1939 - January. 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 aided ...

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Movie historians and film buffs often look back on the year 1939 as "the greatest year in film history." Hollywood was at the height of its Golden Age, and this particular year saw the release of an unusually large number of exceptional movies, many of which have been honored as memorable classics when multitudes of other films of the era have been largely forgotten. August 25 - The Wizard of Oz premieres in the US. December 15 - Gone ...

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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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January January 12 - the RAF Auxiliary Air Force Reserve is formed February February 9 - Alex Henshaw sets a new speed record for the round trip between England and Cape Town in 4 days 10 minutes in a Percival Mew March March 30 - Hans Dieterle sets a new airspeed record in a Heinkel He 100 of 746 km/h (464 mph). April April 28 - Vladimir Kokkinaki and Mikhail Godienko attempt a non-stop flight from the Soviet Union to New York but are forced down on Miscou ...

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1939 in South Africa - September. 5 September - Jan Smuts becomes the 4th Prime Minister of South Africa for the second time ...

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Jose Arguelles (b. 1939) is the New Age spiritual leader for the Planet Art Network and the Foundation for the Law of Time. He holds a Ph.D. in Art History and Aesthetics from the University of Chicago, and has taught at numerous colleges, including Princeton University and the San Francisco Institute of Art. He has gained notoriety for the Harmonic Convergence event, and his mystical book about the Maya calendar, The Mayan Factor: Path Beyond Technology. After Mayan Factor's financial success, Jose and his wife L ...

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Ben and Me was a two reel short subject produced by Disney and released theatrically on November 10, 1953. It was adapted from the children's book written by author/illustrator Robert Lawson and first published in 1939. Though both book and film deal with the relationship between a mouse and Benjamin Franklin, the book, with illustrations by Lawson, focused more heavily on actual historical events and personages. The short received an ...

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Benjamin Tucker (April 17, 1854 – June 22, 1939) was the leading proponent of American individualist anarchism in the 19th century. Benjamin Tucker - Summary. Benjamin Ricketson Tucker's contribution to American individualist anarchism was as much through his publishing as his own writing. In editing and publishing the anarchist periodical Liberty, Tucker both filtered and integrated the theories of such European thinkers as Herbert Spencer and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon with the thinking of Ame ...

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1900s 1910s 1920s - 1930s - 1940s 1950s 1960s 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1930s - Events and trends. The 1930s were described as an abrupt shift to more radical lifestyles, as countries were struggling to find a solution to the global depression. In Australia, this decade was known as the Dirty Thirties. In both Central Europe and Eastern Europe, Fascism, Nazism, Stalinism,dominated as the solution, the first two adopting war-oriented economic policies and the l ...

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1939 in rail transport - August births. August 2 - John W. Snow, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of CSX Transportation, then United States Secretary of the Treasury. 1939 in rail transport - Unknown date births. Philip Anschutz, Colorado financier who orchestrated the purchase of the Southern Pacific Railroad by t ...

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Holocaust theology refers to a body of theological and philosophical debate, soul-searching, and analysis, with the subsequent related literature, that attempts to come to grips with various conflicting views about the role of God in this human world and the dark events of the European Holocaust that occurred during World War II (1939-1945) when around 11 million people, including six million Jews were subjected to genocide by the Nazis and their cohorts. "Holocaust theology" is also referred to as "theology nach Auschwitz" ("after Auschwitz" in German), due to the common practice of using ...

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1939 in baseball - American League final standings. 1939 in baseball - National League final standings. ...

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1939 in baseball - Major League Baseball. World Series: New York Yankees over Cincinnati Reds (4-0) All-Star Game, July 11 at Yankee Stadium: American League, 3-1 ...

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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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January January 27 - Lockheed XP-38 March March 31 - Miles Master production aircraft N 7408 April April 1 - Mitsubishi Zero May May 7 - Petlyakov VI-100 May 14 - Short Stirling June June 1 - Focke-Wulf Fw 190 July July 17 - Bristol Beaufighter prototype R 2052 July 20 - Heinkel He 176, first aircraft powered by liquid-fuelled rocket July 2 ...

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The "Polish September Campaign" campaign began 1 September 1939, one week after the signing of the secret Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, and ended 6 October 1939, with Germany and the Soviet Union occupying the entirety of Poland. This first part of the Second World War put an end to the Second Polish Republic. It was continued as Polish Government in Exile. ...

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In 1939 Germany's actions led to the outbreak of World War II in Europe. Poland, France, Denmark, Norway, Belgium and the Netherlands were invaded. Initially, the United Kingdom could do little to come to the rescue of its European allies and Germany subjected Britain to heavy bombing during the Battle of Britain. After invading Greece and North Africa, Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941. It declared war on the United States in December of 1941 after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. The persecution of minorities continued both ...

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The winning allies split Germany into occupation zones. At the Potsdam Conference German borders within the Soviet occupation zone were moved westward, with most of the territory given to Poland as compensation for the annexation of eastern Polish lands by the Soviet Union. About half of German East Prussia was annexed by the Soviet Union, including its capital Königsberg (now known as Kaliningrad). The German exodus from Eastern Europe, begun by the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, was continued and completed once virtually all Germans in Central ...

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The leaders of Nazi Germany created a large number of different organizations for the purpose of helping them stay in power. They rearmed and strengthened the military, set up an extensive state security apparatus and created their own personal party army, the Waffen SS. Through staffing of most government positions with Nazi Party members, by 1935 the German national government and the Nazi Party had become virtually one and the same. By 1938, through the policy of Gleichschaltung, local and state governments lost all legislative power and answe ...

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