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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 16, 1938 – Benny Goodman, and his band, performed in concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City
• January 31, 1938 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Tiger in Chinese astrology.
• February 18, 1938 – During the Nanking Massacre the Nanking Safety Zone International Committee is renamed “Nanking International Rescue Committee” and the safety zone in place for refugees falls apart.
• April 30, 1938 – The animated cartoon short Porky’s Hare Hunt debuts in movie theaters, introducing Happy Rabbit (a prototype of Bugs Bunny).
• June 7, 1938 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Nationalist government creates the 1938 Yellow River flood to halt Japanese forces. 500,000 to 900,000 civilians are killed.
• July 17, 1938 – Douglas Corrigan takes off from Brooklyn to fly the “wrong way” to Ireland and becomes known as “Wrong Way” Corrigan.
• 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 12, 1938 – Adolf Hitler demands autonomy and self-determination for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
• October 14, 1938 – The first flight of the Curtiss Aircraft Company’s P-40 Warhawk fighter plane.

Who Were Born On 1938?

• February 22, 1938 – Barry Dennen, American actor and singer
• March 23, 1938 – Irwin Levine, American songwriter (d. 1997)
• April 17, 1938 – Ben Barnes, American businessman and politician, 36th Lieutenant Governor of Texas
• July 10, 1938 – Paul Andreu, French architect, designed the Osaka Maritime Museum and the National Grand Theater of China
• July 12, 1938 – Ron Fairly, American baseball player and sportscaster
• October 12, 1938 – Larry Scott, American bodybuilder and actor (d. 2014)
• October 17, 1938 – Les Murray, Australian anthologist, poet, and critic
• November 7, 1938 – Barry Newman, American actor
• December 20, 1938 – John Harbison, American composer and academic
• December 21, 1938 – Frank Moorhouse, Australian journalist, author, and screenwriter