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World Events
- Germany invades Poland; occupies Bohemia and Moravia; renounces pact with England and concludes 10-year non-aggression pact with U.S.S.R.
- Russo-Finnish War begins; Finns to lose one-tenth of territory in 1940 peace treaty.
- World War II begins.
U.S. Events
Economics
Federal spending: $9.14 billion
Consumer Price Index: 13.9
Unemployment: 17.2%
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.03
Sports
World SeriesNY Yankees d. Cincinnati (4-0)Stanley CupBoston d. Toronto (4-1)WimbledonWomen: Alice Marble d. K. Stammers (6-2 6-0)
Men: Bobby Riggs d. E. Cooke (2-6 8-6 3-6 6-3 6-2)Kentucky Derby ChampionJohnstownNCAA Basketball ChampionshipOregon d. Ohio St. (46-33)NCAA Football ChampionsTexas A&M (11-0-0)
Entertainment
Entertainment Awards
Pulitzer Prizes
Fiction: The Yearling, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Drama: Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Robert E. Sherwood Oscars awarded in 1939
Academy Award, Best Picture: You Can't Take It With You (Columbia) Nobel Prize for Literature: Frans Eemil Sillanpää (Finland) Miss America: Patricia Donnelly (MI) More Entertainment Awards...
Events- The big-screen adaptation of Gone with the Wind premieres, and will go on to gross $192 million, making it one of the most profitable films of all time. It's also one of the longest films, clocking in at 231 minutes.
- Robert Kane introduces the Batman cartoon.
Science
Nobel Prizes in Science
Chemistry: Adolf Butenandt (Germany), for work on sexual hormones (declined the prize); and Leopold Ruzicka (Switzerland), for work with polymethylenes Physics: Ernest Orlando Lawrence (US), for development of the cyclotron Physiology or Medicine: Gerhard Domagk (Germany), for antibacterial effect of prontocilate
- Albert Einstein writes a letter to President Roosevelt regarding the possibility of using uranium to initiate a nuclear chain reaction, the fundamental process behind the
atomic bomb.
- Paul Muller develops DDT.
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