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1939 the 1989 film 1939 (film) August 2019 1939 border:none;b 3/3 Danzig Police at Polish Border (1939-09-01).jpg Молотов и Риббентроп.jpg A Finnish Maxim M-32 machine gun nest during the Winter War.jpg MNRA soldiers 1939.jpg Italian army 2 (cropped).PNG Gone With the Wind Atlanta premiere 1939.jpg 350 From top to bottom, left to right: The Invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany on September 1 triggers World War II as Britain and France declare war; The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact between Germany and the Soviet Union establishes a non-aggression treaty with secret plans to divide Eastern Europe; The Winter War breaks out as the Soviet Union invades Finland, leading to fierce resistance and heavy losses on both sides; The Battles of Khalkhin Gol see Soviet and Mongolian forces decisively defeat the Japanese in Manchuria, halting Japanese expansion into Siberia; The Italian invasion of Albania results in the swift occupation of the country, expanding Mussolini's influence in the Balkans; The release of Gone with the Wind becomes a cultural milestone, later recognized as one of the most iconic and successful films in cinema history. 1939 1939 This year also marks the start of the Second World War, the largest and deadliest conflict in human history. 2 Events Events related to World War II have a "WWII" prefix. January January 1939 January 1 Coming into effect in Nazi Germany of: The Protection of Young Persons Act, passed on April 30, 1938, the Working Hours Regulations.https://www.was-war-wann.de/1900/1930/januar-1939.html Januar 1939 Ereignisse www.was-war-wann.de The small businesses obligation to maintain adequate accounting. The Jews name change decree. With his traditional call to the New Year in Nazi Germany, Führer and Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler addresses the members of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP). The Hewlett-Packard technology and scientific instruments manufacturing company is founded by Bill Hewlett and David Packard, in a garage in Palo Alto, California, considered the birthplace of Silicon Valley. Philipp Etter takes over as President of the Swiss Confederation. The Third Soviet Five Year Plan is launched.Tony Cliff Jacques Fournier State Capitalism in the USSR from Stalin to Gorbachev Atelier Editions 1990 978-2-85139-095-0 AL-JXobXz5YC 94 yes January 5 – Pioneering U.S. aviator Amelia Earhart is officially declared dead, eighteen months after her disappearance.https://time.com/5486999/amelia-earhart-disappearance-theories/ Amelia Earhart Was Declared Dead 80 Years Ago. Here's What to Know About What Actually Happened to Her Time en 2020-01-19 March 29, 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200329014024/https://time.com/5486999/amelia-earhart-disappearance-theories/ live January 6 – Otto Hahn's discoveries in the field of nuclear fission are published in Naturwissenschaften.https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1944/hahn/facts/ Otto Hahn NobelPrize.org January 14, 2022 January 7 – French physicist Marguerite Perey identifies francium, the last chemical element first discovered in nature.http://elements.vanderkrogt.net/element.php?sym=fr 87 Francium Elementymology & Elements Multidict Peter van der Krogt 2019-01-07 January 14 – Norway claims Queen Maud Land in Antarctica.Academie De Droit International De La Ha Recueil Des Cours, Collected Courses 1962 https://books.google.com/books?id=7rftTUAUXOIC&pg=PA221 1 December 1968 Martinus Nijhoff Publishers 90-286-1442-7 221 January 14, 2020 July 24, 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200724114405/https://books.google.com/books?id=7rftTUAUXOIC&pg=PA221 live January 23 – "Dutch War Scare": Admiral Wilhelm Canaris of the Abwehr leaks misinformation to the effect that Germany plans to invade the Netherlands in February, with the aim of using Dutch air-fields to launch a strategic bombing offensive against Britain. The "Dutch War Scare" leads to a major change in British policies towards Europe. Watt Donald Cameron 1989 How War Came: Immediate Origins of the Second World War, 1938–1939 https://archive.org/details/howwarcameimmedi00dona registration New York Pantheon 978-0-67973-093-4 101 January 24 – 1939 Chillán earthquake: An earthquake in Chile kills an estimated 30,000 people and razes about 50,000 sqmi km2 on of land.https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/world/world_deaths.php Earthquakes with 1,000 or More Deaths since 1900 Earthquake Hazards Program USGS Earthquake.usgs.gov 30 November 2012 9 January 2013 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20130114225331/http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/world/world_deaths.php 14 January 2013 January 25 – Refik Saydam forms the new (11th) government of Turkey. January 26 Spanish Civil War: Spanish Nationalist troops, aided by Italy, take Barcelona. In Paris, French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet, in response to rumours (which are true) that he is seeking to end the French alliance system in Eastern Europe, gives a speech highlighting his government's commitment to the cordon sanitaire. January 27 – Adolf Hitler orders Plan Z, a 5-year naval expansion programme intended to provide for a huge German fleet capable of crushing the British Royal Navy by 1944. The Kriegsmarine is given the first priority on the allotment of German economic resources. Tooze Adam 2008 The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy London Penguin Books 978-0-14-311320-1 289 January 30 – Hitler gives a speech before the Reichstag calling for an "export battle" to increase German foreign exchange holdings. The same speech also sees "Hitler's prophecy", where he warns that if "Jewish financiers" start a war against Germany, "the result will be the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe". Thacker Toby Joseph Goebbels: Life and Death 2010 2009 Palgrave Macmillan 978-0-230-27866-0 205 February February 1939 February 6 British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain