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1939
1939 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar).
Events
January-June
July-September
October-November
December
unknown dates
Ongoing events
Year in topic
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1939 in film
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1939 in literature
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1939 in music
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1939 in rail transport
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1939 in sports
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July 4 - Lou Gehrig, recently diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, tells a crowd at Yankee Stadium that he considered himself "The luckiest man on the face of the earth" as he announces his retirement from Major League Baseball.
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1939 in television
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April - television demonstrations are held at the World's Fair in New York and the Golden Gate International Exhibition in San Francisco
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April 30 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt, appearing at the World's Fair, becomes the first U.S. president to give a speech that is broadcast on television
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May 17 - The first baseball game (Princeton-Columbia) is broadcast on television, from Baker Field in New York. Bill Stern was the announcer
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June 1 - The first heavyweight boxing match is televised, Max Baer vs Lou Nova , form Yankee Stadium.
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August 26 - The first Major League Baseball game is telecast, a double-header between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field, in Brooklyn.
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September 1 - As World War II began, BBC television abruptly stopped its broadcasting in the middle of a Mickey Mouse cartoon (The BBC would resume its broadcasting at that same point after the war in 1945)
- The DuMont company begins producing consumer television sets
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September 30 - The first televised college football game, Fordham vs Waynesburg, at Randall's Island , New York.
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October 22 - The first NFL game is televised. The Brooklyn Dodgers vs Philadelphia Eagles at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn.
Births
January-February
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January 3 - Bobby Hull, hockey player
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January 6 - Valeri Lobanovsky, football player and manager (d. 2002)
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January 10 - Sal Mineo, actor (d. 1976)
- January 10 - Bill Toomey, track and field athlete
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January 11 - Ann Heggtveit, world and 1960 Winter Olympics ski champion
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January 17 - Maury Povich, talk show host
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January 18 - James Gritz, Green Beret, United States Populist Party Presidential candidate.
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January 19 - Phil Everly, musician and singer
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January 21 - Wolfman Jack, disk jockey, actor (d. 1995)
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January 22 - Ray Stevens, country music musician
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January 29 - Germaine Greer, writer, feminist
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February 6 - Mike Farrell, actor
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February 10 - Roberta Flack, singer
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February 11 - Jane Hyatt Yolen , science fiction author.
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February 12 - Ray Manzarek, keyboardist
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February 23 - Peter Fonda, actor
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February 28 - Erika Pluhar , actress and singer
- February 28 - Tommy Tune, dancer, choreographer, actor
March-April
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March 1 - Warren Davis, The Monotones
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March 8 - Robert Tear, Welsh tenor
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March 13 - Neil Sedaka, singer
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March 19 - Joe Kapp , American football star
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March 20 - Brian Mulroney, eighteenth Prime Minister of Canada
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March 26 - James Caan, actor
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March 31 - Zviad Gamsakhurdia, scientist and writer, first President of the Republic of Georgia (d. 1993)
- March 31 - Volker Schlöndorff, film director
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April 2 - Marvin Gaye, singer (d. 1984)
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April 4 - Hugh Masakela , musician
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April 7 - Francis Ford Coppola, American film director
- April 7 - Sir David Frost, broadcaster, television host
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April 13 - Paul Sorvino, actor
May
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May 7 - Ruud Lubbers, politician and Prime Minister of the Netherlands
- May 7 - Jimmy Ruffin, singer
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May 9 - Ralph Boston, athlete
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May 13 - Harvey Keitel, actor
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May 18 - Hark Bohm , film director
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May 19 - Livio Berruti, Italian athlete
- May 19 - Dick Scobee, astronaut (d. 1986)
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May 23 - Reinhard Hauff, film director
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May 25 - Ian McKellen, actor
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May 29 - Al Unser, race car driver
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May 30 - Michael J. Pollard, actor
June
July
August
September-December
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September 6 - Brigid Berlin actor and artist
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September 9 - Ron McDole, American football player
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September 16 - Breyten Breytenbach, South African poet, writer and painter
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September 23 - Janusz Gajos, Polish actor
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September 30 - Len Cariou, Tony Award winning stage actor/singer
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October 7 - John Hopcroft, American theoretical computer scientist
- October 7 - Bill Snyder, football coach at Kansas State University
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October 14 - Ralph Lauren, American fashion designer
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October 24 - F. Murray Abraham, actor
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October 31 - Ron Rifkin, actor
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November 21 - Mulayam Singh Yadav, politician, India
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November 23 - Bill Bissett, Canadian anti-conventional poet
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December 2 - Yael Dayan, Israeli writer and politician
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December 8 - James Galway, Irish flutist
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December 18 - Michael Moorcock, English science fiction author
Deaths
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January 24 - Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician and Muesli inventor
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January 28 - William Butler Yeats, writer
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February 10 - Pope Pius XI
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February 11 - Franz Schmidt, Austrian composer
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February 12 - S. P. L. Sørensen, Danish chemist
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February 22 - Antonio Machado, Spanish poet (b. 1875)
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March 19 - Lloyd L. Gaines, American civil rights activist
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April 7 - Joseph Lyons, tenth Prime Minister of Australia
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June 4 - Tommy Ladnier, jazz musician (b. 1900)
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June 17 - Eugen Weidmann, last public guillotine execution in France
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June 19 - Grace Abbott, social worker, activist (b. 1878)
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August 2 - Harvey Spencer Lewis, F.R.C., Rosicrucian mysticist and Imperator of AMORC
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August 11 - Jean Bugatti, automobile designer
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September 18 - Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (a.k.a. “Witkacy”), Polish writer and painter (b. 1885)
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October 7 - Harvey Cushing, American neurosurgeon (b. 1869)
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November 12 - Norman Bethune, Canadian humanitarian
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November 28 - James Naismith, inventor of basketball
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December 3 - Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, fourth daughter of Queen Victoria
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December 22 - Ma Rainey, blues singer (b. 1886)
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December 23 - Anthony Fokker, aircraft manufacturer
Heads of state in 1939
Last updated: 10-24-2005 07:12:48
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