November 1939 calendar

Events

• 01 Nov 1939 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Sertum laetitiae
• 04 Nov 1939 US allows cash & carry arms sales during WWII
• 06 Nov 1939 WRGB TV channel 6 in Schenectady-Alby-Troy, New York (CBS) 1st broadcast
• 08 Nov 1939 In Munich, Adolf Hitler narrowly escapes the assassination attempt of Georg Elser while celebrating the 16th anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch.
• 09 Nov 1939 Ninotchka, with Greta Garbo premieres
• 11 Nov 1939 Kate Smith first sings Irving Berlin's "God Bless America".
• 14 Nov 1939 Oil refinery fire kills 500 and destroys Lagunillas, Venezuela.
• 15 Nov 1939 Anti-German demonstrations in Czechoslovakia
• 16 Nov 1939 Al Capone freed from Alcatraz jail
• 17 Nov 1939 German U-boat torpedoes passenger ship
• 18 Nov 1939 Netherlands KNSM passenger ship Simon Bolivar hits German mine, 86 die
• 19 Nov 1939 Don Lash wins 6th straight Amateur Athletic Union cross-country 10km championship.
• 23 Nov 1939 Nazi Gov of Poland Hans Frank requires Jews to wear a blue star
• 26 Nov 1939 4 soviet soldiers killed on Finnish-Russian border
• 28 Nov 1939 Nazi Governor-General of Poland, Hans Frank organizes Judenrat
• 29 Nov 1939 Cor Klint swims world record 200 m backstroke
• 30 Nov 1939 21 U-boats sunk this month (52,000 ton)

Famous Birthday

• Tina Turner

  American singer with enormous energy and talent along with world-class legs.

• Bernard Kouchner

  French politician, Minister of Health in 1992-1993, and of Foreign and European Affairs in 2007-2010.

• Laurent-Désiré Kabila

  Congolese politician President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (d. 2001).

• Abdullah Badawi

  Malaysian civil servant and politician 5th Prime Minister of Malaysia.

• Brenda Vaccaro

  American actress.

• Margaret Atwood

  Canadian writer, a poet and novelist who first came to prominence in the late 1960s.

• Adi Da

  American siddha-guru known as "Bubba Free John or "Master Da Free John," a handsome, ample and happy mystic with an ashram called Horse...

• Maurice Le Bègue de Germiny
• Russell Means

  American Sioux Indian, writer and civil rights activist for the rights of Indians, the acknowledged contemporary leader of the Native...

• Michèle Lesbre
• André Berthol
• Françoise Deldick
• Lucia Popp

  Czech / Austria soprano (Vienna Opera), dies at 54.

• Barbara Watterson

  British scientist who is well known as the foremost Egyptologist in Europe.

• Richard Serra

  American sculptor and video artist.

• Matti Rag Paananen
• Liz Dawn
• Tom Harkin

  American commander lawyer and politician.

• Bernard Derosier
• Henri Brincard
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Famous Deaths

• Charles Arnold Tournemire

  Composer, dies at 69.

• Dirk Klop

  Dutch intelligence lt, shot by German Abwehr.

• George Nicholls Jr

  Actor (Finishing School), dies at 42.

• Marie Joseph Leon Desire Paque

  Composer, dies at 72.

• (Ernest YY) Oscar Tourniaire

  Actor (Bluejackets), dies at 59.

• Adolphe Max

  Belgian liberal MP, dies at 69.

• Charles Tournemire

  French composer and organist (Born 1870).

• Jan Opletal

  Czech student and anti-Nazi demonstrator (Born 1915).

• James Naismith

  Canadian creator of basketball (Born 1861).

• James A Naismith

  creator of basketball, dies at age 78.

• James Naismith

  Canadian teacher who came up with the rules for basketball.

• Philipp Scheidemann

  German Social Democratic politician who, without party or government authorization, on Nov.

• Bob Marshall

  American activist co-founded The Wilderness Society (d. 1939).

• Norman Bethune

  Canadian doctor and humanitarian (Born 1890).

• Pierce Butler

  American lawyer and jurist (Born 1866).

• James Naismith

  Canadian creator of basketball (Born 1861).

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Top #2 songs in the USA

1. Bing Crosby & Andrews Sisters - Yodelin' Jive
2. Ambrose & His Orchestra vocal Denny Dennis - South of the Border (Down Mexico Way)