Historical Events In 1939

Jan 25 Earthquake hits Chillán Chile, 10,000 killed

Jan 20 Hitler proclaims to German parliament to exterminate all European Jews

Jan 26 Franco conquers Barcelona

Jan 04 Hermann Goering appoints Reinhard Heydrich head of Jewish Emigration

Jan 21 US male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee

Jan 26 Federal Hall National Monument established

Jan 04 Hermann Goering appoints Reinhard Heydrich head of Jewish Emigration

Jan 18 South African wicketkeeper Bradman gets his 6th straight ton, 135* vs New South Wales

Jan 02 Bradman scores 107 South Africa vs Victoria, his 4th consecutive century

Jan 04 Frieda Wunderlich elected first woman dean of a US graduate school

Jan 03 Gene Cox becomes first girl page in US House of Representatives

Jan 21 US female Figure Skating championship won by Joan Tozzer

Jan 14 Sydney, Australia swelters on one of its hottest days a high of 45.3 degrees Celsius.

Jan 16 Comic strip "Superman" debuts

Jan 26 Filming begins on "Gone With the Wind"

Jan 07 US worker's union leader Tom Mooney freed (jailed since 1916)

Jan 07 US worker's union leader Tom Mooney freed (jailed since 1916)

Jan 14 All commercial ferry service to East Bay ends

Jan 30 Hitler calls for the extermination of Jews

Feb 15 German battleship Bismarck was launched

Feb 27 The US Supreme Court outlaws sit-down strikes.

Feb 28 Great-Britain recognizes Franco-regime in Spain

Feb 09 Belgian Spaak government falls

Feb 28 The birth of Tommy Tune, Tony Award-winning dancer and actor

Feb 14 Victor Fleming replaces George Cukor as director of Gone With the Wind

Feb 23 Lou Thesz beats E Marshall in St Louis, to become wrestling champion

Feb 27 Belgian government of Pierlot falls

Feb 25 The first 'Anderson' air raid shelters are erected, in London

Feb 22 Netherlands recognizes Franco-regime in Spain

Feb 21 Belgian government of Pierlot forms

Feb 18 The Golden Gate International Exposition opens in San Francisco.

Feb 25 First Anderson bomb shelter in Britain erected in an Islington garden

Feb 27 English Spook house Borley Rectory destroyed in a fire

Feb 06 Spanish government flees to France

Feb 04 Glenn Cunningham (top miler) says 4-minute mile beyond human effort

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