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Events on the year of 1939 in history

Events
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01 Jan 1939 Sydney, Australia, swelters in 45 ˚C (113 ˚F) heat, a record for the city.
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02 Jan 1939 Bradman scores 107 South Africa vs. Victoria, his 4th consecutive century
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03 Jan 1939 Gene Cox becomes 1st girl page in US House of Representatives
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04 Jan 1939 Frieda Wunderlich elected 1st woman Dean of a US graduate school
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04 Jan 1939 Hermann Goering appoints Reinhard Heydrich head of Jewish Emigration
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10 Jan 1939 Bradman hits 186 South Africa vs Queensland before Christ catches him at short-leg
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13 Jan 1939 The Black Friday bush fires burn 20,000 square kilometers of land in Australia, claiming the lives of 71 people.
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13 Jan 1939 Belgian premier signs Burgos-treaty for trade relations with Franco
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14 Jan 1939 All commercial ferry service to East Bay ends
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15 Jan 1939 Municipal Railway and Market St. RR begin service to Transbay Terminal
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15 Jan 1939 1st NFL pro bowl, New York Giants beat All Stars 13-10 in Wrigley Field
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16 Jan 1939 Comic strip "Superman" debuts
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16 Jan 1939 The Irish Republican Army (IRA) begins a bombing and sabotage campaign in England.
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16 Jan 1939 Comic strip "Superman" debuts
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17 Jan 1939 Ed Barrow is elected Yankee president succeeding deceased J Ruppert
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18 Jan 1939 South African wicketkeeper Bradman gets his 6th straight ton, 135* vs New South Wales
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19 Jan 1939 Ernest Hausen of Wisconsin sets chicken-plucking record-4.4 seconds
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20 Jan 1939 Charles Ives' 1st sonata "Concord" premieres
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20 Jan 1939 Hitler proclaims to German parliament to exterminate all European Jews
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21 Jan 1939 George Kaufman & Moss Hart's "American Way" premieres in New York City NY
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21 Jan 1939 US female Figure Skating championship won by Joan Tozzer
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22 Jan 1939 Aquatic Park, near Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco CA, is dedicated
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22 Jan 1939 Uranium atom 1st split, Columbia University
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24 Jan 1939 The deadliest earthquake in Chilean history strikes Chillán, killing approximately 28,000 people.
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24 Jan 1939 30,000 killed by earthquake in Concepcion Chile
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24 Jan 1939 Eddie Collins, Willie Keeler & George Sisler elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
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24 Jan 1939 Spanish government moves to Figueras
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25 Jan 1939 Earthquake hits Chill
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25 Jan 1939 Joe Louis KOs John Henry Lewis in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
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26 Jan 1939 Filming begins on "Gone With the Wind"
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26 Jan 1939 Spanish Civil War – Catalonia Offensive: Troops loyal to nationalist General Francisco Franco and aided by Italy take Barcelona.
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26 Jan 1939 Federal Hall National Monument established
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26 Jan 1939 Filming begins on "Gone With the Wind"
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26 Jan 1939 Franco conquers Barcelona
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27 Jan 1939 First flight of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning.
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30 Jan 1939 Hitler calls for extermination of European Jews
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30 Jan 1939 Heavy after shocks destroy some of Chile
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04 Feb 1939 Glenn Cunningham (top miler) says 4-min mile beyond human effort
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05 Feb 1939 Generalísimo Francisco Franco becomes the 68th "Caudillo de España", or Leader of Spain.
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06 Feb 1939 Spanish government flees to France
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09 Feb 1939 Belgian Spaak government falls
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10 Feb 1939 Spanish Civil War: The Nationalists conclude their conquest of Catalonia and seal the border with France.
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11 Feb 1939 A Lockheed P-38 Lightning flies from California to New York in 7 hours 2 minutes.
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14 Feb 1939 Victor Fleming replaces George Cukor as director of Gone With the Wind
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15 Feb 1939 German battleship Bismarck was launched
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15 Feb 1939 Lillian Hellman's "Little Foxes" premieres in New York NY
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17 Feb 1939 Katwijk soccer team forms
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18 Feb 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition opens on Treasure Island
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21 Feb 1939 Belgian government of Pierlot forms
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22 Feb 1939 Netherlands recognizes Franco-regime in Spain
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23 Feb 1939 Lou Thesz beats E Marshall in St Louis, to become wrestling champion
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24 Feb 1939 Roy Harris' 3rd Symphony, premieres in Boston
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25 Feb 1939 1st Anderson bomb shelter in Britain erected in an Islington garden
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27 Feb 1939 United States labor law: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that sit-down strikes violate property owners' rights and are therefore illegal.
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27 Feb 1939 Supreme Court outlaws sit-down strikes
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27 Feb 1939 Belgian government of Pierlot falls
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27 Feb 1939 English Spook house Borley Rectory destroyed in a fire
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28 Feb 1939 The erroneous word "dord" is discovered in the Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition, prompting an investigation.
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28 Feb 1939 Great-Britain recognizes Franco-regime in Spain
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01 Mar 1939 An Imperial Japanese Army ammunition dump explodes at Hirakata, Osaka, Japan, killing 94.
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02 Mar 1939 Eugenio Pacelli chosen as Pope Pius XII
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02 Mar 1939 Mass Legislature votea to ratify the Bill of Rights - 147 years late
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02 Mar 1939 Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli is elected Pope and takes the name Pius XII.
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03 Mar 1939 In Bombay, Mohandas Gandhi begins a hunger strike in protest at the autocratic rule in British India.
