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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 31, 1938 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Tiger in Chinese astrology.
• March 12, 1938 – Anschluss: German troops occupy and absorb Austria.
• June 11, 1938 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Wuhan starts.
• July 17, 1938 – Douglas Corrigan takes off from Brooklyn to fly the “wrong way” to Ireland and becomes known as “Wrong Way” Corrigan.
• 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.
• October 5, 1938 – In Nazi Germany, Jews’ passports are invalidated, and those who needed a passport for emigration purposes are given one marked with the letter J (Jude – Jew).
• October 10, 1938 – The Munich Agreement cedes the Sudetenland to Nazi Germany.
• 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.
• October 30, 1938 – Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds, causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United States.
• November 1, 1938 – Seabiscuit defeats War Admiral in an upset victory during a match race deemed “the match of the century” in horse racing.

Who Were Born On 1938?

• January 30, 1938 – Islam Karimov, Uzbek politician; 1st President of Uzbekistan
• February 28, 1938 – Mike Wofford, American pianist and composer
• April 2, 1938 – Al Weis, American baseball player
• April 8, 1938 – John Hamm, Canadian physician and politician, 25th Premier of Nova Scotia
• April 13, 1938 – John Weston, English poet and diplomat
• July 20, 1938 – Tony Oliva, Cuban-American baseball player and coach
• September 3, 1938 – Sarah Bradford, English historian and author
• October 14, 1938 – Farah Pahlavi, Iranian wife of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
• October 28, 1938 – Anne Perry, English author
• October 30, 1938 – Morris Lurie, Australian novelist, short story writer, and playwright (d. 2014)