Gardner claimed to have learned the beliefs and practises that would later become known as Gardnerian Wicca from the New Forest Coven, who initiated him into their ranks in 1939.

Gardner claimed to have been initiated in 1939 into a tradition of religious witchcraft that he believed to be a continuation of European Paganism.

" 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.

The figure at the forefront of the burgeoning Wiccan movement was the English esotericist Gerald Gardner, who claimed to have been initiated by the New Forest coven in 1939.

In 1939, Australian scientist Howard Florey ( later Baron Florey ) and a team of researchers ( Ernst Boris Chain, Arthur Duncan Gardner, Norman Heatley, M. Jennings, J. Orr-Ewing and G. Sanders ) at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford made significant progress in showing the in vivo bactericidal action of penicillin.

Ava Gardner attended high school in Rock Ridge and she graduated from there in 1939.

Ernest Arthur Gardner ( 16 March 1962 – 27 November 1939 ) was an English archaeologist.

Gardner died on 27 November 1939 in Maidenhead, Berkshire, United Kingdom.

In spite of the formal racing ban, speed record attempts continued with Goldie Gardner exceeding in the 1100 cc EX135 in 1939.

Dorothy Clutterbuck ( 19 January 1880 – 12 January 1951 ), was a wealthy Englishwoman who was named by Gerald Gardner as a leading member of the New Forest coven, a group of pagan Witches into which Gardner claimed to have been initiated in 1939.

After her death in 1951, Clutterbuck was identified by Gerald Gardner as a leading member of the New Forest coven of witches into which he claimed to have been initiated in September 1939.

In 1939, Arnold and the owners of the Register & Tribune Syndicate's parent company, brothers John Cowles, Sr. and Gardner Cowles, Jr., bought out the McNaught and Markey interests.

Gardner had performed the character of Archie, talking about Duffy's Tavern, as early as November 9, 1939, when he appeared on NBC's Good News of 1940.

Gardner, a native of New Mexico and a graduate of the University of Southern California, is most well known for coaching Kansas State University from 1939 to 1942 and 1946 to 1953, compiling a 147-81 record with the Wildcats, and thereafter coaching the University of Utah from 1953 – 1971, compiling a 339-154 record.

# Emelyn Elizabeth Gardner and Geraldine Jencks Chickering, Ballads and Songs of Southern Michigan ( 1939 ), 189, " The Frog's Courtship " ( 2 texts plus an exceprt and mention of 5 more, 3 tunes )

On his return to America in 1934, Greene also returned to his secretaryship of the Harvard Corporation and became, for the remainder of his life, a trustee and officer of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Gardner Museum in Fenway Court, the New England Conservatory of Music, the American Academy in Rome, the Brookings Institute, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the General Education Board ( only until 1939 ).

According to his own claims, in September 1939, a British occultist named Gerald Gardner was initiated into the coven, and subsequently used its beliefs and practices as a basis from which he formed the tradition of Gardnerian Wicca.

Gerald Gardner claimed that after moving to the borough of Christchurch, Dorset in 1939, he got involved with the Rosicrucian Order Crotona Fellowship, an occult organisation based upon Rosicrucianism.

This group claimed to have known Gardner from a past life, and in September 1939, revealed to him that they were members of a Witches ' coven, and then initiated him into Wicca in a ritual which took place in one of the homes owned by Dorothy Clutterbuck.

The first female member Florence Rankin joined AA in March 1937, and the first non-Protestant member, a Roman Catholic, joined in 1939.

Settling down near the New Forest, he joined an occult group, the Rosicrucian Order Crotona Fellowship, through which – he claimed – he encountered the New Forest coven, into which he was initiated in 1939.

In 1939 Bradbury joined Laraine Day's Wilshire Players Guild where for two years he wrote and acted in several plays.

* St. Louis Gunners, 1934 member of National Football League that joined the minor AFL in 1939

Hatay Province remained a part of the French Mandate of Syria according to the Treaty of Lausanne, but in 1938 gained its independence as the Hatay State, which later joined Turkey after a referendum in 1939.

In 1939 Schindler joined the Nazi Party.