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07 Mar 1939 Glamour magazine begins publishing
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07 Mar 1939 Guy Lombardo and Royal Canadians 1st record "Auld Lang Syne"
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10 Mar 1939 17 villages damaged by hailstones in Hyderabad India
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12 Mar 1939 Pope Pius XII crowned in Vatican ceremonies
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14 Mar 1939 Slovakia declares independence under German pressure.
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14 Mar 1939 England draw with South Africa at Durban on the 10th day
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14 Mar 1939 Nazi Germany dissolves Republic of Czechoslovakia
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15 Mar 1939 Carpatho-Ukraine declares itself an independent republic, but is annexed by Hungary the next day.
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15 Mar 1939 World War II: German troops occupy the remaining part of Bohemia and Moravia; Czechoslovakia ceases to exist.
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15 Mar 1939 Hitler occupies Bohemia & Moravia (Czechoslovakia); Slovakia independence
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16 Mar 1939 Marriage of Princess Fawzia of Egypt to Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran.
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16 Mar 1939 From Prague Castle, Hitler proclaims Bohemia and Moravia a German protectorate.
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16 Mar 1939 Germany occupies Czechoslovakia
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16 Mar 1939 Hungary annexes republic of Karpato-Ukraine
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16 Mar 1939 NHL record 10 goals in 1 period-New York Rangers (7), New York Americans (3) & a record 26 points in the 3rd period
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17 Mar 1939 Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanchang between the Kuomintang and Japan begins,
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20 Mar 1939 7,000 Jews flee German occupied Memel Lithuania
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21 Mar 1939 Nazi-Germany demands Gdansk (Danzig) from Poland
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22 Mar 1939 World War II: Germany takes Memel from Lithuania.
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22 Mar 1939 Lithuania state, forced to give Memel territory to Germany
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23 Mar 1939 The Hungarian air force attacks the headquarters of Slovak air force in the city of Spišská Nová Ves, kills 13 people and began the Slovak–Hungarian War.
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25 Mar 1939 Billboard Magazine introduces hillbilly (country) music chart
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26 Mar 1939 Spanish Civil War: Nationalists begin their final offensive of the war.
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27 Mar 1939 1st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: University of Oregon beats Ohio State 46-33
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28 Mar 1939 Spanish Civil War: Generalissimo Francisco Franco conquers Madrid after a three-year siege.
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28 Mar 1939 Dutch hunter shoots English bombers down
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28 Mar 1939 Philip Barry's "Philadelphia Story" premieres in New York NY
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28 Mar 1939 Renaissance Big 5 win 1st pro basketball championship
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28 Mar 1939 Spanish Civil War ends, Madrid falls to Francisco Franco
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30 Mar 1939 Detective Comics #27 is released, introducing Batman.
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30 Mar 1939 The Heinkel He 100 fighter sets a world airspeed record of 463 mph (745km/h).
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31 Mar 1939 Britain & France agree to support Poland if invaded by Germany
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01 Apr 1939 Spanish Civil War: Generalísimo Francisco Franco of the Spanish State announces the end of the Spanish Civil War, when the last of the Republican forces surrender.
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02 Apr 1939 6th Golf Masters Championship: Ralph Guldahl wins, shooting a 279
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04 Apr 1939 Faisal II ascends to throne of Iraq
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04 Apr 1939 Faisal II becomes King of Iraq.
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05 Apr 1939 Membership in Hitler Youth becomes obligatory
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06 Apr 1939 Great Britain and Poland sign military pact
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06 Apr 1939 US and the UK agree on joint control of Canton and Enderbury Is (Pacific)
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07 Apr 1939 Italy invades Albania
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07 Apr 1939 World War II: Italy invades Albania.
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08 Apr 1939 ACV soccer team forms in Axes
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08 Apr 1939 King Zog I of Albania, flees
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09 Apr 1939 Marian Anderson sings before 75,000 at Lincoln Memorial
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09 Apr 1939 Marian Anderson sings at the Lincoln Memorial, after being denied the right to sing at the Daughters of the American Revolution's Constitution Hall.
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10 Apr 1939 Colijn's Dutch government opens camp Westerbork for German Jews
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10 Apr 1939 Grens mobilization due to Italian invasion in Albania
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11 Apr 1939 Hungary leaves League of Nations
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13 Apr 1939 W Saroyan's "My Heart's in the Highlands", premieres in NYC
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14 Apr 1939 John Steinbeck novel "The Grapes of Wrath" published
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14 Apr 1939 The Grapes of Wrath, by American author John Steinbeck is first published by the Viking Press.
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15 Apr 1939 Albert Lebrun elected President of France
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16 Apr 1939 Stalin requests British, French & Russian anti-nazi pact
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16 Apr 1939 Stanley Cup Boston Bruins beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 4 games to 1
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17 Apr 1939 Joe Louis KOs Jack Roper in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
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17 Apr 1939 Samuel Nathaniel Behrman's "No Time for Comedy", premieres in NYC
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17 Apr 1939 Stalin signs British-France-Russian anti-nazi pact
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18 Apr 1939 Franz von Papen becomes German ambassador in Turkey
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18 Apr 1939 Hubert Pierlot forms Belgian government
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19 Apr 1939 Connecticut finally approves Bill of Rights (148 years late)
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19 Apr 1939 43rd Boston Marathon won by Ellison Brown of Rhode Island in 2:28:51.8
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20 Apr 1939 Billie Holiday records the first civil rights song "Strange Fruit".
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20 Apr 1939 Adolf Hitler's 50th birthday is celebrated as a national holiday in Nazi Germany.
