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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
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Historical Events Of 1938
- January 28, 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 km/h.
- January 31, 1938 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Tiger in Chinese astrology.
- March 3, 1938 – Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.
- April 30, 1938 – The animated cartoon short Porky’s Hare Hunt debuts in movie theaters, introducing Happy Rabbit (a prototype of Bugs Bunny).
- July 3, 1938 – United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates the Eternal Light Peace Memorial and lights the eternal flame at Gettysburg Battlefield.
- August 7, 1938 – The Holocaust: The building of Mauthausen concentration camp begins.
- 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 27, 1938 – Ocean liner Queen Elizabeth launched in Glasgow.
- October 25, 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.
Who Were Born On 1938?
- January 1, 1938 – Robert Jankel, English businessman, founded Panther Westwinds (d. 2005)
- January 8, 1938 – Yevgeny Nesterenko, Russian opera singer and educator
- February 13, 1938 – Larry Cunningham, Irish singer (d. 2012)
- February 26, 1938 – Tony Selby, English actor
- June 4, 1938 – Art Mahaffey, American baseball player
- June 15, 1938 – Billy Williams, American baseball player and coach
- August 9, 1938 – Rod Laver, Australian tennis player and coach
- September 28, 1938 – Ben E. King, American singer-songwriter and producer (The Drifters) (d. 2015)
- December 17, 1938 – Carlo Little, English drummer (Screaming Lord Sutch and the Savages and All-Stars) (d. 2005)
- December 21, 1938 – John Quayle, English actor