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Contents  (full)

1 Events of 1939

-  Jan. ^. Feb. ^. March ^. April

-  May ^. June ^. July  ^.  Aug.

-  Sept. ^. Oct. ^. Nov. ^.  Dec.

-  Undated ^. Ongoing ^.

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Nobel Prizes

5 See also -  Notes -  External links

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Events of 1939

(Below, many events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.)

Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...

January

• January 1
  • The Hewlett-Packard Company is founded.
  • Brian May Goes time traveling and meets Freddie Mercury and John Deacon but he gets to scared of John Deacon and thinks he is a Alien and

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• The Harry Potter Trio - Bill Wyman trys to Do-It With Harry Ron Hermione and Snape but is side tracked by his 13 Year Old Grand-Daughter Poe
• January 6 - Naturwissenschaften publishes evidence that nuclear fission has been achieved by Otto Hahn.
• The big bird - Is horny and goes to Hell
• January 24 - Earthquake kills 30.000 in Chile – about 50.000 sq mi razed.
• Curtis "Halfdoller" Jackson - Gives it to his Sister but his mom finds them and makes them get married.

is the 6th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... An induced nuclear fission event. ... Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner, 1913, at the KWI for Chemistry in Berlin Otto Hahn (March 8, 1879 – July 28, 1968) was a German chemist and received the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. ... is the 24th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the natural seismic phenomenon. ...

February

February 21: Golden Gate International Exposition opens.

• February 1 - Martensville, Saskatchewan is founded.
• February 2 - Hungary joins Anti-Comintern Pact.
• February 10 - Falangists take Catalonia.
• February 21 - Golden Gate International Exposition opens in San Francisco, California.
• February 27
  • United Kingdom and France recognize Franco's government.
  • Borley Rectory burns.
  • Sit-down strikes are outlawed by the Supreme Court of the United States.

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March

• March - End of the Great Arab Revolt in the British mandate of Palestine (started 1936).
• March 2 - Pope Pius XII (Cardinal Pacelli) succeeds Pope Pius XI as the 260th pope.
• March 3
  • In Bombay, Mohandas Gandhi begins to fast in protest of the autocratic rule in India.
  • Students at Harvard University demonstrate the new tradition of swallowing gold fish to reporters.
• March 13 - Hitler advises Jozef Tiso to declare Slovakia's independence in order to prevent its partition by Hungary and Poland.
• March 14 - Slovak provincial assembly proclaims independence - priest Jozef Tiso becomes the president of independent Slovak government.
• March 15 - German troops occupy the remaining part of Bohemia and Moravia; Czechoslovakia ceases to exist; beginning hostilities leading to WWII. The Ruthenian region of Czechoslavakia declares independences as Carpatho-Ukraine.
• March 16 - Marriage of Princess Fawzia of Egypt to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran. Hungary invades Carpatho-Ukraine; final resistance ends on March 18.
• March 22 - Germany takes Memel from Lithuania
• March 23 - Slovak-Hungarian War begins.
• March 25 - The second cartoon to feature Happy Rabbit, Prest-O Change-O, is released.
• March 26 - The Philadelphia Story, a comedy by Philip Barry starring Katharine Hepburn, debuts at the Shubert Theater in New York City.
• March 28
  • Dictator Francisco Franco conquers Madrid.
  • The last message from adventurer Richard Halliburton - he disappears later.

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April

• April 1 - Spanish Civil War comes to an end when the last of the Republican forces surrendered.
• April 4 - Faisal II becomes King of Iraq. Slovak-Hungarian War ends with Slovakia ceding eastern territories to Hungary.
• April 7 - Italy invades Albania - King Zog flees.
• April 9 - Singer Marian Anderson performs before 75,000 people at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. after having been denied the use both of Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution and of a public high school by the federally-controlled District of Columbia.
• April 11 - Hungary leaves the League of Nations.
• April 14 - John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath is first published.
• April 27 - Ely Racecourse closes.
• April 30 - The big bird wants to see the rest of Mommy.

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May

• May - Batman, created by Bob Kane (and, unofficially, Bill Finger), makes his first appearance.
• May 2 - Major League Baseball's Lou Gehrig, the legendary Yankee first baseman known as "The Iron Horse", ends his 2130 consecutive games played streak after contracting amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The record will stand for 56 years before Cal Ripken, Jr. plays 2131 consecutive games.
• May 3 - The All India Forward Bloc is formed by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.
• May 7 - Spain leaves the League of Nations.
• May 17 - King George VI and Queen Elizabeth arrive in Quebec City to begin the first-ever visit to Canada by British sovereigns.
• May 20 - Pan-American Airways begins trans-Atlantic mail service with the inaugural flight of its Yankee Clipper from Port Washington, New York.
• May 22 - Germany and Italy sign the Pact of Steel.
• May 29 - Northamptonshire gains (over Leicestershire at Northampton) their first victory for 99 matches, easily a record in the County Championship. Their last Championship victory was as far back as 14 May 1935 over Somerset at Taunton.