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20 Apr 1939 New York World's Fair opens
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20 Apr 1939 Ted Williams' 1st hit (off of Yankee Red Ruffing) a double
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23 Apr 1939 1st performance of B
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23 Apr 1939 Boston Red Sox Ted Williams hits his 1st homerun
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28 Apr 1939 Hitler claims German-Polish non-attack treaty still in effect
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29 Apr 1939 Whitestone Bridge connecting Bronx & Queens opens
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30 Apr 1939 NBC inaugurates its regularly scheduled television service in New York City, broadcasting President Franklin D. Roosevelt's N.Y. World's Fair opening day ceremonial address.
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30 Apr 1939 The 1939-40 New York World's Fair opens.
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30 Apr 1939 NBC/RCA 1st public TV demo with FDR at opening of New York World's Fair
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30 Apr 1939 Tropicana ballet of Havana Cuba, forms
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01 May 1939 Batman comics hit street
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01 May 1939 Pulitzer Prize awarded to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Yearling)
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02 May 1939 Lou Gehrig ends 2,130 consecutive game streak, Yanks beat Tigers 22-2
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03 May 1939 The All India Forward Bloc is formed by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.
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05 May 1939 Flash floods kill 75 in Northeast Kentucky
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06 May 1939 65th Kentucky Derby: James Stout aboard Johnstown wins in 2:03.4
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07 May 1939 Germany and Italy announced an alliance known as the Rome-Berlin Axis
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09 May 1939 Catholic church beatified the 1st Native American, Kateri Tekakwitha
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13 May 1939 The first commercial FM radio station in the United States is launched in Bloomfield, Connecticut. The station later becomes WDRC-FM.
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13 May 1939 65th Preakness: George Seabo aboard Challedon wins in 1:59.8
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13 May 1939 SS St Louis departs Hamburg with 937 Jews fugitives
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14 May 1939 Lina Medina becomes the youngest confirmed mother in medical history at the age of five.
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16 May 1939 1st American League night game, Philadelphia Shribe Park (Indians 8, Athletics 3 in 10)
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16 May 1939 Food stamps are 1st issued
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17 May 1939 The Columbia Lions and the Princeton Tigers play in the United States' first televised sporting event, a collegiate baseball game in New York City.
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17 May 1939 1st sports telecast-Columbia vs Princeton-college baseball
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19 May 1939 Churchill signs British-Russian anti-Nazi pact
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20 May 1939 "3 Little Fishies, " by Kay Kyser hits #1
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20 May 1939 1st regular transatlantic airmail (NY to Marsseille France)
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20 May 1939 Pan Am begins transatlantic passenger and air mail service
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20 May 1939 "3 Little Fishies" by Kay Kyser hits #1
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20 May 1939 Pan Am begins regular transatlantic airmail and passenger service across the North Atlantic
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21 May 1939 The Canadian National War Memorial is unveiled by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in Ottawa.
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22 May 1939 Hitler and Mussolini sign "Pact of Steel"
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22 May 1939 World War II: Germany and Italy sign the Pact of Steel.
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22 May 1939 Hitler & Mussolini sign "Pact of Steel"
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23 May 1939 The U.S. Navy submarine USS Squalus sinks off the coast of New Hampshire during a test dive, causing the death of 24 sailors and two civilian technicians. The remaining 32 sailors and one civilian naval architect are rescued the following day.
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23 May 1939 British decoration, George Cross, 1st presented
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23 May 1939 British parliament plans to make Palestine independent by 1949
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23 May 1939 Dmitri Shostakovich appointed professor at conservatory of Leningrad
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23 May 1939 Hitler proclaims he wants to move into Poland
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23 May 1939 Submarine Squalis sinks off Portsmouth NH, 26 die
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24 May 1939 First issue of Fashizmi is published in Tirana.
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25 May 1939 Carl Storck becomes the 2nd NFL president
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29 May 1939 The Albanian fascist leader Tefik Mborja is appointed as member of the Italian Chamber of Fasces and Corporations.
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01 Jun 1939 1st boxing match to be televised, Lon Nova defeats Max Baer
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01 Jun 1939 British sub "Thetis" sinks in Liverpool Bay with all 99 aboard
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01 Jun 1939 Retired German Colonel-General Gerd von Runstedt returns to service
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01 Jun 1939 First flight of the German Focke-Wulf Fw 190 fighter-bomber airplane.
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03 Jun 1939 71st Belmont: James Stout aboard Johnstown wins in 2:29.6
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03 Jun 1939 Beer Barrel Polka hits #1 on the pop singles chart by Will Glahe
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04 Jun 1939 Holocaust: The MS St. Louis, a ship carrying 963 Jewish refugees, is denied permission to land in Florida, in the United States, after already being turned away from Cuba. Forced to return to Europe, more than 200 of its passengers later die in Nazi concentration camps.
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06 Jun 1939 New York Giants beat Reds 17-3, with 5 HRs in 4th inning
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06 Jun 1939 New York Supreme Court Justice J F Crater legally declared dead
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06 Jun 1939 Judge Joseph Force Crater, known as the "Missingest Man in New York", is declared legally dead.
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07 Jun 1939 1st King and Queen of England to visit US, George VI and Elizabeth
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07 Jun 1939 Cleveland Indians sets AL record of 16 inning game without striking out, however lose game 5-4 to New York Yankees
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08 Jun 1939 British King George VI visits US
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10 Jun 1939 Barney Bear, cartoon character, by MGM, debuts
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11 Jun 1939 King & Queen of England taste 1st "hot dogs" at FDR's party
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12 Jun 1939 43rd US Golf Open: Byron Nelson shoots a 284 at Philadelphia Country Club
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12 Jun 1939 Shooting begins on Paramount Pictures' Dr. Cyclops, the first horror film photographed in three-strip Technicolor.
