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  1. November 4 (10686 bytes)
    7: ...ain]] captures [[Antwerp (city)|Antwerp]] (after three days the city was nearly destroyed).
    24: ...implement the [[Neutrality Acts|Neutrality Act of 1939]], allowing cash-and-carry purchases of [[weapon]...
    33: ...ents, invade the [[United States]] embassy in [[Tehran]] and take 90 hostages (63 of whom are American...
    35: * [[1993]] - [[Jean Chr�tien]] takes office as [[Prime Minister of Cana...
    129: [[hr:4. studenog]]
  2. List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
    100: *[[Abraham of Alexandria]], (died 978), [[Coptic Christianity|Coptic]] Pope
    101: *[[F. Murray Abraham|Abraham, F. Murray]], (born 1939), actor
  3. List of people by name: Aa (1020 bytes)
    16: *[[Evald Aav|Aav, Evald]], (1900-1939), Estonian composer and choir conductor
  4. Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
    9: ...r Walter Raleigh]] and [[Humphrey Gilbert|Sir Humphrey Gilbert]]. Elizabeth was a short-tempered and s...
    16: ...her elder brother, and witchcraft. Elizabeth was three years old at that time and was also declared il...
    25: ...Grey]] to be his heiress. Lady Jane ascended the throne, but was [[Deposition_(politics)|deposed]] les...
    27: ...people might depose her and put Elizabeth on the throne in her stead. [[Wyatt's Rebellion]] in [[1554]...
    31: ...8]], upon Mary I's death, Elizabeth ascended the throne. She was far more popular than her sister, and...
  5. Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
    7: ...ntil her death. Her reign lasted more than sixty-three years — longer than that of any other Bri...
    14: ...erness, during her early years. After she became three years old however, she was schooled in [[Englis...
    16: ... [[heir presumptive|heiress-presumptive]] to the throne. Since the law at that time made no special pr...
    25: ...tus was also the heir-presumptive to the British throne.
    27: When Victoria ascended the throne, the government was controlled by the [[Whig]]...
  6. Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
    9: ...]], the third child and the younger daughter of [[HRH]] [[Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge]].
    11: ...r [[creditor]]s in [[1883]]. The Tecks travelled throughout Europe, visiting their various relatives a...
    17: ...e Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge]], was a brother of HRH The [[Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent]], th...
    49: ...ork's father-in-law, Albert Edward, ascended the throne as [[Edward VII of the United Kingdom|King Edw...
    56: ...nd the Prince and Princess of Wales ascended the throne. May choose the regal name of Mary for her rei...
  7. Gro Harlem Brundtland (3306 bytes)
    3: '''Gro Harlem Brundtland''' (born [[April 20]], [[1939]]) is a [[Norway|Norwegian]] politician and [[phy...
    17: Her hallmark political activities have been chronicled by her husband, Arne Olav Brundtland in h...
  8. Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
    20: In [[1939]], the [[opera]] singer [[Marian Anderson]] was r...
    25: ...and other Americans concerned about the mounting threats to peace and democracy during [[World War II]...
    33: ...at people can enhance the quality of their lives through purposeful action based on sensitive discours...
    35: ...she was instrumental along with [[John Peters Humphrey]] and others in formulating the [[UN Universal ...
    37: ...ncreasingly disgusted with his political conduct through the rest of the [[1950s]]. Eventually, she wo...
  9. Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
    13: With [[Lothrup Stoddard]], and [[C. C. Little]] Sanger founded...
    15: ...rol Review'' and ''The Birth Control News''. From 1939 to 1942, she was an honorary delegate of the Birt...
    24: ... submission. An [[atheist]], Sanger attacked the Christian church for its opposition to her message, b...
    38: ......] Perhaps the greatest physical danger to the chronic masturbator is the inability to perform the s...
    54: ... on abortion (like many of her opinions) changed throughout the course of her life, she was acutely aw...