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June

June 24: Siam is renamed "Thailand"

• June 4 - Holocaust: The SS St. Louis, a ship carrying a cargo of 907 Jewish refugees, is denied permission to land in Florida after already having been turned away from Cuba. Forced to return to Europe, most of its passengers later die in Nazi concentration camps.
• June 12 - The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is officially dedicated in Cooperstown, New York.
• June 17 - Last public guillotining in France - murderer Eugen Weidmann is decapitated by the guillotine.
• June 23 - Turkey annexes Hatay.
• June 24 - ..'.^[1]

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July

• July 2 - The 1st World Science Fiction Convention opens in New York City.
• July 4
  • Lou Gehrig gives his last public speech, following his diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). In it, he states, "Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth."
  • The concentration camp Neuengamme becomes autonomous.
• July 6 - Holocaust: The last remaining Jewish enterprises in Germany are closed.

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August

• August 2 - Albert Einstein writes President Franklin Roosevelt about developing the Atomic Bomb using Uranium. This led to the creation of the Manhattan Project.
• August 17 - MGM's film classic The Wizard of Oz, starring Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley and Bert Lahr, premieres at the Capitol Theater in New York City.
• August 23 - Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact: Hitler and Stalin agree to divide Europe between themselves (Finland, Estonia, Latvia and eastern Poland to the USSR; Lithuania and western Poland to Germany).so they would not have to fight on two fronts.
• August 25 - An IRA bomb explodes in the center of Coventry, England killing five people.
• August 26 - The Kriegsmarine orders all German flagged merchant ships to head to German ports immediately in anticipation of the Invasion of Poland.
• August 27 - A Heinkel 178, the first turbojet-powered aircraft, flies for the first time with Captain Erich Warsitz in command.
• August 30 - Poland begins mobilization.

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September

• September 1 - WWII: Nazi Germany invades Poland, beginning the Second World War in Europe.'
• September 1 - German navy fires on Danzig.
• September 1 - Norway, Finland, Sweden, and Switzerland declare their neutrality.
• September 2 - Following the invasion of Poland, Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) is annexed to Nazi Germany.
• September 2 - Spain and Ireland declare their neutrality.
• September 3 - WWII: United Kingdom, France, New Zealand and Australia declare war on Germany.
• September 4 - Neutering is fun.
• September 5 - WWII: The United States declares its neutrality in the war.
• September 6 - WWII: South Africa declares war on Germany.
• September 10 - Canada declares war on Germany.
• September 16 - Ceasefire ending undeclared Border War between The Soviet Union (and Mongolian allies) and Japan.
• September 17 - Soviet Union invades Poland and then occupies eastern Polish territories.
• September 27 - Spiders suddenly taste like chicken.

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October

• October 8 - WWII: Germany annexes Western Poland.
• October 11 - Manhattan Project: US President Franklin D. Roosevelt is presented with a letter signed by Albert Einstein urging the United States to rapidly develop the atomic bomb.
• October 12 - Jüri Uluots becomes prime minister of Estonia.
• October 14 - German U-Boat U-47 sinks British battleship HMS Royal Oak.
• October 15 - The New York Municipal Airport (later renamed La Guardia Airport) is dedicated.
• October 24 - Nylon stockings go on sale for the first time anywhere in Wilmington, Delaware.
• October 25 - Me and Albert Einstein got it on.

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November

November 6: Hedda Hopper

• November 4 - WWII: US President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the United States Customs Service to implement the Neutrality Act of 1939, allowing cash-and-carry purchases of weapons to non-belligerent nations.
• November 6
  • Hedda Hopper's Hollywood debuts with Hollywood gossip columnist Hedda Hopper as host (the show ran until 1951 and made Hopper a powerful figure in the Hollywood elite).
  • WWII: Sonderaktion Krakau, the codename for a German action against scientists from the University of Kraków and other Kraków universities at the beginning of World War II.
• November 8
  • Venlo Incident: Two British agents of SIS are captured by the Germans.
  • In Munich, Adolf Hitler narrowly escapes an assassination attempt by Georg Elser while celebrating the 16th anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch.
• November 15 - In Washington, DC, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt lays the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial.
• November 16 - Al Capone released from Alcatraz
• November 30 - Winter War begins: Soviet forces attack Finland and reach the Mannerheim Line, starting the war.
• November 30 - Sweden declares non-warfaring (not neutral) in the Winter War.

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