• 1939 January February March April May June July August September October November December The following events occurred in October 1939: The Battle of...
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  • Hitler's 6 October 1939 Reichstag speech was a speech given by Adolf Hitler shortly after the Invasion of Poland. It featured Hitler's penultimate offer...
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  • in October 1939 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during October 1939. Rohwer, Jürgen; Gerhard Hümmelchen. "Seekrieg 1939, September"...
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  • the military occupation and annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland. 1939 – World War II: After a one-month siege, German troops occupy Warsaw. 1940...
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    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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  • Bali October 1939 6 October Intermezzo: A Love Story 13 October Jamaica Inn 17 October Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 20 October At the Circus 23 October The...
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  • October 3 is the 276th day of the year (277th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 89 days remain until the end of the year. 2457 BC – Gaecheonjeol...
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  • October 4 is the 277th day of the year (278th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 88 days remain until the end of the year. AD 23 – Rebels sack...
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  • philanthropist (d. 1932) 1866 – Swami Abhedananda, Indian mystic and philosopher (d. 1939) 1869 – Mahatma Gandhi, Indian freedom fighter, activist and philosopher...
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    shortly. Jozef Tiso (26 October 1939 – 4 April 1945) Jozef Tiso (14 March 1939 – 26 October 1939) Vojtech Tuka (26 October 1939 – 5 September 1944) Štefan...
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    between 7 October 1918 and 6 October 1939. The state was established in the final stage of World War I. The Second Republic ceased to exist in 1939, after...
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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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  • philanthropist 1939 – Marie-Claire Blais, Canadian author and playwright (d. 2021) 1939 – A. R. Penck, German painter and sculptor (d. 2017) 1939 – Consuelo...
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    military operations lasted for the following 20 days and ended on 6 October 1939 with the two-way division and annexation of the entire territory of the...
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  • sportscaster 1939 – John Hopcroft, American computer scientist and author 1939 – Clive James, Australian television host, author, and critic (d. 2019) 1939 – Harry...
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    The First Battle of Changsha (17 September 1939 – 6 October 1939; Chinese: 第一次長沙會戰) was the first of four attempts by Japan to take the city of Changsha...
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  • Maurice Herriott (category 1939 births)
    Maurice Herriott (born 8 October 1939) is a British track and field athlete who competed mainly in the 3000 metres steeplechase. He was born in Great Wyrley...
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  • 30 October 1939. p. 17. Retrieved 19 December 2023. "Former Maine A.L. Commander Dies at Veterans' Hospital". The Bangor Daily News. 30 October 1942...
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    at the beginning of World War II in Europe. It took place between 2–5 October 1939, near the town of Kock, in Poland.: 12, 84  The Polish Independent Operational...
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    a Polish city with a sizable German minority, between 3 and 4 September 1939, during the German invasion of Poland. Standing in the path of the German...
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    A partial lunar eclipse took place on Saturday, October 28, 1939. It was a nearly total eclipse, with 98.77% of the Moon under Earth's umbral shadow. It...
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    established on 8 October 1939 at Piotrków Trybunalski (38 days after the invasion), with the Tuliszków ghetto established in December 1939. The first large...
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    The October Revolution, also known as the Great October Socialist Revolution (in Soviet historiography), October coup, Bolshevik coup, or Bolshevik revolution...
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    Germany and the Soviet Union during World War II (1939–1945) began with the Invasion of Poland in September 1939, and it was formally concluded with the defeat...
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    immediate aftermath of, the German invasion of Poland (1 September– 6 October 1939), in which the occupied Polish territories were administered by the German...
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    World War II. It was first published in The New Republic issue of 18 October 1939, and in book form in Auden's collection Another Time (1940). The poem...
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    on 8 June 1936. The building was contracted by Sir Sobha Singh. On 1 October 1939, the External Service began with a broadcast in Pashto. It was intended...
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    The 1939 New York World's Fair took place at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens, New York, United States, during 1939 and 1940. The fair included...
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  • and actor (d. 2011) 1939 – Melvyn Bragg, English journalist, author, and academic 1939 – Jack Cullen, American baseball player 1939 – Richard Delgado,...
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    1939: In 1939, #5 Tennessee defeated Alabama 21–0. At this time, the Alabama–Tennessee rivalry was officially designated as Third Saturday in October...
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