From 1938 to 1945, he held a succession of positions, first becoming senior history master at Blundell's School in Tiverton, Devon in 1938 ( and also a Captain in the school's OTC ), then instructor at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth in 1939.

* 1939 – The deadliest earthquake in Chilean history strikes Chillán.

The 400 Million ( 1939 ) depicted the history of modern China and the resistance to the Japanese invasion, including dramatic shots of the Battle of Taierzhuang.

Bloch's own ideas on rural history were best expressed in his masterworks, French Rural History ( Les caractères originaux de l ' histoire rurale française, 1931 ) and Feudal Society ( 1939 ).

* 1939 – Lina Medina becomes the youngest confirmed mother in medical history at the age of five.

* A Thousand Lakes of Red Blood on White Snow, a brief history of the subarctic origins of the Molotov cocktail in the Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939 – 40

ISBN 0-14-100975-6, standard scholarly history ; The Third Reich in Power 2005 ISBN 1-59420-074-2 ; The Third Reich at war 1939 – 1945 ( 2009 )

Nazi Germany and the Jews: Volume 1: The Years of Persecution 1933 – 1939 ( 1998 ); The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939 – 1945 ( 2007 ), the standard history

* Hensley, Gerald, Beyond the Battlefield: New Zealand and its Allies, 1939 – 45 ( 2009 ) 415pp., focus on diplomatic history

The history textbook controversy centers upon the secondary school history textbook Atarashii Rekishi Kyōkasho (" New History Textbook ") said to minimise the nature of Japanese militarism in the First Sino-Japanese War ( 1894 – 95 ), in annexing Korea in 1910, in the Second Sino-Japanese War ( 1937 – 45 ), and in the Second World War ( 1939 – 45 ).

As 1939 wound down, Bill Paley announced that 1940 would " be the greatest year in the history of radio in the United States.

De Camp's most highly regarded works in the genre are his time travel and alternate history stories, including Lest Darkness Fall ( 1939 ), " The Wheels of If " ( 1940 ), " A Gun for Dinosaur " ( 1956 ), " Aristotle and the Gun " ( 1958 ), and The Glory That Was ( 1960 ) – in the last of which the " time travel " actually turns out to be a tour de force of historical recreation.

* Lest Darkness Fall ( 1939 )-an early alternate history novel that helped define the genre

World War II changed all of this, in 1939, around 107, 000 people lived in Białystok, but in 1946 – only 56, 759, and to this day there is much less ethnic diversity than in the previous 300 years of the city's history.

The museum offers a walking tour through history, from World War One to the Inter-Wars period, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942 and so on.

* Brief history written in 1939

Their history and presence in the Baltics came to an abrupt end at the beginning of the Second World War, in late 1939, following the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and the subsequent Nazi-Soviet population transfers.

* Salim ( Sandy ) Bonnor Lewis, born January 27, 1939, moved with his family to Essex in 1980, an American investment banker, arbitrageur, merger-maker, founded in 1980 a general partnership, S B Lewis & Company, a member firm of the New York Stock Exchange, originated and closed, negotiating for both sides, the tax free merger of American Express and Shearson Loeb Rhodes, received a presidential pardon from President Clinton on his last day in office-the only pardon of an NYSE member firm chief executive in Wall Street history, see http :// sblewis. net, known for litigation that forced the Adirondack Park Agency to contribute $ 71, 690. 28 to the farm's litigation cost for government behavior deemed unworthy by Acting Supreme Court Judge Richard B. Meyer in a series of decisions now bedrock in New York State law that allows a farm within the park to build to house farm workers without Park Agency involvement.

In 1922, the novelist Evelyn Waugh came up to Hertford, famously feuding with his history tutor C. R. M. F. Cruttwell ( who was to become the fourth Principal of the refounded College, 1930 – 1939 ), and later naming a number of odious characters after him.

In 1939, the Sons and Daughters of Pioneer Rivermen was established in Marietta during the Great Depression to celebrate the city's substantial river history and its people.

In 1939 he became the only player, in history to captain both the inter-county football and hurling teams in the same year.

* Philippe Moureaux, politician, senator, mayor, and professor of economic history at the Université Libre de Bruxelles ( b. 1939 )

In 1939, he produced A Number of People, a memoir of his life and times containing his memories of those writers and politicians with whom he had associated.

The Senate's lead counsel Ferdinand Pecora wrote on page 293 in his 1939 memoir Wall Street Under Oath about Otto Kahn: " No suaver, more fluent, and more diplomatic advocate could be conceived.

The following year, Mary Cecilia Waterbury became his bride, a marriage that lasted until her death in 1939, publishing a memoir.

* Terre des hommes ( literally: land of men, or land of people ), the 1939 philosophical memoir by French writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ( titled in English as Wind, Sand and Stars ).

The theme was derived from the 1939 memoir by French writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

In 1939, his Philosophical and Literary Pieces was published with a memoir by his literary executor, Professor John Laird.

Antoine's 1939 memoir, Wind, Sand and Stars ( Terre des hommes ), was employed to create the central theme ( Terre des hommes – Man and his world ) of the 1967 International World's Fair in Montreal, Canada, Expo 67.

* 1939 Tea for Three ( dramatised by Margery Vosper from the short story Accident )

Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage says, " The list contains ( in approximate historical order from 1789 to 1939 ) such terms as Columbian, Columbard, Fredonian, Frede, Unisian, United Statesian, Colonican, Appalacian, Usian, Washingtonian, Usonian, Uessian, U-S-ian, Uesican, United Stater.

There has been a trade in diving to catch abalone off parts of the United States coast from before 1939.

The journal began in Strasbourg as Annales d ' histoire économique et sociale ; it moved to Paris and kept the same name from 1929 to 1939.

In 1939, coinciding with the start of World War II, Rene Dubos reported the discovery of the first naturally derived antibiotic, gramicidin from B. brevis.

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

Aalto's early experiments with wood and his move away from a purist modernism would be tested in built form with the commission to design Villa Mairea ( 1939 ) in Noormarkku, the luxury home of the young industrialist couple Harry and Maire Gullichsen.

Informally known as " The Big Book " ( with its first 164 pages virtually unchanged since the 1939 edition ), it suggests a twelve-step program in which members admit that they are powerless over alcohol and need help from a " higher power "; seek guidance and strength through prayer and meditation from God or Higher Power of their own understanding ; take a moral inventory with care to include resentments ; list and become ready to remove character defects ; list and make amends to those harmed, and then try to help other alcoholics recover.

Nin left Paris in the late summer of 1939, when residents from overseas were urged to leave France due to the upcoming war and returned to New York City with Guiler ( who was, on his own wish, all but edited out of her diaries published in her lifetime and whose role in her life is therefore difficult to gauge ).

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.

But in 1939, Robert Oppenheimer and others predicted that neutron stars above approximately three solar masses ( the Tolman – Oppenheimer – Volkoff limit ) would collapse into black holes for the reasons presented by Chandrasekhar, and concluded that no law of physics was likely to intervene and stop at least some stars from collapsing to black holes.

In fact, far from it being a dedicated panzer spearhead arm, less than 15 percent of the Luftwaffe was designed for close support of the army in 1939.

Gold, silver and garnet grave goods from the Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo ( 1939 ) and late Roman silver tableware from Mildenhall, Suffolk ( 1946 ).

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.

Ernest Hemingway lived in Cuba from 1939 and stayed until shortly after the Cuban revolution.

Relations further deteriorated when, in January 1948, the U. S. State Department also published a collection of documents titled Nazi-Soviet Relations, 1939 – 1941: Documents from the Archives of The German Foreign Office, which contained documents recovered from the Foreign Office of Nazi Germany revealing Soviet conversations with Germany regarding the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, including its secret protocol dividing eastern Europe, the 1939 German-Soviet Commercial Agreement, and discussions of the Soviet Union potentially becoming the fourth Axis Power.

Some rare comic books include copies of the unreleased Motion Picture Funnies Weekly No. 1 from 1939.