The temperature on December 19, 1938 was between -15.0 °C and -10.4 °C and averaged -13.4 °C. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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.
July 20 » The United States Department of Justice files suit in New York City 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.
July 31 » Archaeologists discover engraved gold and silver plates from King Darius the Great in Persepolis.
October 10 » Abiding by the Munich Agreement, Czechoslovakia completes its withdrawal from the Sudetenland.
November 16 » LSD is first synthesized by Albert Hofmann from ergotamine at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel.
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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