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12 Jun 1939 The Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, New York.
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15 Jun 1939 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1676 Kariba
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17 Jun 1939 Last public guillotining in France: Eugen Weidmann, a convicted murderer, is guillotined in Versailles outside the Saint-Pierre prison.
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20 Jun 1939 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1817 Katanga
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20 Jun 1939 Test flight of 1st rocket plane using liquid propellants
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21 Jun 1939 Doctors reveal Lou Gehrig has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
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22 Jun 1939 Future Queen Elizabeth of England meets future husband Philip
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23 Jun 1939 Bronko Nagurski beats Lou Thesz in Houston, to become wrestling champ
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23 Jun 1939 France turns over Sanjak of Alexandretta (the Hatay) to Turkey
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24 Jun 1939 Siam is renamed Thailand by Plaek Pibulsonggram, the country's third prime minister.
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24 Jun 1939 Pan Am's 1st US to England flight
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27 Jun 1939 1st night game at Cleveland Municipal Stadium (Indians 5, Tigers 0)
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27 Jun 1939 Brooklyn Dodgers tie Boston Braves, 2-2, in 23 innings
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28 Jun 1939 Joe Louis TKOs Tony Galent in 4 for heavyweight boxing title
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28 Jun 1939 Pan Am opens southern route transatlantic air service (Dixie Clipper)
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28 Jun 1939 Yanks hit 13 HRs, sweep A's 23-2 & 10-0
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29 Jun 1939 4th Dutch government of Colijn falls
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29 Jun 1939 Dixie Clipper completes 1st commercial plane flight to Europe
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30 Jun 1939 Heinkel He. 176 rocket plane flies for 1st time, at Peenem
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03 Jul 1939 Ernst Heinkel demonstrates 800-kph rocket plane to Hitler
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03 Jul 1939 Lou Gehrig day; Gehrig makes "luckiest man" speech
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04 Jul 1939 Red Sox Jim Tabor hits 2 grand slams in 1 game
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04 Jul 1939 Yankees retire 1st uniform (Lou Gehrig #4), 1st Old Timers Day
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04 Jul 1939 Lou Gehrig, recently diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, informs a crowd at Yankee Stadium that he considered himself "The luckiest man on the face of the earth", then announces his retirement from major league baseball.
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04 Jul 1939 Huỳnh Phú Sổ founds Hòa Hảo Buddhism.
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06 Jul 1939 Holocaust: the last remaining Jewish enterprises in Germany are closed.
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07 Jul 1939 52nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Alice Marble beats Kay Stammers (62 60)
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08 Jul 1939 59th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Bobby Riggs beats E Cooke (26 86 36 63 62)
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11 Jul 1939 7th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 3-1 at Yankee Stadium, New York New York Yankee / AL maanager Joe McCarthy starts 6 Yankees
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11 Jul 1939 Yanks host 7th All Star Game, McCarthy starts 6 Yanks, AL wins 3-1
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13 Jul 1939 Frank Sinatra made his recording debut
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15 Jul 1939 Clara Adams (NYC) is 1st woman to complete round world flight
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17 Jul 1939 22nd PGA Championship: Henry Picard at Pomonok Country Club - Flushing, New York
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19 Jul 1939 1st use of fiberglass sutures, R P Scholz, St. Louis, Missouri
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19 Jul 1939 Dr Roy P Scholz is 1st surgeon to use fiberglass sutures
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22 Jul 1939 1st black woman judge (Jane Matilda Bolin-NYC)
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25 Jul 1939 5th and last Dutch government of Colijn, forms
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25 Jul 1939 New York Yankee Atley Donald sets AL rookie record with 12 consecutive win
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26 Jul 1939 Yankee catcher Bill Dickey hits 3 consecutive HRs
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28 Jul 1939 5th Dutch government of Colijn falls
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02 Aug 1939 Hatch Act prohibits political activity by federal workers
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02 Aug 1939 Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to begin the Manhattan Project to develop a nuclear weapon.
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03 Aug 1939 Jean Genets "Ondine, " premieres in Paris
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06 Aug 1939 1st broadcast of "Dinah Shore Show" on NBC-radio
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10 Aug 1939 2nd Dutch De Geer government forms (1st with Social Democrats)
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11 Aug 1939 Sergei Rachmaninovs last appearance in Europe
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13 Aug 1939 Yankees set AL shutout margin with 21-0 victory over A's
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13 Aug 1939 Sabotage suspected in crash of the 'City of San Francisco' which fell into the Humboldt River killing 24. (Elko, Nevada)
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14 Aug 1939 1st night games at Comiskey Park (White Sox 5, Browns 2)
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15 Aug 1939 In 1st night game at Comiskey Park, Sox beat Browns 5-2
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15 Aug 1939 Thirteen Stukas dive into the ground during a disastrous air-practice at Neuhammer. There are no survivors.
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15 Aug 1939 The Wizard of Oz premieres at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Los Angeles, California.
