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April 30, 1939
On April 30, 1939, the 1939–40 New York World's Fair opens. Clay Shaw, Ali Khamenei, Karel Gott would arrive in the same year.
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Featured · April 30, 1939
The 1939–40 New York World's Fair opens.
The 1939 New York World's Fair was an international exposition held at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens, New York City, United States. S. states and territories, and more than 1,400 organizations and companies.
Around 1939
The year in brief
1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1939th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 939th year of the 2nd millennium, the 39th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1930s decade.
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On April 30, 1939
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1939 The 1939–40 New York World's Fair opens. World's fair held in New York City
The 1939 New York World's Fair was an international exposition held at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens, New York City, United States. S. states and territories, and more than 1,400 organizations and companies.
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1939 NBC inaugurates its regularly scheduled television service in New York City, broadcasting President Franklin D. Roosevelt's N.Y. World's Fair opening day ceremonial address. American broadcast television network
The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network, serving as the flagship property of NBC Entertainment, a division of NBCUniversal, which is a subsidiary of Comcast. It is one of NBCUniversal's two flagship subsidiaries, alongside Universal Studios. It is the first and oldest major broadcast network in the United States.
Elsewhere that year
Other moments from 1939
- April 1 Spanish Civil War: Generalísimo Francisco Franco of the Spanish State announces the end of the Spanish Civil War, when the last of the Republican forces surrender.
- April 18 Robert Menzies, who became Australia's longest-serving prime minister, is elected as leader of the United Australia Party after the death of Prime Minister Joseph Lyons.
- April 7 Benito Mussolini declares an Italian protectorate over Albania and forces King Zog I into exile.
- April 7 Italy invades Albania.
- April 9 African-American singer Marian Anderson gives a concert at the Lincoln Memorial after being denied the use of Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution.
- August 15 Twenty-six Junkers Ju 87 bombers commanded by Walter Sigel meet unexpected ground fog during a dive-bombing demonstration for Luftwaffe generals at Neuhammer. Thirteen of them crash and burn.
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