In the 27th December 1939 at 1:57 a natural disaster hit the province of Erzincan in Turkey. The earthquake was 8.2 Richters being one of the most forcefull earthquakes in Turkey’s modern history. The earthquake killed total of 33 000 people. The first phase of the earthquake killed...

In November 2dn Physicist Hans Mayer hands over the Oslo Report on German weapon installations and passes it on to the British Secret Service. The Oslo Report is one of the most important and biggest military leaks in the history of human kind. The report was written during a business trip on...

The Manhattan Project is presented to the United States president Franklin D. Roosevelt in October 11th 1939. The president gets a letter from Albert Einstein, where Einstein is underlining the importance to develop the atomic bomb. The Manhattan Project was led by United States with the...

World War two begins at 04.45 September the first, when German battleship Schleswig-Holstein commences a firing on a Polish armys fortress Westerplatte. Same time German troops start to cross the border into Poland. The battleship SMS Schleswig-Holstein was constructed in Kiel in August 1905...

The Wizard of Oz was released in August 26 in the year 1939. It was an American musical fantasy film, which was based on a 1900 childrens novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank Baum. The film became notable because of its special effects, technicolor and fantasy storytelling. It has...

The first ever recorded snowfall in New Zealand’s Auckland snowed in july 27 in 1939 since the records have been kept (since year 1853). The only other time Auckland has seen snow is August 15th 2011, when the snowfall was enought to create drifts. Aucklands weathers is often described...

The Ford N-Series tractor production started june 29 1939 with the model 9N. The 9N production modell introduced a three point hitch system on American made tractors, though, this design is still used in most of the modern tractors. The productions model’s name 9N was taken from the last...

Batman made his first appearance in a comic book 01.05.1939 created by Bob Kane and unofficially Bill Finger. The firts appearance of Batman was in Detective Comics issue 27 and since the first appearance it has appeared primarily in different publications by DC Comics. Batman appeared in the...

Billie Holiday records Strange Fruit, which is the first anti-lynching song. The song was released in Billie Holiday’s first recording in the April 20 in the year 1939. The song Strange Fruit was written by a Jewish high-school teacher Abel Meeropol from the Bronx. It was originally...

Timeless Test is the longest game of cricket ever played. The game started in South Africa March 3rd and the game was abandoned twelve days later, when the English players needed to catch the ferry back to England. South Africa set a target of 696 for England to win, however, the time the...

The Golden Gate International Exposition was a World’s Fair that celebrated San Francisco’s two newly built bridges Oakland Bay Bridge and Golden gate Bridge. The Exposition was opened February 18. The artificial Treasure Islands was build solely for the purpose of the World Fair...

Hewlett-Packard Company was founded 1.1.1939 by Bill and Dave. The name of the company was decided by flipping of a coin. Packard-Hewlett does not sound right? Bill and Dave became friens in 1934 and started working together 1938. In the yearly days Bill Hewlett’s quote was...