July 1939

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The following events occurred in July 1939:

July 1, 1939 (Saturday)

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July 2, 1939 (Sunday)

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July 3, 1939 (Monday)

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  • Neville Chamberlain informed the House of Commons that the government had received reliable reports that "intensive measures of a military character" were taking place in Danzig.[2]

July 4, 1939 (Tuesday)

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July 5, 1939 (Wednesday)

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July 6, 1939 (Thursday)

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July 7, 1939 (Friday)

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July 8, 1939 (Saturday)

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July 9, 1939 (Sunday)

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July 10, 1939 (Monday)

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July 11, 1939 (Tuesday)

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July 12, 1939 (Wednesday)

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July 13, 1939 (Thursday)

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July 14, 1939 (Friday)

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July 15, 1939 (Saturday)

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July 16, 1939 (Sunday)

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  • British Fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley gave a speech in the Earls Court Exhibition Centre attended by over 20,000 people. He presented a plan that he said would "bring peace in our time and our children's time" that called for a hands-off policy in Eastern Europe, disarmament in Western Europe, return of colonies to Germany and for the British Empire to concentrate on its own affairs.[24] "Why is it a moral duty to go to war if a German kicks a Jew across the Polish frontier?" Mosley declared. "We are going, if the power lies within us ... to say that our generation and our children shall not die like rats in Polish holes."[5]
  • Born: Corin Redgrave, actor and political activist, in Marylebone, London, England (d. 2010)

July 17, 1939 (Monday)

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  • Prime Minister Chamberlain declared in the House of Commons that the British government "would not and could not" reverse its policy in the Far East. The statement referred to reports of Japanese demands that such a reversal was necessary as a condition for opening negotiations on the Tientsin situation.[25]
  • Born: Milva, singer, actress and television personality, in Goro, Emilia–Romagna, Italy (d. 2021)

July 18, 1939 (Tuesday)

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  • President Roosevelt met with key senators at the White House to explore the possibility of trying to revise the American neutrality policy once again. The president and Secretary of State Cordell Hull warned that a war in Europe was imminent, but the prominent Idaho senator William Borah replied, "I do not believe there is going to be any war in Europe between now and the first of January or for some time thereafter." Hull asked the senator to read State Department cables to understand the seriousness of the situation, but Borah responded that he not "give a damn about your dispatches" and claimed that he had better sources. The meeting ended with no new agreements.[18]
  • Born: Dion DiMucci, singer-songwriter, in the Bronx, New York[26]

July 19, 1939 (Wednesday)

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  • The SS Heimwehr Danzig reported the arrest of twenty "Marxists" they said were conspiring to bomb bridges and other buildings in the event of war between Germany and Poland.[27]
  • General Sir Archibald Wavell was made Commander-in-Chief of Middle East Command.[28]
  • A group of Royal Air Force bombers flew from London to Marseilles and back as a demonstration of British air power.[29] It was not lost on the public that the distance from London to Marseilles was about the same as the distance from London to Berlin.[30]

July 20, 1939 (Thursday)

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  • Benito Mussolini announced a plan to break up large estates in Sicily, irrigate the land and resettle in addition to constructing new villages, houses and roads. If all went according to plan, Sicily's population would double in a decade to 8 or 9 million people.[31]
  • Born: Judy Chicago, artist, in Chicago

July 21, 1939 (Friday)

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July 22, 1939 (Saturday)

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  • HMS Thetis was raised seven weeks after its tragic sinking.[28]
  • The sixth congress of the Baptist World Alliance opened in Atlanta. More than 40,000 delegates (called 'messengers') sang and prayed on a baseball field in one of the largest religious assemblies ever held up to that time.[34]

July 23, 1939 (Sunday)

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July 24, 1939 (Monday)

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  • During the reading of a bill designed to crush IRA activities, Home Secretary Samuel Hoare announced the police discovery of a document known as S-Plan. Hoare read excerpts from the document that included plans to sabotage airplane and munitions factories and damage supplies of water and electricity.[37]
  • British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain informed the House of Commons that the government had reached an agreement with Japan that "the Japanese forces in China have special requirements for the purpose of safeguarding their own security and maintaining public order in regions under their control and that they have to suppress or remove any such acts or causes as will obstruct them or benefit their enemy." The British government, Chamberlain explained, had "no intention of countenancing any act or measures prejudicial to the attainment of the above-mentioned objects by Japanese forces." Chamberlain denied opposition suggestions that Britain was now on the side of Japan in its war against China.[38]
  • Born: Walt Bellamy, basketball player, in New Bern, North Carolina (d. 2013)

July 25, 1939 (Tuesday)

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July 26, 1939 (Wednesday)

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July 27, 1939 (Thursday)

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July 28, 1939 (Friday)

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  • A bill permitting summary deportation of suspected IRA members was given Royal Assent. Home Secretary Samuel Hoare immediately made use of the law by signing deportation orders for nineteen Irishmen that same day.[42]
  • Died: Beryl Mercer, 56, Spanish-born American actress

July 29, 1939 (Saturday)

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  • The French Council of Ministers extended the term of the Chamber of Deputies for two years until June 1, 1942, meaning there would not be an election in the fall as expected. The council also created a Commissariat of Information and named the famous writer Jean Giraudoux to be its head. The new office's purpose was "to support French national defense by organizing efficient diffusion of French information beyond the French frontier."[43]

July 30, 1939 (Sunday)

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July 31, 1939 (Monday)

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  11. ^ "Riggs Defeats Cooke to Take Wimbledon Title". Chicago Daily Tribune. July 8, 1939. p. 13.
  12. ^ "Americans Sweep 6 Wimbledon Titles; Three for Alice Marble". Chicago Daily Tribune. July 9, 1939. p. Part 2 p. 1.
  13. ^ "Third of Britain is Darkened in Air Attack Test". Chicago Daily Tribune. July 9, 1939. p. 4.
  14. ^ "Shining One Wins $25,000 Derby at Hollywood". Chicago Daily Tribune. July 9, 1939. p. Part 2 p. 5.
  15. ^ "Nazis in Danzig Boo Poland and Taunt England". Chicago Daily Tribune. July 10, 1939. p. 5.
  16. ^ "Loyalist Chief Who Gave Madrid to Franco Jailed". Chicago Daily Tribune. July 11, 1939. p. 5.
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  27. ^ "Danzig Police Purge City of Political Foes". Chicago Daily Tribune. July 20, 1939. p. 6.
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  31. ^ "Ancient Sicily's Vast Estates to Go to Peasants". Chicago Daily Tribune. July 21, 1939. p. 5.
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  34. ^ "Hymns Resound as 40,000 Join Baptist Rally". Chicago Daily Tribune. July 23, 1939. p. 1.
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