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1939 Calendar

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•  February 19, 1939 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
•  March 2, 1939 – Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli is elected Pope and takes the name Pius XII.
•  March 15, 1939 – World War II: German troops occupy the remaining part of Bohemia and Moravia; Czechoslovakia ceases to exist.
•  June 6, 1939 – Judge Joseph Force Crater, known as the “Missingest Man in New York”, is declared legally dead.
•  June 12, 1939 – The Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, New York.
•  August 23, 1939 – World War II: Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression treaty, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. In a secret addition to the pact, the Baltic states, Finland, Romania, and Poland are divided between the two nations.
•  September 17, 1939 – World War II: The Soviet Union joins Nazi Germany’s invasion of Poland during the Polish Defensive War of 1939.
•  September 18, 1939 – World War II: Polish government of Ignacy Mościcki flees to Romania.
•  September 21, 1939 – Romanian Prime Minister Armand Calinescu is assassinated by ultranationalist members of the Iron Guard.
•  October 14, 1939 – The GS U-47 sinks the British battleship HMS Royal Oak within her harbour at Scapa Flow, Scotland.

•  January 3, 1939 – Bobby Hull, Canadian hockey player
•  January 24, 1939 – Ray Stevens, American musician
•  February 28, 1939 – Daniel C. Tsui, Chinese-born physicist, Nobel laureate
•  March 4, 1939 – Carlos Vereza, Brazilian actor
•  March 18, 1939 – Giannis Markopoulos, Greek composer
•  July 30, 1939 – Peter Bogdanovich, American film director
•  July 31, 1939 – France Nuyen, French actress
•  August 29, 1939 – Jolán Kleiber-Kontsek, Hungarian athlete
•  September 28, 1939 – Stuart Kauffman, American biologist
•  November 26, 1939 – Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Malaysian politician, 5th Prime Minister of Malaysia