  10. Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
    2: ...leanor "Peggy" Atwood''' (born [[November 18]], [[1939]]) is a [[novelist]], [[poetry|poet]], [[literary...
    4: ...minist]] issues and concerns, which she examines through multiple genres such as [[science fiction]], ...
  11. Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
    9: ... was awarded the [[Tagea Brandt Rejselegat]] in [[1939]].
    26: * ''Ehrengard'' (posthumous 1963, USA)
  12. Zora Neale Hurston (4470 bytes)
    5: ...w up in [[Eatonville, Florida]]. She studied [[anthropology]] at [[Barnard College]] under [[Franz Boa...
    32: *''[[Moses, Man of the Mountain]]'' ([[1939]])
  13. Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
    5: ...harlotte Hennessy, began taking in boarders, and through one of these lodgers Gladys, aged seven, was ...
    9: ...en tested and hired her for a part in a one-reel thriller, ''The Lonely Villa'' in 1909. Pickford woul...
    11: ... Fairbanks]], an action-adventure film star. The phrase "by the clock" became a secret message of thei...
    17: == Partial chronology ==
    27: ...She gets $675,000(about $10 million in 2005) for three films with First National, plus 50% of all prof...
  14. Nathalie Sarraute (1197 bytes)
    4: ...her first book called "Tropismes", published in [[1939]] and applauded by [[Jean-Paul Sartre]] and [[Max...
    10: * ''Tropismes'', [[1939]]
  15. Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
    20: ...ournal: "In the air of the compartment hung only three axe-like words: ''bourgeois, Junkers, leeches''...
    26: ...ilitary officer. This affair became widely known throughout ''emigr駧 circles, and even to Efron hims...
    32: ...d the critics [[D. S. Mirsky]] and [[Aleksandr Bakhrakh]].
    39: In [[1939]] she and her son returned to the Soviet Union. S...
    56: ...re are cycles of poems which fall into a regular chronological sequence among the single poems, eviden...
  16. Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
    1: '''Jacqueline Cochran''', born '''Bessie Lee Pittman''' ([[May 11]], ...
    3: [[Image:JacquelineCochran.JPG|thumb|Jacqueline Cochran]]
    6: ...s business. Despite her lack of education, Ms. Cochran had a quick mind and an affinity for business a...
    8: ...r a ride in an airplane, a thrilled Jacqueline Cochran began taking flying lessons at [[Roosevelt Airf...
    10: ...ow aviatrix [[Amelia Earhart]] to participate. Cochran would go on to win the event. With her growing ...
  17. Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
    10: ...n and published in January [[1939]]. In February 1939, Meitner published the physical explanation for t...
  18. Maria Goeppert-Mayer (4176 bytes)
    3: ...ed there in the fall. Among her professors were three [[Nobel prize]] winners: [[Max Born]], [[James ...
    5: ...[[Baltimore, Maryland|Baltimore]] from [[1931]]-[[1939|39]], but since she was a woman she was not allow...
  19. Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
    2: ...ner of thirteen [[Grammy Award]]s. Gifted with a three-octave vocal range, she is noted for her purity...
    8: When Chick Webb died in [[1939]], the band continued touring under the new name,...
    10: ...]], [[gospel]], [[calypso music|calypso]], and [[Christmas]] songs. Ella's later concerts were often e...
    52: *1960 ''[[Wishes You a Merry Christmas]]''
    75: *1967 ''[[Ella Fitzgerald's Christmas]]''
  20. Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
    11: Szenes graduated 1939 and decided to move to study in the Girls' Agricu...
    13: ... tortured. She did not talk even when the guards threatened to torture her mother as well. The mother ...
    28: ... her songs is ''(Halichah L'Kesariyah'' ("A Walk Through Cesarea"), commonly known as ''Eili, Eili'' (...
    61: :''One - two - three... eight long''
    64: :''One - two - three... maybe another week.''

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