states in the House of Commons that any German attack on France will be automatically considered an attack on Britain. In a response to Georges Bonnet's speech of January 26, German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, referring to Bonnet's alleged statement of December 6, 1938, accepting Eastern Europe as being in Germany's exclusive sphere of influence, protests that all French security commitments in that region are "now off limits". February 10 – Pope Pius XI, the head of the Roman Catholic Church since 1922, dies of a heart attack. February 18 – The Golden Gate International Exposition opens in San Francisco.California. Board of State Harbor Commissioners for San Francisco Harbor Report https://books.google.com/books?id=rZPVAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA35 1936 35 February 27 – The United Kingdom and France recognize Franco's government in Spain.Juan Lalaguna A Traveller's History of Spain https://books.google.com/books?id=Yb4kpN7SZUkC 1999 Interlink Books 978-1-56656-324-6 259 March March 1939 March – The 1936–39 Arab revolt in Palestine ends. March 1 – An Imperial Japanese Army ammunition dump explosion on the outskirts of Osaka kills 94. March 2 – Pope Pius XII (Cardinal Pacelli) succeeds Pope Pius XI to become the 260th pope, holding office until 1958.Pius XII Becomes Pope EBSCO Research Starters https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/pius-xii-becomes-pope 2025-08-08 www.ebsco.com en March 3 – In Durban, South Africa the Timeless Test begins between England and South Africa, the longest game of cricket ever played. It is abandoned 12 days later, when the English team has to catch their ship home. March 13 – Adolf Hitler advises Jozef Tiso to declare Slovakia's independence, in order to prevent its partition by Hungary and Poland. March 14 – The Slovak provincial assembly proclaims independence; priest Jozef Tiso becomes president of the independent Slovak government. March 15 – German troops occupy the remaining part of Bohemia and Moravia; Czechoslovakia ceases to exist. The Ruthenian region of Czechoslovakia declares independence as Carpatho-Ukraine. March 16 Hungary invades Carpatho-Ukraine; final resistance ends on March 18. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain gives a speech in Birmingham, stating that Britain will oppose any effort at world domination on the part of Germany. March 17 – The nationalist governments of Spain and Portugal sign the Iberian Pact in Lisbon, pledging mutual defence of the Iberian Peninsula and neutrality in the event of a general European war. March 20 1939 German ultimatum to Lithuania, requiring return of the Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory) to Germany. At an emergency meeting in London to deal with the Romanian crisis, French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet suggests to Lord Halifax that the ideal state for saving Romania from a German attack is Poland. March 22 – Following the March 20 ultimatum, Nazi Germany is granted the Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory, Memelland) by Lithuania; on the following day German forces occupy the territory. March 23 – The Slovak–Hungarian War begins. March 26 – Final offensive of the Spanish Civil War launched by the Nationalists. March 28 General Francisco Franco assumes power in Madrid, remaining in power until his death in 1975. American adventurer Richard Halliburton delivers a last message from a Chinese junk, before he disappears on a voyage across the Pacific Ocean. In 1945, some wreckage identified as a rudder, and believed to belong to the junk, washes ashore in San Diego, California. March 30 – The superhero Batman debut for Detective Comics (issue #27) (cover date of May). March 31 – Neville Chamberlain gives a speech in the House of Commons, offering the British "guarantee" of the independence of Poland. April April 1939 April 1 – The Spanish Civil War comes to an end when the last of the Republican forces surrender. April 3 Adolf Hitler orders the German military to start planning for Fall Weiß, the codename for the invasion of Poland.Nuremberg - Document Viewer - Orders for planning the invasion of Poland ("Fall Weiss") and the annexation of Danzig, without a declaration of war, and a note on the policy to limit the war to Poland and avoid conflict with France, England, and Russia https://nuremberg.law.harvard.edu/documents/1802-orders-for-planning-the-invasion?mode=text 2025-09-23 nuremberg.law.harvard.edu Refik Saydam forms the new government in Turkey (12th government; Refik Saydam has served twice as a prime minister). April 4 The Slovak–Hungarian War ends, with Slovakia ceding eastern territories to Hungary. Polish Foreign Minister Colonel Józef Beck, in London, signs a treaty designed to bilateralize Neville Chamberlain's "Polish Guarantee" of March 31. Faisal II becomes King of Iraq aged three, following the death of his father, Ghazi, in an automobile incident.The International Who's who https://books.google.com/books?id=CrpWAAAAIAAJ 1957 Europa Publications Limited xiv March 9, 2021 September 16, 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210916232654/https://books.google.com/books?id=CrpWAAAAIAAJ live April 7 Italian invasion of Albania begins; King Zog flees into exile, initially in Greece, with his wife and Crown Prince Skander (born April 5). Joseph Lyons, 10th Prime Minister of Australia, dies in office from a heart attack at the age of 59. He is briefly replaced by his deputy Earle Page, who serves as the 11th Prime Minister, until a UAP leadership election is held to replace Lyons. April 9 – African-American singer Marian Anderson performs before 75,000 people at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., after having been denied the use both of Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution, and of a public high school by the federally controlled District of Columbia. First Lady of the United States Eleanor Roosevelt resigns from the DAR because of their decision. April 11 – Hungary leaves the League of Nations. April 14 – At a meeting in Paris, French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet