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1939 Calendar

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•  January 26, 1939 – Spanish Civil War: Troops loyal to nationalist General Francisco Franco and aided by Italy take Barcelona.
•  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 Mumbai, Mohandas Gandhi begins to fast in protest at the autocratic rule in India.
•  May 14, 1939 – Lina Medina becomes the youngest confirmed mother in medical history at the age of five.
•  September 1, 1939 – Adolf Hitler signs an order to begin the systematic euthanasia of mentally ill and disabled people.
•  October 14, 1939 – The GS U-47 sinks the British battleship HMS Royal Oak within her harbour at Scapa Flow, Scotland.
•  November 6, 1939 – World War II: Sonderaktion Krakau takes place.
•  November 8, 1939 – Venlo Incident: Two British agents of SIS are captured by the Germans.
•  December 17, 1939 – World War II: Battle of the River Plate – The Admiral Graf Spee is scuttled by Captain Hans Langsdorff outside Montevideo.
•  December 24, 1939 – World War II: Pope Pius XII makes a Christmas Eve appeal for peace.

•  January 15, 1939 – Tony Bullimore, English sailor and adventurer
•  April 4, 1939 – Hugh Masekela, South African musician
•  May 31, 1939 – Terry Waite, British humanitarian
•  July 15, 1939 – Aníbal Cavaco Silva, Portuguese politician
•  August 30, 1939 – Elizabeth Ashley, American actress
•  September 20, 1939 – Robert L. Gerry III, American businessman
•  September 28, 1939 – Rudolph Walker, Trinidadian-born British actor
•  October 11, 1939 – Austin Currie, Northern Irish politician
•  October 28, 1939 – Andy Bey, jazz singer and pianist
•  December 28, 1939 – Philip Anschutz, American businessman