Let's learn about 1939!!!

Year 1939 History Facts from Wilikipedia.

Wow, after reading over historical facts from this year, many more educated people than I, already know that this is the year that WWII began.  What a crazy time period to be learning about.  Something we hear about from education all our teenage and young adult life.  I am interested to see how the literature of this time is effected by the on goings taking place.

January

• January 5 – Amelia Earhart is officially declared dead after her disappearance.
• 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.

February

• February 21 – The Golden Gate International Exposition opens in San Francisco, California.
• February 27: Sit-down strikes are outlawed by the Supreme Court of the United States.

March

• March 15 – German troops occupy the remaining part of Bohemia and Moravia; Czechoslovakia ceases to exist. The Ruthenian region of Czechoslovakia declares independence as Carpatho-Ukraine.
• March 22 – After an ultimatum of March 20, Nazi Germany takes Memelland from Lithuania.

 April

• April 1 – The Spanish Civil War comes to an end when the last of the Republican forces surrender.
• April 3 – Adolf Hitler orders the German military to start planning for Fall Weiss, the codename for the invasion of Poland.
• April 14
• John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath is first published.
• April 30 – The 1939 New York World's Fair opens.

May

• May 1 – Batman, created by Bob Kane (and, unofficially, Bill Finger) makes his first appearance in a comic book.
• May 2 – Major League Baseball's Lou Gehrig, the legendary Yankee first baseman known as "The Iron Horse", ends his 2,130 consecutive games played streak after contracting amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The record stands for 56 years before Cal Ripken, Jr. plays 2,131 consecutive games.

 June

• June 4 – The St. Louis, a ship carrying a cargo of 907 Jewish refugees, is denied permission to land in Florida after already having been turned away from Cuba. Forced to return to Europe, many of its passengers later die in Nazi death camps during the Holocaust.
• June 12 – The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is officially dedicated in Cooperstown, New York.
• June 24 – The government of Siam changes its name to Thailand, which means 'Free Land'.^[1]

July

• July 2 – The 1st World Science Fiction Convention opens in New York City.
• July 2 – Theodore Roosevelt's head is dedicated at Mount Rushmore.
• July 6 – The last remaining Jewish enterprises in Germany are closed by the Nazis.
• July 23 – Mahatma Gandhi the spiritual leader from India writes a personal letter to Adolf Hitler addressing him "My friend", requesting to prevent any possible war.

 August

• August 2 – Albert Einstein writes to President Franklin Roosevelt about developing the atomic bomb using uranium. This leads to the creation of the Manhattan Project.
• August 23 – Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact: Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin agree to divide Europe between Germany and the Soviet Union (Finland, Estonia, Latvia, eastern Poland and Bessarabia (today Moldova), north-east province of Romania to the Soviet Union; Lithuania and western Poland to Germany)..
• MGM's classic musical film The Wizard of Oz, based on L. Frank Baum's famous novel, and starring Judy Garland as Dorothy, is released in theaters everywhere.

September

• September 3 – World War II:
• The United Kingdom, France, New Zealand and Australia declare war on Germany.
• September 5 – World War II: The United States declares its neutrality in the war.
• September 10 – World War II: Canada declares war on Germany.
• September 17 – World War II: The Soviet Union invades Poland and then occupies eastern Polish territories.
• September 29 – Gerald J. Cox, speaking at an American Water Works Association meeting, becomes the first person to publicly propose the fluoridation of public water supplies in the United States.

October

• October 11 – Manhattan Project: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt is presented a letter signed by Albert Einstein, urging the United States to rapidly develop the atomic bomb.
• October 14 – The German U-Boat U-47 sinks the British battleship HMS Royal Oak.
• October 24 – Nylon stockings go on sale for the first time anywhere in Wilmington, Delaware.

 November

• November 8 – In Munich, an attempt to kill Adolf Hitler is made by Georg Elser while Hitler is celebrating the 16th anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch.
• November 15 – In Washington, D.C., U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt lays the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial.
• November 16 – Al Capone is released from Alcatraz.

December

December 2 – La Guardia Airport opens for business in New York City..

• December 15 – The film Gone with the Wind, starring Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Olivia de Havilland and Leslie Howard, premieres at Loew's Grand Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia. It is based on Margaret Mitchell's best-selling novel. It is the longest American film made up to that time (nearly four hours).

 Undated

• CBS Television begins transmission.
• General Motors introduces the Hydra-Matic drive, the first mass-produced, fully automatic transmission, as an option in 1940 model year Oldsmobile automobiles.

Okay I want to know what you thought was interesting in the dates?  Yes I understand the heavy importance of WWII, so I want to know one WWII fact that made you think and then one other.  For example

My WWII fact: the boat that was turned away. (June) 

My other fact: so many historical places were just starting.  Jefferson Memorial, San Fran Bridge, NY Airport.  Funny how these places I have always excepted as being there!  Never really thought of when they were made!