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| 1939 |
| | | Australian author Patrick White publishes his first novel, Happy Valley | |
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| 1939 |
| | | Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh star in Gone with the Wind, based on Margaret Mitchell's novel | |
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| 1939 |
| | | British racing driver Malcolm Campbell sets a new water speed record of 141 mph | |
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| 1939 |
| | | Austrian conductor Herbert von Karajan becomes music director of the Berlin State Opera | |
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| 1939 |
| | | British author Christopher Isherwood publishes his novel Goodbye to Berlin, based on his own experiences in the city | |
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| 1939 |
| | | British pianist Myra Hess begins a wartime series of lunchtime concerts in London's National Gallery | |
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| 1939 |
| | | Igor Stravinsky moves to the USA from Paris, his home for nearly 30 years, and settles in Hollywood | |
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| 1939 |
| | | John Ford directs John Wayne in the film Stagecoach | |
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| 1939 |
| | | Joaquin Rodrigo's concerto for guitar and orchestra, the Concierto de Aranjuez, has its first performance in Barcelona | |
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| 1939 |
| | | US crime-writer Raymond Chandler publishes his first novel, The Big Sleep, introducing the hard-boiled detective Philip Marlowe | |
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