Year 1938 in History - Important Historical Events of the year 1938

The year 1938 has a special significance of its own in India and world history. Let us know some such important events of the year 1938 such as: born famous people, death of famous people, war treaty, independence of a country, invention of new technology, change of power, important national and international day etc., knowing which your general Knowledge will increase.

Event__Date	Incident/Event
30 June	The children's favorite cartoon Superman first appeared in the Comics DC Comics Action Series Part-1).
10 July	Howard Hughes made a record of flying 91 hours.
25 July	Two civilian blasts killed 62 civilians and injured about 100 others in a market in Palestine.
21 September	The Great Hurricane cyclone (183 mph) killed 700 people in New England, USA.
16 November	Albert Hofmann's invention was the licoriceic acid diethylamide drug.
21 August	The teaching of Jewish teachers in public and high schools was banned in Italy.
17 December	German chemist Otto Han discovered nuclear fission of uranium.
20 December	Vladimir Jevorikin received a patent for the Iconoscope television system.
30 December	VK Zorkin patented the electronic television system.
13 January	The country's famous santoor player Pandit Shivkumar was born.
16 January	Eminent Bengali litterateur Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay died.
19 January	General Motors began mass production of diesel engines.
04 February	The country's famous Kathak artist Birju Maharaj was born.
16 February	Eminent Bengali litterateur Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay died.
21 April	Mohammad Iqbal, the famous Urdu language poet of Sare Jahan Se Achcha Hindostan Hamara… passed away in Lahore, Pakistan.
20 January	Queen Farida of Cairo was married by King Farooq Safinj Zulfisar of Egypt.
14 February	The British Navy started operations in Singapore.
03 March	Oil was discovered in Saudi Arabia.
24 April	Kostantin Pats became Estonia's first president.
05 May	Francisco Franco's government was recognized in the Vatican city of Spain.
19 June	Italy defeated Hungary by 4-2 runs and won the World Cup.
30 July	The first children's comic The Beano was published in Britain.
03 August	Eduardo Santos became the President of Colombia.
10 September	Miss Ohio Marilyn Macek won the 1938 Miss America title.
15 October	The governing Labor Party was re-elected in a New Zealand general election.
11 November	Izmat Inou became the second President of Turkey.
09 December	Istvan Shishki became Hungarian Foreign Minister.
16 January	Benny Goodman performed a concert at New York City's Carnegie Hall, which has been considered instrumental in establishing jazz as a form of music.
11 February	The BBC aired an adaptation of Karel Capek's play R.U.R., thefirst science fiction television programme ever broadcast.
18 April	Made by Superman, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, made her debut in the first true superhero comic book in Action Comics 1.
26 May	The House Un-Amarankan Activity Committee was established to prevent alleged inequality and destructive activities by uncomfortable people of communist or fascist relations.
08 June	A 'strong-type' fossils were discovered at Cropybank River Valley, South Africa. This hominid was later designated by Robert Brroom as the Pantranopus Robustas. Paranthropus Robustus was born 2 to 1.2 million years ago.
11 June	Second China-Japanese War: Wuhan's battle begins. The battle of Wuhan was a massive fight for the second China-Japanese war. More than one million national revolutionary army soldiers gathered personally in command with Chiang Kai-Shek to protect Wuhan from the Imperial Japanese army led by IJA General Yasuji Ocomura.
03 July	By Malard Locomotive, the fastest world record for the Steam Railway Locomotive was established in England. It reached a speed of 202.58 km / h. Number 4468 Malld was created in 1938 in Doncaster in London, North Eastern Railway Class A 4-6-2 Pacific Steam Locomotive England.
24 July	The joint team of the German-Austrian team became the first team to climb the northern face of Egger, one of the six great northern faces of Alps.
07 August	To begin the construction of Holocost-Caid Mauthausen-Gusen (entry picture) from the Dachau concentration camp, forming the largest labor camp complexes in German-occupied Europe.
07 August	Inmates from the Dachau concentration camp were sent to the start of Mauthausen, which would later be part of one of the most difficult labor camp complexes in German-Quiz Europe.
21 August	President Roosevelt publicly promised to protect Canada, an enemy should attack him, and in return they estimated Canada to help Americans, if they were in attack.
21 September	The Great New England Hurricane made a landfall on Long Island in New York, killing at least 500 people and injuring around 700 others.
14 October	One of the most produced American fighter aircraft, CurticeP -40 Warhoc took their first flight in Buffalo, New York.
30 October	English writer H. Yes. Radio drama The War of the Worlds, based on Wales' science fiction novel, feared several listeners in the United States that progressed in a real Martian invasion.
08 November	SA as Kristallnacht destroyed storms and citizens and destroyed Jewish houses, businesses and meetings in Germany and Austria and deported at least 90 deaths and over 25,000 people in exile camps.
16 November	Swiss chemist Albert Hoffman first synthesized psychidelic drug LSD at Sandose laboratories in Basel, Switzerland.
16 December	Adolf Hitler established the Cross of Honor of the German mother as an order of merit for Imperial German women.
23 December	A fisherman from South Africa discovered the first living sample of Ona Kolakanth, which has been considered extinct for a long time.

Birth	Name/Category/Country
29 October	Ellen Johnson Sirleaf / Politician / Liberia
31 March	Sheila Dikshit / Politician / India
01 January	Ganapathi Thanikaimoni / Scientist / India
01 July	Hariprasad Chaurasia / Composer / India
04 February	Birju Maharaj / Choreographer / India
05 April	Hukam Singh / Politician / India
08 May	Javed Burki / Cricketer / India
10 August	Fateh Singh Rathod / Police Officer / India
10 June	Rahul Bajaj / Politician / India
10 June	Vasanti N. Bhat-Nayak / Academic / India
14 July	Om Shivpuri / Actor / India
15 January	Chuni Goswami / Cricketer / India
15 August	Pran Kumar Sharma / Cartoonist / India
18 March	Shashi Kapoor / Actor / India
19 May	Girish Karnad / Actor / India
19 July	Jayant Narlikar / Astronomer / India
19 July	Jayant Vishnu Narlikar / Scientist / India
20 December	Jayawantiben Mehta / Politician / India
25 February	Farokh Engineer / Cricketer / India
26 May	K. Bikram Singh / Producer / India
28 November	M. M. Kalburgi / Writer / India
29 April	E. Ahmed / Politician / India

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