1938: Difference between revisions

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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 - 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 camps, 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.

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 * 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.
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 * 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]]
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 === Victim births ===
-January - Sheila Fox
+* 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]]