209 notable events from 1939 — wars, massacres and air crashes. Page 1 of 3.
- Winter War
Nov 30, 1939–Mar 13, 1940 · Finland · War & armed conflict
- Aktion T4
1939–Jan 1, 1941 · Germany · Massacre
- Battles of Khalkhin Gol
May 11, 1939–Sep 16, 1939 · Mongolia · War & armed conflict
- Death marches during the Holocaust
1939–May 1945 · Germany · War & armed conflict
- Gleiwitz incident
Aug 31, 1939 · Poland · War & armed conflict
- Air raids on Japan
Aug 15, 1939–Aug 15, 1945 · Japan · War & armed conflict
- Strategic bombing during World War II
Sep 1, 1939–Sep 2, 1945 · Vietnam · War & armed conflict
- Oswald Pohl
Jan 1, 1939–Jan 1, 1945 · Genocide & ethnic violence
- Kraków Ghetto
Dec 10, 1939 · Poland · War & armed conflict
- Battle of Westerplatte
Sep 1, 1939–Sep 7, 1939 · Poland · War & armed conflict
- War crimes of the Wehrmacht
Jan 1, 1939–Jan 1, 1945 · Poland · War & armed conflict
- Siege of Warsaw (1939)
Sep 8, 1939–Sep 28, 1939 · Poland · War & armed conflict
- Defence of the Polish Post Office in Danzig
Sep 1, 1939 · Poland · War & armed conflict
- Bloody Sunday (1939)
Sep 3, 1939 · Poland · Massacre
- Danzig crisis
Apr 28, 1939–Sep 1, 1939 · Poland · Crisis
- Otto Rasch
Jan 1, 1939–Jan 1, 1941 · Poland · War & armed conflict
- Child euthanasia in Nazi Germany
1939–1945 · Murder & homicide
- Shelling of Mainila
Nov 26, 1939 · Russian Federation · War & armed conflict
- Venlo incident
Nov 9, 1939 · Netherlands · Kidnapping & hostage
- Genthin rail disaster
Dec 22, 1939 · Germany · Rail accident
- Erich Naumann
Jan 1, 1939–Jan 1, 1944 · Poland · Genocide & ethnic violence
- Intelligenzaktion
Sep 1939 · Poland · Murder & homicide
- Paul Ogorzow
Aug 1, 1939–Jul 1, 1941 · Murder & homicide
- Operation Tannenberg
Sep 1939–Jan 1940 · Poland · War & armed conflict
- 1939 German ultimatum to Lithuania
Mar 20, 1939 · War & armed conflict
- Soviet repressions of Polish citizens (1939–1946)
1939–1946 · Genocide & ethnic violence
- Piaśnica massacres
1939 · Poland · Massacre
- Bombing of Warsaw in World War II
Sep 1, 1939–Sep 27, 1939 · Poland · War & armed conflict
- Nazi war crimes in occupied Poland during World War II
1939–1945 · Poland · War & armed conflict
- Palmiry massacre
Dec 7, 1939–Jul 17, 1941 · Poland · Massacre
- Bombing of Wieluń
Sep 1, 1939 · Poland · War & armed conflict
- British pet massacre
1939 · United Kingdom · Massacre
- 1939 Chillán earthquake
Jan 24, 1939 · Chile · Earthquake
- Spanish coup of March 1939
Mar 5, 1939–Mar 12, 1939 · Spain · War & armed conflict
- Sonderaktion Krakau
Nov 6, 1939 · Poland · Genocide & ethnic violence
- OUN Uprising of 1939
Oct 1, 1939 · Ukraine · War & armed conflict
- Barbara Newhall Follett
Dec 7, 1939 · United States · Disappearance
- Expulsion of Poles by Nazi Germany
Jan 1, 1939–Jan 1, 1944 · Poland · Genocide & ethnic violence
- 1939 Erzincan earthquake
Dec 26, 1939 · Türkiye · Earthquake
- Valley of Death (Bydgoszcz)
Oct 1939 · Poland · Suicide & execution
- Ciepielów massacre
Sep 9, 1939 · Poland · Massacre
- War crimes in occupied Poland during World War II
1939 · War & armed conflict
- Battle of Grodno (1939)
Sep 20, 1939–Sep 24, 1939 · Belarus · War & armed conflict
- Hitler's reference to the Armenian genocide
Aug 22, 1939 · Genocide & ethnic violence
- Evacuation of Finnish Karelia
from 1939 · Russian Federation · Genocide & ethnic violence
- Horst and Erna Petri
Jan 1, 1939–Jan 1, 1945 · Ukraine · War & armed conflict
- Jabłonków incident
Aug 26, 1939 · Czechia · War & armed conflict
