1938 Fact Sheet

Database: Miss America Winners by State

Record Name Year City State
Marilyn Meseke 1938 Marion OHIO

Database: Great Inventions by Year and Country

Record Name Year Country Region Source Inventor Name
Fiberglass 1938 United States North America Encyclopedia Britannica Almanac 2003 Owens Corning (corp.)
Ballpoint Pen 1938 Hungary Encyclopedia Britannica Almanac 2003 Lazlo Biro
Teflon 1938 United States North America Encyclopedia Britannica Almanac 2003 Roy Plunkett

Database: Hockey Stanley Cup Winners

Record Name Year Winning Team Winning Coach Losing Team Losing Coach Sport City Note
1938 Stanley Cup Winner 1938 Chicago Blackhawks Bill Stewart Toronto Maple Leafs Dick Irvin Hockey Chicago

Database: Soccer World Cup FIFA Winners

Record Name Year Winning Country Runner-Up Country City Venue Sport Final Score Attendance Referee
Soccer 1938 World Cup 1938 Italy Hungary Paris Soccer 4 - 2 45,000 Capdeville

Database: Solar System Moons

Record Name Planet Discoverer Year Discovered Kilometers from Planet Diameter (Kilometers) Oribital Period
Carme Jupiter S. Nicholson 1938 22,600,000 30 692
Lysithea Jupiter S. Nicholson 1938 11,720,000 24 259.22

Database: Pulitzer Prize Winning Novels By Year

Record Name Year Title Author
Late George Apley, The, John P. Marquand 1938 Late George Apley, The John P. Marquand

Database: Number of Airports in World Countries

Record Name Country Year Airports Source
Number of Airports in Kingman Reef Kingman Reef 2006 lagoon was used as a halfway station between Hawaii and American Samoa by Pan American Airways for flying boats in 1937 and 1938 CIA World Fact Book
Number of Airports in United States Pacific Island Wildlife Refuges United States Pacific Island Wildlife Refuges 2,409 m paved Baker Island: one abandoned World War II runway of 1,665 m covered with vegetation and unusable Howland Island: airstrip constructed in 1937 for scheduled refueling stop on the round-the-world flight of Amelia EARHART and Fred NOONAN; the aviators left Lae, New Guinea, for Howland Island but were never seen again; the airstrip is no longer serviceable Johnston Atoll: one closed and not maintained Kingman Reef: lagoon was used as a halfway station between Hawaii and American Samoa by Pan American Airways for flying boats in 1937 and 1938 Midway Islands: 3 - one operational CIA World Fact Book

Database: World Land Speed Record Holders

Record Name Year Date Car Driver Speed (MPG) Speed (KPH) Source
Thunderbolt 1938 Aug 27 Thunderbolt George Eyston 345.50 552.80 Thrust Team
Railton 1938 Sep 15 Railton John Cobb 350.20 560.32 Thrust Team
Thunderbolt 1938 Sep 16 Thunderbolt George Eyston 357.50 572.00 Thrust Team

Database: Tour de France Winners

Record Name Year Winning Country Sport Tour Winning Name
Gino Bartali Tour 32 1938 Italy Cycling 32 Gino Bartali

Database: Carnegie Medal for Children's Books

Record Name Year Publisher Author
The Circus is Coming 1938 Dent Noel Streatfeild

Database: American Film Institute's 100 Best Movies of All Time

Record Name Year Rank Movie Source
Bringing Up Baby (1938) 1938 88. Bringing Up Baby American Film Institute

Database: List of longest suspension bridge spans

Record Name Year Constructed Country Bridge Location Length (Meters) Length (Feet) Note Source
Lions' Gate Bridge 1938 British Columbia Canada Lions' Gate Bridge North Vancouver - Vancouver, British Columbia Canada 473 1,550 Wikipedia

Database: Baseball World Series Winners

Record Name Year Winning Team Losing Team Winning City Losing City Sport Score
World Series 1938 1938 New York Yankees Chicago Cubs NEW YORK Chicago Baseball 4 - 0

Database: Wimbledon Tennis Men's Tournament Winners

Record Name Year Sport Winner Loser Score
1938 Wimbledon Mens Result 1938 Tennis Don Budge Henry Austin 61 60 63

Database: Aircraft Carriers of the United States

Record Name Country Aircraft Carrier Comission Year Decomission or Loss Year Commision Date Decommision or Loss Date Hull Number
Enterprise United States Enterprise 1938 1947 12 May 1938 17 Feb 1947 6

Database: United States Average Annual Temperature

Record Name Year Country Temperature Rank Source
Average Annual Temperature for 1938 1938 United States 54.02 deg F 98 National Climatic Data Center

Database: Yearly Total Seasonal Rainfall for Los Angeles

Record Name City State Country Season Total Rainfall (inches) Inches above or below average Source
Los Angeles Seasonal Rainfall for 1938-1939 Los Angeles CALIFORNIA United States 1938-1939 13.07 -2.06 National Weather Service
Los Angeles Seasonal Rainfall for 1937-1938 Los Angeles CALIFORNIA United States 1937-1938 23.43 +8.30 National Weather Service

Database: Hart Memorial Trophy Winners for NHL Hockey

Record Name Year Team Sport League Player
Hart Memorial Trophy Winner (1938) 1938 Boston Bruins Hockey NHL Eddie Shore

Database: Time Magazine's Man of the Year

Record Name Year Person of the Year
Adolf Hitler 1938 Adolf Hitler

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