1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1938th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 938th year of the 2nd millennium, the 38th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1930s decade.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1938 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1938
MCMXXXVIII
Ab urbe condita2691
Armenian calendar1387
ԹՎ ՌՅՁԷ
Assyrian calendar6688
Baháʼí calendar94–95
Balinese saka calendar1859–1860
Bengali calendar1345
Berber calendar2888
British Regnal yearGeo. 6 – 3 Geo. 6
Buddhist calendar2482
Burmese calendar1300
Byzantine calendar7446–7447
Chinese calendar丁丑年 (Fire Ox)
4635 or 4428
    — to —
戊寅年 (Earth Tiger)
4636 or 4429
Coptic calendar1654–1655
Discordian calendar3104
Ethiopian calendar1930–1931
Hebrew calendar5698–5699
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1994–1995
 - Shaka Samvat1859–1860
 - Kali Yuga5038–5039
Holocene calendar11938
Igbo calendar938–939
Iranian calendar1316–1317
Islamic calendar1356–1357
Japanese calendarShōwa 13
(昭和13年)
Javanese calendar1868–1869
Juche calendar27
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4271
Minguo calendarROC 27
民國27年
Nanakshahi calendar470
Thai solar calendar2480–2481
Tibetan calendar阴火牛年
(female Fire-Ox)
2064 or 1683 or 911
    — to —
阳土虎年
(male Earth-Tiger)
2065 or 1684 or 912

Events edit

January edit

 
January 20: King Farouk
 
January 16: Benny Goodman in New York City
 
January 27: The Honeymoon Bridge, Niagara, collapses under ice.

February edit

March edit

 
March 4: First commercial oil discovery in Saudi Arabia at Dammam No. 7

April edit

  • April 10
    • Édouard Daladier becomes prime minister of France. He appoints as Foreign Minister a leading advocate of the policy of appeasement, Georges Bonnet, effectively negating Blum's reassurances of March 14.
    • In a result that astonishes even Hitler, the Austrian electorate in a national referendum approves Anschluss by an overwhelming 99.73%.
  • April 16 – The UK and Italy sign an agreement that sees Britain recognise Italian control of Ethiopia (formally on November 16), in return for an Italian pledge to withdraw all its 10,000 troops from Spain, at the conclusion of the civil war there.
  • April 18Superman first appears in Action Comics #1 (cover date June). The date is established in court documents released during the legal battle over the rights to Superman (on April 18, 2018, DC Comics released Action Comics #1000).
  • April 24Konstantin Päts becomes the first President of Estonia.

May edit

June edit

July edit

August edit

  • August – In the face of overwhelming Japanese military pressure, Chiang Kai-shek withdraws his government to Chungking.
  • August 10 – At a secret summit with his leading generals, Hitler attacks General Beck's arguments against Fall Grün, winning the majority of his senior officers over to his point of view.
  • August 18 – Colonel General Ludwig Beck, convinced that Hitler's decision to attack Czechoslovakia will lead to a general European war, resigns his position as Chief of the Army General Staff in protest.
  • August 23Hitler, hosting a dinner on board the ocean liner Patria in Kiel Bay, tells the Regent of Hungary, Admiral Horthy, that action against Czechoslovakia is imminent and that "he who wants to sit at the table must at least help in the kitchen", a reference to Horthy's designs on Carpathian Ruthenia.

September edit

October edit

November edit

 
November 9-10: Night of Broken Glass.

December edit

Date unknown edit

Births edit

Births
January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December

January–February edit

 
King Juan Carlos I of Spain
 
Etta James
 
Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands
 
István Szabó

March–April edit

 
Ricardo Lagos Escobar
 
Alpha Condé
 
Kofi Annan
 
Claudia Cardinale

May–June edit

 
King Moshoeshoe II
 
Giuliano Amato
 
Princess Désirée

July–August edit

 
Diana Rigg
 
Natalie Wood
 
Alberto Fujimori
 
Leonid Kuchma
 
Kenny Rogers
 
Paul Martin

September–October edit

 
Wim Kok
 
Farah Diba
 
Derek Jacobi
 
Christopher Lloyd

November–December edit

 
Queen Sofía of Spain
 
Benjamin Mkapa
 
Ted Turner
 
Jon Voight

Date unknown edit

Deaths edit

January edit

 
Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark
 
Andreas Michalakopoulos

February edit

 
Edmund Landau

March edit

 
Cevat Çobanlı
 
Lidia Charskaya
 
Lakshminath Bezbaroa

April edit

 
Patriarch Khoren I of Armenia
 
César Vallejo

May edit

 
Carl von Ossietzky
 
Cao Kun

June edit

 
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
 
Edith Anne Stoney
 
María Obligado de Soto y Calvo

July edit

 
Queen Marie of Romania

August edit

 
Robert Johnson

September edit

 
Blessed Maria Teresa of St. Joseph
 
Aurelio Giorni
 
Silouan the Athonite
 
Paul Olaf Bodding

October edit

 
Alexandru Averescu
 
José Luis Tejada Sorzano
 
Saint Faustina Kowalska
 
Ernst Barlach

November edit

 
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
 
Kaarlo Castren

December edit

 
Annie Armstrong

Nobel Prizes edit

 

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