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25 August 25, 1939 (Friday) 26 August 26, ... The following events occurred in August 1939: August 1, 1939 (Tuesday) Prohibition went into effect in Bombay. [1]
General Ariosto Herrera. The Ariostazo (Spanish: El Ariostazo) occurred on August 25, 1939, and was a brief revolt of the Tacna artillery regiment, led by General Ariosto Herrera, in what turned out to be a non-violent attempt against the government of Chilean President Pedro Aguirre Cerda.
The 1939 Coventry bombing was an act of terrorism committed by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) on 25 August 1939 in which a 5.1 lb (2.3 kg) bomb upon a bicycle was placed in Coventry city centre in the West Midlands of England as part of the organisation's 1939–40 S-Plan campaign. [2]
Jablunkov Pass seen from the old fortifications. Jabłonków incident (Polish: Incydent jabłonkowski, Czech: Jablunkovský incident) refers to the events of the night of 25–26 August 1939, along the Polish-Slovak border, when a group of German Abwehr agents attacked a rail station in Mosty.
1939 was a common year ... an event which will be commemorated as International Students' Day. ... August 25 – Arthur Asquith, British general (b. 1883)
August 15 – MGM's classic color musical film The Wizard of Oz, based on L. Frank Baum's famous novel, and starring Judy Garland as Dorothy, premieres at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. On August 25 it is released in movie theaters throughout the United States.
On August 26, 1939 Major League Baseball was televised for the first time. 1920: The 19th amendment was adopted, giving women the right to vote. 1944: Charles de Gaulle enters Paris, one day after ...
Because of the pact's signing, Hitler postponed his planned invasion of Poland from 26 August until 1 September. [15] On the night of 25–26 August, a German sabotage group, unaware of the delay, made an attack on the Jablunkov Pass and Mosty railway station in Silesia. On the morning of 26 August, this group was repelled by Polish troops.