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The year 1939 in science and technology involved some significant events, ... August 2 – The Einstein–Szilard letter is signed by Albert Einstein, ...
November 4 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Neutrality Act of 1939 into law. [8] The arms embargo previously put into place by the Neutrality Act of 1937 is lifted and put any trade with nations engaged in war under cash-and-carry grounds. [10]
The following list ranks the number-one best-selling fiction books. The two most popular books that year were The Grapes of Wrath , by John Steinbeck , which held on top of the list for 24 weeks, and All This and Heaven Too by Rachel Field , which was on top of the list for 14 weeks.
Pages in category "1939 books" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Modern copyright law has been influenced by an array of older legal rights that have been recognized throughout history, including the moral rights of the author who created a work, the economic rights of a benefactor who paid to have a copy made, the property rights of the individual owner of a copy, and a sovereign's right to censor and to ...
Wonder Man was created by Will Eisner in the Eisner & Iger Shop for Victor Fox, who was publishing astrology magazines when he ran across his distributor's reports on the incredible sales for National Periodicals' Action Comics in February 1939. He immediately decided to get into the comic book business, setting up offices in the same building ...
The Twenty Years' Crisis: 1919–1939: An Introduction to the Study of International Relations is a book on international relations written by E. H. Carr. [1] The book was written in the 1930s shortly before the outbreak of World War II in Europe and the first edition was published in September 1939, shortly after the war's outbreak; [2] a second edition was published in 1946.
1939 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1939th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 939th year of the 2nd millennium, the 39th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1930s decade.