Date | Event |
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 |