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Month January 1939 Calendar

About Month of January Calendar

  • January is the first month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars and one of seven months with the length of 31 days. The first day of the month is known as the day of New Year. It is, on average, the coldest month of the year within most of the Northern Hemisphere (where it is the second month of winter) and the warmest month of the year within most of the Southern Hemisphere (where it is the second month of summer).

    January symbols: The birthstone of January is the garnet which represents constancy. Its birth flower is the cottage pink Dianthus caryophyllus or galanthus. In Finnish, the month of tammikuu means the heart of the winter and because the name literally means Oak moon. The zodiac signs for the month of January are Capricorn (until January 19) and Aquarius (January 20 onwards). The traditional English birth month flower is the Carnation.

Historical Events for January, 1939

  • Day of Week 1st » Sydney or Sydney, Australia, swelters in 45 ˚C (113 ˚F) heat, a record for the city.
  • Day of Week 13th » The Black Friday (1939) or Black Friday bush fires burn 20,000 square kilometers of land in Australia, claiming the lives of 71 people.
  • Day of Week 16th » The Irish Republican Army (1922–1969) known as Irish Republican Army (IRA) begins a S-Plan named bombing and sabotage campaign in England.
  • Day of Week 24th » The 1939 Chillán earthquake e.g deadliest earthquake in Chilean history strikes Chillán, killing approximately 28,000 people.
  • Day of Week 26th » Spanish Civil War Catalonia Offensive: Troops loyal to nationalist General Francisco Franco and aided by Kingdom of Italy named Italy take Barcelona.
  • Day of Week 27th » First flight of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning.

Famous Birthdays on January in 1939

  • 1st » Michèle Mercier, French actress
  • 1st » Steve Kahan, American actor
  • 3rd » Arik Einstein, Israeli singer, songwriter and actor (d. 2013)
  • 3rd » Bobby Hull, Canadian ice hockey player
  • 3rd » Ruben Reyes, Filipino jurist
  • 6th » Georgios Babiniotis, Greek linguist and philologist
  • 6th » Murray Rose, Australian swimmer (d. 2012)
  • 7th » Tom Kiernan, Irish rugby player and coach
  • 7th » Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark
  • 8th » Nanda (actress) called Nanda, Indian actress (d. 2014)
  • 8th » Carolina Herrera (fashion designer) named Carolina Herrera, Venezuelan-American fashion designer
  • 8th » Ruth Maleczech, American actress (d. 2013)
  • 8th » Alan Wilson (academic) e.g Alan Wilson, English mathematician and academic
  • 9th » Jimmy Boyd, American actor and singer (d. 2009)
  • 9th » Rik Kemp, Australian cartoonist
  • 9th » Susannah York, English actress (d. 2011)
  • 10th » Jared Carter, American poet
  • 10th » Sonosuke Fujimaki, Japanese fencer
  • 10th » David Horowitz, American activist and author, founded the David Horowitz Freedom Center
  • 10th » William Levy (author) known as William Levy, Dutch author
  • 10th » Scott McKenzie, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2012)
  • 10th » Sal Mineo, American actor (d. 1976)
  • 10th » Bill Toomey, American decathlete
  • 11th » Anne Heggtveit, Canadian skier
  • 12th » William Lee Golden, American singer (The Oak Ridge Boys)
  • 12th » Jim Palosaari, American evangelist (d. 2011)
  • 13th » Edgardo Cozarinsky, Argentinian author, screenwriter, and director
  • 13th » Jacek Gmoch, Polish footballer and coach
  • 13th » Cesare Maniago, Canadian ice hockey player
  • 15th » Neil Cossons, English curator and academic
  • 16th » Mac Curtis, American singer (d. 2013)
  • 16th » Ralph Gibson, American art photographer
  • 17th » Archbishop Christodoulos of Athens (d. 2008)
  • 17th » Maury Povich, American talk show host
  • 19th » Phil Everly, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Everly Brothers) (d. 2014)
  • 20th » Paul Coverdell, American captain and politician (d. 2000)
  • 20th » Chandra Wickramasinghe, Sri Lankan-English mathematician, astronomer, and astrobiologist
  • 21st » Abdul Jalil (Bangladesh politician) known as Abdul Jolil, Bangladeshi politician (d. 2013)
  • 22nd » Jørgen Garde, Danish admiral (d. 1996)
  • 22nd » Alfredo Palacio, Ecuadoran politician, President of Ecuador
  • 22nd » Jeff Smith (chef) e.g Jeff Smith, American chef and author (d. 2004)
  • 22nd » J.C. Tremblay, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1994)
  • 23rd » Sonny Chiba, Japanese actor and martial artist
  • 23rd » Arlene Golonka, American actress
  • 24th » Ray Stevens, American singer-songwriter
  • 25th » Gabriel Romanus, Swedish politician
  • 27th » Julius Lester, American author and academic
  • 28th » John M. Fabian, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut
  • 29th » Germaine Greer, Australian journalist and author
  • 31st » Claude Gauthier (singer) e.g Claude Gauthier, Canadian singer-songwriter and actor

Famous Deaths for January 1939

  • 2nd » Roman Dmowski, Polish politician (b. 1864)
  • 9th » Johann Strauss III, Austrian conductor (b. 1866)
  • 19th » Cliff Heathcote, American baseball player (b. 1898)
  • 23rd » Matthias Sindelar, Austrian footballer (b. 1903)
  • 24th » Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician (b. 1867)
  • 25th » Charles Davidson Dunbar, Scottish piper (b. 1870)
  • 28th » W. B. Yeats, Irish poet, Nobel Prize in Literature named Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
  • 28th » Dick Scobee, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1939)

Calendar for the year 1939 and a calender for the month of January

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