In 1939 Muslim leaders Isa Yusuf Alptekin and Ma Fuliang were sent by Chiang to several Middle eastern countries, including Egypt, Turkey, and Syria, to gain support for the Chinese War against Japan, and to express his support for Muslims.

Ma Tianying ( 馬天英 ) ( 1900 – 1982 ) led the 1939 mission which had 5 other people including Isa and Fuliang.

* September – Ma Rainey, blues singer ( d. 1939 )

* April 26 – Ma Rainey, American singer ( d. 1939 )

His songs remained big hits, such as Prosper ( 1935 ), Ma Pomme ( 1936 ) and Ça fait d ' excellents français ( 1939 ).

It was used by Ma Rainey ( 1886 – 1939 ) to describe her repertoire to rural audiences.

Ma Rainey ( April 26, 1886 – December 22, 1939 ) was one of the earliest known American professional blues singers and one of the first generation of such singers to record.

Among the many famous ships made by the companies were the world's first steel ship, the Ma Roberts, built in 1858 for Dr. Livingstone's Zambezi expedition, CSS Alabama that was built in 1862 for the Confederate States of America, HMS Caroline ( 1914 ) that holds the record fastest build time of any significant warship ( nine months from her keel being laid till her launch ), the first all-welded ship, the Fullagar built in 1920, Cunard's second Mauretania of 1939, the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal ( 1937 ) and the largest vessel to have been built for the Royal Navy HMS Ark Royal ( 1950 ).

* 1939: Ma sœur de lait

In John Steinbeck's 1939 novel The Grapes of Wrath, the character Ma Joad refers several times to Pretty Boy Floyd as a young man driven to a tragic fate by the Great Depression.

In 1939, in addition to Ma Perkins, she took over the role of Mrs. Carter on the radio soap opera The Carters of Elm Street.

* Ma ' apilim, 23 May 1939

Created by Sheldon Mayer, she first appeared in her civilian identity as Abigail Mathilda " Ma " Hunkel in All-American Publications ' All-American Comics # 3 ( June 1939 ), and became the Red Tornado in All-American Comics # 20 ( Nov. 1940 ).

In 1939 she made aliyah-that is, emigrated to Palestine-where she joined kibbutz Ma ' anit and later enlisted in the Palmach, the elite strike force of the Haganah underground military organization.

Subsequent formalizations were framed as attempts to define " effective calculability " or " effective method "; those formalizations included the Gödel – Herbrand – Kleene recursive functions of 1930, 1934 and 1935, Alonzo Church's lambda calculus of 1936, Emil Post's " Formulation 1 " of 1936, and Alan Turing's Turing machines of 1936 – 7 and 1939.

The initial funds were released in September, and the 11-tube prototype was first demonstrated in October, 1939.

Auschwitz had for a long time been a German name for Oświęcim, the town by and around which the camps were located ; the name " Auschwitz " was made the official name again by the Germans after they invaded Poland in September 1939.

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 ).

All staff had to sign the Official Secrets Act ( 1939 ), and were instructed that they should never discuss their work outside their immediate section.

In 1939 the companies were acquired by the Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation.

Blitzkrieg operations were very effective during the campaigns of 1939 – 1941.

Despite the term blitzkrieg being coined by journalists during the Invasion of Poland of 1939, historians Mathew Cooper and J. P Harris generally hold that German operations during it were more consistent with more traditional methods.

Many historians now hold the position that blitzkrieg was not a military theory, and the campaigns conducted by the German military in 1939 to circa, 1942 ( with the exception of Operation Barbarossa ) were improvised invasions put together and modified at the last moment and therefore was not a proper military strategy.

The so called " blitzkrieg campaigns " of 1939 – circa 1942, were well within that operational context.

However, in August 1939, due to the imminence of war and the likelihood of air-raids the Parthenon Sculptures along with Museum's most valued collections were dispersed to secure basements, country houses, Aldwych tube station, the National Library of Wales and a quarry.

On a day in 1939, Sprinz had a blimp hover overhead at 800 feet, from which were to be dropped balls for him to catch.

Another myth describes Polish cavalry as being armed with both sabres and lances ; lances were used for peacetime ceremonial purposes only and the primary weapon of the Polish cavalryman in 1939 was a rifle.

All-Union Population Censuses were carried out in the USSR ( which included RSFSR and the other republics ) in 1920 ( urban only ), 1926, 1937, 1939, 1959, 1970, 1979, and 1989.

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

There were plans for races at Zandvoort before World War II: the first street race was held on June 3, 1939.

