In 1939 the Italians, tired of Germany's dominance, turned it into a Voiturette race for smaller, 1500cc cars, but even so a specially-built Mercedes driven by Hermann Lang won.

The Infanta Margarita of Spain, Duchess of Soria, 2nd Duchess of Hernani, Grandee of Spain ( Doña Margarita María de la Victoria Esperanza Jacoba Felicidad Perpetua y Todos los Santos ( et omnes Sancti ) de Borbón y Borbón-Dos Sicilias ) ( born Rome, 6 March 1939 ), is the younger daughter of Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona and Princess María Mercedes of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, and younger sister of current reigning King Juan Carlos of Spain and Sister of Infanta Pilar, Duchess of Badajoz.

The song wasn't popularized until 1939, when it peaked at # 1 on Billboard magazine's country music charts.

It wasn't until 1939, during Franklin D. Roosevelt's second term in office, that the foundations of the modern White House staff were created using a formal structure.

Hanna and many other employees complained that the idea wasn't very original ; nevertheless, the short was completed in late 1939, and released to theaters on February 10, 1940.

Donaldson was playing mostly semi-pro ball in the mid-to late-1930s, and by the end of 1939 was asked by Satchel Paige to play again in the Upper Midwest as the star pitcher on the days when Paige wasn't pitching.

It wasn't until late 1939 when Lantz had a trip to a zoo.

The team lost a lot of money, and wasn't very successful on the field, drawing about 60, 000 paying fans a year during a three-year stretch from 1939 – 1941 when the Leafs finished in eighth place each season.

Very little mention is made in Christie's work about this part of his life, but in " The Nemean Lion " ( 1939 ) Poirot himself refers to a Belgian case of his in which " a wealthy soap manufacturer poisoned his wife in order to be free to marry his secretary ".

Aalto's early experiments with wood and his move away from a purist modernism would be tested in built form with the commission to design Villa Mairea ( 1939 ) in Noormarkku, the luxury home of the young industrialist couple Harry and Maire Gullichsen.

Alicante was the last city loyal to the Republican government to be occupied by dictator Franco's troops on 1 April 1939, and its harbour saw the last Republican government officials fleeing the country.

His 1939 memorial article for Sapir, " The Relation of Habitual Thought And Behavior to Language ", in particular has been taken to be Whorf's definitive statement of the issue, and is his most frequently quoted piece.

The rule was again adopted in 1939, only to be eliminated again in 1940, before being adopted for the last time in 1954.

On hearing of the rebel defeat in April 1939, Montgomery said, " I shall be sorry to leave Palestine in many ways, as I have enjoyed the war out here ".

Furthermore, while Neuromancer < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s narrator may have had an unusual " voice " for science fiction, much older examples can be found: Gibson's narrative voice, for example, resembles that of an updated Raymond Chandler, as in his novel The Big Sleep ( 1939 ).

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.

Thus, by 1939, both Church ( 1934 ) and Turing ( 1939 ), neither having knowledge of the other's efforts, had individually proposed that their " formal systems " should be definitions of " effective calculability "; neither framed their statements as theses.

J. Chernick proved a theorem in 1939 which can be used to construct a subset of Carmichael numbers.

On 30 June 1939 legislation ceased the CCC program to be an independent agency, transferred to the Federal Security Agency along with the Social Security Board, National Youth Administration, U. S. Employment Service, the Office of Education and the Works Progress Administration.

Day started her career as a big band singer in 1939, but only began to be noticed after her first hit recording, " Sentimental Journey ", in 1945.

Edward Sapir (; 1884 – 1939 ) was an American anthropologist-linguist, widely considered to be one of the most important figures in the early development of the discipline of linguistics.

In 1939, he was selected to be part of a musical revue " One for the Money " produced by the actress Katharine Cornell, who was known for finding and hiring talented young actors.

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

Yellow badge required to be worn by all Jews in Germany and occupied countries beginning in 1939.

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.

Indeed in 1939, laws were passed that allowed Muslims to be permitted to join the National Fascist Party and in particular the Muslim Association of the Lictor ( Associazione Musulmana del Littorio ), and the 1939 reforms allowed the creation of Libyan military units within the Italian army.

