* 1939 – DC Comics publishes its second major superhero in Detective Comics # 27 ; he is Batman, one of the most popular comic book superheroes of all time.

The Beowulf manuscript was transcribed from an original by two scribes, one of whom wrote the first 1939 lines and a second who wrote the remainder, so the poem up to line 1939 is in one handwriting, whilst the rest of the poem is in another.

Bundaberg rum was first produced in 1888, production ceased from 1907 to 1914 and from 1936 to 1939 after fires, the second of which caused rum from the factory to spill into the nearby Burnett River.

First synthesized in 1874, DDT's insecticidal properties were not discovered until 1939, and it was used with great success in the second half of World War II to control malaria and typhus among civilians and troops.

Holden's second full-scale car factory, located in Fishermans Bend ( Port Melbourne ), was completed in 1936, with construction beginning in 1939 on a new plant in Pagewood, New South Wales.

The eastern part of Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Finland and part of Romania were recognized as parts of the Soviet sphere of influence, with Lithuania added in a second secret protocol in September 1939.

In the second, from 1939 – 43, Ribbentrop attempted to persuade other states to enter the war on Germany's side or at least maintain pro-German neutrality.

On 27 September 1939, Ribbentrop made a second visit to Moscow, where at meetings with the Soviet Foreign Commissar Vyacheslav Molotov and Joseph Stalin, he was forced to agree to revising the Secret Protocols of the Non-Aggression Pact in the Soviet Union's favour, most notably agreeing to Stalin's demand that Lithuania go to the Soviet Union.

Breckinridge founded the Frontier Nursing University in 1939, the second nurse-midwifery education program in the United States, which is still open today.

Lithuania, adjacent to East Prussia, would be in the German sphere of influence, although a second secret protocol agreed to in September 1939 reassigned the majority of Lithuania to the USSR.

The Polish language became far more homogeneous in the second half of the 20th century, in part due to the mass migration of several million Polish citizens from the eastern to the western part of the country after the Soviet annexation of the Kresy in 1939, and the acquisition of former German territory after World War II.

At the end of 1939, when Lazarsfeld submitted a second application for funding, the musical section of the study was duly left out.

In a 1939 citywide track meet, Washington placed first in the 110 meter high hurdles event, and second in the 220 meter low hurdles event.

In 1939, during Franklin D. Roosevelt's second term in office, the foundations of the modern White House staff were created.

Named after Joseph Sweetman Ames and founded on December 20, 1939 as the second National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics ( NACA ) laboratory, ARC became part of NASA in 1958 as part of the turnover from the dissolution of NACA, having now ( at the last estimate ) over $ 3. 0 billion in capital equipment, 2, 300 research personnel and a $ 600 million annual budget.

In 1939, he married Mavis de Vere Cole, widow and second wife of the prankster Horace de Vere Cole ( d. 1936 ) and mistress-model of the painter Augustus John.

The outbreak of World War II in September 1939 halted his acting career ; Llewelyn was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the British army, serving with the Royal Welch Fusiliers.

The film was Hitchcock's second Hollywood production since leaving the United Kingdom in 1939 ( the first was Rebecca ) and had an unusually large number of writers: Robert Benchley, Charles Bennett, Harold Clurman, Joan Harrison, Ben Hecht, James Hilton, John Howard Lawson, John Lee Mahin, Richard Maibaum, and Budd Schulberg, with Bennett, Benchley, Harrison, and Hilton the only writers credited in the finished film.

In 1939 – 40 NHL season, the Rangers finished the regular season in second place behind the Boston Bruins.

The first time was in 1939 at the beginning of World War II when he was 18 and the second time the following year.

The Amador County Courthouse consists of two buildings, the second courthouse ( built 1864 ) and the Hall of Records ( 1893 ), that were enclosed and combined in 1939 with an Art Deco exterior.

Their first child Princess Beatrix was born on 31 January 1938, and their second Princess Irene on 5 August 1939.

When football in the country resumed in 1939, Oviedo were relegated to the second division, as their pitch was deemed unplayable – Francisco Franco's troops had used the stadium as an ammunition dump.

In 1939, a heated debate took place over whether to prohibit communists from serving in ACLU leadership roles.

Sagan recalls that one of his best experiences was when he was four or five years old, his parents took him to the 1939 New York World's Fair.

" Having an interest in Rosicrucianism, a prominent magico-religious tradition within Western esotericism, Gardner decided to attend one of the plays performed by the group ; in August 1939, Gardner took his wife to a theatrical performance based on the life of Pythagoras.

