23 Aug 1938
- Adolf Hitler hosted Hungarian Regent Miklós Horthy at Kiel, Germany in an attempt to recruit him to assist in the aggression against Czechoslovakia; Hitler offered him Czechoslovakian territory for his help. ww2dbase [Munich Conference and the Annexation of Sudetenland | CPC]
- Vannevar Bush was appointed to the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), the predecessor of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). ww2dbase [Vannevar Bush | DS]
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