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

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.

Relations further deteriorated when, in January 1948, the U. S. State Department also published a collection of documents titled Nazi-Soviet Relations, 1939 – 1941: Documents from the Archives of The German Foreign Office, which contained documents recovered from the Foreign Office of Nazi Germany revealing Soviet conversations with Germany regarding the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, including its secret protocol dividing eastern Europe, the 1939 German-Soviet Commercial Agreement, and discussions of the Soviet Union potentially becoming the fourth Axis Power.

Their first child, Llewelyn Edouard, was born on 30 January 1939.

Nature eventually did publish Fermi's report on beta decay on January 16, 1939.

Soon after his arrival in New York City ( January 2, 1939 ), Fermi began working at Columbia University, where he had already given summer lectures in 1936 While at Columbia from 1939 – 42, until they moved to Chicago, Fermi and his wife resided in Leonia, New Jersey.

Following an advice of George Placzek, Frisch confirmed this experimentally on 13 January 1939.

On 25 January 1939, a Columbia University team conducted the first nuclear fission experiment in the United States, which was done in the basement of Pupin Hall ; the members of the team were Herbert L. Anderson, Eugene T. Booth, John R. Dunning, Enrico Fermi, G. Norris Glasoe, and Francis G. Slack.

:" I remember very vividly the first month, January, 1939, that I started working at the Pupin Laboratories because things began happening very fast.

In 1933 Wells predicted in The Shape of Things to Come that the world war he feared would begin January 1940, a prediction which ultimately came true just four months early, when the Second World War broke out in September 1939.

Ribbentrop first seems to have considered the idea of a pact with the Soviet Union after an unsuccessful visit to Warsaw in January 1939, when the Poles again refused Ribbentrop's demands about Danzig, the " extra-territorial " roads across the Polish Corridor and the Anti-Comintern Pact.

Voroshilov commanded Soviet troops during the Winter War from November 1939 to January 1940, but, due to his poor planning and overall incompetence, the Red Army suffered about 185, 000 casualties.

Konoe, stating that he was tired of being a " robot " for the military, resigned in January 1939, and was appointed chairman of the Privy Council.

Oswald was born in New Orleans on October 18, 1939, to Marguerite Frances ( née Claverie ; New Orleans, Louisiana, July 19, 1907 – Fort Worth, Texas, January 17, 1981 ) and Robert Edward Lee Oswald, Sr. ( New Orleans, Louisiana, March 4, 1896 – New Orleans, August 19, 1939 ).

She married Owen Moore ( 1886 – 1939 ), an Irish-born silent film actor, on January 7, 1911.

The Pope's appointment of two Jews to the Vatican Academy of Science as well as the hiring of Almagia were reported by The New York Times in the editions of 11 November 1939, and 10 January 1940.

As of 24 January 2011, seven former premiers are alive, the oldest being Tony Rundle ( 1996 – 98, born 1939 ).

In November 1938, Walther von Brauchitsch ordered construction of an A-4 Production Plant at Peenemünde, and in January 1939, Walter Dornberger created a subsection of Wa Pruf 11 for planning the Peenemünde Production Plant project, headed by G. Schubert, a senior Army civil servant.

* Lawrence Arthur Dumoulin Cannon ( January 14, 1930 – December 25, 1939 )

William Butler Yeats ( ; 13 June 186528 January 1939 ) was an Irish poet and playwright, and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature.

* January 16 – Laurent-Désiré Kabila, president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ( b. 1939 )

The 1930s, or the Thirties, was the decade that started on January 1, 1930 and ended on December 31, 1939.

On 30 January 1933, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party came to power.

Hitler had no sympathy with the syndicalist tendencies of the NSBO, and in January 1934 a new Law for the Ordering of National Labour effectively suppressed independent working-class factory organisations, even Nazi ones, and put questions of wages and conditions in the hands of the Trustees of Labour ( Treuhänder der Arbeit ), dominated by the employers.

Adolf Hitler came to power in January 1933, and by March 30, the new regime banned it as an incitement to public disorder.

In a more specific sense, Gleichschaltung refers to the legal measures taken by the government during the first months following January 30, 1933, when Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany.

Hitler led a short-lived coalition government and was appointed chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg on 30 January 1933.

On 1 January 1945 Hitler and his generals launched Operation North Wind ( Unternehmen Nordwind ).

On 25 January 1945, in spite of Himmler's lack of military experience, Hitler appointed him as commander of the hastily-formed Army Group Vistula ( Heeresgruppe Weichsel ) to halt the Soviet Red Army's Vistula – Oder Offensive into Pomerania.

When Hitler was appointed Reich Chancellor of Germany on 30 January 1933, Goebbels was initially given no office: the coalition cabinet Hitler headed contained only a minority of Nazis as part of the deal he had negotiated with President Paul von Hindenburg and the conservative parties.

On 22 January 1933, Meissner and Hindenburg's son met Hitler, Göring, and Frick at Ribbentrop's home in Berlin's exclusive Dahlem district.

The end result was that Hitler was appointed Chancellor on 30 January 1933.

In the first of his two reports to Hitler, which was presented on 2 January 1938, Ribbentrop stated that " England is our most dangerous enemy ".

Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor on 30 January 1933 and sought to gain international respectability and to remove internal opposition by representatives of the Church and the Catholic Centre Party.

Columbushaus was completed and opened in January 1933, the same month that the Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler ( 1889 – 1945 ) came to power.

On January 6, 1929, Hitler appointed Himmler as the leader of the SS, and by the end of 1932, the SS had 52, 000 members.

* January 27 – Adolf Hitler orders Plan Z, a 5-year naval expansion programme intended to provide for a huge German fleet capable of crushing the Royal Navy by 1944.

* January 30 – Hitler gives a speech before the Reichstag calling for an " export battle " to increase German foreign exchange holdings.

* January 10 – WWII: The last German air-raid on Liverpool destroys the home of William Patrick Hitler, Adolf Hitler's nephew.

* January 23 – Aviator Charles Lindbergh testifies before the U. S. Congress and recommends that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Adolf Hitler.

* January 3 – Alois Hitler, Austrian civil servant, father of Adolf Hitler ( b. 1837 )

* January 13 – Alois Hitler, Jr., Austrian elder half-brother of Adolf Hitler ( d. 1956 )

* January 8 – Helmuth Hubener, German youth political activist against the Hitler regime ( d. 1942 )

Adolf Hitler was sworn in as Chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933.