Action Comics
Time: Jun, 1938
Place: U.S.
Details: Detective Comics, Inc. soon launched a fourth title, Action Comics, the premiere of which introduced Superman. Action Comics #1 (June 1938), the first comic book to feature the new character archetype—soon known as "superheroes"—proved a sales hit. The company quickly introduced such other popular characters as the Sandman and Batman.
‹ Earlier in historyTuring Obtained His PhD From The Department of MathematicsWednesday Jun 1, 1938 Later in history ›De Gaulle appointed government ministerSunday Jun 5, 1938
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1938
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1938 - Washington D.C., U.S.
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1938 - Paris, France
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Aug, 1938 - Wuhan, Hubei, China
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Sep, 1938 - London, England
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Thursday Sep 29, 1938 - Munich, Germany
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Friday Sep 30, 1938 - Munich, Germany
World War II-Munich Agreement
Friday Sep 30, 1938 - Munich, Germany
Martin Bormann-Moving To Munich
Oct, 1938 - Munich, Germany
Winston Churchill-Churchill called the Munich Agreement "a total and unmitigated defeat"
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Spanish Civil War-Franco feared an immediate French intervention against a potential Nationalist victory in Spain
1938 - Spain
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Second Sino-Japanese War-The Japanese captured Wuhan
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Joseph Goebbels-Goebbels were distributed Free radios
Saturday Oct 29, 1938 - Berlin, Germany
Oskar Schindler (Schindler's List)-Joining the Nazi Party
Tuesday Nov 1, 1938 - Germany
The Holocaust-Polish Jew shot the German diplomat Ernst vom Rath in the German Embassy in Paris
Monday Nov 7, 1938 - Paris, France
Joseph Goebbels-Goebbels instigated the murder of Jews
Tuesday Nov 8, 1938 - Germany
The Holocaust-Ernst vom Rath died
Wednesday Nov 9, 1938 - Paris, France
The Holocaust-30,000 Jews were sent to the Buchenwald, Dachau, and Sachsenhausen concentration camps
Wednesday Nov 9, 1938 - Germany
The Holocaust-Kristallnacht
Thursday Nov 10, 1938 - Germany
Xerox-Chester Carlson invented a process for printing images
1938 - U.S.
Mao Zedong-4th Marriage
Sunday Nov 20, 1938 - China
Nuclear Power-Contradicting Fermi
1938 - Germany
Benito Mussolini-Members of "TIGR" plotted to kill Mussolini
1938 - Italy
The Holocaust-Approximately half the German Jewish population had left Germany
1938 - Germany
Jimmy Hoffa-First Child
1938 - Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Joseph Goebbels-Goebbels urged to produce inexpensive home receivers, called Volksempfänger
1938 - Germany
Joseph Goebbels-Goebbels redirected his propaganda machine against Poland
1938 - Germany