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1939 Calendar Trivia

The next time you can reuse this calendar will be on year 2034. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a solar cycle.

April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), December 12 (12/12), and the last day of February always fall on the same day of the week in any given year. This is called the ‘Doomsday rule’. Check these dates using the full 12-month calendar below to verify.

1939 Calendar

Historical Events Of 1939

• February 19, 1939 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
• February 27, 1939 – United States labor law: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that sit-down strikes violate property owners’ rights and are therefore illegal.
• March 17, 1939 – Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanchang between the Kuomintang and Japan begins,
• May 21, 1939 – The Canadian National War Memorial is unveiled by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in Ottawa.
• May 24, 1939 – First issue of Fashizmi is published in Tirana.
• June 12, 1939 – Shooting begins on Paramount Pictures’ Dr. Cyclops, the first horror film photographed in three-strip Technicolor.
• September 17, 1939 – World War II: German submarine U-29 sinks the British aircraft carrier HMS Courageous.
• September 28, 1939 – Warsaw surrenders to Nazi Germany during World War II.
• October 20, 1939 – Pope Pius XII publishes his first major encyclical, entitled Summi Pontificatus.
• December 14, 1939 – Winter War: The Soviet Union is expelled from the League of Nations for invading Finland.

Who Were Born On 1939?

• March 1, 1939 – Adnan Al-Kaissie, Iraqi wrestler and manager
• March 14, 1939 – Raymond J. Barry, American actor
• May 13, 1939 – Peter Frenkel, German race walker and coach
• June 3, 1939 – Kathleen E. Woodiwiss, American model and author (d. 2007)
• July 3, 1939 – Coco Laboy, Puerto Rican baseball player
• July 18, 1939 – Dion DiMucci, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Dion and the Belmonts)
• August 4, 1939 – Jack Cunningham, Baron Cunningham of Felling, English politician, Minister for the Cabinet Office
• September 5, 1939 – George Tremlett, English journalist, author, and politician
• November 2, 1939 – Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones, English politician, Minister for Security
• December 1, 1939 – Lee Trevino, American golfer