July 1939 in History

Events in History

Historic Invention

Jul 3 Ernst Heinkel demonstrates 800 kph (500 mph) rocket plane to Adolf Hitler

Jul 5 Flash floods kill 79 in Northeast Kentucky
Jul 6 German Nazis close last Jewish enterprises
Jul 15 Clara Adams (NYC) is 1st woman to complete round world flight
Jul 19 Dr Roy P Scholz is 1st surgeon to use fiberglass sutures
Jul 22 Jane Bolin becomes the 1st African American female judge in New York
Jul 25 5th and last Dutch government of Prime Minister Hendriku Colijn, forms
Jul 28 5th Dutch government of Prime Minister Hendriku Colijn falls

Birthdays in History

Jul 1 Charles Floyd Hatcher, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Georgia), born in Doerun, Georgia
Jul 2 Alexandros Panagoulis, Greek politician and poet
Jul 2 John H. Sununu, US Secretary of State (R, 1989-91), Governor of New Hampshire (1983-89), born in Havana, Cuba
Jul 2 Michael N. Castle, (Rep-R-Delaware 1993-2011, Governor of Delaware 1985-92), born in Wilmington, Delaware
Jul 2 M[ichael] A[nthony] Foster, American sci-fi author (Gameplayers of Zan)
Jul 2 Valeri Vasilyevich Illarianov, Russian cosmonaut
Jul 3 Jay Tarses, American actor and writer (Open All Night, Duck Factory), born in Baltimore, Maryland
Jul 10 Ahmet Taner Kışlalı, Turkish politician, journalist, and educator, born in Zile, Tokat, Turkey (d. 1999)
Jul 11 Seth Gaaikema, Dutch night club performer
Jul 14 George E. Slusser, American scholar, writer and Sci-Fic critic, born in San Francisco, California (d. 2014)
Jul 14 Ljubisa Beara, Bosnian general convicted of overseeing Srebrenica Massacre, born in Sarajevo (d. 2017)
Jul 15 Ronald Hadfield, chief constable (West Midlands England)
Jul 16 Mariele Ventre, Italian choir director, born in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy (d. 1995)
Jul 16 Marion Pitt, social worker/writer
Jul 17 Warwick Hutton, artist
Jul 18 Edward Gramlich, American economics professor (University of Michigan), born in Rochester, New York (d. 2007)
Jul 20 Jeanne Bice, American entrepreneur (Quacker Factory clothes), born in Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin (d. 2011)
Jul 20 Judy Chicago [Judith Cohen], American artist (Dinner Party), born in Chicago, Illinois
Jul 21 John Negroponte, 1st United States Director of National Intelligence
Jul 24 Barry [Norman] Malzberg, sci-fi author (Revelations, Beyond Apollo)

John Howard (83 years old)

Jul 26 25th Prime Minister of Australia (1996-2007), born in Earlwood, New South Wales, Australia

Jul 26 Wopko Jensma, South African poet and graphic designer, born in South Africa
Jul 27 James McGee, British pathologist and professor (Morbid Anatomy at Oxford), born in Mossend, Lanarkshire, Scotland

Weddings in History

Jul 2 Syndicated columnist Ann Landers (21) weds business executive Julius Lederer

Deaths in History

Jul 8 Havelock Ellis, English physician and social reformer who studied sexual behaviour (Man & Woman), dies at 80
Jul 14 Alphonse Mucha, Czech Nouveau painter and artist, dies at 78
Jul 15 Johon Mellanby, physiologist, dies
Jul 15 Percy Scott Worthington, architect, dies
Jul 16 Beatrice Erskine Lane Suzuki, Zen student, dies
Jul 19 Rose Hartwick Thorpe, American poet (Curfew Must Not Ring) and writer, dies at 89
Jul 20 Joseph Mendes da Costa, sculptor, dies
Jul 28 William James Mayo, American surgeon and co-founder (Mayo Clinic in Minnesota), dies at 78