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Centuries:
19th
century - 20th century
- 21st
century
Decades:
1880s
- 1890s
- 1900s
- 1910s
- 1920s
- 1930s
- 1940s
- 1950s
- 1960s
- 1970s
- 1980s
Years: 1934
- 1935
- 1936
- 1937
- 1938
- 1939 - 1940
- 1941
- 1942
- 1943
- 1944
Events:
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January 26 - Spanish
Civil War: Troops loyal to Francisco Franco and aided by Italy take
Barcelona.
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February 27 - Sit-down strikes are outlawed by the Supreme Court of the
United States.
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March 2 - Pius
XII becomes Pope
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March 3 - In Bombay,
Mohandas
Gandhi begins to fast in protest of the autocratic rule in India.
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March 15 - Nazi troops occupy Bohemia, Moravia and part of Czechoslovakia.
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March 22 - World War II: Germany takes Memel from Lithuania
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March 28 - Dictator Francisco Franco conquers Madrid, ending the Spanish
Civil War
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April 4 - Faisal II becomes King of Iraq.
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April 7 - World
War II: Italy
invades Albania.
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August 23 - Hitler and Stalin divides eastern Europe between themselves.
Finland, the Baltic states and eastern Poland to USSR. Western Poland to
Germany (Molotov-Ribbentrop
Pact)
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August 27 - A Heinkel 178, the first jet-powered aircraft, flies for the
last time.
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September 1 - Nazi Germany invades Poland, thus beginning World War II
in Europe
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September 3 - France and the United Kingdom declare war on Germany.
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September 10 - Canada declares war on Germany.
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September 17 - Soviet Union invades Poland and then occupies eastern Polish
territories.
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September 27 - Warsaw surrender to Germans; Modlin surrender day later;
last Polish large operational unit surrender near Kock eight days later.
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November 30 - Soviet Union attacks Finland, starting the Winter
War.
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December 25 - A Christmas Carol was read before a radio audience
for the first time.
Art, Culture & Fashion
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1939
in film
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1939
in literature
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1939
in music
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1939
in television
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April - television demonstrations are held at the World's Fair in New
York and the Golden Gate International Exhibition in San
Francisco
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April 30 - Franklin
Delano Roosevelt, appearing at the World's Fair, becomes the first
U.S. president to give a speech that is broadcast on television
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May 17 - The first baseball
game (Princeton-Columbia) is broadcast on television, from Baker
Field in New
York. Bill
Stern was the announcer
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June 1 - The first heavyweight boxing match is televised, Max
Baer vs Lou
Nova, form Yankee
Stadium.
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August 26 - The first major league baseball
game is telecast, a double-header between the Cincinnati
Reds and the Brooklyn
Dodgers at Ebbets
Field, in Brooklyn.
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September 1 - As the war began, the BBC
abruptly stopped its broadcasting in the middle of a Mickey
Mouse cartoon (The BBC would resume its broadcasting at that same point
after the war in 1945)
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The DuMont
company begins producing consumer television sets
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September 30 - The first televised college football
game, Fordham vs Waynesburg, at Randall's
Island, New
York.
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October 22 - The first NFL
game is televised. The Brooklyn
Dodgers vs Philadelphia
Eagles at Ebbetts
Field in Brooklyn.
Births:
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January 3 - Bobby
Hull, hockey player
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January 10 - Bill
Toomey, track
and field athlete
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January 10 - Sal
Mineo, actor (+ 1976)
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January 21 - Wolfman
Jack, disk
jockey, actor (+ 1995)
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January 24 - Doug
Kershaw, musician
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January 24 - Ray
Stevens, country
music musician
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January 29 - Germaine
Greer, writer, feminist
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February 6 - Mike
Farrell, actor
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February 10 - Roberta
Flack, singer
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February 11 - Jane
Hyatt Yolen, science
fiction author.
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February 12 - Ray
Manzarek, keyboardist
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February 23 - Peter
Fonda, actor
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February 23 - Majel
Barrett, actress
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February 28 - Erika
Pluhar, actress and singer
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February 28 - Tommy
Tune, dancer, choreographer, actor
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March 13 - Neil
Sedaka, singer
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March 19 - Joe
Kapp, American
football star
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March 20 - Brian
Mulroney, eighteenth Prime
Minister of Canada
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March 26 - James
Caan, actor
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March 27 - Cale
Yarborough, NASCAR
racer
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March 31 - Volker
Schlöndorff, film director
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April 2 - Marvin
Gaye, singer (+ 1984)
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April 4 - Hugh
Masakela, musician
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April 7 - Francis
Ford Coppola, American
film director
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April 7 - Sir David
Frost, broadcaster, television
host
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June 6 - Louis
Andriessen, Dutch composer
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July 26 - John
Howard, Australian Prime Minister
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August 5 - Princess
Irene of the Netherlands
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October 14 - Ralph
Lauren, American fashion designer
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November 23 - Bill
Bissett, Canadian anti-conventional poet
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December 18 - Michael
Moorcock, English science fiction author
Deaths:
Nobel
Prizes:
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