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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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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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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The Second Republic began on 14 April 1931 after the abdication of King Alfonso XIII, following local and municipal elections in which republican candidates won the majority of votes in urban areas. The abdication led to a provisional government under Niceto Alcalá-Zamora. Under the provisional government, titles of nobility were swept away, and the property of the King was confiscated. On June 28, elections for the Constitutional Convention (constituent Cortes) were held and the Socialist party won the largest number of seats in the ...

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The Czechoslovak koruna or Czechoslovak crown (in Czech and Slovak: Koruna československá, at times Koruna česko-slovenská; "koruna" means crown) was the currency of Czechoslovakia from 10 April 1919 to 1939 and from November 1, 1945 to February 7, 1993. For a very short time in 1939 and 1993 it was also the currency of separate Czech and Slovak states. On February 8, 1993 it was replac ...

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The Venlo Incident in 1939 was a Gestapo-engineered capture of two British SIS agents in the early months of World War II, on November 9, 1939. British agents had met supposed German officers who said that they were plotting against Hitler in the town of Venlo, Netherlands, 8 km from the border of Germany. German agents who adopted the guise of refugees in the Netherlands, but actually worked for Gestapo, arranged the meeting. One of them was named Walter Schellenberg. Their intent was to gather more information about British int ...

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Brenda Vaccaro (born November 18, 1939 in Brooklyn, New York) is a Italian American stage, motion picture, and television actress. Vaccaro was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and won the Golden Globe for her performance in the 1975 film Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough. An accomplished performer in live theatre, Brenda Vaccaro has been nominated for three "Best Actress" Tony Awards for her work on Broadway. She also guest-starred in several television shows ...

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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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André François (November 9, 1915 – April 11, 2005) was a French cartoonist. He was born André Farkas to a Jewish family in Temesvár, Hungary (now Timişoara, Romania), and became a French citizen in 1939. He worked as a painter, sculptor and graphic designer, but is best remembered for his cartoons, whose subtle humor and wide influence bear comparison to those of Saul Steinberg. François worked initially for French leftist newspapers, but gradually reached a larger audience, publishin ...

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Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov (Russian: Вячесла́в Миха́йлович Мо́лотов) (February 25, 1890 (O.S.) (March 9, 1890 (N.S.))–November 8, 1986), Soviet politician and diplomat, was a leading figure in the Soviet government from the 1920s, when he rose to power as a protege of Joseph Stalin, to the 1950s, when he was dismissed from office by Nikita Khrushchev. He was the principal Soviet signatory of the Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact of 1939. Vyacheslav Molotov - Origins and early life. Including:

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Wendy Carlos (born Walter Carlos—see Personal life section below—November 14, 1939 in Pawtucket, Rhode Island) is an American composer and electronic musician. Carlos was one of the first famous performers of electronic music using synthesizers. Wendy Carlos - Work. Switched-On Bach was perhaps the first album to attempt the use of synthesizers as an alternative to an orchestra. Having assisted Robert Moog in the development of his first commercially available synthesizers, Carlos h ...

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Clara Muhammad who's maiden name is Clara Evans, born November 2nd, 1899 in Macon, Georgia, is the late wife of former Nation of Islam leader and founder Elijah Muhammad. She married then Elijah Poole in Georgia in 1917. Between 1917 and 1939, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Mother Clara had eight children—six boys and two girls including Warith Deen Muhammad. Often, "Mother Clara" demonstrated strength and courage in the face of virulent opposition to the Nation of Islam. They took their children out of the public school system and became pioneers for home schoo ...

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David Westheimer (born April 11, 1917 in Houston, Texas; died November 8, 2005) was an American novelist best known for writing the 1964 novel Von Ryan's Express which was adapted as a 1965 movie starring Frank Sinatra. Westheimer, a Rice University graduate, worked as an assistant editor for the Houston Post from 1939 to 1946 except for those years spent with the Air Force during World War II. He was shot down over Europe and spent time as a prisoner of war. His first no ...

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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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Arthur Hailey (April 5, 1920 – November 24, 2004) was a British/Canadian/American/Bahamian novelist. Born in Luton, Bedfordshire, England, Hailey served in the Royal Air Force from the start of World War II in 1939 until 1947, when he went to live in Canada. After working at a number of jobs and writing part-time, he became a full-time writer in 1956, encouraged by the success of the CBC television drama, Flight into Danger (in print as Runway Zero Eight). Following the success of Hotel in 1965, he moved to California; in 1969, he moved to the Bahamas to avoid Canadian and U.S. ...

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William O'Dwyer (July 11, 1890 – November 24, 1964) was Mayor of New York from 1946 to 1950. O'Dwyer was born in County Mayo, Ireland and migrated to the United States in 1910, after abandoning studies for the priesthood. He worked as a laborer, then as a New York City policeman, while studying law at night at Fordham University Law School. He received his degree in 1923 and then built up a successful law practice before serving as a Kings County, New York Court judge. He won election as the Kings County District Attorney in 1939 and his prosecution of the organized crime syndicat ...

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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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Protesting measures against the church, President Zamora resigned on October 14, and was succeeded by Manuel Azaña. At the conclusion of the Convention and the adoption of the Constitution on December 9, Zamora was elected President and Manuel Azaña became Premier in the new Cabinet. Some of the most important features of the Constitution were suffrage for women and the rejection of the Catholic faith as the state religion. On January 23, 1932, President Zamora published a decree providing for the dissolution of the Society of Jesus ...

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