Category: British military personnel of the 1936 – 1939 Arab revolt in Palestine

Another example is the place of The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 ) in American and British gay culture, although a widely viewed and historically important film in greater American culture.

Following the downfall of Czechoslovakia and occupation of its Czech part by Nazi Germany in 1939, Czechoslovak units and formations served with the Polish Army ( Czechoslovak Legion ), the French Army, the Royal Air Force, the British Army ( the 1st Czechoslovak Armoured Brigade ), and the Red Army ( I Corps ).

" Creating the Exemplary Citizen: The Changing Notion of Citizenship in Britain 1870 – 1939 ," Contemporary British History ( 2008 ) 22 # 2 pp 203 – 225

Anti-tank guns were also tremendously improved during the war: in 1939, the British used primarily 2 pounder and 6 pounder guns.

* 1939 – Eric Flynn, British actor and singer ( d. 2002 )

In late 1939 he brought the Duke of Windsor back from self-impodsed exile in France and in early May 1940, Mountbatten led a British convoy in through the fog to evacuate the Allied forces participating in the Namsos Campaign during the Norwegian Campaign.

Over this period, except for the war years, during which he served with the United States Air Force, he developed British Guiana Airways Ltd. ( registered 27 May, 1938 ) and operating regular internal services since 1939.

This was partly because of the aftermath of the Venlo incident of 1939, when SD and Gestapo agents posing as anti-Nazis in the Netherlands kidnapped two British Secret Intelligence Service ( SIS ) officers lured to a meeting to discuss peace terms.

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.

Increased Jewish immigration contributed to the large-scale Arab Revolt in Palestine ( 1936 – 1939 ), a largely nationalist uprising directed at ending British rule.

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.

Its existence was predicted in 1902 independently and almost simultaneously by the American electrical engineer Arthur Edwin Kennelly ( 1861 – 1939 ) and the British physicist Oliver Heaviside ( 1850 – 1925 ).

* Hugh Joseph Tallon The concept of self in British and American idealism Catholic University of America Press, 1939

While the Palestinians were " carefully disarmed " by the British Mandatory authorities by 1939, the Zionists were not.

* 2001 – Auberon Waugh, British author and journalist ( b. 1939 )

Shortly afterwards, false reports spread in mid-March 1939 by the Romanian minister in London, Virgil Tilea, that his country was on the verge of an immediate German attack, led to a dramatic U-turn in British policy of resisting commitments in Eastern Europe.

On 31 March 1939, the British Prime Minister Chamberlain announced before the House of Commons the British “ guarantee ” of Poland, which committed Britain to go to war to defend Polish independence, though pointedly the “ guarantee ” excluded Polish frontiers.

As a result of the " guarantee " of Poland, Hitler began to speak with increasing frequency of a British " encirclement " policy, and used the “ encirclement ” policy as the excuse for denouncing in a speech before the Reichstag on 28 April 1939 the A. G. N. A and the Non-Aggression Pact with Poland.

On 23 April 1939 the Turkish Foreign Minister Şükrü Saracoğlu told the British Ambassador of his nation's fears of Italian claims of the Mediterranean as Mare Nostrum and German control of the Balkans, and suggested an Anglo-Soviet-Turkish alliance as the best way of countering the Axis.

Ribbentrop, for his part, because of his status as the Nazi British expert, resolved Hitler's dilemma by supporting the anti-British line and by repeatedly advising Hitler that Britain would not go to war for Poland in 1939.

Neville Chamberlain's European Policy in 1939 was based upon creating a " peace front " of alliances linking Western and Eastern European states to serve as a " tripwire " meant to deter any act of German aggression The new “ containment ” strategy adopted in March 1939 comprised giving firm warnings to Berlin, increasing the pace of British rearmament and attempting to form an interlocking network of alliances that would block German aggression anywhere in Europe by creating such a formidable deterrence to aggression that Hitler could not rationally chose that option.

) By 1939, Decca and EMI were the only record companies in the UK.

In 1940, American Decca released the first album of songs from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz.

In 1939, after a series of unsuccessful recordings for Victor Records and Decca Records, The Ink Spots had their first smash hit on Decca Records with " If I Didn't Care ", a song written by Jack Lawrence, that featured Bill Kenny.

The Decca Corporation of England spun American Decca off in 1939.

He recorded 29 songs for Decca, the last in 1939 in Los Angeles, California as part of Tex Ritter and His Texans.

A studio recording of the song, not from the actual film soundtrack, was recorded and released as a single by Decca Records in September 1939.