meets with Soviet Ambassador Jakob Suritz, and suggests that a "peace front" comprising France, the Soviet Union, Great Britain, Poland and Romania would deter Germany from war. April 18 The Soviet Union proposes a "peace front" to resist aggression. Robert Menzies is elected leader of the United Australia Party, and consequently becomes the 12th Prime Minister of Australia, defeating former Prime Minister Billy Hughes. However, he will not be sworn in until April 26, because of the refusal of Earle Page and his Country Party to serve under him. April 25 – The Federal Security Agency (FSA) is founded in the United States, along with the Civilian Conservation Corps and Public Health Service. April 28 – In a speech before the Reichstag, Adolf Hitler renounces the Anglo-German Naval Agreement and the German–Polish declaration of non-aggression. April 30 – The 1939 New York World's Fair opens. May May 1939 May 3 – Vyacheslav Molotov succeeds Maxim Litvinov, as Soviet Foreign Commissar. May 6 – German anti-Nazi Carl Friedrich Goerdeler tells the British government that the German and Soviet governments are secretly beginning a rapprochement, with the aim of dividing Eastern Europe between them. Goerdeler also informs the British of German economic problems which he states threaten the survival of the Nazi regime, and advises that if a firm stand is made for Poland, then Hitler will be deterred from war. May 9 – Spain leaves the League of Nations. May 14 – Lina Medina, a 5-year-old Peruvian girl, gives birth to a baby boy, becoming the youngest confirmed mother in medical history.Six decades later, world's youngest mother awaits aid http://www.telegraphindia.com/1020827/asp/foreign/story_1140311.asp The Telegraph Kolkata 27 August 2002 14 July 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20090722030008/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1020827/asp/foreign/story_1140311.asp 22 July 2009 dead May 17 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom arrive in Quebec City, to begin the first-ever tour of Canada by Canada's monarch. The British government issues the White Paper of 1939, sharply restricting Jewish immigration to Mandatory Palestine. Sweden, Norway, and Finland refuse Germany's offer of non-aggression pacts.Hershel Edelheit History Of Zionism: A Handbook And Dictionary Routledge 2000 366 9780813329819 May 18 – The Hòa Hảo religious sect is established in Vietnam, by Huỳnh Phú Sổ. May 20 – Pan American Airways begins transatlantic mail service with the inaugural flight of its Boeing 314 flying boat Yankee Clipper from Port Washington, New York, to Marseille.David Clark MacKenzie Canada and international civil aviation, 1932-1948 https://archive.org/details/canadainternatio0000mack registration 1989 University of Toronto Press 978-0-8020-5828-7 72 May 22 – Germany and Italy sign the Pact of Steel.Charles T. O'Reilly Forgotten Battles: Italy's War of Liberation, 1943-1945 https://books.google.com/books?id=2LBvZPXmmqoC&pg=PA339 2001 Lexington Books 978-0-7391-0195-7 339 November 10, 2019 July 24, 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200724113806/https://books.google.com/books?id=2LBvZPXmmqoC&pg=PA339 live May 23 – The White Paper of 1939 is ratified by the British government, acting as the governing policy for Mandatory Palestine from 1939 to 1948.Erakat Noura Chapter 2. PERMANENT OCCUPATION 2019-04-23 Justice for Some 61–94 https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781503608832-005/html?lang=en 2025-04-11 Stanford University Press en 10.1515/9781503608832-005 978-1-5036-0883-2 subscription May 24 – The first issue of Fashizmi is published in Tirana, Albania. May 29 – Albanian fascist leader Tefik Mborja is appointed as member of the Italian Chamber of Fasces and Corporations. June June 1939 thumb|160px|right| June 24: Siam is renamed "Thailand". June 3 – The Soviet government offers its definition of what constitutes "aggression", upon which the projected Anglo-Soviet-French alliance will come into effect. French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet accepts the Soviet definition of aggression at once. The British reject the Soviet definition, especially the concept of "indirect aggression", which they feel is too loose a definition, and phrased in such a manner as to imply the Soviet right of inference in the internal affairs of Eastern European nations. June 4 – The St. Louis, a ship carrying 907 Jewish refugees, is denied permission to land in Florida; only a few passengers have been allowed to enter Cuba. Forced to return to Europe, many of its passengers later die in Nazi death camps during The Holocaust.http://activehistory.ca/?s=Netherlands+&submit=Search Remembering the Voyage of the St. Louis Madokoro Laura Active History August 9, 2021 June 14 – Tientsin Incident: The Japanese blockade the British concession in Tianjin, China, beginning a crisis which almost causes an Anglo-Japanese war this summer. June 17 – In the last public execution in France, 6-times murderer Eugen Weidmann is guillotined.https://www.euronews.com/2019/06/17/eighty-years-since-versailles-execution-gave-public-guillotines-the-chop Eighty years since Versailles execution stopped public guillotine spectacles 17 June 2019 Vincent Coste Alastair Jamieson Euronews 11 July 2024 June 23 – Talks are completed in Ankara between French Ambassador René Massigli and Turkish Foreign Minister Şükrü Saracoğlu, resolving the Hatay dispute in Turkey's favor. Turkey annexes Hatay. June 24 – The government of Siam changes the country's name to Thailand, which means 'Free Land'."Thailand ( Siam ) History" (overview), CS Mngt, 2005, CSMngt.com webpage: CSMngt-Thai https://web.archive.org/web/20150424080811/http://www.csmngt.com/thailand_history.htm April 24, 2015 . July July 1939 July 4 - President Roosevelt asked the Senate to reverse the House action to forbid shipment of arms and munitions to nations at war.July, 1939 http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/daybyday/event/july-1939-12/ 2026-07-20 FDR: Day by Day en-US July 6 – The last remaining Jewish enterprises