Troughton had joined the Tonbridge Repertory Company in 1939 and in 1940 joined the Royal Navy.

It was formed in Chicago in 1936 by Louis Skidmore and Nathaniel Owings ; in 1939 they were joined by John O. Merrill.

When war broke out in 1939, many Afro-Guyanese joined the military, hoping to gain new job skills and escape poverty.

After being educated in France, England, Germany and Scotland, he joined the British Royal Navy at the age of 18 in 1939.

After some good league and FA Cup campaigns the club joined the Midland League in 1935 for four seasons before returning to the Birmingham & District League in 1939.

In 1939, he joined the German Navy, working in the High Command as a staff judge and advisor for international law.

Francis Wolff, a professional photographer, emigrated to the USA at the end of 1939 and soon joined forces with Lion, a childhood friend.

He joined the Local Defence Force during The Emergency of 1939 – 1945 and considered a permanent career in the Army.

After attending primary school, Koivisto had a number of jobs, and at the beginning of the Winter War in 1939, when he was 16, he joined a field firefighting unit.

In 1939, Henderson disbanded his own band and joined Goodman's, first as both pianist and arranger and then working full-time as the staff arranger.

By the time of the Berle meeting, Chambers had come out of hiding after a year and joined the staff of Time Magazine ( April 1939 ).

In 1939 he joined Muggsy Spanier's band, with whom he made some of his most famous recordings.

Dorsey's main vocalist was Bob Eberly, considered to be the best in the music business, and in 1939, Helen O ' Connell joined the band, and the idea to have them do duets together proved to be highly successful.

Watt joined the British Army at the age of 22 and served with distinction in World War II as an infantry lieutenant from 1939 to 1946.

The area of the Voblast was part of the Second Polish Republic from 1921 until 1939 largely as the Polesie Voivodeship, when it was joined to the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic.

The main legislative framework for the Building Society was the Building Society Act of 1874, with subsequent amending legislation in 1894, 1939 ( see Coney Hall ), and 1960.

The National Speleological Society of the USA was later founded in 1941 ( originally formed as the Speleological Society of the District of Columbia on May 6, 1939 ) and the Swiss Society of Speleology created in 1939 in Geneva, but the first speleological institute in the world was founded in 1920 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, by Emil Racovita, a Romanian biologist, zoologist, speleologist and explorer of Antarctica.

*< cite id = refHSJ1939 > H Spencer Jones, " The Rotation of the Earth, and the Secular Accelerations of the Sun, Moon and Planets ", in Monthly Notes of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 99 ( 1939 ), pp 541 – 558 .</ cite >

Since at least the 1960s, when Marc Bloch's Feudal Society ( 1939 ) was first translated into English in 1961, many medieval historians have included a broader social aspect that includes not only the nobility but all three estates of the realm, adding the peasantry bonds of manorialism and the estates of the Church ; this is sometimes referred to as " feudal society " since it encompasses all members of society into the feudal system.

He developed his ideas in Feudal Society ( 1939 – 40 ; English 1961 ).

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 ).

* Fellow of the Royal Society, Elected 1939

Hollywood Goes to War: Films and American Society 1939 – 1952.

On 7 May 1939 Asimov attended a meeting of the Queens Science Fiction Society where he met Binder, whose story Asimov had admired.

*‘ Venetian Folk-Songs of the Renaissance ’, Papers of the American Musicological Society, 1939, pp. 62 – 75

* Cafe Society ( 1939 )

* 14 May 1939: 5th and last Royal Aeronautical Society airshow at the Great West Aerodrome.

In 1939, it was renamed Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, Inc., and in 1956 the name was changed to Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc. Until 2000, a member of the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses was president of both the Watch Tower ( Pennsylvania ) and Watchtower ( New York ) corporations, as well as Britain's International Bible Students Association corporation ; in 2001, it was decided that the corporations ' directors need not be members of the Governing Body.

* Society Lawyer ( 1939 )

They performed an extended engagement at Café Society, toured as a trio, and inspired the formation of Blue Note Records in 1939.

In 1939, the group broke with the Science Fiction League, changed its name to the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society, and begun to meet every Thursday.