What Happened in Jun 1939

Agatha Christie publishes Murder Is Easy

Murder is Easy is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on June 5, 1939 and in the... Read more

Mary MacPhee Is Recorded Performing Gaelic Songs

On June 15, 1939, in Oakland, California, folk music collector Sidney Robertson Cowell recorded Mary MacPhee performing Gaelic songs from the... Read more

Japanese Occupy Swatow Port to Establish Blockade of Guangdong

The Swatow Operation, (June 21–27,1939) was part of a campaign by Japan during the Second Sino-Japanese War to blockade China to prevent it from... Read more