Events
DateEvent
1939 Jean-Claude Amiot Was Born
1939 Elinor Armer Was Born
1939 Michael von Biel Was Born
1939 Leo Brouwer Was Born
1939 Rahul Dev Burman Was Born
1939 Andrew Carter Was Born
1939 Gian Paolo Chiti Was Born
1939 Cornelis Dopper Died
August 03 1939 August Enna Died
1939 John Foulds Died
1939 Stanislao Gastaldon Died
1939 Jonathan Harvey Was Born
1939 Heinz Holliger Was Born
1939 Ketil Hvoslef Was Born
1939 Tom Johnson Was Born
1939 Jaroslav Krček Was Born
1939 Arkady Luxemburg Was Born
1939 Tigran Mansurian Was Born
1939 John McCabe Was Born
1939 Ludolf Nielsen Died
March 07 1939 Amadeo Roldán Died
1939 Franz Schmidt Died
1939 Tomas Svoboda Was Born
1939 Zsigmond Szathmáry Was Born
March 23 1939 Boris Tishchenko Was Born
1939 Charles Tournemire Died
1939 Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Was Born
January 01 1939 Record Heat In Sydney, Australia
1939 Louis Andriessen Was Born
January 13 1939 71 Die In Australia Bush Fires
January 16 1939 IRA Sabotage Campaign In England
January 24 1939 Chillán Earthquake Deadliest In Chilean History
January 26 1939 General Francisco Franco And Italy Take Barcelona
January 27 1939 First Flight Of P-38 Lightning
February 05 1939 Franco Becomes 68th Leader Of Spain
February 10 1939 Catalonia Coquered By Nationalists And Border With France Sealed
February 11 1939 Lockheed P-38 Lightning Crossed The Country Quickly
February 27 1939 Supreme Court Determines Sit-down Strikes Violate Rights
February 28 1939 Dord's Discovery Prompts An Investigation
March 01 1939 Japanese Ammunition Dump Explodes At Hirakata, Osaka
March 02 1939 Eugenio Pacelli Elected Pope Named Pius XII
March 03 1939 Mohandas Gandhi Begins Hunger Strike In Protest
March 14 1939 Slovakia Declares Independence From Germany
March 15 1939 Germany Dissolves The Czechoslovakian Nation
March 15 1939 Carpatho Ukraine Becomes An Independent Republic
March 16 1939 Hitler Claims Bohemia And Moravia In Prague
March 16 1939 Princess Fawzia Marries Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
March 17 1939 Kuomintang Vs. Japan, Battle Of Nanchang, Starts 2nd Sino-Japanese War
March 22 1939 Germany Takes Memel From Lithuania
March 23 1939 Hungary Attacks Slovak Air Force Headquarters
March 26 1939 Spanish Nationalists Begin Final Offensive
March 28 1939 Franco Conquers Madrid
March 30 1939 Heinkel Fighter Sets Airspeed Record
March 30 1939 Batman Introduced In Detective Comics #27
April 01 1939 Franco Ends Spanish Civil War
April 04 1939 Faisal II Becomes King Of Iraq
April 07 1939 Italy Invades Albania
April 09 1939 Marian Anderson Sings At Lincoln Memorial
April 14 1939 Steinbeck's Grapes Of Wrath Is Published
April 20 1939 Hitler's 50th Birthday German National Holiday
April 20 1939 Strange Fruit: Holiday Records Civil Rights Song
April 30 1939 The 1939-40 New York World's Fair Opens
April 30 1939 Roosevelt Appears First On NBC Television
May 03 1939 All India Forward Bloc Formed
May 13 1939 WDRC-FM, First American Commercial FM Radio Station
May 14 1939 World's Youngest Mother Is Age Five
May 17 1939 First Televised Sporting Event Shown In US
May 21 1939 English Royalty Unveil Canadian Monument In Ottawa
May 22 1939 Germany And Italy Sign Pact (WWII)
May 23 1939 33 Survive A Naval Submarine Sinking
May 24 1939 First Issue Of Fashizmi Published In Tirana
May 29 1939 Albanian Leader Appointed To Italian Chamber
June 01 1939 German Focke-Wulf Fw 190 Fighter-bomber's First Flight
June 04 1939 Florida Refuses Entry To 963 Jews
June 06 1939 Judge Joseph Force Crater Is Declared Dead
June 12 1939 Paramount Shoots Horror Film In Technicolor
June 12 1939 Baseball Hall Of Fame Opens In New York
June 17 1939 Eugen Weidmann Was Guillotined In Public
June 24 1939 Pibulsongram Renames Siam Thailand
July 04 1939 Huỳnh Phú Sổ Founds Hòa Hảo Buddhism
July 04 1939 Lou Gehrig Announce ALS Diagnosis And Retirment From MLB
