December 1939 calendar

Events

• 02 Dec 1939 New York's La Guardia Airport begins operations as an airliner from Chicago lands, one minute after midnight.
• 04 Dec 1939 World War II: HMS Nelson is struck by a mine (laid by U-31) off the Scottish coast and is laid up for repairs until August 1940.
• 06 Dec 1939 5th Heisman Trophy Award: Nile Kinnick, Iowa (HB).
• 09 Dec 1939 Russian air raid on Helsinki, Finland.
• 10 Dec 1939 Green Bay Packers win NFL championship, beat the New York Giants 27-0
• 12 Dec 1939 Russ Indigirka capsizes in blizzard off Japanese coast; 750 die
• 13 Dec 1939 Battle at La Plata - 3 British cruisers vs. German Graf Spee
• 14 Dec 1939 Soviet Union attacks Finland-League of Nations drops Soviet Union
• 15 Dec 1939 Gone with the Wind receives its premiere at Loew's Grand Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
• 17 Dec 1939 German pocket battleship Graf Spee scuttled by its crew off Uruguay
• 19 Dec 1939 Russian air and ground attack against Finnish positions near Summa.
• 20 Dec 1939 Radio Australia begins overseas short-wave service.
• 22 Dec 1939 99 die in 2nd wreck at Friedrichshafen Germany
• 23 Dec 1939 South Australia score 7-821 against Queensland in cricket.
• 24 Dec 1939 World War II: Pope Pius XII makes a Christmas Eve appeal for peace.
• 25 Dec 1939 Montgomery Ward introduces Rudolph the 9th reindeer.
• 26 Dec 1939 Earthquake in East Anatolia Turkey
• 27 Dec 1939 Between 20,000 and 40,000 die in magnitude 8 quake (Erzincam Turkey)
• 28 Dec 1939 The Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber prototype first flies.
• 29 Dec 1939 First flight of the Consolidated B-24.
• 31 Dec 1939 25 U-boats sunk this month (81,000 ton)
• 01 Dec 1939 World War II: A day after the beginning of the Winter War in Finland, the Cajander III Cabinet resigns and is replaced by the Ryti I Cabinet, while the Finnish Parliament move from Helsinki to Kauhajoki to escape the Soviet airstrikes.

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