Van Vogt's first published SF story, " Black Destroyer " ( Astounding Science Fiction, July 1939 ), was inspired by Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin.

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.

A third paper, The Magic Comic, aimed at a slightly younger audience, followed in July 1939, but ceased publication in early 1941, due to paper rationing.

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.

In July 1939 Mountbatten was granted a patent ( UK Number 508, 956 ) for a system for maintaining a warship in a fixed position relative to another ship.

Mountbatten's qualification for offering advice to this particular heir to the throne was unique ; it was he who had arranged the visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth to Dartmouth Royal Naval College on 22 July 1939, taking care to include the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret in the invitation, but assigning his nephew, Cadet Prince Philip of Greece, to keep them amused while their parents toured the facility.

For example, a Dinosaur is a member who was active before the first Worldcon ( World Science Fiction Convention ) held on July 4, 1939, while Associate Membership requires provable activity in fandom for more than three decades.

Orwell spent time in Wallington and Southwold working on a Dickens essay and it was in July 1939 that Orwell's father, Richard Blair, died.

In order to enter at a talent competition at University High School, Berry and Torrence helped form a doo-wop group known as " The Barons " ( named after their high school's Hi-Y club, where they were members ), which comprised fellow University High students William " Chuck " Steele ( lead singer ), Arnold P. " Arnie " Ginsburg ( born November 19, 1939 ) ( 1st tenor ), Wallace S. " Wally " Yagi ( born 20 July 1940 ) ( 2nd tenor ), John ' Sagi " Seligman ( 2nd tenor ), with Berry singing bass, and Torrence providing falsetto.

The present meaning of " Judeo-Christian " regarding ethics first appeared in print on July 27, 1939, with the phrase " the Judaeo-Christian scheme of morals " in the New English Weekly.

As part of the fierce diplomatic competition in Ankara in the spring and summer of 1939 between von Papen on the one hand, and on the other the French Ambassador, René Massigli, and the British Ambassador, Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen, to win the allegiance of Turkey to either the Axis or the Allies, Ribbentrop suffered a major reversal in July 1939 when Massigli was able to arrange for major French arms shipments to Turkey on credit, to replace the weapons the Germans refused to deliver to the Turks.

In July 1939, Ribbentrop's claims about Bonnet's alleged statement of December 1938 were to lead to a lengthy war of words via a series of letters to the French newspapers between Bonnet and Ribbentrop over just what precisely Bonnet had said to Ribbentrop.

In July 1939 Philby returned to the Times office in London.

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 ).

The absence of a strategic bomber force for the Luftwaffe, following General Wever's accidental death in 1936 and the end of the Ural bomber program he fostered before the invasion of Poland, would not be addressed again until the authorization of the Bomber B design competition in July 1939, which sought to replace the medium bomber force with which the Luftwaffe was to begin the war, with more advanced, twin-engined high speed bomber aircraft fitted with pairs of relatively " high-power " engines of 1, 500 kW ( 2, 000 hp ) output levels and upwards each, that would also be able to function as shorter range heavy bombers.

Improvised incendiary devices were used for the first time in the Spanish Civil War between July 1936 and April 1939, before they became known as " Molotov cocktails ".

In late July and early August 1939, Soviet and German officials agreed on most of the details for a planned economic agreement, and specifically addressed a potential political agreement, which the Soviets stated could only come after an economic agreement.

" O Canada " had served as a de facto national anthem since 1939, officially becoming Canada's national anthem in 1980 when the Act of Parliament making it so received Royal Assent and became effective on July 1 as part of that year's Dominion Day celebrations.

In July 1939, Forrest J. Ackerman gave nineteen year old Ray Bradbury the money to head to New York for the First World Science Fiction Convention in New York City, and funded Ray Bradbury's fanzine, titled Futuria Fantasia.

Siam is an exonym that was used as the name of Thailand before 24 June 1939 and again from 8 September 1945 to 20 July 1949 ; see History of Thailand.

On 25 July 1939, just five weeks before the outbreak of World War II, the Polish Cipher Bureau handed reconstructed Enigma machines and their techniques for decrypting ciphers to their French and British allies.

Willkie on the cover of TIME Magazine, July 31, 1939

* Spanish Civil War ( 17 July 1936 – 1 April 1939 ) – Germany and Italy back anti-communist Falange forces of Francisco Franco.

1130 / 35-died 8 July 1171 / 75 ), was a Polish princess member of the House of Piast and by marriage Margravine of Brandenburg.

Janusz Andrzej Zajdel ( 15 August 1938 in Warsaw – 19 July 1985 in Warsaw ) was a prominent Polish science fiction author, second in popularity in Poland after Stanisław Lem.

During Napoleon's invasion of Prussia during the War of the Fourth Coalition, the town was besieged from mid-March to July 2, 1807, by the Grande Armée and by Polish forces drawn from insurgents against Prussian rule ( a street named for the commander leading Polish soldiers is located within the present-day city ).

These were first established in July 1945, when the Soviets forcibly ejected newly arrived Polish inhabitants from the parts of the city they wanted for their own use.

Leszek Cezary Miller ( born 3 July 1946 in Żyrardów ) is a Polish central-left-wing politician, and current leader of the Democratic Left Alliance.

He began his political career in 1980 / 1981 as one of the leaders of the Students ' Solidarity ; he was governor of the Gdańsk Voivodship from August 1990 to July 1996, and was elected to the Sejm ( the lower house of the Polish parliament ) in September 1997.

After the war, the League of Nations held the East Prussian plebiscite on 11 July 1920 to determine if the people of the southern districts of East Prussia wanted to remain within East Prussia or to join the Second Polish Republic. The German side terrorized the local population before the plebiscite using violence, Polish organisations and activists were harassed by German militias, and those actions included attacks and murder of Polish activists ; Masurs who supported voting for Poland were singled out and subjected to terror and repressions

Polish masses were banned between June and July in Warmia and Mazury.

She attended the funeral of Lady Bird Johnson in Austin, Texas on July 14, 2007 and three days later accepted the highest Polish distinction, the Order of the White Eagle, on behalf of Ronald Reagan at the Reagan Library.

Shortly after its defeat in the battle of Warsaw, the retreating Red Army, in order to delay the Polish advance, ceded the city to Lithuania after signing the Soviet-Lithuanian Treaty on 12 July 1920.

In July 1944, Vilnius was taken from the Germans by the Soviet Army and the Polish Armia Krajowa ( see Operation Ostra Brama and the Vilnius Offensive ).

Witold Marian Gombrowicz ( August 4, 1904 in Małoszyce, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, Congress Poland, Russian Empire – July 24, 1969 in Vence, near Nice, France ) was a Polish novelist and dramatist.

* July 29 – Edward Gierek, Polish politician ( b. 1913 )

* July 24 – Witold Gombrowicz, Polish novelist and dramatist ( b. 1904 )

* July 17 – Bruno Jasieński, Polish poet ( died 1938 )

* July 23 – Adam Czerniakow, Polish engineer and senator ( suicide ) ( b. 1880 )

* July 4 – Wladyslaw Sikorski, Polish politician ( b. 1881 )

* July 4 – The Holocaust: The Mass murder of Polish scientists and writers is committed by German troops in the captured Polish city of Lwów.

* July 4 – Antoni Łomnicki, Polish mathematician ( b. 1881 )

* July 30 – Robert Korzeniowski, Polish racewalker