User:Fbartus/Scratch02
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Ongoing events
- Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)
- Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)
- Great Arab Revolt in the British mandate of Palestine (started 1936)
1939 Timeline
- January 26 - Spanish Civil War: Troops loyal to Francisco Franco and aided by Italy take Barcelona.
- February 2 - Hungary joins Anti-Comintern Pact against the communists.
- February 10 - Falangists troops, an authoritarian political party, take Catalonia helping Generalísimo Franco into position of control in most of Spain.
- February 27 - United Kingdom and France recognize Franco's government.
- March 14 - Slovak provincial assembly proclaims independence - Monsignor Jozef Tiso becomes the president of independent Slovak government, a Nazi puppet state.
- March 15 - German troops occupy the remaining part of Bohemia and Moravia; Czechoslovakia ceases to exist; beginning hostilities leading to WWII
- March 28 - Dictator Francisco Franco conquers Madrid, ending the Spanish Civil War, and marking another victory in the ascendancy of Facist (authoritarian) regimes.
- March in general - End of the Great Arab Revolt in the British mandate of Palestine (started 1936)
- April 7 - Fascist Italy invades Albania on the Adriatic coast of the Balkans - King Zog of Albania flees.
- April 11 - Hungary leaves the League of Nations.
- May 7 - Spain leaves the League of Nations.
- May 22 - Germany and Italy sign the Pact of Steel.
- June 17 - Last public execution in France - murderer Eugene Weidmann is decapitated by the guillotine.
- July 4 - The concentration camp at Neuengamme, a forced slave-labor enterprise devoted to producing bricks becomes autonomous from the SS.
- August 2 - Albert Einstein writes President Franklin Roosevelt about developing the Atomic Bomb using Uranium. This led to the creation of the Manhattan Project.
- August 23 - The Partition of Poland planning occurs, wherein Hitler and Stalin divide eastern Europe between themselves in a summit meeting. Finland, the Baltic states and eastern Poland to the USSR. Western Poland to Germany (See the: Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact)
- August 27 - A Heinkel 178, the first jet-powered aircraft, flies for the first time.
- August 30 - Poland begins mobilization after finally heeding intellegence of the massing of troops on the German border.
- September 1 - World War II begins, with the Polish September Campaign - Nazi Germany attacks Poland unveiling for the first time the combined arms techniques of lightning war— the blizreig. This was the beginning the war which would spread to include all quadrants of the planet.
- September 2 - Following the invasion of Poland, Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) is annexed to Nazi Germany.
- September 3 - World War II: France, United Kingdom and the Comonwealth realm Australia declare war on Germany.
- September 5 - World War II: The United States declares its neutrality in the war.
- September 6 - World War II: South Africa, one of the Commonwealth realms declares war on Germany.
- September 10 - Canada, one of the Commonwealth realms declares war on Germany.
- September 16 - Cease Fire ending the undeclared Border War between The Soviet Union (and Mongolian allies) and Japan.
- September 17 - Soviet Union invades Poland and then occupies eastern Polish territories.
- September 27 - Warsaw surrenders to Germany; Modlin surrenders day later; the last Polish large operational unit surrenders near Kock eight days later.
- October 8 - World War II: Germany annexes Western Poland.
- October 11 - Manhattan Project: US President Franklin D. Roosevelt is presented with a letter signed by Albert Einstein urging the United States to rapidly develop the atomic bomb.
- October 12 - Jüri Uluots becomes prime minister of Estonia.
- November 4 - World War II: US President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the United States Customs Service to implement the Neutrality Act of 1939, allowing cash-and-carry purchases of weapons by belligerents.
- November 6 - World War II: Sonderaktion Krakau, the codename for a German action against scientists from the University of Kraków and other Kraków universities at the beginning of World War II.
- November 8 - In Munich, Adolf Hitler narrowly escapes an assassination attempt while celebrating the 16th anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch.
- November 30 - Winter War begins: Soviet forces attack Finland and reach the Mannerheim Line, starting the war.
- December 14 - League of Nations expels the USSR because of attacking Finland
- December 27 - Earthquake in Eastern Anatolia (Turkey), destroys the town of Erzingan - about 100.000 dead.
Unknown dates in 1`939
- Nuclear fission discovered independently by Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn
- Kirlian photography invented by Semyon Kirlian
- Siam changes its name to Thailand
