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| 1939 |
| | | Two million Anderson air-raid shelters are distributed to British homes, to be constructed in the garden from corrugated steel panels | |
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| 1939 |
| | | German physicists, led by Otto Hahn, announce their discovery of nuclear fission | |
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| 1939 |
| | | W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood emigrate together to the USA, later becoming US citizens | |
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| 1939 |
| | | James Joyce's Finnegans Wake is published after 17 years in the making | |
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| 1939 |
| | | Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson move their studios to St Ives | |
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| 1939 |
| | | US author Henry Miller publishes in Paris Tropic of Capricorn, about his adolescence in New York | |
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| 1939 |
| | | Eugenio Pacelli is elected pope and takes the name Pius XII | |
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| 1939 |
| | | Madrid falls to the Nationalist forces, bringing the Spanish Civil War to an end and Franco to power | |
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| 1939 |
| | | Tommy Handley has a huge success in the British comedy radio programme ITMA (It's That Man Again) | |
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| 1939 |
| | | James Thurber publishes his short story The Secret Life of Walter Mitty | |
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