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.
- February 28, 1939 – The erroneous word “dord” is discovered in the Webster’s New International Dictionary, Second Edition, prompting an investigation.
- March 16, 1939 – From Prague Castle, Hitler proclaimed Bohemia and Moravia a German protectorate.
- April 4, 1939 – Faisal II becomes King of Iraq.
- April 7, 1939 – World War II: Italy invades Albania.
- 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 22, 1939 – World War II: Germany and Italy sign the Pact of Steel.
- June 4, 1939 – Holocaust: The MS St. Louis, a ship carrying 963 Jewish refugees, is denied permission to land in Florida, 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.
- 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.
- September 1, 1939 – George C. Marshall becomes Chief of Staff of the United States Army.
- September 3, 1939 – World War II: France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia declare war on Germany after the invasion of Poland, forming the Allies.
- 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 18, 1939 – The Nazi propaganda broadcaster known as Lord Haw-Haw begins transmitting.
- October 14, 1939 – The GS U-47 sinks the British battleship HMS Royal Oak within her harbour at Scapa Flow, Scotland.
- November 1, 1939 – The first rabbit born after artificial insemination is exhibited to the world.
- November 8, 1939 – In Munich, Adolf Hitler narrowly escapes the assassination attempt of Georg Elser while celebrating the 16th anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch.
- 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 17, 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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