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Edwin H. Armstrong
invented
FM radio
in
1939
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Joseph Stalin
in
1939
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Frank Sinatra
married
Nancy Barbato
in
1939
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William Gruber
invented
View-master
in
1939
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Hedy Lamarr
married
Gene Markey
in
1939
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Igor Sikorsky
invented
Helicopter
in
1939
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World War II
started
in
1939
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Ernest Hemingway
in
1939
at: (
44.2394,-114.5103
)
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-1731072
Yu-Lan, Fung
wrote
New Learning of Principle
in
1939
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Goldstein, Kurt
wrote
THE ORGANISM - A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO BIOLOGY
in
1939
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Elias, Norbert
wrote
The Civilizing Process
in
1939
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Flann OBrien
wrote
At Swim-Two-Birds
in
1939
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Rita Hayworth
in
1939
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Errol Flynn
in
1939
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Judy Garland
in
1939
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Anne Frank
in
1939
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Norma Shearer
in
1939
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Henri Matisse
with
Self Portrait
in
1939
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George S Halas
in
1939
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Jean Rhys
wrote
Good Morning Midnight
in
1939
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Christopher Isherwood
wrote
Goodbye to Berlin
in
1939
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T. S. Eliot
wrote
The Family Reunion
in
1939
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T. S. Eliot
wrote
The Idea of a Christian Society
in
1939
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Charlie Chaplin
in
1939
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Adolf Hitler
in
1939
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Trafalgar Square
in
1939
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Frida Kahlo
in
1939
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Martin Bormann
in
1939
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Vivien Leigh
in
1939
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John F. Kennedy
in
1939
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Adolf Hitler
with
Joseph Goebbels
in
1939
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Adolf Hitler
in
1939
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Joe DiMaggio
in
1939
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Joe DiMaggio
in
1939
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Joe DiMaggio
in
1939
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George VI
in
1939
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Joe DiMaggio
with
Joe McCarthy
in
1939
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George VI
in
1939
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Joe DiMaggio
in
1939
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Orson Welles
in
1939
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Raymond Chandler
wrote
The Big Sleep
in
1939
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Audrey Hepburn
in
1939
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Adolf Hitler
in
1939
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Adolf Hitler
in
1939
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Prince Gustaf Adolf
in
1939
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John Steinbeck
wrote
The Grapes of Wrath
in
1939
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James Joyce
wrote
Finnegans Wake
in
1939
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Stepan Bandera
moved to
Krakow
in
1939
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Charlie Chaplin
with
Walt Disney
in
1939
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Heinrich Himmler
in
1939
at: (
25.53333333,-103.45
)
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Frank Sinatra
in
1939
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Ann Sothern
in
1939
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June Duprez
in
1939
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Judy Garland
in
1939
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Ernst Schnabel
in
1939
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Ernst Schnabel
in
1939
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Clark Gable
in
1939
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Katharine Hepburn
in
1939
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Argentina
entered
World War II
in
1939
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Australia
entered
World War II
in
1939
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Belgium
entered
World War II
in
1939
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Bolivia
entered
World War II
in
1939
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British Empire
entered
World War II
in
1939
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Bulgaria (1940?1944)
entered
World War II
in
1939
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Canada
entered
World War II
in
1939
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Chile
entered
World War II
in
1939
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Colombia
entered
World War II
in
1939
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Costa Rica
entered
World War II
in
1939
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Vivien Leigh
in
1939
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Cuba
entered
World War II
in
1939
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Czechoslovakia (government-in-
entered
World War II
in
1939
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Denmark
entered
World War II
in
1939
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Dominican Republic
entered
World War II
in
1939
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Ecuador
entered
World War II
in
1939
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Jean Cocteau
in
1939
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Thomas Mann
in
1939
at: (
36.13333333,-95.93333333
)
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3
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0
-1730769
Mahatma Gandhi
in
1939
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Ernest Hemingway
in
1939
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Heinz Guderian
with
Semyon Krivoshein
in
1939
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Egypt
entered
World War II
in
1939
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El Salvador
entered
World War II
in
1939
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Empire of Japan
entered
Battle of Khalkhin Gol
in
1939
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Empire of Japan (from 1941)
entered
World War II
in
1939
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Ethiopia
entered
World War II
in
1939
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3
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Finland
entered
Winter War
in
1939
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0
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Edward OHare
in
1939
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Finland (1941?1944)
entered
World War II
in
1939
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0
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Free France
entered
World War II
in
1939
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Guatemala
entered
World War II
in
1939
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0
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Haiti
entered
World War II
in
1939
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3
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Hungary (from 1940)
entered
World War II
in
1939
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Independent State of Croatia (
entered
World War II
in
1939
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Paulette Goddard
in
1939
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Indian Empire
entered
World War II
in
1939
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0
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Iraq
entered
World War II
in
1939
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0
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Kingdom of Greece
entered
World War II
in
1939
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0
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Kingdom of Hungary
entered
Hungarian Invasion of the Carpatho-Ukraine
in
1939
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Kingdom of Hungary
entered
Slovak?Hungarian War
in
1939
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0
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Adolf Hitler
in
1939
at: (
52,20
)
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1
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0
-1727677
Kingdom of Iraq (1941 only)
entered
World War II
in
1939
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0
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