1939 January February March April May June July August September October November December The following events occurred in May 1939: During May Day celebrations...

The year 1939 in film is widely considered the greatest year in film history. The ten films nominated for Best Picture at the 12th Academy Awards (which...

1939 January February March April May June July August September October November December Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1939. 1939 (MCMXXXIX)...

approval in the House of Commons on 23 May 1939, it acted as the governing policy for Mandatory Palestine from 1939 to the 1948 British departure. After...

youngest confirmed mother in history when she gave birth to son Gerardo on 14 May 1939, aged five years, seven months, and 21 days. Based on the medical assessments...

Review's ten best lists for 1939 and received the "best picture" distinction in The Hollywood Reporter Preview Poll of May 1939. Due to a cold, retired schoolteacher...

border conflicts involving the Soviet Union, Mongolia, Japan and Manchukuo in 1939. The conflict was named after the river Khalkhin Gol, which passes through...

A total lunar eclipse took place on Wednesday, May 3, 1939. A shallow total eclipse saw the Moon in relative darkness for 1 hour and 2 minutes. The Moon...

list of films originally produced and/or distributed theatrically by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and released in the 1930s. Lists of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films...

September Campaign, Polish Campaign, and Polish Defensive War of 1939 (1 September – 6 October 1939), was a joint attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany...

in May 1939 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during May 1939. "Casualty Reports". The Times. No. 48294. London. 2 May 1939. col...

Palestinian Revolt, or the Palestinian Revolution, lasted from 1936 until 1939. The movement sought independence from British colonial rule and the end...

Jamaica Inn is a 1939 British adventure thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and adapted from Daphne du Maurier's 1936 novel of the same name. It...

unnecessary for them to be burdened with a demanding educational regime.) In May 1939, Mary was in a car crash: her car was overturned but she escaped with minor...

state in 1918, until the Invasion of Poland from the West by Nazi Germany in 1939 at the onset of World War II, followed by the Soviet Union from the East...

On February 20, 1939, a Nazi rally took place at Madison Square Garden, organized by the German American Bund. More than 20,000 people attended, and Fritz...

Harold Anthony Rohr (21 May 1939 – 29 October 2023) was an Irish actor. Rohr played Grandad in The Lakes and Solomon Featherstone in Middlemarch. He also...

James William Fox (born William Fox; 19 May 1939) is an English actor. He won a BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles for The Servant...

at the Cammell Laird yard in Birkenhead, England, and was completed in May 1939. She was one of the first ships built for the newly formed Cunard-White...

shipyard in Birkenhead on 1 January 1937, although it was not until 3 May 1939 that she was launched. She was still fitting out when war was declared...

The Mikado is a 1939 British musical comedy film based on Gilbert and Sullivan's 1885 comic opera The Mikado. Shot in Technicolor, the film stars Martyn...

On 20 March 1939, Nazi Germany's foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop presented an oral ultimatum to Juozas Urbšys, foreign minister of Lithuania. Germany...

Nanchang March 1939 Battle of Xiushui River March 1939 Battle of Suixian–Zaoyang May 1939 Shantou June 1939 Battle of Changsha (1939) September 1939 Battle of...

June 1939) Sudetenland Medal with Clasp (7 June 1939) Clasp to the Iron Cross (1939) 2nd Class (30 September 1939) & 1st Class (30 September 1939) Knights...

[ˌʁaːvn̩sˈbʁʏk]) was a Nazi concentration camp exclusively for women from 1939 to 1945, located in northern Germany, 90 km (56 mi) north of Berlin at a...

Finally, a new alliance started to be formed in 1939. The Kasprzycki–Gamelin Convention was signed May 19, 1939 in Paris. It was named after Polish Minister...

August 1937 to May 1939 No. 218 Squadron RAF - March 1936 to March 1938 No. 267 Squadron RAF No. 500 Squadron RAF - February 1937 to March 1939 No. 501 Squadron...

(born Hirsch Brilliant or Girsh Yankelevich Brilliant; 15 August 1888 – 21 May 1939) was a Russian Old Bolshevik revolutionary, economist, and Soviet politician...

(1938) Reno (1939) Full Confession (1939) Five Came Back (1939) Sorority House (1939) Women in the Wind (1939) The Saint Strikes Back (1939) A Bill of Divorcement...

Progress". The final title was only revealed when the book was published on 4 May 1939. The initial reception of Finnegans Wake was largely negative, ranging...