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15 Aug 1939 "Wizard of Oz" premiers at Grauman's Chinese Theater, Hollywood
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17 Aug 1939 "Wizard of Oz" opens at Loew's Capitol Theater in NY
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19 Aug 1939 37.6 cm rainfall at Tuckerton, New Jersey (state record)
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20 Aug 1939 1st black bowling league formed (National Bowling Association)
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20 Aug 1939 Russ offensive under General Zjoekov against Japanese invasion in Mongolia
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22 Aug 1939 Dutch border guards take positions for German invasion
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22 Aug 1939 Premier De Geer recalls Dutch vacationers in Black Forest
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23 Aug 1939 John Cobb (Britain) drives 365.85 mph (593.48 km/h) at Bonneville Flats
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23 Aug 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop pact: East Europe divided between Hitler and Stalin
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23 Aug 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop-pact (Soviet Union neutral / Poland divided)
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23 Aug 1939 USSR & Germany sign a non-agression pact
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24 Aug 1939 Germany and the USSR sign 10-year non-aggression pact
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26 Aug 1939 1st major league baseball telecast-Reds beat Brooklyn Dodgers (W2XBS NY)
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26 Aug 1939 Belgium mobilizes
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26 Aug 1939 Kroatia gets autonomous status
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27 Aug 1939 Heinkel He-178 makes 1st manned flight with rocket / jet propulsion
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27 Aug 1939 Nazi Germany demands Danzig and Polish corridor
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27 Aug 1939 Queen Wilhelmina receives German ambassador Grave Zech
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27 Aug 1939 Erich Warsitz makes 1st jet-propelled flight (in a Heinkel He-178)
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28 Aug 1939 "Monty" becomes Commandant of 3rd "Iron" Infantry division
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28 Aug 1939 Netherland mobilizes
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29 Aug 1939 Chaim Weizmann informs England that Palestine Jews will fight in WW II
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30 Aug 1939 6th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: New York Giants 9, All-Stars 0 (81,456)
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30 Aug 1939 General Reijnders appointed Supreme Commander of Dutch army
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30 Aug 1939 Isoroku Yamamoto appointed Supreme Commander of Japanese fleet
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30 Aug 1939 New York Yankee Atley Donald pitches a baseball a record 94.7 mph (152 km/h)
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30 Aug 1939 Poland mobilizes
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31 Aug 1939 Japanese invasion army driven out of Mongolia
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31 Aug 1939 Staged "Polish" assault on radio station in Gleiwitz
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31 Aug 1939 Nazi Germany mounts a staged attack on the Gleiwitz radio station, creating an excuse to attack Poland the following day thus starting World War II in Europe.
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01 Sep 1939 Hitler orders extermination of mentally ill
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01 Sep 1939 Physical Review publishes 1st paper to deal with "black holes"
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01 Sep 1939 Switzerland proclaims neutrality
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01 Sep 1939 WW II starts, Germany invades Poland, takes Danzig
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01 Sep 1939 World War II: Nazi Germany and Slovakia invade Poland, beginning the European phase of World War II.
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01 Sep 1939 General George C. Marshall becomes Chief of Staff of the United States Army.
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01 Sep 1939 The Wound Badge for Wehrmacht, SS, Kriegsmarine, and Luftwaffe soldiers is instituted. The final version of the Iron Cross is also instituted on this date.
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01 Sep 1939 Switzerland mobilizes its forces and the Swiss Parliament elects Henri Guisan to head the Swiss Army (an event that can happen only during war or mobilization).
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01 Sep 1939 Adolf Hitler signs an order to begin the systematic euthanasia of mentally ill and disabled people.
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02 Sep 1939 World War II: following the start of the invasion of Poland the previous day, the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) is annexed by Nazi Germany.
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03 Sep 1939 Britain declares war on Germany. France follows 6 hours later quickly joined by Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Canada
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03 Sep 1939 German U-boat sinks British passenger ship Athenia
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03 Sep 1939 Great Britain and France declare war on Germany after invasion of Poland
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03 Sep 1939 Yanks beat Red Sox on a forfeit, their 4th forfeit win
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03 Sep 1939 World War II: France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia declare war on Germany after the invasion of Poland, forming the Allies.
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03 Sep 1939 World War II: The United Kingdom and France begin a naval blockade of Germany that lasts until the end of the war. This also marks the beginning of the Battle of the Atlantic.
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04 Sep 1939 German submarine U-30 sinks British passenger ship Athenia
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04 Sep 1939 German troops move into Danzig
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04 Sep 1939 Netherlands and Belgium declare neutrality
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04 Sep 1939 Polish ghetto of Mir is exterminated
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04 Sep 1939 RAF bombs Wilhelmshafen
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04 Sep 1939 World War II: A Bristol Blenheim is the first British aircraft to cross the German coast following the declaration of war and German ships are bombed.
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05 Sep 1939 34th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in Haverford (3-2)
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05 Sep 1939 FDR declares US neutrality at start of WWII in Europe
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05 Sep 1939 US declare itself neutral
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06 Sep 1939 1st German air attack on Great-Britain in WWII
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06 Sep 1939 World War II: At the Battle of Barking Creek, Britain suffers its first fighter pilot casualty of the Second World War as a result of friendly fire.
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06 Sep 1939 World War II: South Africa declares war on Nazi Germany.
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07 Sep 1939 Radio New York Worldwide-WRUL begins radio transmission
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08 Sep 1939 FDR declares "limited national emergency" due to war in Europe
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08 Sep 1939 Gen Von Reichenaus pantzer division reaches suburbs of Warsaw
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08 Sep 1939 Indians Bob Feller, 20, is youngest pitcher to win 20 games
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08 Sep 1939 Yanks beat Red Sox 4-1 in 7, game called because of lightning
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09 Sep 1939 Nazi army reaches Warsaw
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09 Sep 1939 World War II: The Battle of Hel begins, the longest-defended pocket of Polish Army resistance during the German invasion of Poland.
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09 Sep 1939 Burmese national hero U Ottama dies in prison after a hunger strike to protest Britain's colonial government.
