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Events from the year 1939 in the United Kingdom. ... Rachael Heyhoe Flint, England cricketer (died 2017) Jackie Stewart, Scottish racing driver; 14 June ...
October 1939 events in the United Kingdom (5 P) This page was last ...
Evacuee schoolchildren leave Stepney in London at 5 am on 1 September 1939. 25 August 1939 The National Defence Companies (a voluntary reserve force of former servicemen) are mobilised to protect "vulnerable points". [2] 30 August 1939 The Fleet proceeds to its war stations. The Royal Navy is much stronger than Germany's Kriegsmarine. It has ...
1939 in England (4 C, 22 P) 1939 in Northern Ireland (4 C, 2 P) ... 1939 events in the United Kingdom by month (7 C) / 1939 disestablishments in the United Kingdom (6 ...
This is a timeline of events of World War II in 1939 from the start of the war on 1 September 1939. For events preceding September 1, 1939, see the timeline of events preceding World War II. Germany's invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 brought many countries into the war. This event, and the declaration of war by France and Britain two days ...
1939 Batley and Morley by-election; 1939 Birmingham Aston by-election; 1939 Colne Valley by-election; 1939 Coventry bombing; 1939 Holderness by-election; 1939 Hythe by-election; 1939 Macclesfield by-election; 1939 Portsmouth South by-election; 1939 Ripon by-election; 1939 Sheffield Hallam by-election; 1939 Stretford by-election; 1939 Wells by ...
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The British pet massacre was a week-long event in 1939 in which an estimated 400,000 cats and dogs, a quarter of England's pet population, were killed so that food used for animals could be reserved to prepare for World War II food shortages.