- Bombing of Helsinki in World War II
1939–1944 · Germany · War & armed conflict
- Voyage of the Damned
May 13, 1939–Jun 17, 1939
- 1939 Liechtenstein putsch
Mar 24, 1939 · Liechtenstein · War & armed conflict
- Wawer massacre
Dec 27, 1939 · Poland · Massacre
- Black Friday bushfires
Jan 13, 1939 · Australia · Fire
- Battle of Szack
Sep 28, 1939 · Ukraine · War & armed conflict
- Tientsin incident
Jun 14, 1939–Aug 20, 1939 · China · War & armed conflict
- Battle of Barking Creek
Sep 6, 1939 · United Kingdom · War & armed conflict
- Orzeł incident
Sep 18, 1939 · Estonia · War & armed conflict
- German war crimes during the invasion of Poland
Sep 1, 1939–Oct 25, 1939 · Poland · War & armed conflict
- 1939 Neuhammer disaster
Aug 15, 1939 · Poland · Aviation accident
- Lloyd L. Gaines
Mar 19, 1939 · United States · Disappearance
- Executions in the Valley of Death
Jan 1, 1939 · Poland · War & armed conflict
- Pacification actions in German-occupied Poland
Jan 1, 1939 · Poland · Massacre
- Tarnów train station bombing
Aug 28, 1939 · Poland · Bombing & explosion
- Battle of Czajánek's barracks
Mar 14, 1939 · Czechia · War & armed conflict
- German repressions against the people of Bydgoszcz
Nov 1, 1939 · Poland · War & armed conflict
- Częstochowa massacre
Sep 4, 1939–Sep 6, 1939 · Poland · Massacre
- Battle of Durrës (1939)
Apr 7, 1939 · Albania · War & armed conflict
- Assassination of Armand Călinescu
Sep 21, 1939 · Romania · Murder & homicide
- Cartagena uprising
Mar 4, 1939–Mar 7, 1939 · Spain · War & armed conflict
- Skidel revolt
Sep 19, 1939 · Belarus · War & armed conflict
- Defense of Katowice
Sep 3, 1939–Sep 4, 1939 · Poland · War & armed conflict
- 1939 City of San Francisco derailment
Aug 12, 1939 · United States · Rail accident
- Intelligenzaktion Pommern
1939 · Poland · Genocide & ethnic violence
- Katowice massacre
Sep 4, 1939 · Poland · Massacre
- Markdorf rail disaster
Dec 22, 1939 · Germany · Rail accident
- Typhoid Manju Incident
1939 · Japan · Murder & homicide
- Crime in Łobżenica
Jan 1, 1939 · Poland · War & armed conflict
- 1939 Coventry bombing
Aug 25, 1939 · United Kingdom · Bombing & explosion
- 1939 Oga earthquake
May 1, 1939 · Japan · Earthquake
- Szpęgawsk Forest
Sep 1, 1939–Jan 1, 1940 · Poland · Massacre
- Gaia Zeret massacre
Apr 9, 1939–Apr 11, 1939 · Ethiopia · Massacre
- Takamori Mine staff skiing disaster
Feb 1, 1939 · Japan
- Japan Airways Kuma-go crash
May 17, 1939 · Japan · Aviation accident
- Szczucin massacre
Sep 12, 1939 · Poland · Massacre
- Battle of Przemyśl (1939)
Sep 11, 1939–Sep 14, 1939 · Poland · War & armed conflict
- Battle of Husynne
Sep 24, 1939 · Poland · War & armed conflict
- Northwest Airlines Flight 1
Jan 13, 1939 · United States · Aviation accident
- Urycz massacre
Sep 22, 1939 · Ukraine · Massacre
- Ariostazo
Aug 25, 1939 · Chile · War & armed conflict
- Końskie massacre
Sep 12, 1939 · Poland · Massacre
- Barbarka massacre
1939 · Poland · Massacre
- Zambrów massacre
Sep 14, 1939 · Poland · Massacre
- Kladovo transport
from Nov 25, 1939 · Massacre
- Amko Simko massacre
Apr 25, 1939 · India · Massacre
- Sonderaktion Prag
Nov 16, 1939 · War & armed conflict
- Paul Mooney (writer)
Mar 24, 1939 · Japan · Disappearance
- Zakroczym massacre
Sep 28, 1939 · Poland · War & armed conflict
- Serial pistol robbery case
Jan 13, 1939 · Crime & justice
- Bochnia massacre
Dec 18, 1939 · Poland · Massacre
- Pomeranian crime 1939
1939–1940 · Poland · Genocide & ethnic violence
- House of Torment
Jan 1, 1939 · Poland · War & armed conflict