August 1939.
Since August 1939 passed approximately Nine Hundred and Sixty months (959.6). This August started with Tuesday (31. week) and ended with Thursday (35. week). This August had 31 days and 4 Sundays. On bottom of the page you can find calendar for August 1939.
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Events occurred in August 1939
We found 58 events occured in August month in 1939.
• 1939. August 2 (Category: Births), Benjamin Barber, American theorist
• 1939. August 2 (Category: Births), John W. Snow, American politician, 73rd United States Secretary of the Treasury
• 1939. August 2 (Category: Births), Wes Craven, American director
• 1939. August 2 (Category: Deaths), Harvey Spencer Lewis, American author, occultist, and mystic (b. 1883)
• 1939. August 2 (Category: Events), Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to begin the Manhattan Project to develop a nuclear weapon.
• 1939. August 3 (Category: Births), Apoorva Sengupta, Indian cricketer
• 1939. August 3 (Category: Births), Jimmie Nicol, English drummer (Colin Hicks & The Cabin Boys)
• 1939. August 4 (Category: Births), Frank Vincent, American actor
• 1939. August 5 (Category: Births), Princess Irene of the Netherlands
• 1939. August 5 (Category: Births), Roger Clark, British World Rally driver, and four-times British Rally Champion (1965, 1972, 1973 & 1975) (d. 1998)
• 1939. August 5 (Category: Deaths), Béla Jankovich, Hungarian politician (b. 1865)
• 1939. August 7 (Category: Births), Anjanette Comer, American actress
• 1939. August 8 (Category: Births), Alexander Watson, American ambassador and diplomat
• 1939. August 8 (Category: Births), Phil Balsley, American singer-songwriter (The Statler Brothers)
• 1939. August 9 (Category: Births), Bulle Ogier, French actress
• 1939. August 9 (Category: Births), Hércules Brito Ruas, Brazilian footballer
• 1939. August 9 (Category: Births), Romano Prodi, Italian politician and statesman
• 1939. August 10 (Category: Births), Charlie Rose, American politician (d. 2012)
• 1939. August 10 (Category: Births), Kate O'Mara, English actress
• 1939. August 11 (Category: Births), Ronnie Dawson, American musician (d. 2003)
• 1939. August 11 (Category: Deaths), Jean Bugatti, Italian automobile designer and engineer (b. 1909)
• 1939. August 11 (Category: Deaths), Siegfried Flesch, Austrian fencer (b. 1872)
• 1939. August 12 (Category: Births), George Hamilton, American actor
• 1939. August 12 (Category: Births), Michael D. Antonovich, American politician
• 1939. August 12 (Category: Births), Roy Romanow, Canadian politician
• 1939. August 12 (Category: Births), Skip Caray, American sportscaster (d. 2008)
• 1939. August 15 (Category: Events), 13 Stukas dive into the ground during a disastrous air-practice at Neuhammer. There are no survivors.
• 1939. August 15 (Category: Events), The Wizard of Oz premiered at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Los Angeles, California.
• 1939. August 16 (Category: Births), Billy Joe Shaver, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1939. August 16 (Category: Births), Seán Brady, Irish cardinal and archbishop
• 1939. August 16 (Category: Births), Trevor McDonald, Trinidadian-English journalist
• 1939. August 17 (Category: Births), Luther Allison, American guitarist (d. 1997)
• 1939. August 18 (Category: Births), Harald Heide-Steen Jr., Norwegian actor and comedian (d. 2008)
• 1939. August 18 (Category: Births), Johnny Preston, American singer (d. 2011)
• 1939. August 18 (Category: Births), Robert Horton, English businessman (d. 2011)
• 1939. August 19 (Category: Births), Ginger Baker, English drummer and songwriter (Cream, Blind Faith, Blues Incorporated, and Atomic Rooster)
• 1939. August 20 (Category: Births), Fernando Poe, Jr., Filipino actor and politician (d. 2004)
• 1939. August 21 (Category: Births), Clarence Williams III, American actor
• 1939. August 21 (Category: Births), Festus Mogae, Botswana politician, 3rd President of Botswana
• 1939. August 21 (Category: Births), Harold Reid, American singer-songwriter (The Statler Brothers)
• 1939. August 21 (Category: Births), James Burton, American guitarist (TCB Band)
• 1939. August 22 (Category: Births), Carl Yastrzemski, American baseball player
• 1939. August 22 (Category: Births), George Reinholt, American actor
• 1939. August 23 (Category: Deaths), Eugène-Henri Gravelotte, French fencer (b. 1876)
• 1939. August 23 (Category: Events), World War II: Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression treaty, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. In a secret addition to the pact, the Baltic states, Finland, Romania, and Poland are divided between the two nations.
• 1939. August 25 (Category: Births), John Badham, American director
• 1939. August 25 (Category: Deaths), Babe Siebert, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1904)
• 1939. August 25 (Category: Events), The United Kingdom and Poland form a military alliance in which the UK promises to defend Poland in case of invasion by a foreign power.
• 1939. August 26 (Category: Births), Pinchas Goldstein, Israeli politician (d. 2007)
• 1939. August 27 (Category: Births), Edward Patten, American singer-songwriter and producer (Gladys Knight & the Pips) (d. 2005)
• 1939. August 27 (Category: Births), William Least Heat-Moon, American author
• 1939. August 27 (Category: Events), First flight of the turbojet-powered Heinkel He 178, the world's first jet aircraft.
• 1939. August 29 (Category: Births), Joel Schumacher, American director
• 1939. August 29 (Category: Births), Jolán Kleiber-Kontsek, Hungarian discus thrower
• 1939. August 30 (Category: Births), Elizabeth Ashley, American actress
• 1939. August 30 (Category: Births), John Peel, English radio host and producer (d. 2004)
• 1939. August 31 (Category: Births), J.I. Allison, American drummer and songwriter (The Crickets)
• 1939. August 31 (Category: Events), Nazi Germany mounts a staged attack on the Gleiwitz radio station, creating an excuse to attack Poland the following day thus starting World War II in Europe.
Calendar August 1939.
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