Aug 23 Soviet-German pact is signed by Molotov and Ribbentrop.

Aug 26 New York station WXBS makes the first TV broadcast of a baseball doubleheader (Cincinnati Reds at Brooklyn Dodgers).

Aug 15 "Wizard of Oz" premiers at Grauman's Chinese Theater, Hollywood

Aug 30 NY Yankee Atley Donald pitches a baseball a record 94.7 mph (152 kph)

Aug 24 Germany and Russia sign a 10-year non-agression pact.

Oct 06 Hitler announces he has no attention of war with Britain and France

Oct 24 Nylon stockings go on sale for first time (Wilmington Delaware)

Oct 08 Germany annexes Western Poland

Oct 12 First deportation of Austrian / Moravian Jews to Poland.

Oct 14 HMS ROYAL OAK sunk at Scapa Flow, Orkney Islands, north of Scotland by 3 torpedoes from German U-47.

Oct 10 Annexation of Western Poland by Third Reich.

Oct 27 The birth of John Cleese, British actor and writer

Oct 24 The birth of F. Murray Abraham, american actor.

Oct 01 Winston Chruchill refers to Soviet policy as "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma"

Oct 28 The first Polish ghetto is established in Piotrkow, Poland.

Oct 17 The birth of Evel Knievel, Record breaker and stunt man

Oct 30 USSR &Germany agree on partitioning Poland

Oct 29 Golden Gate International Exposition closes (1st closure)

Oct 18 The birth of Lee Harvey Oswald, Presumed assassin of President J F Kennedy

Oct 24 Benny Goodman records "Let's Dance"

Oct 15 LaGuardia Airport opens in NYC

Jul 03 Ernst Heinkel demonstrates 800-kph rocket plane to Hitler

Jul 13 Appointment of RADM Richard Byrd as commanding officer of 1939-1941 Antarctic Expedition.

Jul 19 The first use of fiberglass sutures, R.P. Scholz, St Louis, Mo

Jul 04 Fort Ross, NWT the overnight temperature at Fort Ross drops to -12.2 C; one of the lowest July temperatures ever recorded in Canada.

Jul 04 Yankees retire first uniform (Lou Gehrig #4), first Old Timers Day

Jul 03 Lou Gehrig day; Gehrig makes "luckiest man" speech

Jul 22 The first black woman judge (Jane Matilda Bolin-NYC)

Mar 20 7,000 Jews flee German occupied Memel Lithuania

Mar 12 Pope Pius XII crowned in Vatican ceremonies

Mar 21 Nazi-Germany demands Gdansk (Danzig) from Poland

Mar 07 Guy Lombardo &Royal Canadians first record "Auld Lang Syne"

Mar 16 Germany occupies Czechoslovakia

Mar 22 Lithuania state, forced to give Memel territory to Germany

Mar 14 England draw with South Africa at Durban on the 10th day

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