One night in September 1939 they took him to a large house owned by " Old Dorothy " Clutterbuck, a wealthy local woman, where he was made to strip naked and taken through an initiation ceremony.

That aggressive strategy worked as Germany pulled out of the League of Nations ( 1933 ), rejected the Versailles Treaty and began to re-arm ( 1935 ), won back the Saar ( 1935 ), remilitarized the Rhineland ( 1936 ), formed an alliance (" axis ") with Mussolini's Italy ( 1936 ), sent massive military aid to Franco in the Spanish Civil War ( 1936 – 39 ), seized Austria ( 1938 ), took over Czechoslovakia after the British and French appeasement of the Munich Agreement of 1938, formed a peace pact with Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union in August 1939, and finally invaded Poland in September 1939.

Despite some insignificant resistance, especially at Durrës, Italy invaded Albania on 7 April 1939 and took control of the country, with the Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini proclaiming Italy's figurehead King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy as King of Albania.

During all this time, Ribbentrop feuded with various other Nazi leaders ; at one point in August 1939 an armed clash took place between supporters of Ribbentrop and those of Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels over the control of a radio station in Berlin that was meant to broadcast German propaganda abroad ( Goebbels claimed exclusive control of all propaganda both at home and abroad whereas Ribbentrop asserted a claim to monopolize all German propaganda abroad ).

There he repeated in a different form all that he had already said, for all the world as if he had a gramophone fixed in his brain ... When I took leave, he subjected me to an interminable handshake, meanwhile fixing his cold blue eyes on mine, and repeating almost word for word what he said to me on arrival ... I felt I should never be able to establish any human contact with this man " In early June 1940, when Mussolini informed Hitler that he at long last would enter the war on 10 June 1940, Hitler was most dismissive, in private calling Mussolini a cowardly opportunist who broke the terms of the Pact of Steel in September 1939 when the going looked rough, and was only entering the war in June 1940 after it was clear that France was beaten and it appeared that Britain would soon make peace.

His father ’ s health declined starting in 1939, and after a stroke in 1941, Alfried took over full control of the firm, continuing its role as main arms supplier to Germany at war.

The Intelligenzaktion, a plan to eliminate the Polish intelligentsia, Poland's ' leadership class ', took place soon after the German invasion of Poland, lasting from fall of 1939 till spring of 1940.

His coronation took place on 12 March 1939.

On May 27, 1939, the first U. S. synchronized swimming competition took place at Wright Junior College between Wright and the Chicago Teachers ' College.

On December 13, 1939 the Battle of the River Plate took place off the coast of Uruguay between British forces and the German " pocket battleship " Admiral Graf Spee.

A Lithuanian Army parade took place on 29 October 1939 through the city centre.

In private notes written in 1939, Heidegger took a strongly critical view of Hitler's ideology, however in public lectures he seems to have continued to make ambiguous comments which, if they expressed criticism of the regime, did so only in the context of praising its ideals.

* In the 1939 song Strange Fruit, written to condemn the practice of lynching, the Magnolia flower was referenced as being associated with the Southern United States, where most lynchings took place: " Pastoral scene of the gallant south / The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth / Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh ,/ Then the sudden smell of burning flesh.

He was assigned to the Cavite Navy Yard in the Philippines, expecting to be transferred shortly to the Bureau of Engineering in Washington D. C. After a trip overland across China, Burma, and India, by air across the Mideast to Athens and then London, and by ship to the U. S., Rickover arrived in Washington and took up his duties as assistant chief of the Electrical section of the Bureau of Engineering on 15 August 1939.

Further cooperation between German and Soviets took the form of an exchange of Polish POWs: following order by Lavrentiy Beria to the NKVD of October 3, 1939, Polish prisoners detained in soviet camps were traded against POWs released by the Germans.

In 1939, Lombard took roles opposite James Stewart in producer David O. Selznick's Made for Each Other ( 1939 ) and Cary Grant in In Name Only ( 1939 ).

Despite his belief that the attack on Poland would cause only a local war, on 15 August 1939 Raeder took the precaution of ordering two Panzerschife the Admiral Graf von Spee and the Deutschland, a number of U-boats and the Dithmarschen ships Altmark and Westerwald to the Atlantic in case Britain should go to war.

By 1939, it took no more than a month by ship to travel from Marseille to Saigon and around five days by airplane from Paris to Saigon.