WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO SEPTEMBER 1938
Find out what all happened March to September 1938

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

Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Nationalist government creates the 1938 Yellow River flood to halt Japanese forces. 500,000 to 900,000 civilians are killed. (11. June 1938)

Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Wuhan starts. (11. June 1938)

The United States Department of Justice files suit in New York, New York against the motion picture industry charging violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act in regards to the studio system. The case would eventually result in a break-up of the industry in 1948. (20. July 1938)

Hawaii Clipper disappears between Guam and Manila as the first loss of an airliner in trans-Pacific China Clipper service. (28. July 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)

Mobilization of the Czechoslovak army in response to the Munich Crisis. (23. 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)

Adolf Hitler demands autonomy and self-determination for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia. (12. September 1938)

U.S. Supreme Court delivers its opinion in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins and overturns a century of federal common law. (25. April 1938)

Douglas Corrigan takes off from Brooklyn to fly the "wrong way" to Ireland and becomes known as "Wrong Way" Corrigan. (17. 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)

Ocean liner Queen Elizabeth launched in Glasgow. (27. September 1938)

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

The Holocaust: The building of Mauthausen concentration camp begins. (7. August 1938)

The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations". (30. September 1938)

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

The Douglas DC-4E made its first test flight. (7. June 1938)

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