Apr 08 Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, NY

Apr 18 Find headless Mad Butcher victim Cleveland

Apr 09 H Alikoski discovers asteroid #1715 Salli

Apr 10 Austria becomes a state of Germany

Apr 05 Anti-Jewish riots break out in Dabrowa Poland

Nov 09 "Kristallnacht": Anti-Jewish riots in Germany and Austria. 300,000 are arrested, 191 synagogues are destroyed, 7,500 shops are looted.

Nov 18 Canadian author Margaret Atwood is born

Nov 26 The birth of Tina Turner, American singer and actress

Nov 06 Herschel Grynszpan assassinates Ernst vom Rath, third secretary of the German embassy in Paris.

Nov 26 Tina Turner born

Nov 20 Documented anti-Semitic remarks are heard over US radio (by Father Coughlin)

Nov 09 Al Capp, cartoonist of Lil' Abner creates Sadie Hawkins Day

Nov 09 "Kristallnacht" Anti-Jewish riots in Germany and Austria. 300,000 are arrested, 191 synagogues are destroyed, 7,500 shops are looted.

Nov 17 Italy passes their own version of the anti-Jewish Nuremberg laws

Nov 23 Bob Hope and Shirley Ross recorded a song for the film, The Big Broadcast of 1938. Thanks for the Memory became Decca record number 2219. It also became Hope’s theme song.

Nov 12 Hermann Goering announces he wants Madagascar as a Jewish homeland

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

Sep 15 John Cobb sets world auto speed record at 350.2 MPH (lasts 1 day)

Jun 22 Joe Louis KOs Max Schmeling at 2:04 of first round at Yankee Stadium

Jun 23 Civil Aeronautics Authority (US) established

Jun 22 Joe Louis KOs Max Schmeling at 2 04 of first round at Yankee Stadium

Jun 07 Boeing 314 Clipper flying boat is first flown

Jun 19 Italy beats Hungary 4-1 in soccer's 3rd World Cup at Paris

Jun 25 Federal minimum wage law guarantees workers 40. per hour

Jun 14 Dorothy Lathrop wins the first Caldecott Medal (kid books author)

Jun 01 Superman Comics launched

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