WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO DECEMBER 1938
Find out what all happened January to December 1938

The first flight of the Curtiss Aircraft Company's P-40 Warhawk fighter plane. (14. October 1938)

The Great Hurricane of 1938 makes landfall on Long Island in New York. The death toll is estimated at 500-700 people. (21. September 1938)

Howard Hughes sets a new record by completing a 91-hour airplane flight around the world. (10. July 1938)

Pieces of a meteor, estimated to have weighed 450 metric tons when it hit the Earth's atmosphere and exploded, land near Chicora, Pennsylvania. (24. June 1938)

During the Nanking Massacre tha Nanking Safety Zone International Committee is renamed "Nanking International Rescue Committee" and the safety zone in place for refugees falls apart. (18. February 1938)

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

Great Depression: In an effort to restore investor confidence, the New York Stock Exchange unveils a fifteen-point program aimed to upgrade protection for the investing public. (31. October 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)

World News Roundup is broadcast for the first time on CBS Radio in the United States. (13. March 1938)

Anschluss: German troops occupy Austria. (12. March 1938)

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

The March of Dimes is established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. (3. January 1938)

Mexico nationalized all foreign-owned oil properties within its borders. (18. March 1938)

At 2:00 am, Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, allowing Germany to occupy the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia. (30. September 1938)

Germany annexes the Sudetenland. (1. October 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". (11. February 1938)

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

Dr. Douglas Hyde is inaugurated as the first President of Ireland. (25. June 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. (30. October 1938)

World speed record for a steam railway locomotive is set in England, by the Mallard, which reaches a speed of 126 miles per hour (203 km/h). (3. July 1938)