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This year in history
In the year 1939

	February 3rd	American film director, Michael Cimino, was born in New York City. He is most known for having directed the immensely successful movie, The Deer Hunter and the biggest commercial failure in the history of Hollywood, Heaven's Gate.
	March 28th	General, Francisco Franco, conquered Madrid during the Spanish civil war.
	April 2nd	American singer, Marvin Gaye, was born in Washington, D.C. He is best remembered by the song that made him famous worldwide, "I Heard It through the Grapevine".
	April 7th	In the course of the Second World War Italy invaded Albania.
	April 7th	American film director, Francis Ford Coppola, was born in Detroit, Michigan.
	April 15th	Tunisian-born actress, Claudia Cardinale, was born in Tunis, Tunisia. She is one of the most prominent European actresses of the golden age of Italian cinema (1960's) and has starred in movies such as Federico Fellini's 8 1/2 and Sergio Leone's epic Once Upon a Time in the West.
	May 13th	American actor, Harvey Keitel, was born in Brooklyn, New York.
	May 14th	Peruvian, Lina Medina, became the world's youngest mother in medical history at the age of five.
	June 11th	Scottish race car driver, Jackie Stewart, was born in Milton, West Dunbartonshire. Known as the 'The Flying Scot,' he competed in Formula One between 1965 and 1973, winning the title of champion 3 times.
	June 19th	Lou Gehrig was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease (Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis).
	July 22nd	British actor, Terence Stamp, was born in London, England. He is a popular support actor who gained international fame for portraying the villain General Zod, in the 1980 movie, Superman II and more recently Chancellor Finis Valorum in Star Wars - Episode I: The Phantom Menace.
	August 9th	Italian politician and one time President of the European Commission, Romano Prodi, was born in Reggio Emilia, Italy.
	August 24th	Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed a Non-aggression Pact.
	August 27th	The first ever flight of a jet powered aircraft took place. The aircraft was the German made 'Heinkel He 178'.
	August 29th	American film director, Joel Schumacher, was born in New York City.
	September 3rd	France, England, New Zealand, and Australia officially declared war on Germany.
	September 5th	The United States declared its neutrality in the Second World War.
	September 9th	Australian actor, George Lazenby, was born in Queanbeyan, Australia. He is best known for portraying James Bond in the 1969 film, On Her Majesty's Secret Service. He was subsequently replaced by actor Roger Moore.
	September 10th	Canada declared war on Nazi Germany.
	September 23th	Austrian psychiatrist, Sigmund Freud, died at the age of 83. He was educated as a neurologist and is considered the father of psychoanalysis. In 1933, as the Nazis seized power in Germany, Freud's books were burnt publicly, actions which prompted him to move to England. He had been diagnosed with and treated numerous times for cancer of the mouth and had his jaw removed. He lived with constant pain, which at the end proved to be intolerable for him. His death was caused by a physician assisted morphine overdose.
	September 28th	Warsaw surrendered to the Nazi armies of Germany during World War II.
	September 29th	The city of Warsaw surrendered to the invading armies of both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, 12 days after they simultaneously invaded Poland.
	October 8th	During the early days of World War II Germany annexed Western Poland.
	October 18th	American, Lee Harvey Oswald, was born in Louisiana, USA. He was the man who was convicted for the assassination of US president John F. Kennedy. Two days after his arrest he was shot and killed by Jack Ruby on live television while in police custody.
	October 27th	British actor, John Cleese, was born in Somerset, England. He was one of the original members of the comedy group Monty Python and is considered as one of the great British comic actors. He also co-wrote and stared in the British television hit series Fawlty Towers.
	November 8th	German dictator, Adolf Hitler, escaped an assassination attempt in Munich.
	November 26th	American singer, Tina Turner, was born in Tennessee. She bacame famous along with her husband with the 'The Ike and Tina Turner Revue' during the 1960s and 1970s. She made a solo comeback during the 1980's which catapulted her to international fame.
	December 12th	American actor, Douglas Fairbanks, died at the age of 56. He is considered to have been the first true action hero of the silver screen. In 1919 he was one of the co-founders of United Artists. He was married to fellow actress Mary Pickford, it is known as the first Hollywood celebrity marriage. The couple separated in 1933.
	December 15th	The movie, Gone with the Wind, premiered. It is one of the most famous and financially successful films ever created.
	December 25th	Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was introduced by Montgomery Ward department stores. It was written and published in order to be handed out to children during the Christmas holiday period.

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