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John Madden, American football player, coach, and sportscaster (d. 2021) Bobby Smith, American singer, songwriter (d. 2013) April 12 – Charles Napier, American actor (d. 2011) April 14. Bobby Nichols, American professional golfer; Frank Serpico, American police officer; April 18. Roger Graef, American-born British theater director and ...
1939 – Nazi Germany invades Poland; World War II begins; 1939 – Cash and carry proposed to replace the Neutrality Acts; 1939 – President Roosevelt, appearing at the opening of the 1939 New York World's Fair, becomes the first president to give a speech that is broadcast on television. Semi-regular broadcasts air during the next two years
American ships and planes are prohibited as part of the Act from visiting any belligerent state in a war along with transporting anything. [ 11 ] November 6 – Hedda Hopper's Hollywood debuts on radio with Hollywood gossip columnist Hedda Hopper as host (the show runs until 1951, making Hopper a powerful figure in the Hollywood elite).
Headlining America 1937 ed Fank Luther Mott reprints the best American newspaper stories of 1935–1936. 1936 WWII Timeline; The 1930s Timeline: 1936 – from American Studies Programs at the University of Virginia
Timeline of the Manhattan Project (1939–1947) Timeline of air operations during the Battle of Europe; Timeline of the Holocaust. Timeline of the Holocaust in Norway; Timeline of Treblinka extermination camp; Timeline of deportations of French Jews to death camps; Timeline of Allied World War II conferences; Timeline of Irish maritime events ...
Hollywood goes to war: films and American society, 1939–1952 (Routledge, 2014) Smith, Gaddis. American Diplomacy During the Second World War, 1941-1945 (1965) online; Tindall, George Brown. The Emergence of the New South, 1913–1945 online (LSU Press, 1967) Ware, Susan. Holding Their Own: American Women in the 1930s online (Twayne, 1982 ...
Based on Margaret Mitchell's best-selling novel of 1936, it is the longest American film made up to this date (at nearly four hours) and rapidly becomes the highest-grossing film up to this time. December 18 – WWII: Battle of the Heligoland Bight – RAF Bomber Command , on a daylight mission to attack Kriegsmarine ships in the Heligoland ...
The 13 British North American provinces of Virginia, Massachusetts Bay, Maryland, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Delaware, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia united as the United States of America declare their independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain on ...