Editing 1938

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== Events ==
* January 5 - [[Josip Broz Tito]] is named General Secretary of the [[League of Communists of Yugoslavia]].
* February 18 - End of the [[Rape of Nanking]].
* March 12 - The ''Anschluss'': the [[Nazi Party]] annexes Austria as a part of Germany.
* May 21 - [[Mutsuo Toi|Tsuyama massacre]]
* May 25 - The [[Falange de las J.O.N.S]] carries out an aerial bombing of the city of Alicante, killing between 275 and 393 people and injuring a thousand.
* August 16 - The final victim of the [[Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run]] is discovered on East 9th Street in the Kingsbury Run neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio. The victim, a male, has never been identified.
* October 2 - The [[1938 Tiberias massacre]] takes place.
* November 9 to 10 - The [[Nazi Party]] launches the ''[[Kristallnacht]]'' ("Night of Broken Glass") [[pogrom]] against Jewish citizens of Germany. The attacks, carried out primarily by the ''[[Sturmabteilung]]'', result in the destruction of over 7,000 Jewish businesses,  30,000 Jewish men being arrested and incarcerated in [[concentration camp]]s, and at least 91 deaths. The event is considered to be the official beginning of [[the Holocaust]].
* November 17 - [[Joseph Stalin]] declares the [[Great Purge]] to be over.
* December 16 - [[Plaek Phibunsongkhram]] is named Prime Minister of Siam and subsequently establishes a [[fascist]] [[military dictatorship]].

== Births ==
=== Villain births ===
* January 2 - [[Ian Brady]]
* January 6 - [[John Patler]]
* January 30 - [[Islam Karimov]]
* February 21 - [[Stanislava Juoniene]]
* March 4 - [[Alpha Condé]]
* March 26 - [[Mel Ignatow]]
* April 9 - [[Tom Metzger]]
* April 14 - [[Gerald Robinson]]
* April 26 - [[Hudson Austin]]
* April 29 - [[Bernard Madoff]]
* May 3 - [[Omar Abdel Rahman]]
* May 9 - [[Carroll Cole]]
* July 28 - [[Alberto Fujimori]] & [[Chuan Leekpai]]
* November 2 - [[Pat Buchanan]] & [[David Lane]]
* November 24 - [[Charles Starkweather]]
* December 31 - [[Marien Ngouabi]]

=== Victim births ===

* January - Sheila Fox
* March 24 - Elizabeth Figg
* September 29 - Irene Lockwood

== Deaths ==
=== Villain deaths ===
* March 15 - [[Alexei Rykov]]
* May 21 - [[Mutsuo Toi]]
* August 1 - [[Andrei Bubnov]]
* August 29 - [[Leonid Zakovsky]] & [[Béla Kun]]
* September 24 - [[Joe Ball]]
* October 29 - [[Jane Toppan]]
* November 10 - [[Mustafa Kemal Atatürk]]
* December 7 - [[Anna Marie Hahn]]

=== Victim deaths ===
* August 23 - Ricardo Moreno Cañas & Carlos Echandi