May 1939 calendar

May 1939
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Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in May 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 May 1939: find out below

Historical Events

Which were the important events of May 1939?

Events

01 May 1939 Batman comics hit street
02 May 1939 Vyacheslav Molotov succeeds Maxim Litvinov as Soviet Foreign Commissar.
03 May 1939 The All India Forward Bloc is formed by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.
05 May 1939 Flash floods kill 75 in Northeast Kentucky, USA.
06 May 1939 65th Kentucky Derby: James Stout aboard Johnstown wins in 2:03.4.
07 May 1939 Germany and Italy announce an alliance known as the Rome-Berlin Axis.
09 May 1939 Catholic church beatifies the first Native American, Kateri Tekakwitha.
13 May 1939 SS St. Louis departs Hamburg with 937 Jews fugitives
14 May 1939 Lina Medina, a 5-year old Peruvian girl, gives birth to a baby boy, becoming the youngest confirmed mother in medical history.
16 May 1939 1st AL night game, Philadelphia Shribe Park (Indians 8, Athletics 3 in 10)
17 May 1939 The Columbia Lions and the Princeton Tigers play in the United States' first televised sporting event, a collegiate baseball game in New York City.
20 May 1939 3 Little Fishies, by Kay Kyser hits #1
21 May 1939 The Canadian National War Memorial is unveiled by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in Ottawa.
22 May 1939 Hitler and Mussolini sign Pact of Steel
23 May 1939 Dmitri Shostakovitch appointed Professor at Conservatory of Leningrad
25 May 1939 Carl Storck becomes the second NFL president.
29 May 1939 Albanian fascist leader Tefik Mborja is appointed as member of the Italian Chamber of Fasces and Corporations.

Famous Birthday

Ian McKellen
British actor, an Oscar nominee in 1999 for his role in "Gods and Monsters.
Harvey Keitel
American actor and producer.
Giovanni Falcone
Italian judge whose position of being anti-mafia was well known.
Pierre Desproges
French humorist, famous for his elaborate, eloquent and above all, virulent diatribes criticizing anything and everything.
Judy Collins
American folksinger, acclaimed for over 30 years for her crystalline soprano.
Gary Goldschneider
American-Dutch child prodigy pianist and composer, astrologer and writer.
André Rossinot
Siegfried Fischbacher
Pierre Méhaignerie
French politician.
Peter Grünberg
Dixie Carter
American actress whose primary medium was TV, appearing on five successive series, "On Our Own," 1977-1978, "Out of the Blue," 1979, "Filthy...
James Sacré
James Fox
London, England -- Actor (Greystoke).
Ion Tiriac
Romanian tennis manager.
Michel Roussin
French politician, minister of cooperation in 1993.
Nancy Kwan
Hong Kong-American actress and makeup artist.
Al Unser
American race car driver who, as the youngest member of a famous race-car family, became the first driver to win the U.S.
Carolyn Egan
Arni Egilsson
Icelandic-American jazz classical musician, a bass player and composer.
Jean-Claude Annoux
French singer-songwriter, who wrote the songs 'Aux jeunes loups' (1965) and 'Touristes.
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