in Germany are closed by the Nazis. July 8 – The Pan American Airways Boeing 314 flying boat Yankee Clipper inaugurates the world's first heavier-than-air North Atlantic air passenger service, between the United States (Port Washington, New York) and Britain. July 23 – Mahatma Gandhi writes a personal letter to Adolf Hitler from India, addressing him as "My friend", requesting him to prevent any possible war. August August 1939 August 2 – The Einstein–Szilard letter is signed by Albert Einstein, advising President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt of the potential use of uranium to construct an atomic bomb. It is delivered on October 11 and leads to the first meeting on October 21 of the Advisory Committee on Uranium.Lanouette William Silard Bela Genius in the Shadows: A Biography of Leo Szilárd: The Man Behind The Bomb New York Charles Scribner's Sons 1992 978-0-684-19011-2 registration https://archive.org/details/geniusinshadowsa00lano August 4 – Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain dismisses the Parliament of the United Kingdom until October 3. August 19 – Adolf Hitler, after evaluating the pace of non-aggression negotiations with the Soviet Union, orders the Kriegsmarine to begin the opening operations for Fall Weiß, the invasion of Poland. The German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee, along with the German pocket battleship Deutschland, as well as dozens of U-boats, cast off for their advance positions. Hitler spends the next few days worrying that the Russians will not come to terms in time for the rest of the invasion plans to unfold as scheduled.Shirer William L. William L. Shirer 2011 The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich New York Simon & Schuster 9781451651683 August 20 – Armored forces under the command of Soviet General Georgy Zhukov deliver a decisive defeat to Imperial Japanese Army forces in the Japanese-Soviet border war in Inner Mongolia. August 23 – The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact is signed between Germany and the Soviet Union, a neutrality treaty that also agrees to division of spheres of influence (Finland, Estonia, Latvia, eastern Poland and Bessarabia (modern-day Moldova), north-east province of Romania to the Soviet Union; Lithuania and western Poland to Germany). Its annex reassigns Lithuania to the Soviet Union. August 24 – As details of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact become public, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain recalls the Parliament of the United Kingdom several weeks early. In a burst of legislation, the Emergency Powers (Defence) Act 1939 gives full authority to defence regulations, the British Royal Navy is to be put on a war footing, all military leave is to be cancelled, military reserve forces are to be called up, especially coast defence, radar and anti-aircraft units, and Civil Defence workers are placed on alert. In addition, the last British and French private citizens in Germany are advised to return home by their respective Governments. August 25 The German Foreign Ministry cuts off all telegraph and telephone communication with the outside world, in accordance with the plan for Fall Weiß. At approximately 1830 Central European time, Adolf Hitler postpones Fall Weiß for 5 days, after receiving a message from Benito Mussolini that he will not honor the Pact of Steel if Germany attacks Poland, and because Chamberlain's government has not fallen as a result of the German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact. Some units already in their forward positions (the attack is scheduled for 0430 the next day) do not get the word in time and attack various targets along the border. This same day, Neville Chamberlain gives Edward Rydz-Śmigły his "ironclad guarantee" of assistance if Poland is attacked by Germany. 1939 Coventry bombing: An Irish Republican Army bomb explodes in the centre of Coventry, England, killing 5 people. August 26 The first televised Major League Baseball games are shown on experimental station W2XBS in the United States: a double-header between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field. The Kriegsmarine orders all German-flagged merchant ships to head to German ports immediately, in anticipation of the invasion of Poland. August 27 – A Heinkel He 178, the first turbojet-powered aircraft, flies for the first time, with Captain Erich Warsitz in command. August 28 – French ocean liner Normandie heads into New York Harbor, where she will be interned on September 3, and cut up for scrap, beginning in 1946. August 30 – Poland begins a mobilization against Nazi Germany. August 31 – Operation Himmler: Nazi German troops posing as Poles stage a series of false flag operations on the border (including the Gleiwitz incident), giving a pretext for the invasion of Poland. September September 1939 160px|right|thumb|September 1: Wieluń destroyed by Luftwaffe bombing. 160px|right|thumb|Common parade of Wehrmacht and Red Army in Brest at the end of the Invasion of Poland. At the center Major General Heinz Guderian and Brigadier Semyon Krivoshein. September 1 – Beginning of WWII: Opening shots of World War II and invasion of Poland: At 4:45 Central European Time, under cover of darkness, the German WWI-era battleship Schleswig-Holstein quietly slips her moorings at her wharf in Danzig Harbor, drifts into the center of the channel, and commences firing on a Polish military installation on Westerplatte at the northeastern mouth of the port of the internationalized Free City of Danzig, beginning the Battle of Westerplatte and Battle of Danzig Bay. Polish soldiers defend there for 7 days. Five minutes previously, the bombing of Wieluń in the western part of Poland had commenced, beginning the Battle of the Border. Shock-troops of the German Wehrmacht begin crossing the border into Poland. The Reichstag passes a statement, stating that Adolf Hitler's second-in-command Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring should be appointed as Hitler's successor as Führer, should Hitler die during the war. Rudolf Hess is to be appointed in Göring's place, should anything befall Göring. Britain and France deliver ultimatums to Germany. Norway, Finland, Sweden and Switzerland declare their neutrality. