WHAT ALL HAPPENED NOVEMBER TO DECEMBER 1938
Find out what all happened November to December 1938

Seabiscuit defeats War Admiral in an upset victory during a match race deemed "the match of the century" in horse racing. (1. November 1938)

The Holocaust: The Neuengamme concentration camp opens in the Bergedorf district of Hamburg, Germany. (13. December 1938)

Adolf Hitler institutes the Cross of Honor of the German Mother. (16. December 1938)

Discovery of the first modern coelacanth in South Africa. (23. December 1938)

The Nazi German diplomat Ernst vom Rath dies from the fatal gunshot wounds of Jewish resistance fighter Herschel Grynszpan, an act which the Nazis used as an excuse to instigate the 1938 national pogrom, also known as Kristallnacht (Crystal Night). (9. November 1938)

LSD is first synthesized by Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Switzerland. (16. November 1938)

Otto Hahn discovers the nuclear fission of the heavy element uranium, the scientific and technological basis of nuclear energy. (17. December 1938)

Trade union members elect John L. Lewis as the first president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations. (18. November 1938)