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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Occupation of Czechoslovakia, Occupation of Czechoslovakia - The Munich Agreement and the first Vienna Award, Occupation of Czechoslovakia - After Munich and Vienna The Second Republic October 1938- March 1939, Occupation of Czechoslovakia - Division of Czechoslovakia, Occupation of Czechoslovakia - Rationale for occupation, Occupation of Czechoslovakia - Czech Resistance, Occupation of Czechoslovakia - Slovak National Uprising, Occupation of Czechoslovakia - Czechoslovak Government-in-Exile, Occupation of Czechoslovakia - End of the War, Occupation of Czechoslovakia - Annexation of Carpatho-Ukraine Subcarpathian Ruthenia by the Soviet Union, Occupation of Czechoslovakia - Minorities and Population Transfers, Occupation of Czechoslovakia - From creation to dissolution – Overview

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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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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 Polish battle plan was disorganized, with no planned combat formations. The Wehrmacht destroyed the Polish reserve army (nicknamed "Prusy" or "Polesie") and forced them to withdraw. With heavy losses, the Polish armies retreated to Kraków and the Vistula river. From there, they took the route from Warsaw to Sandomierz. From Sandomierz, they were able to move on to the Lublin area. The eastern edge of Vistula was defended by Lublin's weak army. The Polish forces camped only in the areas where they could cross the river easily, in case of an attack. Other German forces advanced on Vistula ...

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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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His Eminence Zenon Cardinal Grocholewski (born October 11, 1939 in Bródki, Poland) is a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He is Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education, Grand Chancellor of the Pontifical Gregorian University. He was ordained for the Archdiocese of Poznań on 27 May 1963. He worked for three years at Christ the Redeemer Parish in Poznań before earning a do ...

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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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"Body and Soul" is the title of a popular song written in 1930 by Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, Frank Eyton and John Green. It was introduced in the revue Three's A Crowd by Libby Holman. It was used as a soundtrack theme in the 1947 film. The song later became a jazz standard, with hundreds of versions performed and recorded by dozens of artists. By far the most famous of these is the take recorded by Coleman Hawkins and His Orchestra on October 11, 1939 at their only reording session for Bluebird, a subsidiary of RCA Victor. Ha

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Andrzej Munk (October 16, 1921–September 20, 1961) was a Polish film director, screenplay writer and camera operator and was one of the most influential artists of the Polish Film School. Andrzej Munk was born in Kraków. Shortly before the World War II (in June 1939), he finished his gymnasium. During the German occupation of Poland he moved to Warsaw, where he was forced to hide because of his partially Jewish ancestry. Using a false name, he worked as a construction worker. In 1944 Munk took part in the Warsaw Uprising. Af ...

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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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Dr. C. Walton Lillehei (October 23, 1918–July 5, 1999) is known as the "Father of Open-Heart Surgery." Lillehei was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He earned five degrees at the University of Minnesota, including his B.S. (with distinction) in 1939, his M.D. (Alpha Omega Alpha) in 1942, his M.S. in physiology in 1951, and his Ph.D. in surgery in 1951. A Department of Surgery professor at the University of Minnesota from 1951 to 1967, Lillehei participated in the world's first successful open-heart operation, performed ...

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The Right Honourable Adrienne Louise Clarkson, PC, CC, CMM, COM, CD, LL.D (born February 10, 1939) is an accomplished Canadian journalist. From October 7, 1999 to September 27, 2005 she served as the 26th Governor General of Canada: she was the first Chinese Canadian and second woman to hold this position, the first being Jeanne Sauvé. Adrienne Clarkson - Early life and career. A Hakka born (as Chinese: 伍冰枝; Hanyu Pinyin: Including:

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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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After breaking through the Polish lines in the Battle of Wizna, the German XIX Panzer Corps under Heinz Guderian started its fast advance southwards. The corps, composed of the 3rd Panzer Division, 10th Panzer Division, the 20th Motorised Infantry Division and the reserve 2nd Motorised Division, was ordered to capture the old fortress in Brześć Litewski and then strike further southwards towards Kowel and Galicia. The purpose of this attack was to cut Poland ...

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Battle of Kock 1939, Battle of Kock 1939 - Before the battle, Battle of Kock 1939 - Group organisation, Battle of Kock 1939 - Battle of Brześć and Kobryń, Battle of Kock 1939 - Battle of Kock, Battle of Kock 1939 - October 2nd, Battle of Kock 1939 - October 3rd, Battle of Kock 1939 - October 4th, Battle of Kock 1939 - October 5th, Battle of Kock 1939 - Bibliography

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The Arrow Cross (Nyilaskereszt) originated in Hungary in the 1930s as the symbol of the leading Hungarian fascist political party, the Arrow Cross Party, led by Ferenc Szálasi, an ex-army major. Leaders of National Council of the Arrow Cross after Szálasi included Jeno Szollosi, Josef Gera and Ferenc Kassai-Schallmajer. In 1939 it numbered close to 500,000 members and won 31 seats in parliamentary elections. The Arrow Cross party lasted until the end of World War II in 1945. Subsequently, the symbol came to be used by other racist and anti-Semitic groups. From October 1944 - January 1945 the Arrow Cross sent 80 ...

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Unterseeboot 47 (U-47) was a German type VII B U-Boat (submarine). She was laid down on February 25, 1937 at Krupp Germaniawerft in Kiel and went into service on December 17, 1938. U-47 became famous when, on October 14, 1939, under the command of Günther Prien, she entered the base of the British home fleet at Scapa Flow, and sank HMS Royal Oak. U-47 carried out ten combat patrols and spent a total of 238 days at sea. She sank 30 enemy merchant ships (164,953 tons) and damaged eight more. She did lose a sai ...

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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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Second Spanish Republic, Second Spanish Republic - The Provisional Government April-October 1931, Second Spanish Republic - The Left Republicans and Socialists October 1931-November 1933, Second Spanish Republic - Conservative Government November 1933-February 1936, Second Spanish Republic - Asturian Uprising, Second Spanish Republic - After the Uprising, Second Spanish Republic - The Liberal Government February 1936-April 1939, Second Spanish Republic - Civil War

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