• 1939 January February March April May June July August September October November December The following events occurred in April 1939: Francisco Franco...
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  • The year 1939 in film is widely considered the greatest year in film history. The ten Best Picture-nominated films that year include classics in multiple...
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  • designer 1939 – Tarcisio Burgnich, Italian footballer and manager (d. 2021) 1939 – Michael Llewellyn-Smith, English academic and diplomat 1939 – Robert...
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  • April 24 is the 114th day of the year (115th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 251 days remain until the end of the year. 1479 BC – Thutmose III...
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  • Gregory, Estonian-German chess player (d. 1939) 1884 – Otto Rank, Austrian-American psychologist and academic (d. 1939) 1886 – Izidor Cankar, Slovenian historian...
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  • April 26 is the 116th day of the year (117th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 249 days remain until the end of the year. 1336 – Francesco Petrarca...
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  • 2001) 1939 – Jorge Fons, Mexican director and screenwriter (d. 2022) 1939 – Bill Hagerty, English journalist 1939 – Lee Majors, American actor 1939 – Ray...
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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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  • April 1939 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during April 1939. "Casualty Reports". The Times. No. 48270. London. 3 April 1939...
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  • soccer player 1939 – John McCabe, English pianist and composer (d. 2015) 1939 – Sister Helen Prejean, American nun, activist, and author 1939 – Reni Santoni...
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    Germany, 3 September 1939. Problems playing this file? See media help. The United Kingdom declared war on Germany on Sunday 3 September 1939, two days after...
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  • Caron, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1986) 1939 – Judy Carne, English actress and comedian (d. 2015) 1939 – Stanisław Dziwisz, Polish cardinal 1941 –...
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  • Eszter Tamási, Hungarian actress (d. 1991) 1939 – Peter S. Beagle, American author and screenwriter 1939 – Gro Harlem Brundtland, Norwegian physician...
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  • A two-volume work titled The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922 – August 1939 was published by Oxford University Press in 1942 under auspices of the...
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    Leka, Crown Prince of Albania (also known as King Leka I; 5 April 1939 – 30 November 2011), was the only son of King Zog I and Queen Geraldine of Albania...
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  • April 28 is the 118th day of the year (119th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 247 days remain until the end of the year. 224 – The Battle of...
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    $247 million USD, inflation-adjusted for 2022). Hitler's birthday in April 1939 was considered a deadline for the project's completion, so work continued...
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    Light, 11 July 1939, page 2A. "5-Year-Old Gives Birth: 14 May 1939". History Channel Australia. Archived from the original on 16 April 2019. Retrieved...
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    Wuthering Heights is a 1939 American romantic period drama film directed by William Wyler, produced by Samuel Goldwyn, starring Merle Oberon, Laurence...
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    Adolf Hitler's 50th birthday (category April 1939 events)
    birthday was celebrated as a national holiday throughout Nazi Germany on 20 April 1939. Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels made sure the events organised...
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  • April 29 is the 119th day of the year (120th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 246 days remain until the end of the year. 801 – An earthquake...
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    objectives. In spite of Albania's long-standing alliance with Italy, on 7 April 1939 Italian troops invaded Albania, five months before the start of the Second...
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    September 1933. Retrieved 21 March 2022. "King Ghazi of Iraq Killed In an Automobile Accident". The New York Times. 4 April 1939. Retrieved 21 March 2022....
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    The 1938–1939 German Expedition to Tibet, a German scientific expedition, took place between April 1938 and August 1939 under the leadership of the German...
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    Judy Carne (category 1939 births)
    Joyce Audrey Botterill (27 April 1939 – 3 September 2015), known professionally as Judy Carne, was an English actress best remembered for the phrase "Sock...
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    from 1931 to 1939. The Republic was proclaimed on 14 April 1931 after the deposition of King Alfonso XIII. It was dissolved on 1 April 1939 after surrendering...
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  • suffrage; over 90% would vote in the affirmative. 1939 – The 1939–40 New York World's Fair opens. 1939 – NBC inaugurates its regularly scheduled television...
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    Albanian: Mbretëria Shqiptare) was the official name of Albania between 1928 and 1939. Albania was declared a monarchy by the Constituent Assembly, and President...
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    Zog I (Ahmed Muhtar Zogolli; 8 October 1895 – 9 April 1961) was the leader of Albania from 1922 to 1939. At age 27, he first served as Albania's youngest...
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    (Uranium Club) or Uranprojekt (Uranium Project). The first effort started in April 1939, just months after the discovery of nuclear fission in Berlin in December...
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