* 1939 – Robert Miller, American art dealer ( d. 2011 )

Roosevelt issued Executive Order 6101 on 5 April 1933 which established the CCC organization and appointed a director, Robert Fechner, a former labor union official who served until 1939.

* 1939 – Robert Hansen, American serial killer

* In the timeline of Robert Heinlein's utopian novel For Us, the Living – written in 1939 but only published posthumously in 2003 – LaGuardia is elected President in 1951 and serves two terms as a militant reforming president, effectively nationalizing the banking system and instituting a system of Social Credit.

A hagiographic account of Koch's career can be found in the 1939 Nazi propaganda film Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes ( The fighter against death ), directed by Hans Steinhoff and starring Emil Jannings as Koch.

In 1939 Holt's mentor Robert Menzies became Prime Minister after the sudden death of the incumbent Joseph Lyons and the short-term caretaker ministry of Sir Earle Page.

This was done by Luis W. Alvarez and Robert Cornog in cyclotron experiments at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California in 1939.

Sir Harold ( Harry ) Walter Kroto, FRS ( born 7 October 1939 as Harold Walter Krotoschiner ), is a British chemist and one of the three recipients to share the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley.

John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, OBE ( 30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004 ), known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter, record producer and journalist.

Oswald was born in New Orleans on October 18, 1939, to Marguerite Frances ( née Claverie ; New Orleans, Louisiana, July 19, 1907 – Fort Worth, Texas, January 17, 1981 ) and Robert Edward Lee Oswald, Sr. ( New Orleans, Louisiana, March 4, 1896 – New Orleans, August 19, 1939 ).

* 1939 – Robert Tear, Welsh tenor

Page remained dominant in the party until 1939 and briefly served as an interim Prime Minister between the death of Joseph Lyons and the election of Robert Menzies as his successor, but Page's refusal to serve under Menzies led to his resignation as leader.

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However, further studies by Felix Bloch with Arnold Nordsieck, and Victor Weisskopf, in 1937 and 1939, revealed that such computations were reliable only at a first order of perturbation theory, a problem already pointed out by Robert Oppenheimer.

The first novel that Heinlein wrote, For Us, The Living: A Comedy of Customs ( 1939 ), did not see print during his lifetime, but Robert James tracked down the manuscript and it was published in 2003.

Robert Menzies broadcasting to the nation the news of the outbreak of war, 1939.

* 1939: The names " Robert the Bruce " and " Mad Anthony Wayne " are the inspiration for " Bruce Wayne ", the name for the civilian identity of DC Comics superhero Batman.

Robert Menzies defeated Hughes for the UAP leadership and became Prime Minister on 26 April 1939.

The film Lady of the Tropics ( 1939 ), directed by Jack Conway, with Hedy Lamarr and Robert Taylor is said to be inspired by the novel.

* 1939: Abe Lincoln in Illinois – Robert E. Sherwood

* Robert E. Sherwood won the award in 1936, 1939, and 1941.

* 1939 – Dislocations in metals confirmed by Robert W. Cahn

* 1939 Lise Meitner and Otto Robert Frisch determine that nuclear fission is taking place in the Hahn-Strassmann experiments

* 1939 — Robert Oppenheimer and Hartland Snyder calculate the gravitational collapse of a pressure-free homogeneous fluid sphere

The screenplay for the Warner Bros. release by Edith Sommer was based on an adaptation of the 1939 Ben Hecht-Charles MacArthur play Ladies and Gentlemen by George Oppenheimer.

The Cathedral was realised from 1933 to 1939 by Byrne and sons, decorative work was subcontracted to Oppenheimer Ltd, Old Trafford, Manchester.

During the Sino-Japanese War ( 1937 – 1945 ) and World War II ( 1939 – 1945 ), the Special Research Units of the Imperial Japanese Army, such as Unit 731, conducted human experimentation on thousands of Chinese, among others.

Hence the group included supporters of Trotskyism, like Judith Merril and others who would have been deemed far left for the era ( Frederik Pohl became a member of the Communist Party in 1936, but later quit in 1939 ).

He was one of four black players on the 1939 UCLA Bruins football team ; the others were Woody Strode, Kenny Washington, and Ray Bartlett.

After nuclear fission was discovered by others in 1938, Szilárd and Enrico Fermi in 1939 searched for, and discovered, neutron multiplication in uranium, proving that a nuclear chain reaction by this mechanism was indeed possible.

Some have a cultural usage (" the Gilded Age "), others refer to prominent historical events (" the Inter-War years: 1918 – 1939 "), yet others are defined by decimal numbering systems (" the 1960s ", " the 17th century ").

