January 1939NeutralityFranklin Delano Roosevelt
Requests Congress to amend the Neutrality Act to sell arms
Historical records for United States of America in 1939, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
Requests Congress to amend the Neutrality Act to sell arms
Requests Congress to amend the Neutrality Act to sell arms
Requests Congress to amend the Neutrality Act to sell arms
Birth of Ray Manzarek
Birth of Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek.
With George Volkoff, shows that sufficiently massive neutron cores have no static equilibrium, helping establish the theoretical path toward gravitational collapse.
Birth of Harvey Keitel
Einstein writes a letter to Roosevelt to develop the atomic bomb
Einstein writes a letter to Roosevelt to develop the atomic bomb
With Hartland Snyder, models continued stellar collapse and shows a sufficiently massive star can become cut off from communication with distant observers.
Birth of Michael Cimino
Authorises creation of the Advisory Committee on Uranium.
Roosevelt authorizes the creation of the Advisory Committee on Uranium
Economist Alexander Sachs meets with President Roosevelt and delivers the Einstein-Szilard letter
Delivers the uranium warning letter to Roosevelt.
Roosevelt authorizes the creation of the Advisory Committee on Uranium. Economist Alexander Sachs meets with President Roosevelt and delivers the Einstein-Szilard letter
Economist Alexander Sachs meets with President Roosevelt and delivers the Einstein-Szilard letter
Lee Harvey Oswald was born in New Orleans on October 18, 1939, two months after the death of his father.
First meeting of the Uranium Committee, headed by Lyman Briggs of the National Bureau of Standards, 6000 dollars is budgeted for neutron experiments
First meeting of the Uranium Committee, headed by Lyman Briggs of the National Bureau of Standards, 6000 dollars is budgeted for neutron experiments
First meeting of the Uranium Committee, headed by Lyman Briggs of the National Bureau of Standards, 6000 dollars is budgeted for neutron experiments
First meeting of the Uranium Committee, headed by Lyman Briggs of the National Bureau of Standards, 6000 dollars is budgeted for neutron experiments
Chairs the first Uranium Committee meeting.
First meeting of the Uranium Committee, headed by Lyman Briggs of the National Bureau of Standards, 6000 dollars is budgeted for neutron experiments
Arms can be shipped to belligerent powers if they pay cash & US ships transport them
Signs an amendment to the Neutrality Act
Signs an amendment to the Neutrality Act
Signs an amendment to the Neutrality Act
Signs an amendment to the Neutrality Act
Stars in, "Beau Geste"
Warns of uranium chain-reaction possibilities with Szilard.
Appointed Chairman of the War Resources Board
Appointed Chief of Staff
Appointed Chief of Staff
Appointed Colonel
Gamow begins applying nuclear physics to early universe problems that will shape hot Big Bang theory
Attends a Columbia University evening writing class taught by Whit Burnett, longtime editor of Story magazine
President Franklin Roosevelt calls on Lyman Briggs of the National Bureau of Standards to head "The Uranium Committee" to undertake nuclear research, as a result of the Einstein-Szilard letter
Works with Bohr on the theory of nuclear fission.
Oppenheimer analyzes continued gravitational collapse as an implication of general relativity
Publishes work with Snyder on continued gravitational contraction of massive stars.
Snyder coauthors the relativistic collapse model showing how a massive star can pass within its Schwarzschild radius
President Franklin Roosevelt calls on Lyman Briggs of the National Bureau of Standards to head "The Uranium Committee" to undertake nuclear research, as a result of the Einstein-Szilard letter
Stars in, "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington". Stars in, "Its a Wonderful World". Stars in, "Destry Rides Again"
Coauthors the relativistic model of gravitational collapse to a black-hole-like state.
Winner of the Pullitzer Prize for "Grapes of Wrath"
Directs Raffles. Directs Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Requests Congress to amend the Neutrality Act to sell arms. The outbreak of war & the Russo-German non-aggression pact change US attitudes
Publication of "The Grapes of Wrath"
Publication of "The Nature of the Chemical Bond"
Roosevelt authorises preliminary work for a third set of locks to increase wartime capacity.
Directs, Wuthering Heights
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