For Decca, he also conducted the first album of songs from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, a sort of " pre-soundtrack " cover version rather than a true soundtrack album.

Technically Warner maintained actual ownership of Brunswick, which with the sale of ARC to CBS in 1939 and their decision to discontinue Brunswick in favor of reviving the Columbia label, reverted back to Warner Bros. Warner Bros. sold Brunswick ( along with Brunswick's back catalog up to 1931 ) to Decca along with the old Brunswick pressing plants Warner owned to Decca Records ( which formed its American operations in 1934 ) in exchange for a financial interest in Decca.

By 1939, the company was on its feet ; 18 million of the 50 million records sold in the United States that year were issued by Decca.

* Tony Martin recorded Begin the Beguine at least twice: on March 14, 1939 for Decca Records ( catalog numbers 2375a and later 25018 in 78 rpm, 9-25018 in 45 rpm ) and for RCA Victor Records in the late 1940s ( catalog number 20-2814, 47-3228 ).

The second was recorded for Decca Records on September 13, 1939 by The Rice Brothers Gang.

Initiated studies on blunt head trauma and injury thresholds beginning in 1939 in collaboration with Dr. E. S.

From 1931 until his death in 1939, Sapir taught at Yale University, where he became the head of the Department of Anthropology.

In June 1939, Franco-German relations were strained when the head of the French section of the Dienststelle Ribbentrop, Otto Abetz, was expelled from France following allegations that he had bribed two French newspaper editors to print pro-German articles.

The Venerable Pope Pius XII (; ), born Eugenio Marìa Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli ( 2 March 1876 – 9 October 1958 ), reigned as Pope, head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City State, from 2 March 1939 until his death in 1958.

In July 1939, Forrest J. Ackerman gave nineteen year old Ray Bradbury the money to head to New York for the First World Science Fiction Convention in New York City, and funded Ray Bradbury's fanzine, titled Futuria Fantasia.

* 1939 – Switzerland mobilizes its forces and the Swiss Parliament elects Henri Guisan to head the Swiss Army ( an event that can happen only during war or mobilization ).

In 1938 he became head of Special Visual Techniques at Toho Tokyo Studios, setting up an independent special effects department in 1939.

As head of Toho's Visual Effects Department ( which was known as the " Special Arts Department " until 1961 ), that he established in 1939, he supervised around an average of sixty craftsmen, technicians and cameramen.

While most of the ministers head government ministries, since 1939 it has been permissible to appoint ministers without portfolio.

Further Judenräte were established on 18 November 1939, upon the orders of Hans Frank, head of the Generalgouvernment.

He worked with Polikarpov before being named head of a new aircraft design bureau in Moscow in December 1939.

The design of pennies that date pre 1939 had the sovereign's head on the obverse ( front ) and the reverse was totally covered in writing making the result very easy and quick to see.

The innovative German Major ( later General ) Heinz Guderian developed the motorised part of this strategy as the head of one of the Truppenamt groups and may have incorporated Fuller's and Liddell Hart's ideas to amplify the groundbreaking Blitzkrieg effect that was seen used by Germany against Poland in 1939 and later against France in 1940.

* Bunny Oakes, head football coach at the University of Colorado at Boulder from 1935 to 1939, who during that period compiled a 25-15-1 (. 622 ) record.

Dumbo was first brought to the attention of Walt Disney in late 1939 by Disney's head of merchandise licensing Kay Kamen, who showed a prototype of the Roll-A-Book that included Dumbo.

Between 1939 and 1945, Tiso was the head of the Slovak State, a satellite state of Nazi Germany.

She became head of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force ( WAAF ) in 1939 as Senior Controller, changed to Air Commandant in 1940, and appointed Air Chief Commandant on 4 March 1943, when she took over as director until August 1944.

Yevgeny Olegovich Adamov (, born April 28, 1939 ) was the head of the Russian atomic energy ministry, MinAtom.

Ultimately, convinced that finances would not allow the school to do more than " tread water ," Nellie Cornish resigned her position as head of the school in 1939.

In March 1939 Arnold was appointed to head the Air Board by Secretary of War Harry Woodring, to recommend doctrine and organization of Army airpower to the Chief of Staff.

In January 1939 the king further aggrieved Nuri by appointing Rashid Ali al-Kaylani head of the Royal divan.

She was appointed head of " Faith and Beauty " in January 1938, a few days before her 26 birthday, and was discharged in September 1939 because of her marriage with Wilhelm " Utz " Utermann in October 1939.

* Yevgeny Adamov ( born 1939 ), former head of the Russian atomic energy ministry