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| 1939 |
| | | Marian Anderson's concert at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington effectively launches the US civil rights movement | |
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| 1939 |
| | | Victor Fleming directs 17-year-old Judy Garland in the film of the famous musical The Wizard of Oz | |
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| 1939 |
| | | US chemist Linus Pauling publishes his collected discoveries on The nature of the chemical bond | |
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| 1939 |
| | | John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath follows the Joad family, sharecroppers who are forced to move west to escape the horrors of the Dust Bowl | |
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| 1939 |
| | | Irish author Flann O'Brien publishes his first novel, At Swim-Two-Birds | |
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| 1939 |
| | | Ninotchka, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, is another great success for the Swedish film star Greta Garbo | |
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| 1939 |
| | | Robert Menzies, leader of the United Australia Party, becomes Australia's prime minister | |
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| 1939 |
| | | Archaeological treasures are discovered in an Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo, in Suffolk | |
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| 1939 |
| | | Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears give a series of recitals in the USA at the start of a lifelong partnership | |
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| 1939 |
| | | US designer Igor Sikorsky tests the first practical helicopter, using a rotor on a long tail boom to counter torque | |
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