1939
Unsorted 1939 Events [Bottom]
JANUARY
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24 - |Germany ?
|Holocaust ?+|
SS leader
Reinhard Heydrich is ordered by Göring to speed up emigration of Jews.
25 - |Spanish Civil War ?+|
Juan Negrin moves his government from Barcelona to
Figueras.
26 - |Spanish Civil War|
Barcelona captured by the Nationalists.
30 - |Germany|Holocaust|
Hitler ?+ threatens Jews during Reichstag speech.
FEBRUARY
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04 - |Spanish Civil War ?+|
President Manuel Azańa crosses the border into
exile.
10 - Pius XI + dies.
[re.List of Popes]
21 - |Germany ?|
Holocaust ?+|
Nazis force Jews to hand over all gold and silver items.
27 - British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain recognizes
General Franco's
government.
MARCH
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02 - Pius XII + becomes
pope ?+
[re.List of Popes]
04 - |Spanish Civil War ?+|
Juan Negrin attempts to form a communist government on the territory he controls.
04 - |Spanish Civil War|
Segismundo Casado and Julián Besteiro establish anti-Negrin
National Defence Junta.
06 - |Spanish Civil War|
José Miaja, Republican commander in Madrid joins anti-Negrin
National Defence Junta.
07 - |Spanish Civil War|
Luis Barceló, Republican commander of the First Corps,
attempts to retake Madrid.
08 - |Spanish Civil War|
Communist forces defeated in Madrid.
12 - |Spanish Civil War|
Juan Negrin and his Soviet advisers fly out of Spain.
15 - Hitler's ?+ troops seize Czechoslovakia.
27 - |Spanish Civil War|
enters Madrid after a siege of nearly
three years.
28 - Nationalist Army conquers Madrid.
30 - |Spanish Civil War|
Nationalist Army captures Valencia.
APRIL
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01 - |Spanish Civil War ?+|
Francisco Franco announces the end of the Spanish Civil War.
01 - The US recognizes the Franco government in Spain.
07 - Italy invades Albania.
30 - The New York World's Fair "The World of Tomorrow"
[u.1940]
19 - |Holocaust ?+|
Slovakia passes its own version of the Nuremberg Laws.
30
- |USA ?| "First scheduled
telecast" FDR speaking at NY World's Fair opening but within months, television development
is stopped for 7 years due to the war
30 - |Holocaust|
Jews lose rights as tenants and are relocated into Jewish houses.
MAY
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00 - The St. Louis, a ship crowded with 930 Jewish refugees, is
turned away by Cuba, the United States and other countries and returns to Europe.
20 - Pan American airlines open regular flights between the USA
and Europe.
JULY
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04 - |Holocaust ?+|
German Jews denied the right to hold government jobs.
21 - |Holocaust|
Adolf Eichmann is appointed director of the Prague Office of Jewish Emigration.
23 - The Nazi-Soviet Pact between Germany and Russia is signed.
AUGUST
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23 - Hitler ?+ and Stalin divide eastern Europe
between themselves.
Finland, the Baltic states and eastern Poland to USSR. Western Poland to Germany
(Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact)
27 - A Heinkel 178, the first jet-powered aircraft, flies for the
first time.
23 - British motorist John Cobb, drives 368.85 mph at Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah.
SEPTEMBER
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00 - |Holocaust ?+| Quote from
Nazi newspaper, Der Stürmer, published by Julius Streicher - "The Jewish people ought to be
exterminated root and branch. Then the plague of pests would have disappeared in Poland at one
stroke."
01 - |WW II ?| Nazi Germany invades Poland, thus beginning World War II in Europe
01 - |Holocaust| Jews in Germany are
forbidden to be outdoors after 8 p.m. in winter and 9 p.m. in summer.
03 - |WW II| Britain and France declare war on Germany
territories.
04 - |WW II| Warsaw is cut off by the German Army.
10 - |WW II| Canada declares war on Germany.
17 - |WW II|
Soviet Union invades Poland and then occupies eastern Polish
21 - |Holocaust|
Heydrich issues instructions to SS Einsatzgruppen (special action squads) in Poland regarding
treatment of Jews, stating they are to be gathered into ghettos near railroads for the future
"final goal." He also orders a census and the establishment of Jewish administrative councils
within the ghettos to implement Nazi policies and decrees.
23 - |Holocaust|
German Jews are forbidden to own wireless (radio) sets.
27 - Heydrich becomes leader of RSHA.
27 - |WW II|
Warsaw surrender to Germans; Modlin surrender day later;
last Polish large operational unit surrender near Kock eight days later.
29 - |WW II|
Nazis and Soviets divide up Poland. Over two million Jews reside in Nazi controlled areas, leaving 1.3 million in the Soviet area.
OCTOBER
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00 - Nazis begin euthanasia on sick and disabled in Germany.
06 - |Holocaust ?+|
Proclamation by Hitler ?+ on the isolation of Jews.
12 - |Holocaust|
Evacuation of Jews from Vienna.
12 - Hans Frank appointed Nazi Gauleiter (governor) of Poland.
26 - |Holocaust|
Forced labor decree issued for Polish Jews aged 14 to 60.
NOVEMBER
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23 - |Holocaust|
Yellow stars required to be worn by Polish Jews over age 10.
30 - Soviet Union attacks Finland, starting the Winter War.
The Russians win.
DECEMBER
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00 - |Holocaust| Adolf Eichmann
takes over section IV B4 of the Gestapo dealing solely with Jewish affairs and evacuations.
15 - Gone With the Wind premiers in Atlanta.
23 - Anthony Fokker, aircraft manufacturer, dies
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