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt states that "every effort" would be made by his administration to stay out of the war.1939-09-01 F.D. Vows To Keep U.S. Out of War Brooklyn Eagle 1, 8 Italy is advised that Germany does not expect to need its military support at present. September 2 – WWII: Following the invasion of Poland, the Free City of Danzig (modern-day Gdańsk, Poland) is annexed to Nazi Germany. Spain and Ireland declare their neutrality. September 3 – WWII: The United Kingdom, France, New Zealand, Australia and India (by its Viceroy) declare war on Nazi Germany. Prime Minister of Canada Mackenzie King, in English, and Justice Minister Ernest Lapointe, in French, give an international radio address stating the Dominion's intention to declare war also.http://archives.cbc.ca/on_this_day/09/10/ On This Day - September 10, 1939 CBC.ca 2011-09-15 October 11, 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20111011122807/http://archives.cbc.ca/on_this_day/09/10/ livehttp://www.junobeach.org/e/2/can-eve-eve-war-e.htm%7ctitle=War!%7cpublisher=junobeach.org%7caccessdate=2011-09-15 Canada in the Second World War Juno Beach Centre February 21, 2014 December 10, 2015 September 16, 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210916232657/https://i2.wp.com/www.junobeach.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/cwwii_img_people.jpg?resize=720%2C480&ssl=1 live United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt advocates neutrality, in a nationwide radio address. Ocean liner Athenia 1922 6 becomes the first British civilian casualty of the war, when she is torpedoed and sunk by U-30 1936 6 in the eastern Atlantic. Of the 1,418 aboard, 98 passengers and 19 crew are killed. Chamberlain offers the war cabinet post of First Lord of the Admiralty to Winston Churchill, who returns to government for the first time since June 4, 1929.Jenkins Roy Roy Jenkins Churchill MacMillan Press London 2001 0330-48805-8 552 September 4 – WWII: The first bombing of Wilhelmshaven in World War II is carried out, by the British Royal Air Force (RAF). The Defense of Katowice by irregular Polish militia fails and the city is secured by German Wehrmacht forces who carry out the Katowice massacre. Nepal declares war on Germany. September 5 – WWII: The United States declares its neutrality in the war.United States United States Code: Containing the General and Permanent Laws of the United States in Force on January 3,1941 https://books.google.com/books?id=WbxQAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA4442 1941 U.S. Government Printing Office 4442 November 26, 2020 September 16, 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210916232655/https://books.google.com/books?id=WbxQAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA4442 live September 6 – WWII: South Africa declares war on Germany.Marshall Cavendish Corporation History of World War II https://books.google.com/books?id=oD9Z3omHy3IC&pg=RA1-PA620 2004 Marshall Cavendish 978-0-7614-7482-1 620 November 26, 2020 September 16, 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210916232655/https://books.google.com/books?id=oD9Z3omHy3IC&pg=RA1-PA620 live September 8 WWII: Forward elements of General Hoeppner's XVI Panzerkorps take up positions outside Warsaw. The world is stunned by the rapidity of the German advance, and the Polish High Command is effectively isolated, but lack of infantry support and effective civilian resistance cause Hoeppner to halt outside the city itself. WWII: Battle of Westerplatte ends when Polish troops on the Westerplatte are forced by lack of food and ammunition to surrender. The garrison of about two hundred had held out against thousands of German forces (many of them naval officer cadets from the Schleswig-Holstein) for seven days.Iwo Pogonowski Poland, a Historical Atlas https://books.google.com/books?id=Iw8oAQAAMAAJ 1989 Dorset Press 978-0-88029-394-5 30 November 26, 2020 January 26, 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210126074426/https://books.google.com/books?id=Iw8oAQAAMAAJ live The Little Sisters of Jesus is founded in Algeria, by Little Sister Magdeleine. thumb|160px|September: Siege of Warsaw. September 9 – WWII: Troops of the Polish Poznań Army under the command of General Kutrzeba open the Battle of the Bzura,2023-10-17 The Invasion of Poland https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/invasion-poland-september-1939 2026-07-20 The National WWII Museum New Orleans en the largest and best organized counter-attack mounted by the Polish forces in the campaign of 1939. For the first few days all goes well, and the Germans are forced to retreat; but quick reaction by mechanized units and the Luftwaffe soon take their toll, and the operation bogs down. September 10 – WWII: Canadian declaration of war on Germany. September 13–14 – WWII: Zambrów massacre – German Wehrmacht soldiers shoot more than 200 Polish prisoners of war. September 15 – WWII: Diverse elements of the German Wehrmacht surround Warsaw, and demand its surrender. The Poles refuse, and the siege begins in earnest. September 16 – A ceasefire ends the Battles of Khalkhin Gol, the undeclared border war between the Soviet Union (and Mongolian allies) and Japan. September 17 – WWII: The Soviet Union invades Poland, and then occupies eastern Polish territories. Royal Navy aircraft carrier Courageous 50 6 is torpedoed and sunk by U-29 1936 6 in the Western Approaches with the loss of 519 crew (the first British warship loss of the war). September 18 – WWII: Orzeł incident: Polish submarine ORP Orzeł escapes internment from Tallinn Harbour, Estonia, leading both the Soviet Union and Germany to question Estonia's neutrality. September 19 – WWII: The Poznan pocket collapses, and the Germans capture, according to many sources, over 150,000 men. Many elements of General Tadeusz Kutrzeba's forces work their way into Warsaw, under extreme difficulty. September 21 Reinhard Heydrich, chief