* 1939 – Ernie Davis, American football player ( d. 1963 )

* May 18 – Ernie Davis, American football player, first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy ( b. 1939 )

* Ernie Davis, born in New Salem December 14, 1939, moved to the Uniontown and then to Elmira, New York, he was the first African American to win the Heisman Trophy.

Early in his career, Meredith attracted favorable attention, especially for playing George in a 1939 adaptation of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men and as war correspondent Ernie Pyle in The Story of G. I.

** Ernie Terrell ( born 1939 ), American boxer, singer, and record producer

Ernie Terrell ( born on April 4, 1939 in Belzoni, Mississippi ) is an American singer, record producer, and former World Boxing Association ( WBA ) heavyweight boxing champion.

Willard Hershberger, who had been the backup catcher for Ernie Lombardi in the 1939 Series, committed suicide during the season.

The concept of a fish restaurant was introduced by Samuel Isaacs ( born 1856 in Whitechapel, London ; died 1939 in Brighton, Sussex ) who ran a thriving wholesale and retail fish business throughout London and the South of England in the latter part of the 19th century.

He was the only child of Jacob Grant Hollenbeck ( 1867 – May 2, 1939 ), the ticket-clerk son of a grocer from an Indiana farming family, and his wife, the former Mabel A. Parmelee ( aka " Parmalee " or " Parmallee "; March 24, 1869 – October 17, 1960 ), the daughter of David Parmelee, a railroad conductor.

Futurama was an exhibit / ride at the 1939 New York World's Fair designed by Norman Bel Geddes that tried to show the world 20 years into the future ( 1959 – 1960 ).

The ceremony was first conducted with the Prince of Wales ( the future Edward VIII ) in 1927, then with King George VI in 1939, and last with his daughter, Queen Elizabeth II in 1959 and 1970.

In 1939 the full ' Ring was used for the last time in major racing events, as future Grands Prix would be held only on the Nordschleife.

In a review of it, John Clute wrote: “ I ’ m not about to suggest that if Heinlein had been able to publish works openly in the pages of Astounding in 1939, SF would have gotten the future right ; I would suggest, however, that if Heinlein, and his colleagues, had been able to publish adult SF in Astounding and its fellow journals, then SF might not have done such a grotesquely poor job of prefiguring something of the flavor of actually living here at the onset of 2004 .”

Adolf Hitler redefined the term to mean the entire mountainous periphery of Czechoslovakia, and under that pretext, got his future enemies to concede the Czech defensive border in the 1938 Munich Agreement, leaving the remainder of Czechoslovakia shorn of its border fortifications and buffer zone, occupied by Germany in March 1939.

The Social Democratic politician Carlo Schmid read out in the Bundestag the anti-Semitic lines from Raeder's Heroes ' Day Speech of 1939 ; noted that Raeder had not only refused to apologise for that speech, but testified at Nuremberg that he believed that Germany was threatened by " International Jewry "; and argued that Germans to have a better future meant Raeder could not be a role model or seen as a hero as Zenker and Heye wanted.

A sign of the future tendencies in diplomatic history occurred in 1939 with the publication of the British historian E. H. Carr's book The Twenty Years ' Crisis which suggested that it was a flawed peace settlement in 1919 instead of the decisions of individual leaders that caused the problems of interwar Europe.

After his parents divorced in 1939, he left for South Wales to think about his future.

One French official in 1939 expressed the belief that the uncertainty was sure to cause trouble in the future.

The NYWF of 1939 – 1940 was the first exposition to be based on the future, with an opening slogan of " Dawn of a New Day ", and it allowed all visitors to take a look at " the world of tomorrow ".

The organisation was investigated by Maxwell Knight, head of counter-subversion in MI5 and future role model for James Bond's boss M. The organisation closed shortly after the start of World War II in 1939.

In 1929, Spartan also established the Spartan School of Aeronautics across Apache street from the new Tulsa airport to train future fliers and support personnel. The Spartan School was activated as a U. S. Army Air Corps ( USAAC ) facility on August 1, 1939 as an advanced civilian pilot training school to supplement the Air Corps ' few flying training schools.

Congress passed the Hatch Act of 1939 to limit the WPA's involvement in future elections.

In August 1939, the future third Baron was part of a secret delegation sent to Germany by Lord Halifax to offer Adolf Hitler concessions on the assurance that he would not invade Poland.

Stalin had decided in August 1939 that he was going to liquidate the Polish state, and a German-Soviet meeting in September addressed the future structure of the " Polish region.

On 20 June 1939 while Adolf Hitler was visiting an architectural bureau in Würzburg am Main, his attention was captured by a project of a future German town – " Neue deutsche Stadt Warschau ".

It was not until 1939 when she first met Chaim Weizmann, the future first President of Israel, that she began to support the Zionist cause and a Jewish homeland.

The story is rich in characters and sub-plots, which the filmed versions perforce trim, along with making major changes in the story line, with the best known 1939 version centered on the 1898 campaign and battle of Omdurman, only hinted at as a future event in the novel.

