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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 14, 1938 – Norway claims Queen Maud Land in Antarctica.
• January 31, 1938 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Tiger in Chinese astrology.
• March 18, 1938 – Mexico nationalizes all foreign-owned oil properties within its borders.
• April 30, 1938 – The first televised FA Cup Final takes place between Huddersfield Town and Preston North End.
• 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.
• September 5, 1938 – Chile: A group of youths affiliated with the fascist National Socialist Movement of Chile are assassinated in the Seguro Obrero massacre.
• 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 30, 1938 – Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, allowing Germany to occupy the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
• October 10, 1938 – The Munich Agreement cedes the Sudetenland to Nazi Germany.
• November 9, 1938 – The Nazi German diplomat Ernst vom Rath dies from the fatal gunshot wounds of Jewish resistance fighter Herschel Grynszpan, an act which the Nazis used as an excuse to instigate the 1938 national pogrom, also known as Kristallnacht (Crystal Night).

Who Were Born On 1938?

• January 23, 1938 – Giant Baba, Japanese wrestler and promoter, founded All Japan Pro Wrestling (d. 1999)
• February 13, 1938 – Larry Cunningham, Irish singer (d. 2012)
• March 26, 1938 – Anthony James Leggett, English-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• June 19, 1938 – Cheng-Wen Wu, Taiwanese biochemist and academic
• June 23, 1938 – John Hayes, English politician, Minister of State at the Department of Energy and Climate Change
• October 1, 1938 – Stella Stevens, American actress and director
• October 5, 1938 – Ed Ocampo, Filipino basketball player and coach (d. 1992)
• October 14, 1938 – Elizabeth Esteve-Coll, English curator and academic
• December 10, 1938 – Yuri Temirkanov, Russian viola player and conductor
• December 11, 1938 – Enrico Macias, Algerian-French singer-songwriter and guitarist