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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 9, 1938 – Paul of Greece marries Frederica of Hanover in Athens.
• 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.
• February 11, 1938 – BBC Television produces the world’s first ever science fiction television program, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Čapek play R.U.R., that coined the term “robot”.
• 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.
• June 25, 1938 – Dr. Douglas Hyde is inaugurated as the first President of Ireland.
• July 3, 1938 – World speed record for a steam railway locomotive is set in England, by the Mallard, which reaches a speed of 125.88 mph.
• July 28, 1938 – Hawaii Clipper disappears between Guam and Manila as the first loss of an airliner in trans-Pacific China Clipper service.
• September 27, 1938 – Ocean liner Queen Elizabeth launched in Glasgow.
• 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.

Who Were Born On 1938?

• March 2, 1938 – Ricardo Lagos, Chilean economist, lawyer, and politician, 33rd President of Chile
• March 31, 1938 – Patrick Bateson, English biologist and academic
• April 6, 1938 – Paul Daniels, English magician and television host
• April 27, 1938 – Alain Caron, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1986)
• May 18, 1938 – Janet Fish, American painter and academic
• June 30, 1938 – Apostolos Nikolaidis, Greek singer (d. 1999)
• September 22, 1938 – Gene Mingo, American football player
• October 15, 1938 – Marv Johnson, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1993)
• November 7, 1938 – Jim Kaat, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster
• December 9, 1938 – Deacon Jones, American football player, sportscaster, and actor (d. 2013)