July 06 1939 Holocaust Forces Closure Of Jewish German Businesses
August 02 1939 Scientists Urge U.S. Nuclear Weapon Development
August 15 1939 No Survivors From Disastrous Air Practice In Neuhammer
August 15 1939 Wizard Of Oz At Los Angeles, California
August 23 1939 Germany And The Soviet Union Sign A Treaty
August 25 1939 UK And Poland Form Military Alliance
August 27 1939 Heinkel He 178, First Jet Aircraft, Flies
August 31 1939 Germany Attacks Gleiwitz Radio Station
September 01 1939 Poland Invaded; World War II Enters Europe
September 01 1939 New Army Chief Of Staff: Gen. Marshall
September 01 1939 Wound Badge Is Instituted
September 01 1939 Henri Guisan To Head Swiss Army
September 01 1939 Hitler Will Euthanize The Ill And Disabled
September 02 1939 Polish City Annexed By Nazis After Invasion
September 03 1939 France, New Zealand, Australia Form Allies
September 03 1939 Ally Establish Atlantic Naval Blockade Against Germans
September 04 1939 Bristol Blenheim Crosses German Coast
September 06 1939 Friendly Fire Claims Fighter Pilot At Barking Creek
September 06 1939 South Africa Declares War On Germany
September 09 1939 Battle Of Hel Begins
September 09 1939 Ottama Dies: Prison Hunger Strike Protest
September 10 1939 HMS Oxley Mistake
September 10 1939 Canada Joins Allied Forces Against Nazis
September 11 1939 Many Canadians Were Shocked Abiut The War
September 14 1939 Estonia Boards Polish Submarine In WWII
September 17 1939 WWII: Soviets Join Nazi Invasion Of Poland
September 17 1939 German Boat 29 Sinks The British Aircraft
September 17 1939 Taisto Mäki Breaks The 10,000 Metre Record
September 18 1939 Mościcki Polish Government Flees To Romania
September 18 1939 Lord Haw-Haw Broadcasts Nazi Propoganda
September 19 1939 Polish Looses Troops In WWII Battle
September 21 1939 Prime Minister Călinescu Is Killed By Iron Guard
September 22 1939 Wehrmacht And Red Army's Joint Victory Parade
September 28 1939 Germany And Soviet Union Divide Poland Post WW2
September 28 1939 Warsaw Surrenders To Germany
September 30 1939 Sikorski Commander-in-chief Of Polish
September 30 1939 NBC Broadcasts Football Game, Rams Trounce Jackets
October 01 1939 Nazis Take Warsaw
October 06 1939 Polesia Surrenders After The Battle Of Kock
October 08 1939 WWII: Germany Annexes Western Poland
October 14 1939 U-47 Sinks British Battleship In Scottish Harbour
October 15 1939 New York Municipal Airport (LaGuardia) Dedicated
October 16 1939 First German Air Attack On Brits
October 20 1939 Pope Pius XII Publishes Summi Pontificatus
October 23 1939 Mitsubishi G4M Makes Maiden Flight
November 01 1939 First Artificial Insemination Rabbit Born
November 04 1939 US Customs Allows Belligerents To Carry Weapons
November 06 1939 During World War II, Sonderaktion Krakau
November 08 1939 The Germans Capture Two SIS Agents
November 08 1939 Hitler Scapes Assassination
November 15 1939 FDR Lays Cornerstone, Jefferson Memorial
November 17 1939 The Nazis Execute 9 Czech Students
November 23 1939 The Germans Sink The HMS Rawalpindi
November 26 1939 Soviet Army Justifies Winter War With Finland
November 30 1939 Soviets Bomb Finnish Cities, Starting War
December 02 1939 New York City's LaGuardia Airport Opens
December 04 1939 HMS Nelson Is Struck By A Mine
December 12 1939 Tolvajarvi: Finns Defeat Soviets
December 12 1939 124 Die In Scotland Shipwreck
December 13 1939 River Plate Battle. Hans And Graf
December 14 1939 USSR Expelled From League Of Nations
December 15 1939 Atlanta Premiere Of Gone With The Wind
December 17 1939 Graf Spee Is Scuttled Near Montevideo
December 18 1939 Heligoland Bight Marks First WWII Air Battle
December 22 1939 Indian National Congress Resigned Over WW II
December 24 1939 Piux XII Makes Christmas Peace Appeal
December 27 1939 Erzincan, Turkey Quake Kills 30,000
December 27 1939 Finland Holds Off Soviet Attack
December 29 1939 Consolidated B24 Liberator Flight