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By Barry Boyce,
CyclingRevealed Historian |
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| Date |
Race |
Winner |
Distance |
| March 19, 1938 |
Milan-San Remo |
Giuseppe Olmo (Ita) |
281.5 km |
| April 10, 1938 |
Tour of Flanders |
Edgard De Caluwe (Bel) |
260 km |
| April 17, 1938 |
Paris-Roubaix |
Lucien Storme (Bel) |
255 km |
| May 7-June 2, 1938 |
Giro d'Italia |
Giovanni Valetti
(Ita) |
18 Stages,
3,645 km |
| May 11, 1938 |
Liege-Bastogne-Liege |
Alfons Deloor
(Bel) |
211 km |
| Not Held |
Vuelta a Espana |
x |
x |
| Juy 5-31, 1938 |
Tour
de France |
Gino Bartali (Ita) |
21 Stages,
4,689 km |
| September 5, 1938 |
World
Championships |
Marcel Kint (Bel) |
Valkenburg,
Holland 273 km |
| October 23, 1938 |
Giro
di Lombardia |
Cino Cinelli (Ita) |
Milan-Milan,
232 km |
• Hitler - Anschlusse in March 1938, Nazi Germany invaded Austria. Adolf Hitler's forces annexed Austria without a shot being fired. In September, Czechoslovakia (the Sudetenland) was next on Hitler's list for a Greater Germany.
• Radio - Orson Welles's adaptation of the H. G. Wells 1898 novel The War of the Worlds was broadcast October 30, 1938 (Halloween Eve). The radio program caused major panic in the eastern United States.
• Reichskristallnacht - The Night of Broken Glass, on the night of November 9-10, 1938 Nazis destroyed synagogues, Jewish cemeteries, and thousands of Jewish businesses.
Notable Deaths -
Robert Johnson, 1911-1938, he was the most influential Blues singer and guitarist in history.
1937
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