1939
ID: 1478
Hitler dismisses Schacht as Reichsbank President
ID: 1478
1939
ID: 1479
First evidence of Hoover's concern for Rosenstiel's criminal links
ID: 1479
1939
ID: 1480
WWII begins; IG Farben converts entirely to military chemical production
ID: 1480
1939
ID: 1481
St. Maximilian Kolbe: 'Atheistic Communism seems to rage ever more wildly. Its origin can easily be located in that criminal mafia that calls itself Freemasonry'
ID: 1481
1939
ID: 1482
Harry Hay in New York studying advanced Marxist theory (1939-1942)
ID: 1482
1939
ID: 1483
Nicolas Bourbaki begins systematic reconstruction of mathematics
ID: 1483
1939
ID: 1484
Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann discover nuclear fission, opening nuclear chemistry frontiers
ID: 1484
1939
ID: 1485
Polyethylene begins large-scale commercial production for electrical insulation
ID: 1485
1939
ID: 1486
World War II - Materialism's ultimate fruit (1939-1945)
ID: 1486
1939
ID: 1487
Rudolf Hoess (Auschwitz Commandant): 'I commanded Auschwitz... estimate at least 2,500,000 victims were executed'
ID: 1487
1939
ID: 1488
WWII: Massive expansion of radar technology and military radio systems
ID: 1488
1939
ID: 4477
George Stibitz builds Complex Number Calculator at Bell Labs - first electric digital calculator using telephone relays
ID: 4477
1939
ID: 4613
Leonid Kantorovich develops linear programming - mathematical optimization for resource allocation
ID: 4613
1939
ID: 1476
February 10, 1939
Pope Pius XI dies
ID: 1476
1939
ID: 1477
March 2, 1939
Pope Pius XII elected on eve of World War II
ID: 1477