The Douglas DC-4E makes its first test flight. The Douglas DC-4E was an ambitious experimental aircraft developed by the Douglas Aircraft Company in the 1930s….
Tag: 1938
3 December 1938
Nazi Germany issues the Decree on the Utilization of Jewish Property forcing Jews to sell real property, businesses, and stocks at below market value as…
3 March 1938
Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia. Oil was first discovered in commercial quantities in Saudi Arabia in 1938. It was discovered by an American geologist…
30 October 1938
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…
5 October 1938
In Nazi Germany, Jews’ passports are invalidated. On October 5, 1938, the Reich Ministry of the Interior invalidates all German passports held by Jews. Jews…
3 March 1938
Oil is first discovered in Saudi Arabia. By the early 1930s, geologists had a good idea that there was oil under the sands of the…
14 November 1938
The Lions Gate Bridge that connects Vancouver to North Shore is opened to traffic. The Lions Gate Bridge, opened in 1938, officially known as the…
3 March 1938
Oil is first discovered in Saudi Arabia. On March 3, 1938, an American-owned oil well in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, drilled into what would soon be…