Events in History
- Feb 20 UK Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden resigns stating Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain has appeased Nazi Germany
- Jun 30 Superman 1st appears in DC Comics' Action Comics Series issue #1
- Sep 30 Treaty of Munich signed by Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Édouard Daladier and Neville Chamberlain, forces Czechoslovakia to give territory to Germany. Chamberlain infamously declares "Peace for our time" on his return to London.
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Historical Marriages
- Mar 26 Writer Walter Lippmann (48) weds second wife Helen Byrne Armstrong
- Apr 28 King Zog of Albania marries Countess Geraldine of Hungary
- Jun 25 Economist Milton Friedman (25) weds Rose Friedman at the Jewish Seminary in New York City
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1938 in History Pictures
Italian Air Force Bombs Barcelona
The Italian Air Force conducts a bombing campaign in Barcelona during the Spanish Civil WarMarch 17Oops, Wrong Way!
Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan with his "Sunshine", at Baldonnel Aerodrome, IrelandJuly 18'I Have Heard The Voice of Adolf Hitler . . .'
Hitler's speech threatening Czechoslovakia was broadcast on this day. Among those listening to the ‘mad dog of Europe’ was a journalist in an American hotel.September 26