WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO NOVEMBER 1939
Find out what all happened March to November 1939

Billie Holiday records the first civil rights song "Strange Fruit". (20. April 1939)

The Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, New York. (12. June 1939)

Lou Gehrig, recently diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, informs a crowd at Yankee Stadium that he considered himself "The luckiest man on the face of the earth", then announces his retirement from major league baseball. (4. July 1939)

World War II: following the start of the invasion of Poland the previous day, the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) is annexed by Nazi Germany. (2. September 1939)

From Prague Castle, Hitler proclaims Bohemia and Moravia a German protectorate. (16. March 1939)

NBC broadcasts the first televised American football game between the Waynesburg Yellow Jackets and the Fordham Rams. Fordham won the game 34-7. (30. September 1939)

Adolf Hitler's 50th birthday is celebrated as a national holiday in Nazi Germany. (20. April 1939)

World War II: Italy invades Albania. (7. April 1939)

Last public guillotining in France: Eugen Weidmann, a convicted murderer, is guillotined in Versailles outside the Saint-Pierre prison (17. June 1939)

After a one-month Siege of Warsaw, hostile Nazi forces enter the city. (1. October 1939)

The Nazi propaganda broadcaster known as Lord Haw-Haw begins transmitting. (18. September 1939)

The first commercial FM radio station in the United States is launched in Bloomfield, Connecticut. The station later becomes WDRC-FM.[citation needed ] (13. May 1939)

Joint victory parade of Wehrmacht and Red Army in Brest-Litovsk at the end of the Invasion of Poland. (22. September 1939)

The Grapes of Wrath, by American author John Steinbeck is first published by the Viking Press. (14. April 1939)

World War II: First attack on British territory by the German Luftwaffe. (16. October 1939)

World War II: Germany and Italy sign the Pact of Steel. (22. May 1939)

Marriage of Princess Fawzia of Egypt to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran. (16. March 1939)

Switzerland mobilizes its forces and the Swiss Parliament elects Henri Guisan to head the Swiss Army (an event that can happen only during war or mobilization). (1. September 1939)

The Canadian National War Memorial is unveiled by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in Ottawa. (21. May 1939)

The U.S. Navy submarine USS Squalus sinks off the coast of New Hampshire during a test dive, causing the death of 24 sailors and two civilian technicians. The remaining 32 sailors and one civilian naval architect are rescued the following day. (23. May 1939)