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10 Sep 1939 In WWII, Canada declared war on Germany
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10 Sep 1939 World War II: The submarine HMS Oxley is mistakenly sunk by the submarine HMS Triton near Norway and becomes the Royal Navy's first loss.
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10 Sep 1939 World War II: Canada declares war on Nazi Germany, joining the Allies – Poland, France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia.
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11 Sep 1939 Battle of Kutno-pocket: Germans advance to Warsaw
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11 Sep 1939 British submarine Triton torpedoes British submarine Oxley
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11 Sep 1939 Iraq and Saudi Arabia declare war on Nazi-Germany
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11 Sep 1939 World War II: Canada declares war on Germany, the country's first independent declaration of war
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13 Sep 1939 Igor Stravinsky invents 1st helicopter
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14 Sep 1939 British fleet attacks German U-39 boat
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14 Sep 1939 Minister Winston Churchill visits Scapa Flow
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14 Sep 1939 World War II: The Estonian military boards the Polish submarine ORP Orzeł in Tallinn, sparking a diplomatic incident that the Soviet Union will later use to justify the annexation of Estonia.
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16 Sep 1939 53rd US Womens Tennis: Alice Marble beats Helen Hull Jacobs (60 810 64)
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16 Sep 1939 59th US Mens Tennis: Robert L Riggs beats S Welby van Horn (64 62 64)
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16 Sep 1939 New York Yankees clinch their 11th and 4th successive pennant
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16 Sep 1939 Yanks clinch pennant #11
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17 Sep 1939 German U-29 sinks British aircraft carrier Courageous, 519 die
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17 Sep 1939 Russia invades Eastern Poland, takes 217,000 Poles prisoner
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17 Sep 1939 World War II: The Soviet Union joins Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland during the Polish Defensive War of 1939.
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17 Sep 1939 World War II: A German U-boat U 29 sinks the British aircraft carrier HMS Courageous.
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17 Sep 1939 Taisto Mäki becomes the first man to run the 10,000 metres in under 30 minutes, in a time of 29:52.6
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17 Sep 1939 Soviet Union invades Poland during WW II
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18 Sep 1939 Polish government of Moscicki flees to Romania
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18 Sep 1939 World War II: Polish government of Ignacy Mościcki flees to Romania.
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18 Sep 1939 The Nazi propaganda broadcaster known as Lord Haw-Haw begins transmitting.
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19 Sep 1939 British Expeditionary Force reaches France
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19 Sep 1939 Lord Haw-Haw becomes radio host of Reichsrundfunk Berlin
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19 Sep 1939 Wehrmacht (German regular army) murders 100 Jews in Lukov Poland
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19 Sep 1939 World War II: The Battle of Kępa Oksywska concludes, with Polish losses reaching roughly 14% of all the forces engaged.
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20 Sep 1939 British fleet takes German U-27 boat
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20 Sep 1939 Joe Louis KOs Bob Pastor in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
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21 Sep 1939 Reinhard Heydrich meets in Berlin to discuss final solution of Jews
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21 Sep 1939 Romanian Prime Minister Armand Călinescu is assassinated by far-right legionnaires of the fascist paramilitary organization Iron Guard.
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22 Sep 1939 Joint victory parade of Wehrmacht and Red Army in Brest-Litovsk at the end of the Invasion of Poland.
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23 Sep 1939 Cookie Lavagetto goes 6 for 6-Dodgers get 27 hits & beat Phillies 22-4
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25 Sep 1939 German Luftwaffe strikes Warsaw with (fire)bombs
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25 Sep 1939 Versailles Peace Treaty forgot to include Andorra, so Andorra & Germany finally sign an official treaty ending WW I
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26 Sep 1939 German seaplane shoots KLM-aircraft (1 killed)
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27 Sep 1939 White Sox host 1st "day-night" doubleheader, lose to Cleve, 5-2 and 7-5
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27 Sep 1939 Warsaw, Poland, surrenders to Germans after 19 days of resistance
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28 Sep 1939 Estonia accepts Soviet military bases
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28 Sep 1939 Final broadcast of The Fleischmann Hour was heard on radio
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28 Sep 1939 Soviet-German treaty agree on 4th partition of Poland (WWII) and gives Lithuania to USSR, last Polish troops surrender
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28 Sep 1939 Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a division of Poland after their invasion during World War II.
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28 Sep 1939 Warsaw surrenders to Nazi Germany during World War II.
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28 Sep 1939 Soviet-German treaty agree on 4th partition of Poland (WW II) & gives Lithuania to the USSR
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30 Sep 1939 White Sox reliever Clint Brown sets record of 61st relief appearance
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30 Sep 1939 General Władysław Sikorski becomes commander-in-chief of the Polish Government in exile.
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30 Sep 1939 NBC broadcasts the first televised American football game between the Waynesburg Yellow Jackets and the Fordham Rams. Fordham won the game 34-7.
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30 Sep 1939 1st televised college football game (Fordham vs Waynesburg at NYC)
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30 Sep 1939 Germany & Russia agree to partition Poland
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01 Oct 1939 Churchill calls Soviets "riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma"
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01 Oct 1939 After a one-month Siege of Warsaw, hostile Nazi forces enter the city.
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02 Oct 1939 Birdbaths installed in Union Square, San Francisco
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03 Oct 1939 Lemmer-Urk Dike closes
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04 Oct 1939 Last Polish troops surrender
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06 Oct 1939 Adolf Hitler denies he intends to go to war against France and Britain
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06 Oct 1939 Hitler announces plans to regulate Jewish problem
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06 Oct 1939 World War II: Germany's invasion of Poland ends with the surrender of Polesia army after the Battle of Kock
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07 Oct 1939 HALL airship Binnendijk runs up German my
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08 Oct 1939 Germany annexes Western Poland
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08 Oct 1939 New York Yankees sweep Reds in 36th World Series, 4th straight WS win
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08 Oct 1939 World War II: Germany annexes Western Poland.
