WHAT ALL HAPPENED SEPTEMBER TO DECEMBER 1938
Find out what all happened September to December 1938
Germany annexes the Sudetenland. (1. October 1938)
The Holocaust: The Neuengamme concentration camp opens in the Bergedorf district of Hamburg, Germany. (13. December 1938)
The first flight of the Curtiss Aircraft Company's P-40 Warhawk fighter plane. (14. October 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)
LSD is first synthesized by Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Switzerland. (16. November 1938)
The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations". (30. September 1938)
Chile: A group of youths affiliated with the fascist National Socialist Movement of Chile are assassinated in the Seguro Obrero massacre. (5. September 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)
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)
Munich Agreement: Germany is given permission from France, Italy, and Great Britain to seize the territory of Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia. The meeting takes place in Munich, and leaders from neither the Soviet Union nor Czechoslovakia attend. (29. September 1938)
Trade union members elect John L. Lewis as the first president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations. (18. November 1938)
In Nazi Germany Jews' passports were invalidated, and those who needed a passport for emigration purposes were given one marked with the letter J (Jude – Jew). (5. October 1938)
The Munich Agreement cedes the Sudetenland to Nazi Germany. (10. October 1938)
Ocean liner Queen Elizabeth launched in Glasgow. (27. September 1938)
Otto Hahn discovers the nuclear fission of the heavy element uranium, the scientific and technological basis of nuclear energy. (17. 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)
Adolf Hitler institutes the Cross of Honor of the German Mother. (16. December 1938)
Adolf Hitler demands autonomy and self-determination for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia. (12. September 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 Archbishop of Dubuque, Francis J. L. Beckman, denounces swing music as "a degenerated musical system... turned loose to gnaw away at the moral fiber of young people", warning that it leads down a "primrose path to hell". His warning is widely ignored. (25. October 1938)
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