1938 in France
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Events from the year 1938 in France.
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[edit] Events
- 10 April - Edouard Daladier becomes prime minister of France.
- 30 September - Munich Agreement is signed by by Germany, France, Britain, and Italy permitting German annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland.
[edit] Sport
- 4 June - 1938 FIFA World Cup begins, hosted by France.
- 19 June - World Cup ends, won by Italy.
- 5 July - Tour de France begins.
- 31 July - Tour de France ends, won by Gino Bartali of Italy.
[edit] Births
- 7 January - Roland Topor, illustrator, painter, writer and filmmaker (d.1997).
- 20 August - Alain Vivien, politician.
- 3 September - Liliane Ackermann, community leader, writer, and lecturer (d.2007).
[edit] Deaths
- 20 January - Émile Cohl, caricaturist, cartoonist and animator (b.1857).
- 21 January - Georges Méliès, filmmaker (b.1861).
- 13 May - Charles Édouard Guillaume, physicist, awarded Nobel Prize in Physics in 1920 (b.1861).
- 4 July - Suzanne Lenglen, tennis player (b.1899).