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11 Oct 1939 Albert Einstein informs FDR of possibilities of atomic bomb
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11 Oct 1939 Bucky Harris signs to manage Washington again
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11 Oct 1939 NAACP organized Legal Defense and Education Fund
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14 Oct 1939 German U-47 sinks British battleship HMS Royal Oak, 833 killed
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14 Oct 1939 Sugar rationed in the Netherlands
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14 Oct 1939 The German submarine U-47 sinks the British battleship HMS Royal Oak within her harbour at Scapa Flow, Scotland.
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14 Oct 1939 BMI (Broadcast Music Incorporated) formed
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15 Oct 1939 LaGuardia Airport opens in New York City
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15 Oct 1939 Yeshiva of Mir closes after 124 years
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15 Oct 1939 The New York Municipal Airport (later renamed LaGuardia Airport) is dedicated.
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16 Oct 1939 Sugar rationing begins in the Netherlands
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16 Oct 1939 World War II: First attack on British territory by the German Luftwaffe.
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18 Oct 1939 R Rodgers and Lorenz Harts "Too Many Girls, " premieres in New York City
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20 Oct 1939 "All the Things You Are" recorded by Tommy Dorsey Orchestra
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20 Oct 1939 Pope Pius XII publishes his first major encyclical entitled Summi Pontificatus.
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22 Oct 1939 1st TV NFL game-Eagles vs Dodgers
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23 Oct 1939 The Japanese Mitsubishi G4M twin-engine "Betty" Bomber makes its maiden flight.
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24 Oct 1939 Joe DiMaggio wins AL MVP, Jimmie Foxx is runner-up
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24 Oct 1939 Nazi require wearing of star of David
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24 Oct 1939 Benny Goodman records "Let's Dance"
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24 Oct 1939 Nylon stockings go on sale for 1st time (Wilmington Delaware)
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25 Oct 1939 Nylon stockings go on sale in US for 1st time
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26 Oct 1939 Polish Jewish forced into obligatory work service
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28 Oct 1939 Anti-German demonstrations / strikes in Czechoslovakia
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28 Oct 1939 Spitfire shoots German Heinkel-111 down above Scotland
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29 Oct 1939 NHL Babe Seibert Memorial Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 5-3
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29 Oct 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition closes (1st closure)
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30 Oct 1939 German U-boat fails on attack of English battleship Nelson with Winston Churchill, Dudley Pound and Charles Forbes aboard
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30 Oct 1939 USSR and Germany agree on partitioning Poland, Hitler deports Jews
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30 Oct 1939 USSR & Germany agree on partitioning Poland
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01 Nov 1939 1st animal conceived by artificial insemination (rabbit) displayed
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01 Nov 1939 1st jet plane, Heinkel He 178, demonstrated to German Air Ministry
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01 Nov 1939 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Sertum laetitiae
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01 Nov 1939 The first rabbit born after artificial insemination is exhibited to the world.
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04 Nov 1939 1940 Olympics awarded to Helsinki, Finland
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04 Nov 1939 1st air conditioned automobile (Packard) exhibited, Chicago, Illinois
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04 Nov 1939 US allows "cash & carry" arms sales during WWII
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04 Nov 1939 World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the United States Customs Service to implement the Neutrality Act of 1939, allowing cash-and-carry purchases of weapons by belligerents.
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06 Nov 1939 WGY-TV (Schenectady, NY), 1st coml TV station, begins service
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06 Nov 1939 WRGB TV channel 6 in Schenectady-Alby-Troy, New York (CBS) 1st broadcast
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09 Nov 1939 "Ninotchka, " with Greta Garbo premieres
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09 Nov 1939 Nobel for physics awarded to Ernest O Lawrence (cyclotron)
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09 Nov 1939 Venlo-incident: German Abwehr kills 2 English agents
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11 Nov 1939 Kate Smith 1st sings Irving Berlin's "God Bless America"
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12 Nov 1939 Jews in Lodz Poland ordered to wear yellow star of David
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12 Nov 1939 Jews of Lodz Poland are ordered to wear yellow armbands
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14 Nov 1939 Oil refinery fire kills 500 & destroys Lagunillas Venezuela
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15 Nov 1939 Anti-German demonstrations in Czechoslovakia
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15 Nov 1939 FDR lays cornerstone of Jefferson Memorial in Washington DC
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15 Nov 1939 Nazis begin mass murder of Warsaw Jews
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15 Nov 1939 Social Security Administration approves 1st unemployment check
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16 Nov 1939 Al Capone freed from Alcatraz jail
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16 Nov 1939 German U-boat torpedoes tanker Sliedrecht near Ireland
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17 Nov 1939 German U-boat torpedoes passenger ship
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18 Nov 1939 Netherlands KNSM passenger ship Simon Bolivar hits German mine, 86 die
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19 Nov 1939 Don Lash wins 6th straight AAU cross-country 10K championship
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23 Nov 1939 Nazi Gov of Poland Hans Frank requires Jews to wear a blue star
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26 Nov 1939 4 soviet soldiers killed on Finnish-Russian border
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26 Nov 1939 Shelling of Mainila: The Soviet Army orchestrates an incident which is used to justify the start of the Winter War with Finland four days later.
