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September 1: World War II breaks out in Europe with Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland World War II was the biggest and deadliest war in history, involving more than 30 countries.
The Invasion of Poland, [e] also known as the September Campaign, [f] Polish Campaign, [g] and Polish Defensive War of 1939 [h] [13] (1 September – 6 October 1939), was a joint attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany, the Slovak Republic, and the Soviet Union, which marked the beginning of World War II. [14]
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 ...
Pages in category "September 1939" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Battle of Borowa Góra;
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.
September 29 – Gerald J. Cox, speaking at an American Water Works Association meeting, becomes the first person to publicly propose the fluoridation of public water supplies in the United States. September 30 – 1939 Waynesburg vs. Fordham football game , the first televised American football game, between college teams Fordham University ...
On 24 September, the Soviet soldiers killed 42 staff and patients of a Polish military hospital in the village of Grabowiec, near Zamość. [113] Soviet troops also executed all the Polish officers they captured at the Battle of Szack on 28 September 1939. [96] The NKVD killed 22,000 Polish military personnel and civilians in the Katyn massacre ...
On 1 September 1939, the first day of the war, a German submarine sank the ship SS Athenia, killing 117 civilian passengers and crew. On 4 September 1939, British bombs killed eleven German sailors on the cruiser Emden in port Wilhelmshaven. [37]