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1938 Calendar Trivia

The next time you can reuse this calendar will be on year 2033. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a solar cycle.

April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), December 12 (12/12), and the last day of February always fall on the same day of the week in any given year. This is called the ‘Doomsday rule’. Check these dates using the full 12-month calendar below to verify.

1938 Calendar

Historical Events Of 1938

• January 3, 1938 – The March of Dimes is established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
• January 31, 1938 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Tiger in Chinese astrology.
• 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 25, 1938 – U.S. Supreme Court delivers its opinion in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins and overturns a century of federal common law.
• 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 31, 1938 – Archaeologists discover engraved gold and silver plates from King Darius the Great in Persepolis.
• August 7, 1938 – The Holocaust: The building of Mauthausen concentration camp begins.
• September 30, 1938 – Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, allowing Germany to occupy the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
• November 1, 1938 – Seabiscuit defeats War Admiral in an upset victory during a match race deemed “the match of the century” in horse racing.
• December 16, 1938 – Adolf Hitler institutes the Cross of Honour of the German Mother.

Who Were Born On 1938?

• January 2, 1938 – Hans Herbjørnsrud, Norwegian author and educator
• April 13, 1938 – John Weston, English poet and diplomat
• April 29, 1938 – Klaus Voormann, German bass player and producer (Manfred Mann and Plastic Ono Band)
• July 3, 1938 – Jean Aitchison, English linguist and academic
• September 9, 1938 – John Davis, English anthropologist and academic
• October 23, 1938 – Alan Gilzean, Scottish footballer and manager
• October 24, 1938 – Stephen Resnick, American economist and academic (d. 2013)
• November 19, 1938 – Ted Turner, American businessman and philanthropist, founded Turner Broadcasting System
• November 21, 1938 – Helen, Burmese-Indian actress and dancer