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28 Nov 1939 Nazi Governor-General of Poland, Hans Frank organizes Judenrat
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28 Nov 1939 Soviet government revokes Russian-Finnish non-attack treaty
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29 Nov 1939 Cor Klint swims world record 200 m backstroke (2:38.8)
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29 Nov 1939 USSR drops diplomatic relations with Finland
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30 Nov 1939 USSR invades Finland, bombs Helsinki
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30 Nov 1939 Winter War: Soviet forces cross the Finnish border in several places and bomb Helsinki and several other Finnish cities, starting the war.
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30 Nov 1939 USSR invades Finland over a border dispute
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02 Dec 1939 British Imperial Airways and British Airways merge to form BOAC
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02 Dec 1939 New York City's LaGuardia Airport opens.
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04 Dec 1939 World War II: HMS Nelson is struck by a mine (laid by U-31) off the Scottish coast and is laid up for repairs until August 1940.
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06 Dec 1939 5th Heisman Trophy Award: Nile Kinnick, Iowa (HB)
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09 Dec 1939 27th Grey Cup: Winnipeg Blue Bombers defeats Ottawa Rough Riders, 8-7
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09 Dec 1939 Russian air raid on Helsinki
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10 Dec 1939 Green Bay Packers win NFL championship, beat the New York Giants 27-0
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10 Dec 1939 KNVB celebrates 50th anniversary
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11 Dec 1939 New anti Jewish measurements in Poland, proclaimed
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12 Dec 1939 Russ Indigirka capsizes in blizzard off Japanese coast; 750 die
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12 Dec 1939 Winter War: Battle of Tolvajärvi – Finnish forces defeat those of the Soviet Union in their first major victory of the conflict.
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12 Dec 1939 HMS Duchess sinks after a collision with HMS Barham off the coast of Scotland with the loss of 124 men.
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12 Dec 1939 Soviet prison ship Indigirka, carrying 2,500 prisoners capsizes in blizzard off Japanese coast; 2,470 die
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13 Dec 1939 World War II: Battle of the River Plate – Captain Hans Langsdorff of the German Deutschland-class cruiser (pocket battleship) Admiral Graf Spee engages with Royal Navy cruisers HMS Exeter, HMS Ajax and HMNZS Achilles.
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13 Dec 1939 Battle at La Plata - 3 British cruisers vs German Graf Spee
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14 Dec 1939 Winter War: The Soviet Union is expelled from the League of Nations for invading Finland.
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14 Dec 1939 Soviet Union attacks Finland - League of Nations drops Soviet Union
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15 Dec 1939 "Gone With the Wind" premieres in Atlanta
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15 Dec 1939 1st commercial manufacture of nylon yarn, Seaford, Delaware
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15 Dec 1939 Snip departs for 1st flight to Paramaribo / Curacao
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15 Dec 1939 Gone with the Wind receives its premiere at Loew's Grand Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
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15 Dec 1939 World premiere of "Gone With The Wind" in Atlanta GA
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16 Dec 1939 Bradman scores 251 South Africa vs New South Wales, 271 minutes, 38 fours 2 sixes
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17 Dec 1939 World War II: Battle of the River Plate – The Admiral Graf Spee is scuttled by Captain Hans Langsdorff outside Montevideo.
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17 Dec 1939 German pocket battleship Graf Spee scuttled by its crew off Uruguay
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18 Dec 1939 World War II: The Battle of the Heligoland Bight, the first major air battle of the war, takes place.
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18 Dec 1939 Finnish army recaptures Agl
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19 Dec 1939 Russian air & ground attack against Finnish positions near Summa
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20 Dec 1939 Radio Australia begins overseas short-wave service
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21 Dec 1939 Hitler named Adolf Eichmann leader of "Referat IV B"
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22 Dec 1939 125 die in train wreck at Magdeburg Germany
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22 Dec 1939 99 die in 2nd wreck at Friedrichshafen Germany
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22 Dec 1939 Indian Muslims observe a "Day of Deliverance" to celebrate the resignations of members of the Indian National Congress over their not having been consulted over the decision to enter World War II with the United Kingdom.
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22 Dec 1939 125 die in train wreck at Magdeburg Germany; 99 die in 2nd wreck at Friedrichshafen Germany
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22 Dec 1939 Bradman scores 138 in South Australia's 7-821 vs Queensland
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22 Dec 1939 Finnish counter offensive at Petsamo
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23 Dec 1939 Finnish counter offensive at Summa
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23 Dec 1939 South Australia score 7-821 against Queensland
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24 Dec 1939 World War II: Pope Pius XII makes a Christmas Eve appeal for peace.
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25 Dec 1939 Montgomery Ward introduces Rudolph the 9th reindeer
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25 Dec 1939 Grimmett & Ward rip through Queensland except Bill Brown (156)
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26 Dec 1939 Earthquake in East Anatolia Turkey
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26 Dec 1939 Mine strikes in Borinage Brussels
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27 Dec 1939 Between 20,000 and 40,000 die in magnitude 8 quake (Erzincam Turkey)
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27 Dec 1939 Erzincan, Turkey, is hit by an earthquake, killing 30,000.
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27 Dec 1939 Winter War: Finland holds off a Soviet attack in the Battle of Kelja.
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27 Dec 1939 1st American skimobiles (North Conway NH)
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27 Dec 1939 8.0 Earthquake in Erzincam Turkey, about 50,000 die
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29 Dec 1939 First flight of the Consolidated B-24 Liberator.
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30 Dec 1939 Bradman scores 267 South Africa vs Victoria, world record 34th double cricket century
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30 Dec 1939 O'Reilly takes 14-45 (8-23 & 6-22) as New South Wales crush Queensland in 2 days
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31 Dec 1939 Dutch national debt hits
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