1939 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1939?
- January 1, 1939 – Sydney, Australia, swelters in 45 ˚C (113 ˚F) heat, a record for the city.
- February 19, 1939 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
- February 27, 1939 – United States labor law: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that sit-down strikes violate property owners’ rights and are therefore illegal.
- March 15, 1939 – Carpatho-Ukraine declares itself an independent republic, but is annexed by Hungary the next day.
- April 7, 1939 – World War II: Italy invades Albania.
- April 20, 1939 – Adolf Hitler’s 50th birthday is celebrated as a national holiday in Nazi Germany.
- May 17, 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.
- May 21, 1939 – The Canadian National War Memorial is unveiled by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in Ottawa.
- July 6, 1939 – Holocaust: the last remaining Jewish enterprises in Germany are closed.
- September 6, 1939 – World War II: The Battle of Barking Creek.
- September 9, 1939 – Burmese national hero U Ottama dies in prison after a hunger strike to protest Britain’s colonial government.
- September 10, 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.
- September 17, 1939 – World War II: The Soviet Union joins Nazi Germany’s invasion of Poland during the Polish Defensive War of 1939.
- September 30, 1939 – General Władysław Sikorski becomes commander-in-chief of the Polish Government in exile.
- October 1, 1939 – After a one-month Siege of Warsaw, hostile forces enter the city.
- November 8, 1939 – Venlo Incident: Two British agents of SIS are captured by the Germans.
- November 30, 1939 – Winter War: Soviet forces cross the Finnish border in several places and bomb Helsinki and several other Finnish cities, starting the war.
- December 2, 1939 – New York City’s La Guardia Airport opens.
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