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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 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 30, 1938 – The animated cartoon short Porky’s Hare Hunt debuts in movie theaters, introducing Happy Rabbit (a prototype of Bugs Bunny).
• July 17, 1938 – Douglas Corrigan takes off from Brooklyn to fly the “wrong way” to Ireland and becomes known as “Wrong Way” Corrigan.
• July 31, 1938 – Bulgaria signs a non-aggression pact with Greece and other states of Balkan Antanti (Turkey, Romania, Yugoslavia).
• 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.
• 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.

Who Were Born On 1938?

• March 9, 1938 – Lill-Babs, Swedish singer and actress
• March 24, 1938 – David Irving, English historian and author
• June 13, 1938 – Gwynne Howell, Welsh actor and singer
• June 20, 1938 – Joan Kirner, Australian educator and politician, 42nd Premier of Victoria (d. 2015)
• June 26, 1938 – Gerald North, American climatologist and academic
• June 27, 1938 – Kathryn Beaumont, English actress and singer
• July 1, 1938 – Craig Anderson, American baseball player and coach
• July 20, 1938 – Deniz Baykal, Turkish lawyer and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey
• October 17, 1938 – Evel Knievel, American motorcycle rider and stuntman (d. 2007)
• December 7, 1938 – Bud Spangler, American drummer, composer, and producer (d. 2014)