Since August 1939 passed approximately Nine Hundred and Ninety-Four months (993.5). 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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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.
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