A short-lived monarchy ( 1914 – 1925 ) was succeeded by an even shorter-lived first Albanian Republic ( 1925 – 1928 ), to be replaced by another monarchy ( 1928 – 1939 ), which was conquered into Fascist Italy during World War II.

Despite this, in an editorial in his newspaper Das Reich in November 1941 Goebbels quoted Hitler ’ s 1939 " prophecy " that the Jews would be the loser in the coming world war.

During the Molotov – Ribbentrop Pact negotiations, Ribbentrop was overjoyed by a report from his Ambassador in Moscow, Count Friedrich Werner von der Schulenburg, of a speech by the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin before the 18th Party Congress in March 1939 that was strongly anti-Western, which Schulenburg reported meant that the Soviet Union might be seeking an accord with Germany.

Ribbentrop's efforts were crowned with success with the signing of the Pact of Steel in May 1939, though this was accomplished only by falsely assuring Mussolini that there would be no war for the next three years.

In public, Ribbentrop expressed great fury at the Polish refusal to allow for Danzig's return to the Reich, or to grant Polish permission for the " extra-territorial " highways, but since these matters were only intended after March 1939 to be a pretext for German aggression, Ribbentrop always refused in private to allow for any talks between German and Polish diplomats about these matters.

Population censuses have been taken in Azerbaijan under Russian / Soviet rule in 1897, 1926, 1937, 1939, 1959, 1970, 1979, and 1989.

One night in September 1939 they took him to a large house owned by " Old Dorothy " Clutterbuck, a wealthy local woman, where he was made to strip naked and taken through an initiation ceremony.

Stalin also stated that the Polish government-in-exile demands for self-rule were not negotiable, such that the Soviet Union would keep the territory of eastern Poland they had already taken by invasion with German consent in 1939, and wanted the pro-Soviet Polish government installed.

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 ".

First lady Dolley Madison rescued a painting of George Washington, and in 1939, a Canadian man returned a jewelry box to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, claiming that his grandfather had taken it from Washington.

In 1939, he showed colour television using a cathode ray tube in front of which revolved a disc fitted with colour filters, a method taken up by CBS and RCA in the United States.

It was incorporated into the Byelorussian SSR from 1939 to 1941 as the capital of the Belastok Voblast After the Nazi attack on Soviet Union in 1941, the area was taken over by Germans and the city became the capital of Bezirk Białystok, a separate region in German occupied Poland, until 1944.

Raeder claimed that he was not involved in a conspiracy to commit aggression because Hitler's statements in the Hossbach Memorandum of 1937 and again to senior officers including Raeder for plans for a war with Poland in May and August 1939 together with Raeder's own statements to Hitler about seizing Norway in October – November 1939 were all just mere talk that was not to be taken seriously.

1939 New York World's Fair sundial, ( image taken in 1940 )

Photo taken in 1939

The company was taken over as one of the divisions in the new Farnsworth Radio and Television Company in 1939.

Immediately after the German occupation in September 1939 action was taken against the Jews in the form of fines, confiscation of property, forced labour, and the like.

On the day of the outbreak of World War II in September 1939, Chorzów was taken by Nazi Germany.

Built as a fishing trawler in 1936, the HMS Bradman was taken over by the Admiralty in 1939, but was sunk by German aircraft the following year.

Stalin stated that the Soviet Union would keep the territory of eastern Poland they had already taken via invasion in 1939, and wanted a pro-Soviet Polish government in power in what would remain of Poland.

Portions of the township were taken to form Shamong Township ( February 19, 1852 ), Lumberton Township ( March 14, 1860 ) and Medford Lakes ( May 17, 1939 ).

The report describes this as a violation of the Hatch Act of 1939, which restricts the use of public funds for partisan gain, but no action was taken by any entity with responsibility for enforcing the Hatch Act.

The play was subsequently taken on tour and performed at the Grand Theatre in Blackpool in July 1939, and the Prince's Theatre in Manchester in October 1939.

These figures are not necessarily the sums that were taken in during 1939 – and in particularly for films that made their premieres in October, November, and December.

There is a compact disc of one made by the violinist Alfredo Campoli which is taken from acetates of a French radio broadcast ; these are thought to date from early in 1939.

The museum was taken over by the National Trust in 1939.