What happened in 1939?
1939 New York World's Fair
Golden Gate International Exposition (San Francisco-Oakland)
Czechoslovakia ceases to exist when German troops occupied remaining part of Bohemia and Moravia on March 15th.
WWII begins in Europe when Nazi Germany invaded Poland on September 1st.
"The Greatest Year in Film History": movies released include The Wizard of Oz, Gone With the Wind, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Ninotchka, and Dark Victory.
Books published: John Steinbach's The Grapes of Wrath, Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep.
Born in 1939: Lee Harvey Oswald, Ralph Lauren, Tina Turner and many members of the Class of 1957 of Norview High School.