The temperature on October 4, 1938 was between 9.6 °C and 14.0 °C and averaged 11.8 °C. There was 12.0 mm of rain during 6.8 hours. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (9%). The average windspeed was 6 Bft (strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
May 25 » Spanish Civil War: The bombing of Alicante kills 313 people.
May 26 » In the United States, the House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.
June 24 » Pieces of a meteorite land near Chicora, Pennsylvania. The meteorite is estimated to have weighed 450metric tons when it hit the Earth's atmosphere and exploded.
September 27 » The ocean liner Queen Elizabeth is launched in Glasgow.
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.
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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