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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
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Historical Events Of 1939
- January 1, 1939 – Sydney, Australia, swelters in 45 ˚C (113 ˚F) heat, a record for the city.
- January 24, 1939 – The deadliest earthquake in Chilean history strikes Chillán, killing approximately 28,000 people.
- February 19, 1939 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
- March 3, 1939 – In Bombay, Mohandas Gandhi begins a hunger strike in protest at the autocratic rule in British India.
- March 16, 1939 – From Prague Castle, Hitler proclaims Bohemia and Moravia a German protectorate.
- May 21, 1939 – The Canadian National War Memorial is unveiled by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in Ottawa.
- September 19, 1939 – World War II: The Battle of Kępa Oksywska concludes, with Polish losses reaching roughly 14% of all the forces engaged.
- September 28, 1939 – Warsaw surrenders to Nazi Germany during World War II.
- November 30, 1939 – Winter War: Soviet forces cross the Finnish border in several places and bomb Helsinki and several other Finnish cities, starting the war.
- December 17, 1939 – World War II: Battle of the River Plate – The Admiral Graf Spee is scuttled by Captain Hans Langsdorff outside Montevideo.
Who Were Born On 1939?
- January 1, 1939 – Michèle Mercier, French actress
- March 31, 1939 – Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Georgian anthropologist and politician, 1st President of Georgia (d. 1993)
- April 3, 1939 – Hawk Taylor, American baseball player and coach (d. 2012)
- April 25, 1939 – Richard Lapthorne, English businessman
- May 9, 1939 – Ion Țiriac, Romanian tennis player and manager
- July 27, 1939 – Michael Longley, Irish poet and academic
- August 27, 1939 – William Least Heat-Moon, American historian and author
- September 5, 1939 – George Tremlett, English journalist, author, and politician
- September 23, 1939 – Joan Hanham, Baroness Hanham, English politician
- December 8, 1939 – Jerry Butler, American singer-songwriter and producer (The Impressions)