18 white dwarfs had been discovered by 1939 .< sup >, p. 3 </ sup > Luyten and others continued to search for white dwarfs in the 1940s.

Irkutsk is home to the East Siberian Education Academy ( since 1909 ), Irkutsk State University ( 1918 ), Irkutsk State Medical University ( 1918 ), Baykalsky State University of Economics and Law ( since 1932 ), Irkutsk State Technical University ( since 1939 ), Irkutsk State Academy of Agriculture, Irkutsk State Linguistic University ( 1948 ), Irkutsk State Railway Transport University ( since 1975 ), and a number of private colleges: Siberian Institute of Law, Economics and Management ( since 1993 ), Institute of Economics of ISTU ( since 1996 ), and others.

In 1939 East Prussia had 2. 49 million inhabitants, 85 % of them ethnic Germans, the others Poles in the south who, according to Polish estimates numbered in the interwar period around 300, 000-350, 000, and Lietuvininkai speaking Lithuanian ( Baltic ) in the northeast.

In a related political development, following the Hitler-Stalin Pact of 1939, Rothko, along with Avery, Gottlieb, and others, left the American Artists ’ Congress in order to dissociate themselves from the Congress ’ alignment with radical Communism.

( He was the only prime minister to be knighted during his term of office until Robert Menzies in 1963 ; various others were knighted after leaving the office ; Sir Earle Page was already a knight when he briefly became prime minister in 1939.

Some famous court-musicians and royalty proficient in music were Veene Sheshanna ( 1852 – 1926 ) and Veene Subbanna ( 1861 – 1939 ), among others.

According to Dixon & Godrich ( 1981 ) and Leadbitter and Slaven ( 1968 ), Alan Lomax and the Library of Congress researchers did not record any Delta bluesmen ( or women ) prior to 1941, when he recorded Son House and Willie Brown near Lake Cormorant, Mississippi, and Muddy Waters at Stovall, Mississippi ; however, this claim is disputed as John and Alan Lomax did record Bukka White in 1939, Lead Belly in 1933 and most likely others.

* Carter Dickson's " Error at Daybreak " ( 1938 ), " The Crime in Nobody's Room " ( 1939 ), " The New Invisible Man ", ( 1940 ), " Persons or Things Unknown " ( 1947 ) and many others

Deering Library ( 1933 ) Under Walter Dill Scott's presidency from 1920 to 1939, Northwestern began construction of an integrated campus in Chicago designed by James Gamble Rogers to house the professional schools ; established the Kellogg School of Management ; and built several prominent buildings on the Evanston campus, Dyche Stadium ( now named Ryan Field ) and Deering Library among others.

In February 1939, Abbandando and others killed mobster Felice Esposito in a contract killing.

Some were sent to Poland, or elsewhere ( including some deported to Yugoslavia by the Hamburg police in 1939 ), others were confined to designated areas, and many were eventually gassed.

Notable features included the Dreamland amusement park, which existed between 1906 and 1909, the St Kilda Sea Baths ( 1910 ), which replaced the 1862 " Gymnasium Baths ", Luna Park ( 1912 ), Palais de Danse ( 1926 ), the Palais Theatre ( 1927 ), St Moritz Ice Rink ( 1939 ), and many others.

* Most of the major pre-1948 Warner Bros ./ pre-1986 MGM / RKO Radio Pictures library, including: Gone with the Wind & The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 ), Citizen Kane ( 1941 ), Singin ' in the Rain ( 1952 ), and Doctor Zhivago ( 1965 ), among others

* Most of the major pre-1948 Warner Bros ./ pre-1986 MGM / RKO Radio Pictures library, including: Gone with the Wind & The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 ), Citizen Kane ( 1941 ), Singin ' in the Rain ( 1952 ), and Doctor Zhivago ( 1965 ), among others

Immediately after the German invasion of Poland in 1939, which marked the beginning of World War II, the Soviet Union invaded the eastern regions of the Second Polish Republic, which Poles referred to as the " Kresy ," and annexed territories totaling 201, 015 km² with a population of 13, 299, 000 inhabitants including Poles, Belorussians, Ukrainians, Jews, Czechs and others.

Among many others, 183 professors and lower university staff from Kraków universities, arrested on 6 November 1939 during Sonderaktion Krakau.

During the 1939 invasion of Poland, many Sanation members were taken prisoner-of-war by the Germans, while others evacuated to Romania, where they remained to war's end or managed to reach France and Britain.

The Renfro Valley Barn Dance was where Renfro Valley's musical heritage began, in 1939, and influential country music luminaries like Red Foley, Homer & Jethro, Lily May Ledford & the Original Coon Creek Girls, Martha Carson, and many others have performed as regular members of the shows there over the years.