The temperature on November 2, 1938 was between 2.1 °C and 12.0 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was 5.0 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (39%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
February 11 » BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television programme, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Čapek play R.U.R., that coined the term "robot".
July 10 » Howard Hughes begins a 91-hour airplane flight around the world that will set a new record.
October 14 » The first flight of the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk fighter plane.
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.
November 14 » The Lions Gate Bridge, connecting Vancouver to the North Shore region, opens to traffic.
December 13 » The Holocaust: The Neuengamme concentration camp opens in the Bergedorf district of Hamburg, Germany.
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