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March 1938 in History

Events in History

  • Mar 2 Landslides & floods cause over 200 deaths (Los Angeles California)
  • Mar 2 Trials of Soviet leaders begins in the Soviet Union
  • Mar 3 American Bowling Congress' largest tournament (24,765 competitors)
  • Mar 11 Artur Seyss-Inquart replaces Kurt von Schuschnigg as Chancellor of Austria; German troops also entered the country
  • Mar 12 Nazi Germany invades Austria (Anschluss)
  • Mar 13 In a process known as Anschluss, Austria is annexed into Nazi Germany
  • Mar 16 Temple defeats Colorado to win 1st NIT

Italian Air Force Bombs Barcelona

Mar 17 The Italian Air Force, in support of Francisco Franco, bombs Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War

The Italian Air Force conducts a bombing campaign in Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War
  • Mar 18 NY 1st requires serological blood tests of pregnant women
  • Mar 18 President Cardena of Mexico nationalizes US & British oil companies
  • Mar 27 The Battle of Taierzhuang takes place.

Birthdays in History

  • Mar 1 Michael J[oseph] Kurland, American sci-fi author (Infernal Device)
  • Mar 2 Alan Lewis, English textile factory/multi-millionaire
  • Mar 2 Ricardo Lagos, former President of Chile
  • Mar 4 Adam Daniel Rotfeld, Polish diplomat and researcher
  • Mar 4 Alpha Condé, Guinean politician (President of Guinea, 2010-21), born in Boke, Lower Guinea
  • Mar 5 Lynn Margulis, American biologist (serial endosymbiotic theory), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2011)
  • Mar 6 Pauline Boty, English artist, born in London (d. 1966)
  • Mar 7 David Baltimore, American biologist (1975 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine), born in New York City
  • Mar 12 Karl Soderlund, Duluth Minn, Mr Sally Jesse Raphael
  • Mar 12 Norman Hogg, British MP
  • Mar 17 Keith O'Brien, Scottish Catholic archbishop (St Andrews & Edinburgh), born in Ballycastle, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
  • Mar 18 Kenny Lynch, British entertainer, born in London
  • Mar 20 Frans J. van der Heijden, Dutch politician (CDA)
  • Mar 20 Sergei Petrovich Novikov, Russian Mathematician, Fields Medalist
  • Mar 21 Wilf Corrigan, English/US electronic manufacturer (LSI Logic)
  • Mar 23 Kenneth J Gregory, warden (Goldsmiths' College)
  • Mar 23 Maynard Jackson, first African American mayor of Atlanta (d. 2003)
  • Mar 24 David Irving, British historian
  • Mar 25 Daniel Buren, French conceptual artist, born in Paris, France
  • Mar 26 Anthony James Leggett, English physicist, (Nobel Prize for Physics 2013 for superfluidity), born in London, England
  • Mar 27 A J Bellingham, British haematologist and president (Royal College of Pathologists)
  • Mar 27 Jock Slater, British Admiral, First Sea Lord (1995-1998)
  • Mar 29 Bert de Vries, Dutch minister of Social Affairs (CDA), born in Groningen, Netherlands
  • Mar 31 Bill Hicke, Canadian NHL right wing (3-time NHL All Star), born in Regina, Saskatchewan (d. 2005)
  • Mar 31 David Steel, Scottish politician
  • Mar 31 Sheila Dikshit, Chief Minister of Delhi

Weddings in History

Walter Lippmann

Mar 26 Writer Walter Lippmann (48) weds second wife Helen Byrne Armstrong

Walter Lippmann

Deaths in History

  • Mar 1 Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian poet, writer (Il fuoco, Intruder), playwright and military hero as part of the elite Arditi storm troops, dies of a stroke at 74
  • Mar 4 George Foster Peabody, American politician (b. 1852)
  • Mar 7 Andreas Michalakopoulos, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (1924-25) (b. 1876)
  • Mar 13 Clarence Darrow, American defense attorney at Scopes Monkey Trial, dies at 80
  • Mar 13 Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Russian politician and intellectual, dies at 49
  • Mar 27 William Stern, German-American philosopher (Intelligence of Children), dies at 66
  • Mar 31 Willem Kloos, Dutch poet and critic (New Guide), dies at 78

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