1939 South American Championship — football tournament

1939–45 part of the Eastern Front during WWII

Military battle in 1939

1939 New York World's Fair — fair held at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens, New York

8th Chess Olympiad — FIDE chess tournament for national teams

Porajmos — mass murder against Roma people in Europe

EuroBasket 1939 — 1939 edition of Eurobasket

1939 early battle of World War II

Italian invasion of Albania — 1939 World War II invasion

White Paper of 1939 — 1939 statement of British policy in Palestine

1939 first of four attempts by Japan to take the city of Changsha during the second Sino-Japanese War