The temperature on September 6, 1938 was between 6.7 °C and 18.1 °C and averaged 12.6 °C. There was 8.4 hours of sunshine (63%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
March 27 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Taierzhuang begins, resulting several weeks later in the war's first major Chinese victory over Japan.
June 25 » Dr. Douglas Hyde is inaugurated as the first President of Ireland.
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 27 » The ocean liner Queen Elizabeth is launched in Glasgow.
October 30 » 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.
December 17 » Otto Hahn discovers the nuclear fission of the heavy element uranium, the scientific and technological basis of nuclear energy.
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