1939
Tarcisio Burgnich, Italian footballer and manager (died 2021)
Tarcisio Burgnich was an Italian football manager and player, who played as a defender.
Tarcisio Burgnich, Italian footballer and manager (died 2021)
The 1930s
Explore 4336 historical events from 1930–1939.
1939
Michael Llewellyn-Smith, English academic and diplomat
Sir Michael John Llewellyn-Smith is a retired British diplomat and academic. He served as Ambassador to Poland from 1991 to 1996 and Ambassador to Greece from 1996 to 1999. He is v…
Michael Llewellyn-Smith, English academic and diplomat
1939
The United Kingdom and Poland form a military alliance in which the UK promises to defend Poland in case of invasion…
The Second Polish Republic, officially known at the time as the Republic of Poland, was the Polish state that existed between 7 October 1918 and 6 October 1939 after being establis…
The United Kingdom and Poland form a military alliance in which the UK promises to defend Poland in case of invasion…
1939
First flight of the turbojet-powered Heinkel He 178, the world's first jet aircraft.
The turbojet is an airbreathing jet engine which is typically used in aircraft. It consists of a gas turbine with a propelling nozzle. The gas turbine has an air inlet which includ…
First flight of the turbojet-powered Heinkel He 178, the world's first jet aircraft.
1939
Nazi Germany mounts a false flag attack on the Gleiwitz radio station, creating an excuse to attack Poland the…
Nazi Germany, officially the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the countr…
Nazi Germany mounts a false flag attack on the Gleiwitz radio station, creating an excuse to attack Poland the…
1939
World War II: Germany and Slovakia invade Poland, beginning the European phase of World War II.
World War II, or the Second World War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated, with many eng…
World War II: Germany and Slovakia invade Poland, beginning the European phase of World War II.
1939
J. Robert Oppenheimer and his student Hartland Snyder publish the Oppenheimer–Snyder model, proving for the first time…
J. Robert Oppenheimer was an American theoretical physicist who served as the director of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II. He is often called the …
J. Robert Oppenheimer and his student Hartland Snyder publish the Oppenheimer–Snyder model, proving for the first time…
1939
Veronica Sutherland, English academic and British diplomat
Dame Veronica Evelyn Sutherland, DBE, CMG is a former British career diplomat who served in the Diplomatic Service of the United Kingdom from 1965 until 1999, including a stint as …
Veronica Sutherland, English academic and British diplomat
1939
Judy Carne, English actress and comedian (died 2015)
Joyce Audrey Botterill, known professionally as Judy Carne, was an English actress. She appeared on American television in the late 1960s in Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, where she em…
Judy Carne, English actress and comedian (died 2015)
1939
Stanisław Dziwisz, Polish cardinal
Stanisław Jan Dziwisz is a Polish Catholic prelate who served as Metropolitan Archbishop of Kraków from 2005 to 2016. He was created a cardinal in 2006. He was a long-time and infl…
Stanisław Dziwisz, Polish cardinal
1939
Klaus Rinke, German artist (died 2026)
Klaus Rinke was a German artist.
Klaus Rinke, German artist (died 2026)
1939
Judy Collins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Judith Marjorie Collins is an American singer-songwriter and musician with a career spanning nearly seven decades. An Academy Award-nominated documentary director and a Grammy Awar…
Judy Collins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1939
World War II: Following the start of the invasion of Poland the previous day, the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk,…
World War II, or the Second World War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated, with many eng…
World War II: Following the start of the invasion of Poland the previous day, the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk,…
1939
World War II: France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia declare war on Germany after the invasion of…
World War II, or the Second World War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated, with many eng…
World War II: France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia declare war on Germany after the invasion of…
1939
World War II: The United Kingdom and France begin a naval blockade of Germany that lasts until the end of the war.…
The Blockade of Germany, also known as the Economic War, involved operations carried out during World War II by the Allies of World War II in order to restrict the supplies of mine…
World War II: The United Kingdom and France begin a naval blockade of Germany that lasts until the end of the war.…
1939
World War II: William J. Murphy commands the first Royal Air Force attack on Germany.
World War II, or the Second World War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated, with many eng…
World War II: William J. Murphy commands the first Royal Air Force attack on Germany.
1939
Amos Oz, Israeli journalist and author (died 2018)
Amos Oz was an Israeli writer, novelist, journalist, and intellectual. He was also a professor of Hebrew literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. From 1967 onwards, Oz was…
Amos Oz, Israeli journalist and author (died 2018)
1939
Ray Gosling, English journalist, author, and activist (died 2013)
Raymond Arthur Gosling was an English broadcaster, journalist, author, and gay rights activist.
Ray Gosling, English journalist, author, and activist (died 2013)
1939
Sidney Altman, Canadian-American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2022)
Sidney Altman was a Canadian-American molecular biologist, who was the Sterling Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and Chemistry at Yale University. In 198…
Sidney Altman, Canadian-American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2022)
1939
Ruggero Deodato, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2022)
Ruggero Deodato was an Italian film and television director, screenwriter, and occasional actor.
Ruggero Deodato, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2022)
1939
World War II: The British Royal Air Force suffers its first fighter pilot casualty of the Second World War at the…
World War II, or the Second World War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated, with many eng…
World War II: The British Royal Air Force suffers its first fighter pilot casualty of the Second World War at the…
1939
World War II: Union of South Africa declares war on Germany.
The Union of South Africa was a British Dominion and, later, a Commonwealth realm in southern Africa from 1910 to 1961. It was the historical predecessor to the present-day Republi…
World War II: Union of South Africa declares war on Germany.
1939
World War II: The Battle of Hel begins, the longest-defended pocket of Polish Army resistance during the German…
World War II, or the Second World War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated, with many eng…
World War II: The Battle of Hel begins, the longest-defended pocket of Polish Army resistance during the German…
1939
World War II: The submarine HMS Oxley is mistakenly sunk by the submarine HMS Triton near Norway and becomes the Royal…
World War II, or the Second World War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated, with many eng…
World War II: The submarine HMS Oxley is mistakenly sunk by the submarine HMS Triton near Norway and becomes the Royal…