of the Security Police, sends a directive, the Schnellbrief, explaining that Jews living in towns and villages in the Polish occupation zones are to be transferred to ghettos, and Jewish councils, Judenräte, will be established to carry out the German authorities' orders.http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/holocaust/about/02/occupation.asp?WT.mc_id=wiki The Conquest of Poland and the Beginnings of Jewish Persecution The Holocaust Yad Vashem 2013-03-03 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20121108072837/http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/holocaust/about/02/occupation.asp?WT.mc_id=wiki 2012-11-08 Assassination of Armand Călinescu: Prime Minister of Romania Armand Călinescu is shot in Bucharest by members of the fascist Iron Guard. September 22 – WWII: A joint victory parade is staged by the Wehrmacht and Red Army in Brest-Litovsk, at the end of the Invasion of Poland. September 24 – WWII: The Soviet Union issues an ultimatum to Estonia to allow Soviet military bases on its territory, which Estonia accepts on September 28. Similar ultimatums are issued to Latvia on October 5 and to Lithuania on October 10, who are forced to accept them as well. September 28 – WWII: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a division of Poland, after their invasion. Warsaw surrenders to Germany; Modlin surrenders a day later; the last Polish large operational unit surrenders near Kock 8 days later. September 30 – General Władysław Sikorski becomes Prime Minister of the Polish government-in-exile. October October 1939 October 6 – WWII: The Battle of Kock ends the Polish Campaign. Polish resistance moves underground.New Europe https://books.google.com/books?id=2ZLRAAAAMAAJ 1944 New Europe, Incorporated 9 November 26, 2020 February 4, 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210204090533/https://books.google.com/books?id=2ZLRAAAAMAAJ live October 7 – WWII: British Royal Navy cruiser Emerald D66 6 departs Plymouth in convoy for Halifax, Nova Scotia, carrying £2M in gold bar to be used for purchase of military materiel in North America, a predecessor of Operation Fish.Draper Alfred Operation Fish: The Fight to Save the Gold of Britain, France and Norway from the Nazis 1979 General Publishing Don Mills 9780773600683 October 8 WWII: Germany annexes Western Poland. The Holocaust: Piotrków Trybunalski Ghetto, the first Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Europe, is proclaimed in German-occupied Poland. October 14 – U-47 1938 6 sinks the British battleship Royal Oak 08 6 at anchor in Scapa Flow (Scotland), with the loss of 833 crew. 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December 12 – WWII: Duchess H64 6 sinks after a collision with Barham 04 6 off the coast of Scotland, with the loss of 124 men. December 13 – WWII – Battle of the River Plate: The German heavy cruiser Admiral Graf Spee is trapped by cruisers Ajax 22 6, HMNZS Achilles, and Exeter 68 6 after a running battle off the coast of Uruguay. Graf Spee is scuttled by its crew off Montevideo Harbor, on December 17. December 14 – WWII: Winter War – The League of Nations expels the USSR for attacking Finland. December 15 – Gone with the Wind premieres at Loew's Grand Theatre in Atlanta. Based on Margaret Mitchell's best-selling novel of 1936, it is the longest American film made up to this date (at nearly four hours) and rapidly becomes the highest-grossing film up to this time. December 18 – WWII: Battle of the Heligoland Bight – RAF Bomber Command, on a daylight mission to attack Kriegsmarine ships in the Heligoland Bight, is repulsed by Luftwaffe fighter aircraft. December 26 – Miners strike in Borinage, Belgium. December 27 – The 7.8 w Erzincan earthquake shakes eastern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XII (Extreme), causing $20 million in damage, and leaving 32,700–32,968 dead. Date unknown Kirlian photography is invented by Semyon Kirlian.Sidney Ray Scientific Photography and Applied Imaging https://books.google.com/books?id=h6zMCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA431 2 August 1999 CRC Press 978-1-136-09438-5 431 November 10, 2019 July 24, 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200724114145/https://books.google.com/books?id=h6zMCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA431 live Enzo Ferrari founds Auto Avio Construzioni, the company that becomes Ferrari in 1947. 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Yeats in Europe https://books.google.com/books?id=FMkOxnrae8UC&pg=PA224 6 October 2006 A&C Black 978-0-8264-5963-3 224 February thumb|100px|Pope Pius XI thumb|100px|Henri Jaspar February 1 – Lawrence Marston, American actor, playwright, and film director (b. 1857) February 3 – Janez Frančišek Gnidovec, Yugoslav Roman Catholic priest and venerable (b. 1873) February 4 – Edward Sapir, German-American anthropologist and linguist (b. 1884) February 5 – Teresa Mañé, Spanish teacher, editor and writer (b. 1865)Davies Catherine Spanish Women's Writing 1849–1996 The Libertarian Superwoman: Federica Montseny (1905-1994) 1998 Athlone Press London https://books.google.com/books?id=ppRtzQXGS8wC&pg=PA138 78 0-485-91006-3 98-11468 468307323 February 6 – Sayajirao Gaekwad III, Maharada of Baroda (b. 1863) February 9 – Henry Balfour, British archaeologist (b. 1863) February 10 Pope Pius XI (b. 1857) Patriarch Torkom Koushagian of Jerusalem (b. 1874) February 11 – Franz Schmidt, Austrian composer (b. 1874) February 12 Potenciano Gregorio, Filipino musician (b. 1880) S. 