In April 1939, Daladier told the Romanian foreign minister Grigore Gafencu " he was going to get rid of Bonnet quite shortly ", and on 6 May, Daladier stated to Bullit he had a great deal of "... mistrust of Bonnet and said that he might replace him in the immediate future ".

Regarding the 1939 New York World's Fair itself and its futuristic theme of the World of Tomorrow, Conran noted: "... obviously the title refers to the World Expo and the spirit of that was looking at the future with a sense of optimism and a sense of the whimsical, you know, something that we've lost a lot in our fantasies.

Willis Carrier's igloo in the 1939 New York World's Fair gave visitors a glimpse into the future of air conditioning, but before it became popular, World War II began.

The entire play was produced for television in 1939, directed by Michel Saint-Denis and starring another future Oscar-winner, Peggy Ashcroft.

Commenting on the existing plans for Soviet preemptive strike Robin Edmonds argues that " the Red Army planning staff would not have been doing its job if it had not devoted some time between 1939 and 1941 to the possibility, at some future date, of a pre-emptive strike against Wehrmacht ".

After the National Baseball Museum opened in 1939, it remained to be determined how the membership in its Hall of Fame would be determined in the future.

* Henry L. Bridges ( 1874 – 1939 ), a businessman originally from Athens ; mayor of nearby Minden, Louisiana, from 1928 to 1932 and 1934 to 1936

* Walter S. Jeffries ( 1893 – 1954 ), represented New Jersey's 2nd congressional district from 1939 – 1941, and was mayor of Margate City from 1931-1935.

Former Township Committee member Frank Salvato, re-elected in 2008, served until his death in 2011 at the age of 98, having been first elected to the Committee in the 1938 and served as mayor in 1939, the township's youngest.

* Frank C. Osmers, Jr. ( 1907 – 1977 ), served on the Haworth Borough Council from 1930 – 1934 and as mayor in 1935 and 1936, before representing New Jersey's 9th congressional district from 1939 – 1943 and 1951-1965.

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

After postings in Vientiane, Luang Prabang and Xieng Khouang, he was promoted to mayor (" chao muang ") and served in Xieng Khouang ( 1939 ) and Vientiane ( 1940-1945 ).

Laney was elected mayor of Camden in 1935 and served until 1939.

Although Ramla was primarily an Arab city, it had a small Jewish community until the Arab riots in 1936 – 1939 Sheikh Mustafa Khairi was mayor of Ramla from 1920 to 1947.

In December 1944 they were transferred from Dachau to Slovenia, together with Milan Nedić, the Serbian collaborationist PM, and German general Hermann Neubacher, the first Nazi mayor of Vienna ( 1938 – 1939 ), as the Nazis attempted to make use of Patriarch Gavrilo's and Nikolaj's authority among the Serbs in order to gain allies in the anti-Communist movements.

* Frank Branston, ( 9 May 1939 – 14 August 2009 ), award-winning journalist and newspaper owner, also the first directly-elected mayor of Bedford.

It was 3rd municipal council in Sri Lanka. The first mayor of Galle was Wijeyananda Dahanayake, who was appointed in 1939.

*( born 1939 ) Krzysztof Czajkowski, Polish political figure ; longtime mayor ( 1989 – 2002 ) of Łódzkie Voivodship town of Aleksandrów Łódzki

He served as mayor of Flushing, Ohio, from 1939 to 1945 and simultaneously served in the Ohio state senate in 1941 and 1942.

In 1939, he became the German deputy mayor of Prague and held this office until May 1945.

He was reelected mayor for second and third full terms in 1935 and 1939 respectively.

Rossi was mayor when the Golden Gate Bridge and the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge were built, and he presided over the building of Treasure Island and the Golden Gate International Exposition ( World's Fair ) of 1939.

He was the president ( mayor ) of Poznań in the years 1922-1924, 1925-1934 and in September 1939.

In 1826 François Pouqueville, French diplomat and archaeologist, who wrote the Voyage en Grèce ; in 1851 Ernst Curtius the German archaeologist and historian who speculated about its location ; in 1879 Julius Smith, the director of Athens Observatory, issuing a study comparing the Aegeion earthquake which occurred 26 December 1861 with an earthquake which might have destroyed Helike ; in 1883 Spiros Panagiotopoulos, the mayor of Aegeion city, wrote about the ancient city ; in 1912 the Greek writer P. K. Ksinopoulos wrote The City of Aegeion Through the Centuries, and in 1939 Stanley Casson, an English art scholar and army officer who studied classical archaeology and served in Greece as liaison officer, addressed the problem.

He would serve as mayor from 1921 to 1929, 1933 to 1937, 1939 to 1941, 1947 to 1953, and 1956 to 1958.

Oktober 1939 ), historian, mayor 1990-2002, since 10 October 2009.

It is named after Robert A. Hefner, who served as mayor of Oklahoma City from April 11, 1939 to April 8, 1947.

* El Milagro de la calle mayor ( 1939 )

Churchill was mayor of Bismarck from 1939 to 1946.

Joe Serna, Jr. ( September 3, 1939 in Stockton, California – November 7, 1999 in Sacramento, California ) was a civil rights activist and mayor of Sacramento, California, USA from 1992 until his death in 1999.