Timeline September 1938

Events in September 1938 6

• 1900 – 1938 Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938) Died 15 September 1938, aged 37 Thomas Wolfe was an American novelist and the author of Look Homeward, Angel. He died of tuberculosis of the brain.
• 1938 Fourth International founded Trotskyists launch a rival to the Comintern Supporters of Leon Trotsky met near Paris to found the Fourth International as an alternative to the Stalinist Communist International.
• 1938 New England hurricane A Category 3 hurricane strikes Long Island and New England The hurricane made landfall on Long Island with almost no warning and then tore through Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts. About 700 people died, and storm surges flooded Providence.
• 1938 – 1982 Romy Schneider (1938-1982) Died 29 May 1982, aged 43 Austrian-French actress best known for the Sissi film trilogy. She died in Paris a year after the death of her teenage son.
• 1938 Launch of RMS Queen Elizabeth Cunard's largest liner is launched on the Clyde Queen Elizabeth launched the liner named after her at John Brown's shipyard in Clydebank. It was the largest passenger ship in the world at the time and served as a troopship in the Second World War.
• 1938 Munich Agreement Britain and France accept German annexation of the Sudetenland Chamberlain, Daladier, Hitler and Mussolini agreed that Germany could annex the German-speaking border regions of Czechoslovakia. Czechoslovakia was not invited to the talks. On his return Chamberlain declared "peace for our time", and the agreement became the defining example of appeasement.