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Johnson, American architect (b. 1865) May 7 – Francesco Paleari, Italian priest and blessed (b. 1863) May 9 – Mary, Lady Heath, Irish aviator (b. 1896) May 10 – James Parrott, American actor (b. 1898) May 13 – Victor Bernau, Norwegian actor, director (b. 1890) May 14 Jesse Price, American politician and member of the United States House of Representatives from 1914 to 1919 (b. 1863) May 19 – Ahmet Ağaoğlu, Turkish politician, author and writer (b. 1869) May 20 Joseph Carr, 2nd president of the National Football League (b. 1880) Alexandra Čvanová, Ukrainian-Czech soprano (b. 1897) May 22 – Ernst Toller, German playwright, Communist politician (b. 1893) May 24 Aleksander Brückner, German scholar (b. 1856) Witmer Stone, American ornithologist, botanist, and mammalogist (b. 1866) May 25 – Álvaro Casanova Zenteno, Chilean painter (b. 1857) May 25 – Frank Watson Dyson, British astronomer (b. 1868) May 27 – Alfred A. Cunningham, American aviator, the first United States Marine Corps aviator (b. 1882) May 29 – Ursula Ledóchowska, Polish Roman Catholic religious professed and saint (b. 1865) May 30 – Floyd Roberts, American race car driver (b. 1900) June June 4 – Tommy Ladnier, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1900) June 6 George Fawcett, American actor (b. 1860) Constantin Noe, Megleno-Romanian editor and professor (b. 1883)https://www.academia.edu/5573680 Aromâni, meglenoromâni, istroromâni: aspecte identitare și culturale Adina Berciu Drăghicescu Lozovanu Dorin Coman Virgil Editura Universității din București 2012 ro 9786061601486 June 9 – Owen Moore, Irish-born American actor (b. 1886) June 15 – Edward Chaytor, New Zealand general (b. 1868)Fiery Ted: Anzac Commander by Michael Smith (2008, Christchurch NZ) 978-0-473-13363-4 June 16 – Chick Webb, American musician (b. 1905)Scenes as 7500 Attend Chick Webb Benefit https://books.google.com/books?id=8E9AAAAAIBAJ&pg=3755%2C6412611 news.google.com The Afro American January 16, 2019 8 February 17, 1940 June 19 – Grace Abbott, American social worker (b. 1878) June 22 – Benjamin Tucker, American anarchist (b. 1854)James Joseph Martin Men Against the State Ludwig von Mises Institute 1953 276 9781610163910 June 23 – Ernest Alexander Cruikshank, Canadian general (b. 1859) June 25 – Richard Seaman, British motor racing driver (b. 1913)The Times 1939-06-27 Obituary: Mr Richard Seaman 16 https://www.thetimes.com/archive/article/1939-06-27/16/9.html subscription June 26 – Ford Madox Ford, British writer (b. 1873)August Nemo Camille Flammarion Essential Novelists - Ford Madox Ford: The Redefinition of Modern Literature https://books.google.com/books?id=UZugDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT3 3 July 2019 Tacet Books 978-85-7777-331-2 3 June 27 – Margaret Campbell, American actress (b. 1883) June 28 – Bobby Vernon, American actor (b. 1898) June 30 – Eduardo Lopez Bustamante, Venezuelan poet, lawyer and journalist (b. 1881) July thumb|100px|King Malietoa Tanumafili I thumbnail|100px|Carlo Galimberti July 3 – Juan José Gárate, Spanish painter (b. 1869) July 4 – Louis Wain, English artist (b. 1860)Rodney Dale Louis Wain: the Man who Drew Cats https://books.google.com/books?id=9P7VAAAAMAAJ 1968 Kimber 978-0-7183-0141-5 151 July 5 – Malietoa Tanumafili I, King of Samoa (b. 1879) July 7 – Deacon White, American baseball player, MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1847) July 8 Havelock Ellis, British sexologist (b. 1859)Lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of London https://books.google.com/books?id=vAtPAQAAIAAJ 1968 Royal College of Physicians 121 Anna Pappritz, German writer, suffragist (b. 1861) July 9 Carlo Chiostri, Italian painter (b. 1863) Alphonse Laurencic, French painter, architect (b. 1902) thumb|110px|Louis Wain July 11 – Stiliyan Kovachev, Bulgarian general (b. 1860) July 14 – Alphonse Mucha, Czech painter, decorative artist (b. 1860) July 17 – María del Carmen González-Valerio, Spanish Roman Catholic saint (b. 1930) July 19 – Rose Hartwick Thorpe, American poet (b. 1850) July 20 – Joseph Mendes da Costa, Dutch sculptor (b. 1863) July 21 – Ambroise Vollard, French art dealer (b. 1866) July 23 – Jack Duffy, American actor (b. 1882) July 26 – William Mackay, American artist (b. 1876) July 27 – Stanisław Baczyński, Polish writer, journalist and soldier (b. 1890) August 110px|thumb|Germán Busch thumb|100px|Eliodoro Villazón August 2 – Harvey Spencer Lewis, American mystic (b. 1883) August 6 Mehmet Emin Çolakoğlu, Turkish army general (b. 1878) Monroe Dunaway Anderson, American founder of Anderson, Clayton and Company; "Father of Texas Medical Center" (b. 1873) Arthur Rackham, English book illustrator (b. 1867) August 10 – Carlo Galimberti, Italian Olympic weightlifter (b. 1894) August 11 – Jean Bugatti, German automobile designer (b. 1909) August 12 – Eulalio Gutiérrez, 41st President of Mexico (b. 1881) August 23 Sidney Howard, American writer (b. 1891)Arthur Gewirtz Sidney Howard and Clare Eames: American Theater's Perfect Couple of the 1920s McFarland, Incorporated 2004 9780786417513 281 Germán Busch, 36th President of Bolivia (b. 1903) August 25 – Arthur Asquith, British general (b. 1883) August 26 – Rubén González Cárdenas, Venezuelan lawyer (b. 1875) August 29 – Marthe de Florian, French painter (b. 1864) August 31 – Richard Bouwens van der Boijen, French architect (b. 1863) September thumb|100px|Armand Călinescu thumb|100px|Sigmund Freud thumb|100px|Carl Laemmle September 6 – Arthur Rackham, British artist (b. 1867)Hamilton James Stanley Rackham, Arthur, (1867-1939) 2004-09-23 10.1093/ref:odnb/35645 September 8 – Swami Abhedananda, Indian mystic (b. 1866) September 10 – Wilhelm Fritz von Roettig, German Waffen SS general, first general killed in action during World War II (b. 1888) September 12 – Eliodoro Villazón, 27th President of Bolivia (b. 1848) September 16 Nikolaos Triantafyllakos, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1855) Otto Wels, German politician, chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) (b. 1873) September 18 – Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Polish writer, painter (b. 1885) September 20 Paul Bruchesi, Canadian prelate (b. 1855) Hermann Brunn, German mathematician (b. 1862) Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin, French astronomer (b. 1865) September 21 – Armand Călinescu, Romanian economist, politician and 39th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1893) September 22 Mikołaj Bołtuć, Polish army general (killed in battle) (b. 1893) Józef Olszyna-Wilczyński, Polish general (b. 1890) Werner von Fritsch, German general (killed in action) (b. 1880) September 23 Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychoanalyst (b. 1856) Eugeniusz Kazimirowski, Polish painter (b. 1873) Francisco León de la Barra, Mexican diplomat, political figure, and acting President of Mexico (b. 1863)http://calderon.presidencia.gob.mx/mexico/gobernantes/mexico-1821-actualidad/francisco-leon-de-la-barra/ Francisco León de la Barra Presidencia de la Republica de Mexico es May 29, 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190530042139/http://calderon.presidencia.gob.mx/mexico/gobernantes/mexico-1821-actualidad/francisco-leon-de-la-barra/ May 30, 2019 dead September 24 Danilo, Crown Prince of Montenegro (b. 1871) Carl Laemmle, German film producer (b. 1867) October thumb|100px|Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg thumb|100px|Marthe Condat October 2 – Edgar M. Lazarus, American architect (b. 1868) October 3 – Fay Templeton, American musical comedy star (b. 1865) October 6 – Giulio Gavotti, Italian aviator (b. 1882) October 7 – Harvey Cushing, American neurosurgeon (b. 1869) October 8 – Gustav Henriksen, Norwegian executive (b. 1872) October 9 – Anna Tuschinski, Esperantist from Danzig (b. 1841)2021-03-26 Anna Eliza Tuschinski (1841–1939) https://www.reformacja-pomorze.pl/2021/03/26/anna-eliza-tuschinski1841-1939/ 2023-06-02 Committee for Celebrating the 500th Anniversary of the Reformation in Pomerania pl-PL October 13 – Ford Sterling, American actor (b. 1882) October 14 – Polaire, French actress (b. 1874) October 21 – Hendrik Wortman, Dutch civil engineer (b. 1859)Hendrik Wortman Horn-van Nispen Marie-Louise ten Tijdschrift voor Waterstaatsgeschiedenis Vereniging voor Waterstaatsgeschiedenis 60 https://www.waterstaatsgeschiedenis.nl/tijdschrift/2004-2/ 13 2 2004 October 23 – Zane Grey, American writer (b. 1872) October 24 – Marthe Condat, French physician (b. 1886) October 28 – Alice Brady, American actress (b. 1892) October 30 – Carlos De Valdez, Peruvian actor (b. 1894) October 31 Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg, German field marshal (b. 1865) Otto Rank, Austrian psychoanalyst (b. 1884) November thumb|100px|Charlotte Despard thumb|110px|James Naismith thumb|110px|Philipp Scheidemann November 1 – Kálmán Darányi, 31st Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1886) November 4 Sir Percy Douglas, chairman of the British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE) Advisory Committee (b. 1876) Ma Xiangbo, Chinese Jesuit priest and blessed (b. 1840) November 7 – Kirsti Suonio, Finnish actress (b. 1872) November 10 – Charlotte Despard, Anglo-Irish suffragist, socialist, pacifist, Sinn Féin activist, and novelistOxford Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 15 906 November 11 – Alicja Kotowska, Polish Roman Catholic nun, martyr and blessed (b. 1899) November 12 – Norman Bethune, Canadian humanitarian (b. 1890) November 13 – Lois Weber, American actress (b. 1881)Lois Weber https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f63ea90 BFI 15 February 2021 en January 26, 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210126200439/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f63ea90 dead November 14 – Jay Hastings, American politician from Nebraska (b. 1878) November 15 Platon Ivanovich Ivanov, Soviet-born Finnish civil servant (b. 1863) November 17 – Aurelio Mosquera, Ecuadorian politician, 25th President of Ecuador (b. 1883) November 21 – Émile Guépratte, French admiral (b. 1856)Keesing's Contemporary Archives https://books.google.com/books?id=MeMJAQAAMAAJ 1937 Keesing's Limited 3841 November 22 – King Daudi Cwa II of Buganda (b. 1896) November 24 – John Harron, American actor (b. 1903) November 28 – James Naismith, Canadian inventor of basketball (b. 1861)Naismith Museum & Hall of Fame: Biography of James Naismith http://www.naismithmuseum.com/naismith_drjamesnaismith/main_drjamesnaismith.htm December 12, 2008 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20070205045627/http://www.naismithmuseum.com/naismith_drjamesnaismith/main_drjamesnaismith.htm February 5, 2007 bookrags.com James Naismith Biography https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10765-2005Jan14.html September 30, 2008 Mark Schlabac January 15, 2005 November 29 Eugen Kolisko, Austrian-born German physician, educator (b. 1893) Józef Krasnowolski, Polish painter (b. 1879) Philipp Scheidemann, German politician, 11th Chancellor of Germany (b. 1865) December thumb|100px|Douglas Fairbanks December 3 – Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, second youngest daughter of Queen Victoria (b. 1848) December 5 – Santiago Iglesias, Puerto Rican statesman (b. 1872) December 8 – Alimondo Ciampi, Italian sculptor (b. 1876) December 12 – Douglas Fairbanks, American actor, father of Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (b. 1883) December 14 – Helene Kröller-Müller, Dutch museum founder and art collector (b. 1869) https://krollermuller.nl/en/timeline/from-a-merchant-family From a merchant family December 16 – Juan Demóstenes Arosemena, 18th President of Panama (b. 1879) December 18 – Bruno Liljefors, Swedish artist (b. 1860) December 19 Dmitry Grave, Soviet mathematician (b. 1863) Reginald F. Nicholson, United States Navy admiral (b. 1852) December 20 – Hans Langsdorff, German naval officer (suicide) (b. 1894) December 22 – Ma Rainey, African-American blues singer (b. 1886) December 23 Anthony Fokker, Dutch-born American aircraft manufacturer (b. 1890) Maxime Laubeuf, French maritime engineer (b. 1864) December 24 – Walter Gordon, German physicist (b. 1893) December 25 – Ivan Dmitriyevich Borisov, Soviet aircraft pilot (b. 1913) December 27 – Rinaldo Cuneo, American artist ("the painter of San Francisco") (b. 1877) December 31 – Sir Frank Benson, British actor (b. 1858) Nobel Prizes right|100px Physics – Ernest Lawrence Chemistry – Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt, Leopold Ružička Physiology or Medicine – Gerhard Domagk Literature – Frans Eemil Sillanpää Peace – not awarded References 1930s External links 1939 WWII Timeline The 1930s Timeline: 1939 – from American Studies Programs at The University of Virginia Paula Phelan, 1939 Into The Dark, 2009, ZAPmedia.