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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 31, 1938 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Tiger in Chinese astrology.
• June 11, 1938 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Wuhan starts.
• July 3, 1938 – United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates the Eternal Light Peace Memorial and lights the eternal flame at Gettysburg Battlefield.
• July 17, 1938 – Douglas Corrigan takes off from Brooklyn to fly the “wrong way” to Ireland and becomes known as “Wrong Way” Corrigan.
• 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.
• October 1, 1938 – Germany annexes the Sudetenland.
• 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).
• December 13, 1938 – The Holocaust: The Neuengamme concentration camp opens in the Bergedorf district of Hamburg, Germany.
• December 17, 1938 – Otto Hahn discovers the nuclear fission of the heavy element uranium, the scientific and technological basis of nuclear energy.

Who Were Born On 1938?

• January 15, 1938 – Estrella Blanca, Mexican wrestler
• March 17, 1938 – David Dilks, English historian and academic
• March 20, 1938 – Sergei Novikov, Russian mathematician and academic
• March 29, 1938 – Barry Jackson, English actor and stuntman (d. 2013)
• June 12, 1938 – Anne Cowdrey, 14th Lady Herries of Terregles, English horse trainer (d. 2014)
• July 18, 1938 – Ian Stewart, Scottish keyboard player and manager (The Rolling Stones and Rocket 88) (d. 1985)
• July 23, 1938 – Götz George, German actor and producer
• September 5, 1938 – Doreen Massey, Baroness Massey of Darwen, English politician
• October 8, 1938 – William Corlett, English author and playwright (d. 2005)
• December 3, 1938 – Jean-Claude Malépart, Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 1989)