1939 January February March April May June July August September October November December The following events occurred in May 1939: During May Day celebrations...
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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...
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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...
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Battles of Khalkhin Gol (redirect from Soviet-Japanese War (1939))
border conflicts involving the Soviet Union, Mongolia, Japan and Manchukuo in 1939. The conflict was named after the river Khalkhin Gol, which passes through...
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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...
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1939 January February March April May June July August September October November December Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1939. 1939 (MCMXXXIX)...
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Lina Medina (category Use dmy dates from May 2022)
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...
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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...
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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...
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list of films originally produced and/or distributed theatrically by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and released in the 1930s. Lists of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films...
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Jamaica Inn (film) (redirect from Jamaica Inn (1939 film))
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...
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Mary of Teck (redirect from May, Duchess of York)
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...
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Palestinian Revolt, or the Palestinian Revolution, lasted from 1936 until 1939. The movement sought independence from British colonial rule and the end...
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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...
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Invasion of Poland (redirect from Polish September Campaign 1939)
Campaign, Polish Campaign, War of Poland of 1939, and Polish Defensive War of 1939 (1 September – 6 October 1939), was a joint attack on the Republic of Poland...
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On 20 March 1939, Nazi Germany's foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop presented an oral ultimatum to Juozas Urbšys, foreign minister of Lithuania. Germany...
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James Fox (category 1939 births)
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...
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Tony Rohr (category 1939 births)
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...
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HMS Prince of Wales (53) (redirect from HMS Prince of Wales (1939))
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...
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The 1939 American Karakoram expedition to K2 was the unsuccessful second attempt by American mountaineers to climb the then-unclimbed second-highest mountain...
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Franco-Polish alliance (section 1939)
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...
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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...
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from the middle of 1939. There is a record of Hitler sending an Order of the Day to soldiers and workers at the "Westwall" on 20 May 1939. At the start of...
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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...
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[ʁaːvənsˈbʁʏk]) 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...
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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...
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(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...
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Finnegans Wake (category 1939 novels)
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...
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Hildegarde Neil (category 1939 births)
Hildegard Hope Zimmermann (20 May 1939 – 19 September 2023), also credited as Hildegard Neil, was an English actress. Born in South Africa, she came to...
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Insterburg. Mackensen was appointed major general on 1 January 1938, and on 1 May 1939 became commander in the Army Group Command V in Vienna, where he became...
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