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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

• January 13, 1939 – The Black Friday bush fires burn 20,000 square kilometers of land in Australia, claiming the lives of 71 people.
• February 19, 1939 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
• March 22, 1939 – World War II: Germany takes Memel from Lithuania.
• April 9, 1939 – Marian Anderson sings at the Lincoln Memorial, after being denied the right to sing at the Daughters of the American Revolution’s Constitution Hall.
• July 4, 1939 – Huỳnh Phú Sổ founds Hòa Hảo Buddhism.
• September 4, 1939 – World War II: A Bristol Blenheim is the first British aircraft to cross the German coast following the declaration of war and German ships are bombed.
• September 14, 1939 – World War II: The Estonian military boards the Polish submarine ORP Orzeł in Tallinn, sparking a diplomatic incident that the Soviet Union will later use to justify the annexation of Estonia.
• September 30, 1939 – General Władysław Sikorski becomes commander-in-chief of the Polish Government in exile.
• December 27, 1939 – Winter War: Finland holds off a Soviet attack in the Battle of Kelja.

Who Were Born On 1939?

• February 24, 1939 – Jamal Nazrul Islam, Bangladeshi physicist and cosmologist (d. 2013)
• March 31, 1939 – Volker Schlöndorff, German director and producer
• April 20, 1939 – Gro Harlem Brundtland, Norwegian physician and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Norway
• June 21, 1939 – Rubén Berríos, Puerto Rican lawyer and politician
• June 22, 1939 – Don Matthews, American-Canadian football player and coach
• July 17, 1939 – Ali Khamenei, Iranian cleric and politician, 2nd Supreme Leader of Iran
• August 2, 1939 – Wes Craven, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2015)
• August 27, 1939 – William Least Heat-Moon, American historian and author
• September 28, 1939 – Rudolph Walker, Trinidadian-English actor
• September 30, 1939 – Jean-Marie Lehn, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate