Historical Events In 1938

Mar 02 Trials of Soviet leaders begins in the Soviet Union

Mar 15 Saudi Arabia began producing oil, a natural resource that would transform a virtual dust bowl of a nation into one so wealthy that King Faisal's main problem was what to do with too much money

Mar 11 Artur Seyss-Inquart replaces Kurt von Schuschnigg as Chancellor of Austria

Mar 03 A world record for the indoor mile run was set at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH. Glenn Cunningham made the distance in 4 minutes, 4.4 seconds.

Mar 18 President Cardena of Mexico nationalizes US & British oil companies

Mar 16 Noël Coward's musical "Operette", premieres in London

Mar 13 "Anschluss," annexation of Austria to the Third Reich.

Mar 03 American Bowling Congress' largest tournament (24,765 competitors)

Mar 11 A world record for the indoor mile run was set at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH. Glenn Cunningham made the distance in 4 minutes, 4.4 seconds.

Mar 13 Nazi Germany invade Austria, making it a German Reich province

Mar 02 Landslides &floods cause over 200 deaths (Los Angeles CA)

Mar 17 The birth of Rudolf Nureyev, World renowned Russian ballet dancer

Mar 07 Dutch Minister of Justice Goseling calls fugitives of Nazi-Germany "undesired strangers"

Mar 19 Toronto Maple Leafs score 8 goals in 5 minutes

Mar 12 Germans enter Vienna, and 183,000 Jews in Austria fall under Nazi control. Within one month, 500 Jews commit suicide.

Mar 12 Nazi Germany invades Austria (Anschluss)

Mar 11 German troops enter Austria

Aug 07 2 die in a New York subway accident

Aug 26 Montreal Maroons dropped from the NHL

Aug 18 FDR dedicates Thousand Islands Bridge connecting US and Canada

Aug 10 Temperatur reaches 119 degrees F in Pendleton, Oregon. - New state record

Aug 25 The birth of Frederick Forsyth, British Author

Aug 29 The birth of Elliot Gould, American actor

Aug 21 The birth of Kenny Rogers, American singer/songwriter

Aug 17 Henry Armstrong won his 3rd concurrent boxing championship

Sep 21 More than 600 people are killed as a hurricane batters New England.

Sep 15 British PM Chamberlain visits Hitler at Berchtesgarden

Sep 12 Adolph Hitler demands self-determination for Sudeten Germans in Czech

Sep 21 Hurricane (winds 183 MPH) in New England kills 700

Sep 16 George E.T. Eyston sets world auto speed record at 357.5 MPH

Sep 23 Time capsule, to be opened in 6939, buried at World's Fair in NYC (capsule contained a woman's hat, man's pipe and 1,100' of microfilm)

Sep 27 Ocean liner Queen Elizabeth launched at Glasgow

Sep 29 Munich Conference, Chamberlain of Britain and Daladier of France agree to German annexation of part of Czechoslovakia.

Sep 30 Munich Agreement-forced Czechoslovakia to give territory to Germany

Sep 14 Graf Zeppelin II, world's largest airship, makes maiden flight

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