China
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27 Sep 1938 Ocean liner Queen Elizabeth launched in Glasgow.
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28 Sep 1938 Dutch Premier Colijn sends radio message "No war coming"
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29 Sep 1938 1st archival course is offered at Columbia University in New York City
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29 Sep 1938 Treaty of Munich signed by Hitler, Mussolini, Daladier and Chamberlain
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29 Sep 1938 Munich Agreement: Germany is given permission from France, Italy, and Great Britain to seize the territory of Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia. The meeting takes place in Munich, and leaders from neither the Soviet Union nor Czechoslovakia attend.
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30 Sep 1938 British Premier Chamberlain arrives in Munich
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30 Sep 1938 At 2:00 am, Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, allowing Germany to occupy the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
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30 Sep 1938 The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations".
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30 Sep 1938 Munich Agreement-forced Czechoslovakia to give territory to Germany
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01 Oct 1938 Cubs clinch NL pennant
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01 Oct 1938 Germany annexes Sudetenland (1 / 3 of Czechoslovakia)
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01 Oct 1938 Germany annexes the Sudetenland.
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02 Oct 1938 Indian Bob Feller strikes out record 18 Tigers (Chester Laabs 5 times)
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05 Oct 1938 In Nazi Germany Jews' passports were invalidated, and those who needed a passport for emigration purposes were given one marked with the letter J (Jude – Jew).
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06 Oct 1938 Yanks Lefty Gomez sets record of 6 World Series wins without a loss
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07 Oct 1938 Germany demands all Jewish passports stamped with letter J
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09 Oct 1938 A Copland and E Lorings ballet "Billy the Kid, " premieres in Chicago
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09 Oct 1938 Cleveland Browns and Chicago Bears play a penalty free NFL game
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09 Oct 1938 New York Yankees sweep Cubs in 35th World Series, 3rd straight WS win
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10 Oct 1938 The Munich Agreement cedes the Sudetenland to Nazi Germany.
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10 Oct 1938 Germany completed annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland
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14 Oct 1938 Nazis plan Jewish ghettos for all major cities
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14 Oct 1938 The first flight of the Curtiss Aircraft Company's P-40 Warhawk fighter plane.
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15 Oct 1938 Robert Sherwoods "Abe Lincoln in Illinois, " premieres in New York City
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21 Oct 1938 Japanese troops occupies Canton
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22 Oct 1938 Chester Carlson demonstrates 1st Xerox copying machine
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22 Oct 1938 1st Xerox copy made
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24 Oct 1938 US forbids child labor in factories
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25 Oct 1938 Japanese troops occupies Hankou andWuhan
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25 Oct 1938 The Archbishop of Dubuque, Francis J. L. Beckman, denounces swing music as "a degenerated musical system… turned loose to gnaw away at the moral fiber of young people", warning that it leads down a "primrose path to hell". His warning is widely ignored.
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26 Oct 1938 Du Pont named its new synthetic fiber "nylon"
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27 Oct 1938 DuPont announces its new synthetic fiber will be called "nylon"
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28 Oct 1938 Farewell parade of International Brigade (Barcelona)
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30 Oct 1938 Orson Welles panics a nation with broadcast of "War of the Worlds"
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30 Oct 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.
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31 Oct 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.
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01 Nov 1938 German Colonel-General Gerd von Runstedt retires
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01 Nov 1938 NL batting champ Ernie Lombardi is named MVP
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01 Nov 1938 Seabiscuit beats War Admiral in a match race at Pimlico
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01 Nov 1938 Seabiscuit defeats War Admiral in an upset victory during a match race deemed "the match of the century" in horse racing.
