1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). 1939 - Events. January 2 - End of term for Frank Finley Merriam, 28th Governor of California. He is succeeded by Culbert Levy Olson. January 13 - Black Friday: 71 people die across Victoria in one of Australia's worst ever bushfires. January 24 - Earthquake kills 30.000 in Chile – about 50.000 sq mi razed January 26 - Spanish Civil War: Troops loyal to Francisco Franco and ...

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1939 - January. January 2 - Jim Bakker, American televangelist January 2 - John McBon, Argentianian Tv Star Ed the Repairman January 3 - Bobby Hull, Canadian hockey player January 6 - Valeri Lobanovsky, Ukrainian footballer and manager (d. 2002) January 10 - Sal Mineo, American actor (d. 1976) January 10 - Bill Toomey, American athlete January 11 - Ann Heggtveit, Canadian skier January 17 - Maury Povich, American talk show host January ...

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Kamlesh Kumari Devi, alias Gita Murti, commenced preaching the Gita at the age of two and a half years. She was born on Tuesday, the 12th of December, 1939. The ideas of the transmigration of soul and eternity of life, although recorded in our holy scriptures, are dormant and latent in our practical life.

The death and dying and the life after death has always fascinated man. This is an excerpt from the book What Becomes Of The Soul After Death by Sri Swami Sivananda.

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1939 in baseball - January-June. January 14 - Sandy Valdespino January 29 - Bobby Bolin February 12 - Jerry Walker February 18 - Dal Maxvill February 25 - Denny Lemaster March 4 - Jack Fisher March 6 - Cookie Rojas March 8 - Jim Bouton March 12 - Johnny Callison March 21 - Tommy Davis March 23 - Sam Bowens April 1 - Phil Niekro April 3 - Hawk Taylor April 30 - Bob Hendley May 2 - Gates Brown May 11 - Milt ...

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1939 in rail transport - January events. January - General Motors Electro-Motive Division introduces the EMD SW1. 1939 in rail transport - February events. February - General Motors Electro-Motive Division introduces the EMD NW2. 1939 in rail transport - March events. March - General Motors Elec ...

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NASA Ames Research Center (ARC) is a NASA facility located at Moffett Federal Airfield, which spans the borders of the cities of Mountain View and Sunnyvale in California. ARC was founded on December 20, 1939 as the second laboratory of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), and moved to NASA in 1958. The Sunnyvale site at Moffett Field was selected in October 1939 by the Charles Lindbergh Committee established by an act of the U.S. Congress in August 1939. The Ames Aeronautical Laboratory (now the Ames Research Center) was named after Joseph Sweetman Ames, the p ...

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Bishop Adolfo Zamora Hernandez (1910 - 1987) was a sedevacantist Catholic bishop from Mexico. He was ordained a Roman Catholic priest for the Congregation of the Fathers of Mercy on December 23, 1939 by Bishop Pedro Vera y Zuris. He was consecrated a bishop for the Union Catolico Trento on October 17, 1981 at Toulon, France, by Archbishop Ngô Ðình Thuc Pierre Martin, Titular Archbishop of Bulla Regia. ...

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Bert Lahr, born Irving Lahrheim, (August 13, 1895 - December 4, 1967) was a Jewish-American comic actor. Fittingly born a "Leo", he is best remembered today for his role as the Cowardly Lion (and the farmworker "Zeke") in the classic 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz, but known during his life for a career in burlesque, vaudeville and Broadway. Dropping out of school at the age of fifteen to join a juvenile vaudeville act, Lahr worked his way up to top billing on the Columbia Burlesque Circuit. In 1927 he moved to Broad ...

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Anna Freud (December 3, 1895, Vienna, Austria - October 9, 1982, London, England), the daughter of Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) and his wife Martha Bernays (1861-1951), was an Austrian-born British psychoanalyst, and pioneer of child psychoanalysis. She was born in Vienna, Austria, and educated at Cottage Lyceum there. In 1914 she traveled to England, then returned to teach at the Cottage Lyceum. She entered psychoanalysis with her father in 1918, published her first paper on psychoanalysis in 1922, and entered practice as a psych ...

