January 17 » El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico becomes part of the United States National Forest System as the Luquillo Forest Reserve.
June 11 » A group of Serbian officers stormed the royal palace and assassinated King Alexander Obrenović and his wife, Queen Draga.
June 16 » The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
October 1 » Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series.
December 16 » Taj Mahal Palace & Tower hotel in Bombay first opens its doors to guests.
December 30 » A fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago, Illinois kills at least 605.
Day of death November 7, 1938
The temperature on November 7, 1938 was between 8.9 °C and 11.8 °C and averaged 10.1 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
May 25 » Spanish Civil War: The bombing of Alicante kills 313 people.
June 11 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Wuhan starts.
September 21 » The Great Hurricane of 1938 makes landfall on Long Island in New York. The death toll is estimated at 500–700 people.
September 30 » Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, whereby Germany annexes the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
November 1 » Seabiscuit defeats War Admiral in an upset victory during a match race deemed "the match of the century" in horse racing.
November 9 » The Nazi German diplomat Ernst vom Rath dies from gunshot wounds by Herschel Grynszpan, an act which the Nazis used as an excuse to instigate the 1938 national pogrom, also known as Kristallnacht.
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