Dark Victory
Release year: 1939
Directed by: Edmund Goulding
Starring: Bette Davis, George Brent, Humphrey Bogart, Geraldine Fitzgerald
Country: United States of America
April 1939 calendar
Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in April 1939.
The US president was Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democrat), the UK Prime Minister was Neville Chamberlain (Conservative), Pope Pius XII was leading the Catholic Church.
But much more happened on April 1939: find out below
Historical Events
Which were the important events of April 1939?
Events
- 01 Apr 1939 US recognizes Franco government in Spain at end of Spanish civil war.
- 02 Apr 1939 6th Golf Masters Championship: Ralph Guldahl wins, shooting a 279.
- 03 Apr 1939 Adolf Hitler orders the German military to start planning for Fall Weiss, the codename for the invasion of Poland.
- 05 Apr 1939 Membership in Hitler Youth becomes obligatory in Germany.
- 06 Apr 1939 Great Britain and Poland sign military pact.
- 07 Apr 1939 World War II: Italy invades Albania.
- 08 Apr 1939 King Zog I of Albania, flees
- 09 Apr 1939 Marian Anderson sings at the Lincoln Memorial, after having been refused the right to sing at the Daughters of the American Revolution's Constitution Hall.
- 10 Apr 1939 Grens mobilization due to Italian invasion in Albania
- 11 Apr 1939 Hungary leaves League of Nations.
- 13 Apr 1939 Britain offers a quotguaranteequot to Romania and Greece.
- 14 Apr 1939 John Steinbeck novel The Grapes of Wrath published
- 15 Apr 1939 Albert Lebrun elected President of France.
- 16 Apr 1939 Stanley Cup: Boston Bruins beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 4 games to 1.
- 17 Apr 1939 Joe Louis knocks out Jack Roper in one for heavyweight boxing title.
- 18 Apr 1939 Franz von Papen becomes German ambassador in Turkey.
- 19 Apr 1939 Connecticut finally approves Bill of Rights (148 years late).
- 20 Apr 1939 New York World's Fair opens.
- 23 Apr 1939 Boston Red Sox Ted Williams hits his 1st HR
- 25 Apr 1939 The Federal Security Agency (FSA) is founded in the USA, along with the Civilian Conservation Corps and Public Health Service.
- 27 Apr 1939 Ely Racecourse in Cardiff closes.
- 28 Apr 1939 Hitler claims German-Polish non-attack treaty still in effect
- 29 Apr 1939 Whitestone Bridge connecting Bronx and Queens opens (New York).
- 30 Apr 1939 Tropicana ballet of Havana, Cuba forms.
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Famous Deaths
Detective writer, dies at 50.
King of Iraq, dies in car accident.
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Composer, dies at 89.
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Movies
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The Four Feathers
Release year: 1939
Directed by: Zoltan Korda
Starring: John Clements, Ralph Richardson, C. Aubrey Smith, June Duprez
Country: United States of America
Buck Rogers
Release year: 1939
Directed by: Ford Beebe, Saul A. Goodkind
Starring: Buster Crabbe, Constance Moore, Jackie Moran, Jack Mulhall
Country: United States of America
Juarez
Release year: 1939
Directed by: William Dieterle
Starring: Paul Muni, Bette Davis, Brian Aherne, Claude Rains
Country: United States of America
Union Pacific
Release year: 1939
Directed by: Cecil B. DeMille
Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Akim Tamiroff, Robert Preston
Country: United States of America