1939 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1939?
- January 13, 1939 – The Black Friday bush fires burn 20,000 square kilometres of land in Australia, claiming the lives of 71 people.
- January 27, 1939 – First flight of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning.
- February 5, 1939 – Generalísimo Francisco Franco becomes the 68th “Caudillo de España”, or Leader of Spain.
- February 19, 1939 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
- March 15, 1939 – World War II: German troops occupy the remaining part of Bohemia and Moravia; Czechoslovakia ceases to exist.
- March 16, 1939 – Marriage of Princess Fawzia of Egypt to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran.
- March 17, 1939 – Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanchang between the Kuomintang and Japan begins,
- May 14, 1939 – Lina Medina becomes the youngest confirmed mother in medical history at the age of five.
- June 12, 1939 – Shooting begins on Paramount Pictures’ Dr. Cyclops, the first horror film photographed in three-strip Technicolor.
- September 4, 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.
- September 9, 1939 – Burmese national hero U Ottama dies in prison after a hunger strike to protest Britain’s colonial government.
- September 18, 1939 – The Nazi propaganda broadcaster known as Lord Haw-Haw begins transmitting.
- September 22, 1939 – Joint victory parade of Wehrmacht and Red Army in Brest-Litovsk at the end of the Invasion of Poland.
- September 28, 1939 – Warsaw surrenders to Nazi Germany during World War II.
- October 16, 1939 – World War II: First attack on British territory by the German Luftwaffe.
- November 1, 1939 – The first rabbit born after artificial insemination is exhibited to the world.
- November 6, 1939 – World War II: Sonderaktion Krakau takes place.
- November 17, 1939 – Nine Czech students are executed as a response to anti-Nazi demonstrations prompted by the death of Jan Opletal. In addition, all Czech universities are shut down and over 1200 Czech students sent to concentration camps. Since this event, International Students’ Day is celebrated in many countries, especially in the Czech Republic.
- December 13, 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.
- December 22, 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 Britain.
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