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Arthur Oncken Lovejoy (Berlin, October 10, 1873 - Baltimore, December 30, 1962) was an influential intellectual historian, and the founder of the subdiscipline known as "the history of ideas". Lovejoy studied philosophy at Harvard under William James. As a professor of philosophy at Johns Hopkins University from 1910 to 1939, Lovejoy founded, and presided for decades over, the university's History of Ideas Club, which was a meeting-place for many of the early-to-mid-20th century's foremost intellectual and social histori ...

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Yael Dayan (born December 2, 1939) is an Israeli writer and political figure. Yael Dayan - Career. Yael Dayan is the daughter of Moshe Dayan, who is considered one of the fathers of the Israeli state. Like her father, Yael Dayan is considered something of a political renegade. She first made a name for herself as an author and newspaper columnist. She has published five novels as well as a memoir of the Six Day War called Israel Journal: June 1967 and a biography of her father called My Father, Hi ...

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Cindy Birdsong (born December 15, 1939 in Camden, New Jersey) is an African-American singer. Birdsong was a founder member of Patti LaBelle & the Blue Belles, a group she performed with from its 1960 inception until 1967, when she was hired by Berry Gordy to replace Florence Ballard in The Supremes. Just as Birdsong joined the group, the Supremes were in the process of changing their name to "Diana Ross & the Supremes", acknowledging Ross as the group's focal point. Initially, Cindy was greeted with a chilly response by ...

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Albert Hackett (February 16, 1900 – March 16, 1995) was an American dramatist and screenwriter. He almost always collaborated with his wife Frances Goodrich (December 21, 1890 – January 29, 1984). The Hacketts came to Hollywood in the late 1920s to write the screenplay for their stage success Up Pops the Devil for Paramount Pictures. In 1933 they signed a contract with MGM and remained with them until 1939. Among their earliest assignments was writing the screenplay for The Thin Man (1934). They were en ...

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David Joseph Bohm (December 20, 1917 Wilkes-Barre, PA–October 27, 1992 London, UK) was an American quantum physicist who made significant contributions in the fields of theoretical physics, philosophy and neuropsychology, and to scientists working on the Manhattan Project. David Bohm - Biography. David Bohm - Youth and college. Born at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Bohm attended Pennsylvania State College, graduating in 1939, and then heading west to work with theoretical physic ...

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The Winter War (also known as the Soviet-Finnish War or the Russo-Finnish War) broke out when the Soviet Union attacked Finland on November 30, 1939, three months after the start of World War II. As a consequence, the Soviet Union was expelled from the League of Nations on December 14th. Stalin had expected to conquer the whole country by the end of 1939, but Finnish resistance frustrated the Soviet forces, which outnumbered them three to one. Finland held out until March 1940, when a peace treaty was signed ceding about 10% of Finland's territory, and 20% ...

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Victor Emmanuel III of Italy , Vittorio Emanuele III in italian (11 November 1869 – 28 December 1947), was the King of Italy (29 July 1900 – 9 May 1946), Emperor of Ethiopia (1936 - 1943) and King of Albania (1939 - 1943). He was also mockingly nicknamed Sciaboletta, or "little saber", allegedly because his short stature required his uniform to be equipped with a saber shorter than the ordinary. Victor Emmanuel III's position as Emperor of Ethiopia was not universally accepted, as Italy had overthrown t ...

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The Achille Lauro was a passenger liner, most remembered for its 1985 hijacking. Ordered in 1938, her keel was laid in 1939 at Vlissingen, Netherlands, for Rotterdamsche Lloyd. Interrupted by World War II and two bombing raids, the ship was not launched until July 1946 as the Willem Ruys. Completed in late 1947, she began her maiden voyage on December 2, 1947. She was 192 metres in length, 25 metres in beam, 8.9 metres high and weighed 21,110 tons fully loaded with 900 passengers and crew. She had 8 Sulzer engines ...

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