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* January 5 - [[Josip Broz Tito]] is named General Secretary of the [[League of Communists of Yugoslavia]]. | * January 5 - [[Josip Broz Tito]] is named General Secretary of the [[League of Communists of Yugoslavia]]. | ||
* February 18 - End of the [[Rape of Nanking]]. | * February 18 - End of the [[Rape of Nanking]]. | ||
* May 25 - [[Falange de las J.O.N.S]] | * 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 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. | * 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 military dictatorship. | * December 16 - [[Plaek Phibunsongkhram]] is named Prime Minister of Siam and subsequently establishes a [[fascist]] [[military dictatorship]]. | ||
== Births == | == Births == | ||
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* January 30 - [[Islam Karimov]] | * January 30 - [[Islam Karimov]] | ||
* February 21 - [[Stanislava Juoniene]] | * 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]] | * April 29 - [[Bernard Madoff]] | ||
* May 3 - [[Omar Abdel Rahman]] | * May 3 - [[Omar Abdel Rahman]] | ||
* July 28 - [[Alberto Fujimori]] | * May 9 - [[Carroll Cole]] | ||
* July 28 - [[Alberto Fujimori]] & [[Chuan Leekpai]] | |||
* November 2 - [[Pat Buchanan]] & [[David Lane]] | * November 2 - [[Pat Buchanan]] & [[David Lane]] | ||
* November 24 - [[Charles Starkweather]] | * November 24 - [[Charles Starkweather]] | ||
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=== Victim births === | === Victim births === | ||
* January - Sheila Fox | |||
* March 24 - Elizabeth Figg | |||
* September 29 - Irene Lockwood | |||
== Deaths == | == Deaths == | ||
=== Villain deaths === | === Villain deaths === | ||
* March 15 - [[Alexei Rykov]] | * March 15 - [[Alexei Rykov]] | ||
* May 21 - [[Mutsuo Toi]] | |||
* August 1 - [[Andrei Bubnov]] | |||
* August 29 - [[Leonid Zakovsky]] & [[Béla Kun]] | * August 29 - [[Leonid Zakovsky]] & [[Béla Kun]] | ||
* September 24 - [[Joe Ball]] | * September 24 - [[Joe Ball]] | ||
* October 29 - [[Jane Toppan]] | * October 29 - [[Jane Toppan]] | ||
* November 10 - [[Mustafa Kemal Atatürk]] | |||
* December 7 - [[Anna Marie Hahn]] | * December 7 - [[Anna Marie Hahn]] | ||
=== Victim deaths === | === Victim deaths === | ||
* August 23 - Ricardo Moreno Cañas & Carlos Echandi | * August 23 - Ricardo Moreno Cañas & Carlos Echandi | ||