Raymond Chandler, who debuted as a novelist with The Big Sleep in 1939, soon became the most famous author of the hardboiled school.

Haruo Oka debuted with the 1939 song on the Japanese record label King Records.

In February 1939 James debuted his own big band in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Jones debuted the character in the 1939 short Naughty But Mice ( which is quite similar to Disney's " The Country Cousin " itself ) though he has nearly identical traits to the hero kitten in the 1938 short The Night Watchman.

Alvin Schwartz debuted in comics with an issue of Fairy Tale Parade in 1939.

In 1939, he organized the American Symphony Orchestra which debuted at Carnegie Hall.

Hopper debuted as host of her own radio program, The Hedda Hopper Show, November 6, 1939.

The character debuted in Detective Comics # 27 ( May 1939 ) and proved a breakout hit.

Only paperback editions were published until the " King Penguin " series debuted in 1939, and latterly the Pelican History of Art was undertaken: these were unsuitable as paperbacks because of the length and copious illustrations on art paper so cloth bindings were chosen instead.

This Fox Feature Syndicate version of the character debuted in Mystery Men Comics # 1 ( August 1939 ), and began appearing in his own 60-issue series shortly thereafter.

In late 1938, di Sarli reorganized his orchestra and in January 1939 debuted in Radio El Mundo.

On June 6, 1939, Russo debuted with the New York Yankees.

Adopting the stage name Craig Stevens, he debuted in a small role in 1939 and thereafter played mainly secondary parts.

It debuted on October 16, 1939 at the Music Box Theatre in New York City.

In 1937, O ' Neil debuted in the film Stella Dallas and in 1939 she was cast in the role of Ellen O ' Hara, Scarlett O ' Hara's mother, in Gone with the Wind, after the role was turned down by Lillian Gish.

His most notable creations during the Golden Age of Comic Books were The Human Bomb for Quality Comics, and the Angel, who debuted in Marvel Comics # 1 ( Oct. 1939 ), the first publication of Marvel Comics forerunner Timely Comics.

In 1939, at the age of 16, Minami Haruo debuted as a performer of rōkyoku, a type of narrative singing, under the name Fumiwaka Nanju ( 南條文若 Nanjū Fumiwaka ).

Two of Grace Kelly's uncles were prominent in the arts ; her father's eldest brother, Walter C. Kelly ( 1873 – 1939 ), was a vaudeville star whose nationally known act The Virginia Judge was filmed as a 1930 MGM short and a 1935 Paramount feature, and another older brother, George Kelly ( 1887 – 1974 ), estranged from the family due to his homosexuality, became renowned in the 1920s as a dramatist, screenwriter and director with a hit comedy-drama, The Show Off in 1924 – 25, and was awarded the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his next play, Craig's Wife.

In 1939, the Methodist Episcopal, Methodist Episcopal South, and the Protestant Methodist Churches voted to unite nationally and worldwide.

In 1939 nationally famous track star Jesse Owens came to Trenton to run promotional races against a variety of opponents such as a man on a horse, a man in a truck, as well as anyone who wanted to run against the Olympic Gold Medalist.

In late 1939, Lomax hosted a series on CBS's nationally broadcast American School of the Air, called American Folk Songs and Wellsprings of Music, a music appreciation course that aired daily in the schools and was supposed to highlight links between American folk and classical orchestral music.

Born in Leiden on 13 January 1923, Slijkhuis began his international sports career shortly after World War II, having competed nationally since 1939.

In 1939, OSF took a production of The Taming of the Shrew to the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco, California that was nationally broadcast on radio.

In 1939 the hit song " Tuxedo Junction " made the spot nationally famous.

Since 1939, relations with the United Church of Canada have improved, through involvement in ecumenical partnerships locally, nationally, and internationally.

George Michael ( March 24, 1939 – December 24, 2009 ) was an American broadcaster best known nationally for The George Michael Sports Machine, his long-running sports highlights television program.

Six years earlier, in 1939, he had joined the National Action Party ( PAN ) on December 6, 1939 as a youth group member, an institution he represented twice in the Chamber of Deputies and presided both locally and nationally before leaving it in the early 1990s.

W. E. Ford, for example, continued to supply data on the occurrence of minerals until his death in 1939.

Symbolically, Marian Anderson ( a noted opera singer of her day ) sang a rendition of " America the Beautiful " on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1939 after being refused use of Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution because of her skin color.

In 1939, Orson Welles and the Mercury Players dramatized The Murder of Roger Ackroyd on CBS's Campbell Playhouse.

In 1939 he met with Trappist monk Alexis Presse on a recommendation.

* 1939 – Nazi Germany mounts a staged attack on the Gleiwitz radio station, creating an excuse to attack Poland the following day thus starting World War II in Europe.

The highest maximum temperature recorded in the ACT was 42. 8 ° C ( 109. 0 ° F ) at Acton on 11 January 1939.

The world's first fatal hijacking occurred on 28 October 1939.

Until 1939 iron ore was mined on the Braunenberg hill.

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.

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 ).

On 1 September 1939 this unit was one of the many that participated in the attack on Poland that started the war.

There he quashed an Arab revolt before returning in July 1939 to Britain, suffering a serious illness on the way, to command the 3rd ( Iron ) Infantry Division.

Britain declared war on Germany on 3 September 1939.

The first wave of the Government Code and Cypher School ( GC & CS ) moved to Bletchley Park on 15 August 1939.

During the Sino-Japanese War ( 1937 – 1945 ) and World War II ( 1939 – 1945 ), the Special Research Units of the Imperial Japanese Army, such as Unit 731, conducted human experimentation on thousands of Chinese, among others.

The city was a Republican stronghold during the Spanish Civil War, and the fall of the city on 26 January 1939 caused a mass exodus of civilians who fled to the French border.

Writing on Doctrine and Training in the German Army 1919 – 1939, O ’ Neill stated:

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

Between 1939 and 1943, four different stories featuring Flossy appeared on American Weekly covers.

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.

Building on this article, Pauling's 1939 textbook: On the Nature of the Chemical Bond would become what some have called the " Bible " of modern chemistry.

Early landmarks of the secondary literature include the monographs by Buchler ( 1939 ), Feibleman ( 1946 ), and Goudge ( 1950 ), the 1941 Ph. D. thesis by Arthur W. Burks ( who went on to edit volumes 7 and 8 ), and the studies edited by Wiener and Young ( 1952 ).

The last horsed regiment of the Indian Army ( other than the Viceregal Bodyguard and some Indian States Forces regiments ) was the 19th King George's Own Lancers which had its last mounted parade at Rawalpindi on 28 October 1939.