What Happened in Nov 1939

Chinese Nationalist Army Begins Disastrous Winter Offensive Against Japanese Forces

The 1939–40 Winter Offensive was one of the major engagements between the National Revolutionary Army and Imperial Japanese Army during the Second... Read more

Agatha Christie publishes Then There Were None

And Then There Were None is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 6 November... Read more

Diego Rivera Divorces Frida Kahlo

In 1939, Kahlo went to live in Paris for a time. There she exhibited some of her paintings and developed friendships such artists as Marcel Duchamp... Read more

"Ninotchka" Is Released

Ninotchka is a 1939 American film made for Metro Goldwyn Mayer by producer and director Ernst Lubitsch which stars Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas.... Read more

Al Capone paroled and returns home to Palm Island, Florida

Al Capone was paroled on November 16, 1939 from the Federal Correctional Institution at Terminal Island in California, spent a short time in a... Read more

The Shelling of Mainila

Seven shots were fired, and their fall was detected by three Finnish observation posts. These witnesses estimated that the shells detonated... Read more

Soviet Union Launches Invasion of Finland

On 30 November, Soviet forces invaded Finland with 21 divisions, totaling some 450,000 men, and bombed Helsinki. Later the Finnish statesman J.K.... Read more