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Soviet calendar, 1933 Days grouped into 7-day weeks (still starting with Sunday). Rest day of six-day work week in blue. Five national holidays in red Soviet calendar, 1939 Reusable every (common) year: Six-day work weeks only, days denoted "First" to "Sixth". Each 31st is extra, February is short.
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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.
1939 events in North America by month (12 C) * 1939 sports events by month (12 C) 0–9. January 1939 events (3 C, 5 P) February 1939 events (3 C, 2 P) March 1939 ...
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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]
Sparked by the 1939 Nazi invasion of Poland, the war dragged on for six bloody years until the Allies defeated the Axis powers of Nazi Germany, Japan and Italy in 1945. The principal belligerents were the Axis powers—Germany, Italy, and Japan—and the Allies—China, Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and France.
In 1939 only about 20,000 London households had television sets in a city of 8.6 million people, and the crowds at the cinemas were completely packed. [31] [32] [33] Reich Transport Minister Julius Dorpmüller decreed that Jews were forbidden from using sleeping and dining cars on German railroads. [34]