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02 Nov 1938 Jimmie Foxx wins his 3rd AL MVP
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05 Nov 1938 Ottawa Roughriders score on 5-man, 4-lateral, 65-yard punt return
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05 Nov 1938 Rugers beats Princeton 1st time in 60 yrs as Rutgers Stad dedicated
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06 Nov 1938 3 DiMaggio brothers play together for 1st time, charity all star game
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08 Nov 1938 1st black woman legislator, Crystal Bird Fauset of Philadelphia
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09 Nov 1938 Crystal Night - Germans break windows owned by Jews
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10 Nov 1938 8.3 earthquake shakes East of Shumagin Islands, Alaska
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10 Nov 1938 Nobel for literature awarded to Pearl Buck (Good Earth)
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11 Nov 1938 German and Austrian Jewish suffer 1 billion Mark damage in Nazi
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11 Nov 1938 Kristallnacht; Jews forced to wear Star of David
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12 Nov 1938 Hermann Goering announces he wants Madagascar as a Jewish homeland
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14 Nov 1938 Dutch DC3 crashes at Schiphol, 6 die
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15 Nov 1938 1st telecast of an unscheduled event (fire), W2XBT, New York
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15 Nov 1938 Farewell Parade of International Brigades in Barcelona
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16 Nov 1938 K B Regiment refuses round-table conference in East-India
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17 Nov 1938 Italy passes their own version of the anti-Jewish Nuremberg laws
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20 Nov 1938 1st documented anti-Semitic remarks over US radio (by Father Coughlin)
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21 Nov 1938 Nazi forces occupy western Czech and declared them German citizens
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24 Nov 1938 National Semi-Pro Basketball Congress authorizes yellow basketball
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29 Nov 1938 Mayor Oud of Rotterdam forbids soccer match between Neth-Germany
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30 Nov 1938 Fascist coup in Romania, fails
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30 Nov 1938 Germany bans Jews being lawyers
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01 Dec 1938 School bus and train collide in Salt Lake City, Utah
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06 Dec 1938 117 Spanish knights under Captain Piet Laros return to the Netherlands
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06 Dec 1938 French / German non-attack treaty drawn (Ribbentrop-Bonnet Pact)
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07 Dec 1938 W9XZY broadcasts facsimile of St. Louis Post-Dispatch by radio
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08 Dec 1938 Highest temperature for December in US recorded in La Mesa, California
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08 Dec 1938 LP Beria follows Nikolai Jezjov as head of Russian secret police
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10 Dec 1938 26th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Winnipeg Blue Bombers, 30-7
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10 Dec 1938 Ruth Fuller Sasaki, Zen teacher, Rinzai line, enters Zen priesthood
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11 Dec 1938 New York Giants win NFL championship
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13 Dec 1938 The Holocaust: The Neuengamme concentration camp opens in the Bergedorf district of Hamburg, Germany.
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13 Dec 1938 Los Angeles freezes at 28
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14 Dec 1938 American League permits Cleveland & Philadelphia to play night games
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14 Dec 1938 Major leagues agree on standard ball
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14 Dec 1938 Major leagues disagree on increasing rosters from 23 to 25
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14 Dec 1938 Will Harridge is elected to a 10-year-term as American League president
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15 Dec 1938 Groundbreaking begins for Jefferson Memorial in Washington DC
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16 Dec 1938 Adolf Hitler institutes the Cross of Honour of the German Mother.
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16 Dec 1938 Bradman scores 143 South Australia vs New South Wales, 11 fours 91 singles
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17 Dec 1938 Otto Hahn discovers the nuclear fission of the heavy element uranium, the scientific and technological basis of nuclear energy.
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17 Dec 1938 Utrecht Central Station destroyed by fire
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20 Dec 1938 Vladimir K Zworykin (Pennsylvania) receives patent on the Iconoscope TV system
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23 Dec 1938 Discovery of the first modern coelacanth in South Africa.
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23 Dec 1938 Margaret Hamilton's Wicked Witch of the West costume catches fire in filming of "Wizard of Oz"; she is severely burned and off the film for over one month
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25 Dec 1938 George Cukor announces Vivien Leigh will play Scarlett O'Hara
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26 Dec 1938 Bradman scores 225 South Australia vs Queensland before Christ gets him out
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26 Dec 1938 Tom Goddard takes a cricket hat-trick for England vs South Africa
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28 Dec 1938 Paul Gibb scores 106 on Test Cricket debut vs South Africa
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29 Dec 1938 Construction on Lake Washington Floating Bridge, Seattle WA, begins
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30 Dec 1938 Electronic television system patented by V K Zworykin
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31 Dec 1938 Dr R N Harger's "drunkometer", 1st breath test, introduced in Indiana
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