1939 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1939?
- January 27, 1939 – First flight of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning.
- February 19, 1939 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
- March 28, 1939 – Spanish Civil War: Generalissimo Francisco Franco conquers Madrid.
- April 14, 1939 – The Grapes of Wrath, by American author John Steinbeck is first published by the Viking Press.
- April 20, 1939 – Adolf Hitler’s 50th birthday is celebrated as a national holiday in Nazi Germany.
- April 25, 1939 – DC Comics publishes its second major superhero in Detective Comics #27; he is Batman, one of the most popular comic book superheroes of all time.
- May 13, 1939 – The first commercial FM radio station in the United States is launched in Bloomfield, Connecticut. The station later becomes WDRC-FM.
- May 22, 1939 – World War II: Germany and Italy sign the Pact of Steel.
- May 29, 1939 – Albanian fascist leader Tefik Mborja is appointed as member of the Italian Chamber of Fasces and Corporations.
- August 25, 1939 – The United Kingdom and Poland form a military alliance in which the UK promises to defend Poland in case of invasion by a foreign power.
- August 27, 1939 – First flight of the turbojet-powered Heinkel He 178, the world’s first jet aircraft.
- August 31, 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.
- September 1, 1939 – George C. Marshall becomes Chief of Staff of the United States Army.
- September 2, 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.
- September 6, 1939 – World War II: The Battle of Barking Creek.
- September 10, 1939 – World War II: Canada declares war on Nazi Germany, joining the Allies – France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia.
- September 28, 1939 – Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a division of Poland after their invasion during World War II.
- October 6, 1939 – World War II: The last Polish army is defeated.
- December 27, 1939 – Erzincan, Turkey is hit by an earthquake, killing 30,000.
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