The company organization of each camp had a dual-authority supervisory staff: firstly, Department of War personnel or Reserve officers ( until 1 July 1939 ), a " company commander " and junior officer, who were responsible for overall camp operation, logistics, education and training ; and secondly, ten to fourteen technical service civilians, including a camp " superintendent " and " foreman ," employed by either the Departments of Interior or Agriculture, responsible for the particular field work.

First synthesized in 1874, DDT's insecticidal properties were not discovered until 1939, and it was used with great success in the second half of World War II to control malaria and typhus among civilians and troops.

First synthesized in 1874 by Othmar Zeidler, DDT's insecticidal properties were not discovered until 1939 by the Swiss scientist Paul Hermann Müller, who was awarded the 1948 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for his efforts.

Subsequent studies and collections during the Plantation Era were made in 1885, 1905, 1939, and 1967.

Kaye and his wife, Sylvia, both grew up in Brooklyn, living only a few blocks apart, but they did not meet until they were both working on an off-Broadway show in 1939.

In 1939, diplomatic relations between Egypt and Iran were upgraded to ambassadorial level, and Youssef Zulficar Pasha was appointed as Egypt's first ambassador in Tehran.

The city of Asmara had a population of 98, 000, of which 53, 000 were Italians according to the Italian census of 1939.

After his death, Husserl's manuscripts, amounting to approximately 40, 000 pages of " Gabelsberger " stenography and his complete research library, were in 1939 smuggled to Belgium by the Franciscan priest Herman Van Breda.

Gardner's dissatisfaction with the group grew, particularly when in 1939, one of the group's leaders sent a letter out to all members in which she stated that war would not come.

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.

Cousteau also belonged to the information service of the French Navy, and was sent on missions to Shanghai and Japan ( 1935 – 1938 ) and in the USSR ( 1939 ).

The German Embassy in Ankara had been vacant ever since the retirement of the previous ambassador Friedrich von Keller in November 1938, and Ribbentrop was only able to get the Turks to accept Papen as Ambassador when the Turkish Foreign Minister Şükrü Saracoğlu complained to Kroll in April 1939 about when the Germans were ever going to sent a new ambassador.

On 25 May 1939, Ribbentrop sent a secret message to Moscow to tell the Soviet Foreign Commissar, Vyacheslav Molotov, that if Germany attacked Poland " Russia's special interests would be taken into consideration ".

On 27 August 1939, Chamberlain sent the following letter to Hitler, which was intended to counteract reports Chamberlain had heard from intelligence sources in Berlin that Ribbentrop had convinced Hitler that the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact would ensure that Britain would abandon Poland.

Felmy pressed this case firmly throughout 1938 and 1939, and, on 31 October 1939, Großadmiral Erich Raeder sent a strongly worded letter to Göring in support of such proposals.

On 21 September 1939 Heydrich sent out a teleprinter message on the " Jewish question in the occupied territory " to the chiefs of all Einsatzgruppen of the Security Police.

On 29 November 1939 he sent out a cable regarding the " Evacuation of New Eastern Provinces ", describing details of the deportation of people by railway to concentration camps, and giving guidance surrounding the December 1939 census, which would be the basis on which those deportations were performed.

On April 1, 1939, Zapf was conscripted and sent to Pirmasens to help reinforce the Siegfried Line against France.

In 1939, he was the host of Stop Me If You've Heard This One with panelists spontaneously finishing jokes sent in by listeners.

After stealing and crashing a car with two friends while drunk, he was sent back to prison in January 1939.

During the mobilization of August 1939, infantry and artillery were sent to Dordrecht to defend the island.

Vivian sent her baby daughter, accompanied by her nursemaid, Consuela Strohmeier, to Montreal aboard the Donaldson Atlantic Line's, which was sunk by a German submarine on September 3, 1939 with a loss of 118 passengers.

Mobilized on August 26, 1939 in the 2nd colonial infantry regiment, Papon was sent to Tripoli.

They had been deported from Kresy to the eastern regions of Russia, or sent to Gulags when the USSR occupied this region of Poland in 1939.

In 1939 on the outbreak of World War II, most of the collection was sent to a quarry in Wiltshire, to Montacute House in Somerset, or to a tunnel near Aldwych tube station, with larger items remaining in situ, sand-bagged and bricked in.

An unlikely break of the time barrier finds a commercial airliner sent back into the prehistoric age and then to New York City of 1939.

After the German invasion of Poland in September 1939, leaders of the Polish minority were arrested and sent to concentration camps.

In 1939, Tupolev was moved from a prison to an NKVD sharashka for aircraft designers in Bolshevo near Moscow, where many ex-TsAGI people had already been sent to work.