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Movie history events from 1938
Lorraine Baines born. (Back to the Future Part II)
John Kinsella marries. (Brooklyn, New York) (Field of Dreams)
Idgie Threadgoode goes on trial for the murder of Frank Bennet. (Valdosta, GA) (Fried Green Tomatoes)
Hitler acquires the Spear of Longinus that pierced the side of Jesus, increasing his power greatly, as it gives its holder invincibility (apparently). (Hellboy)
Indiana Jones travels to Venice to find his father, kidnapped by Nazis while searching for the Holy Grail. (Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade)
The American-Arab Oil Company is set up. (The Kingdom)
Clive Candy shoots a Red Deer. (Cairngorms) (The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp)
A special jet-pack is created. (Los Angeles) (Rocketeer)
Hannibal Lecter born. (Lithuania) (The Silence of the Lambs)
Von Trapp Family escape Nazi's and flee to America and start barbershop quartet. (Austria) (The Sound of Music)
Alien invasion lands on Mars, before sending a test mission to Earth. (War of the Worlds)
Friday 1st April: George McFly born. (Back to the Future Part II)
Saturday 21st May: Clark Savage Jr probes his fathers death. (New York City) (Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze)
Sunday 17th July: Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan takes off on a flight that would finally win him a place in aviation history. (Brooklyn, New York) (Flying Irishman, The )
Sunday 24th July: Artie Shaw records "Begin the Beguine". (New York) (Second Chorus)
August: Peter Vadassy, an Austrian medical student living and working in France, is hauled in by the police while on holiday and accused of espionage. He is sent back to the Hotel Reserve to find out who might really be the spy. (South of France) (Hotel Reserve)
Wednesday 24th August: Clark Gable reluctantly agrees to play Rhett Butler in David O. Selznick's "Gone with the Wind". (Gable and Lombard)
September: Tom Marvolo Riddle, aka Voldemort, starts first year at Hogwarts. (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)
Tuesday 27th September: Monty Stratton plays what will be his last Major League game. (Cleveland, Ohio) (The Stratton Story)
October: Alien Red Lectoids land in Grover's Mill, adopting the first name "John"; the event is passed off as a hoax radio drama, known as 'War of the Worlds'. (Grover's Mill, NJ) (The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension)
Tuesday 6th December: A factory owner jumps from the window of room 1408 at The Dolphin Hotel. (New York) (1408)