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.

According to the National Statistical Service, during the January – August 2007 period, Armenia's industrial sector was the single largest contributor to the country's GDP, but remained largely stagnant with industrial output increasing only by 1. 7 percent per year.

National Tree Planting Day is on January 1.

Thus, on January 16, 1997, the Diamondbacks were officially voted into the National League while their expansion counterparts in Tampa Bay were voted into the American League.

Members founded the organization as the South African Native National Congress ( SANNC ) on 8 January 1912 at the Waaihoek Wesleyan Church in Bloemfontein to increase the rights of the black South African population.

National Alliance, launched in 1994, was officially founded in January 1995, when the Italian Social Movement ( MSI ), the former neo-fascist party, merged with conservative elements of the former Christian Democracy, which had disbanded in 1994 after two years of scandals and various splits due to corruption at its highest levels, exposed by the Mani Pulite investigation, and the Italian Liberal Party, disbanded in the same year.

In January 2009, that entity was upgraded to the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument by President George W. Bush.

In January 2007, she and her colleagues published an article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science and reported that they have found a virus-like particle ( but without finding nucleic acids so far ) in less than 10 % of the cells a scrapie-infected cell line and in a mouse cell line infected by a human CJD agent.

In January 2009, the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced a joint study to determine whether the ocean off the California coast was serving as a carbon source or a carbon sink.

Rolf Peterson investigating the carcass of a coyote killed by a wolf in Yellowstone National Park, January 1996

On 4 January 1982, Reagan signed the top secret National Security Decision Directive 17 ( NSDD-17 ), giving the CIA the authority to recruit and support the contras with $ 19 million in military aid.

The Brigada Especial de Seguridad Militar ( BESM ) is a unit of the armed forces that replaced the National Guard ( El Salvador ) in accordance with the peace accords of January 1992.

Although his expulsion would have formally taken effect on 4 January 1831, Galois quit school immediately and joined the staunchly Republican artillery unit of the National Guard.

On the 13 January 2011, the Computer Conservation Society announced that it had commissioned a working replica of EDSAC, to be built at The National Museum of Computing ( TNMoC ) in Bletchley Park.

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.

On January 4, 2004 Mikheil Saakashvili, leader of the United National Movement won the country's presidential election and was inaugurated on January 25.

In January 2009, that entity was upgraded to the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument by President George W. Bush.

Members of a second Albanian National Assembly held at Lushnjë in January 1920 rejected the partition plan and warned that Albanians would take up arms to defend their country's independence and territorial integrity.

The US National Weather Service has a 2. 5 cm ( 1 in ) or greater in diameter threshold, effective January 2010, an increase over the previous threshold of ¾-inch hail.

Elections for the National Assembly of Iraq were held on January 30, 2005 in Iraq.

On 1 January 1912 the National Telephone Company was nationalised and merged into the General Post Office by the Telephone Transfer Act 1911.

On January 30, 1998, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration ( NTIA ), an agency of the U. S. Department of Commerce, issued for comment, " A Proposal to Improve the Technical Management of Internet Names and Addresses.

* National Human Trafficking Awareness Day in the United States – January 11

In January 2009, that entity was upgraded to the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument by President George W. Bush.

On January 6th 2009, that entity was upgraded to the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument by President George W. Bush.