Movies set in 1939
17th robots attack New York
10th King George VI and queen Elizabeth arrive to stay with President Roosevelt
11th King George VI joins FDR for a picnic and eats a hotdog
4th Lou Gehrig delivers "baseball's Gettysburg Address"
5th the Thirteen Roses are executed
1st the invasion of Poland begins
3rd the speech
4th the passenger ship Goliath is sunk by a German submarine
8th the 14th Dalai Lama arrives in Lhasa
12th L. S. Lowry's mother dies