Until 1939 iron ore was mined on the Braunenberg hill.

Until the Winter War ( 1939 – 40 ), Finland's territory also reached to the Barents Sea, with the harbor at Petsamo being Finland's only ice-free winter harbor.

Until World War II ( 1939 – 1945 ), most Māori people spoke Māori as their first language.

Until the reorganization begun by Nikolai Yezhov with a purge of the regional political police in the autumn of 1936 and formalized by a May 1939 directive of the All-Union NKVD by which all appointments to the local political police were controlled from the center, there was frequent tension between centralized control of local units and the collusion of those units with local and regional party elements, frequently resulting in the thwarting of Moscow's plans.

In 1939, it was renamed Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, Inc., and in 1956 the name was changed to Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc. Until 2000, a member of the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses was president of both the Watch Tower ( Pennsylvania ) and Watchtower ( New York ) corporations, as well as Britain's International Bible Students Association corporation ; in 2001, it was decided that the corporations ' directors need not be members of the Governing Body.

Until World War II ( 1939 – 1945 ) most Māori people spoke Māori as their first language but by the 1980s fewer than 20 % of Māori spoke the language well enough to be classed as native speakers.

Until 1939, when the Native Treasuries Ordinance was passed, however, there was no provision for local budgets.

Until 1939 there were several ( 7, if I recall correctly ) banovinas all having borders that were not equal to national borders ( with intention of unifying peoples into Yugoslavs ).

Until 1939, when created into a separate prefecture, the area was part of the Thessaloniki Prefecture.

Until his death in 2007, the second Earl Jellicoe was the longest-serving member of the Lords, and technically the longest-serving parliamentarian in the world, having taken his seat in 1939.

Until 1939, the Russian Jews were about 5, 000 in Shanghai.

Until 1939, Japanese authorities based in Seoul oppressed the movement to stop the congregation of Korean social activists for the festival.

Until 1939, the faculty and students supported an all-India nationalist movement.

Until September 18, 1939, when the Red Army entered the city, an honorary guard of three soldiers stood there at all times.

Until 1945 he was the internationally recognized Polish head of state, and the Polish Government in Exile was recognized as the continuum to the Polish government of 1939.

Until just preceding the Second World War in 1939, the Herrick family owned the park.

Until this time it was located in the area of modern Salyan, and during the year it become part of the Khilly region, organized on January 24, 1939.

Until February 11, 1939 Siyazan Rayon was a part of Absheron Rayon.

Until the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, the station was open to the public.

Until 1939 the only access to the area was through Tennessee or Alabama, however that year Georgia began work on Highway 136 to connect U. S. 41 to the recently created park.

Until the Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939 ( and indeed for some time afterwards ), the club's output included many authors who were members of the Communist Party of Great Britain or close to it, and it avoided any criticism of Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union, refusing Orwell's Homage to Catalonia.

Until mobilization in 1939, the combat-ready rifles were held in closed crates enigmatically marked: " Do not open!

Until 1939 Horten acquired several other department stores and enjoyed a good relationship with the Nazi government despite the fact that his grandfather, the ( later ) Catholic saint Titus Maria Horten died in custody in 1936.

Until March 14, 1939, when Slovakia declared its independence, the Hlinka Guard attracted recruits from all walks of life.

Until recently there were restrictions on the import of bananas to Greece, therefore bananas were grown on the island, predominantly in greenhouses.

Until the early 19th century Africans were captured, kidnapped, and forced into slavery to work on plantations when sugarcane became the most important export of the island.

Until the late 18th century, the island of Madagascar was ruled by a fragmented assortment of shifting socio-political alliances.

Until the Holocene, tigers also lived in Borneo, as well as on the island of Palawan in the Philippines.

Until after the Second World War the western part of the island of New Guinea was part of the Dutch colony of the Netherlands Indies.

Until 1344 the island was part of the Kingdom of Majorca, a vassal state of the Crown of Aragon.

Until the mid 19th century Sylt was an island almost completely devoid of trees, only artificial plantations created small areas of forest and bush.

Until the twentieth century, Ainu languages were also spoken throughout the southern half of the island of Sakhalin and by small numbers of people in the Kuril Islands.

Until the time of the airport's construction, the only air service to the island was provided by seaplanes.

Until the twentieth century, Goshen was an island in a marsh at the edge of Tulare Lake, formerly the largest freshwater lake west of the Great Lakes until drained.

Until Hall's voyage in 1861, the Bay was thought by Europeans to be a strait separating Baffin Island from another island.

Until massive flooding in 2008, the city's government was headquartered in the Veterans Memorial Building, near the Linn County Courthouse and jail on Mays Island in the Cedar River ; Cedar Rapids was one of few cities in the world with governmental offices on a municipal island.

Until October 2007, individual traffic from the mainland to the island of Rügen was mainly route along the two-lane Rügendamm causeway, running between Stralsund and Altefähr over the sound of Strelasund.

Until January 1, 2007, Fredensborg-Humlebæk Kommune was a municipality ( Danish, kommune ) on the east coast of the island of Zealand ( Sjælland ) in eastern Denmark.

Until January 1, 2007, Frederiksværk was also a municipality ( Danish, kommune ) in Frederiksborg County on the island of Zealand ( Sjælland ) in eastern Denmark, located between Lake Arre ( Arresø ) and Roskilde Fjord.

Until January 1, 2007, Græsted-Gilleleje was a municipality ( Danish, kommune ) in Frederiksborg County on the north coast of the island of Zealand ( Sjælland ) in eastern Denmark.

Until 1 January 2007, Helsinge was a municipality ( Danish, kommune ) in Frederiksborg County on the north coast of the island of Zealand ( Sjælland ) in eastern Denmark.

Until January 1, 2007 Sydlangeland municipality was a municipality ( Danish, kommune ) in the former Funen County on the island of Langeland in south-central Denmark.

Until January 1, 2007 Ledøje-Smørum was a municipality ( Danish, kommune ) in Copenhagen County on Zealand ( Sjælland ) island in eastern Denmark, then merged into Egedal.

Until January 1, 2007, Søllerød was a municipality ( Danish, kommune ) in Copenhagen County on the east coast of the island of Zealand ( Sjælland ) in eastern Denmark.

Until January 1, 2007 Løkken-Vrå was a municipality ( Danish, kommune ) in North Jutland County on the northwest coast of the island of Vendsyssel-Thy at the top of the Jutland peninsula in northern Denmark.

Until January 1, 2007 Thyholm was a municipality ( Danish, kommune ) in the former Ringkjøbing County on the island of Vendsyssel-Thy, a part of the Jutland peninsula in northwest Denmark.

Until January 1, 2007, Bramsnæs was a municipality ( Danish, kommune ) in Roskilde County on the island of Zealand in east Denmark.