Historical Events in 1939
71 curated events dated to this year, and 140 musicalized poets on V2Melody were alive then.
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1939
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Death in Exile
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End of the Spanish Civil War
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Fall of Madrid
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Hitler Breaks the Munich Agreement
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Outbreak of World War II
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Appointment as Librarian of Congress
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Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
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Death of Antonio Machado
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Death of Benjamin Griffith Brawley
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Einstein-Szilard Letter Warns of Atomic Bomb Potential
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Exile in France
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Fall of Barcelona
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First Turbojet-powered Aircraft Flight
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Francoist White Terror and Repression
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German Invasion of Poland
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Heinkel He 178 becomes the first jet aircraft to fly
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Invention of the Television (Commercial Broadcasting)
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Publication of 'The Last Poems'
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The Gleiwitz False-Flag Attack
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Winnipeg Carries Spanish Refugees to Chile
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Britain and France Declare War
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Censorship of Poetry in Francoist Spain
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DDT Introduced as Insecticide, Transforming Global Parasite Control
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Death of Daughter, Joella
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Discovery of DDT Insecticide Properties
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Exile of Spanish Republican Intellectuals
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Founding of the Kenyon Review
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German Blitzkrieg Use of Panzer Divisions
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German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
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Linus Pauling Publishes The Nature of the Chemical Bond
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Pan Am opens transatlantic passenger service with Boeing Clippers
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Plastics Production Surges During WWII
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Publication of 'The Poetry of the New World'
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Publication of Miguel Hernández's 'El hombre acecha'
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Publication of The Collected Poems of A. Mary F. Robinson
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Return to Spain after Exile
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Spanish Exile Poetry in Latin America
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The Agonizing Safe-Keeping of the Mona Lisa during World War II
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Barrage Balloons in World War II
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Battle of the Atlantic Begins
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Birth of first child, Llewelyn Edouard
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Casado Coup Against the Republican Government
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Evacuation to Oxford with Oxford University Press
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Exile to France
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Final Performance Before Illness
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Final Years in Alford
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First Flight of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning
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First Flight of the Mitsubishi A6M Zero
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Friendship with C.S. Lewis
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HMS Rawalpindi Makes Its Last Stand
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Igor Sikorsky VS-300 Helicopter
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John Wayne Wears Jeans in the Film 'Stagecoach'
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Loss and Rediscovery of the Sutton Hoo Ship Burial
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Nylon Stockings Introduced by DuPont
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Paper Rationing in WWII
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Publication of 'The Map of Love'
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Publication of 'UMqhayi Wasebloc'on Jimana'
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Synthetic Pesticide Development (DDT)
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The Spanish Civil War in World War II Poetry
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Winter War
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German Antarctic Expedition (1938–1939)
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Hershey's Mass Produces for WWII Troops
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Louis MacNeice's Friendship with W.H. Auden
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Return to New York City
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The Great Earthquake of 1939 in Chillán
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Visit to the United States
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World War II and Food Adulteration
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Automobile Air Conditioning Offered by Packard
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Phoney War Period
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First Fishing Cooperative Founded in Mexico
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The Bellevue, Louisiana Dance Twitch (1939)
Poets alive in 1939
140 poets
Poets in 1939
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