1939 - Population
Population
Palestine's population reaches 1.4 million, including 900,000 Muslims, 400,000 Jews, 100,000 Christians (see politics [Israel], 1948).
1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940
Hitler, Adolf|Czechoslovakia : Germany and|Germany : and Czechoslovakia|Memel|Ribbentrop, Joachim von|Molotov, V.M.|Litvinov, Maxim|Estonia : USSR and|Latvia : USSR and|Lithuania : USSR and|World War II|Poland : in World War II|Warsaw : in World War II|Hitler, Adolf|Danzig|Enigma code|Stephenson, William S.|France : in World War II|France : and Germany|Britain : and Germany|Britain : in World War II|Saarland|Krupp of Essen|Roosevelt, Franklin D.|United States : in World War II|World War II : U.S. and|Hoover, Herbert C.|Byrd, Harry F.|Borah, William E.|Wheeler, Burton K.|Ford, Henry|Lindbergh, Charles|Navy, Royal : in World War II|Poland : and USSR|Hungary|Teleki, Pál|Hungary : and Germany|Germany : and Hungary|Darányi, Kalman|Spain : civil wars in|Madrid : in Spanish Revolution|Franco, Francisco|Azaña y Díaz, Manuel|Germany : and Spain|Spain : and Germany|Italy : and Spain|Albania : Italy and|Italy : and Albania|Hoxha, Enver|Romania : Fascism in|Romania|Soviet Union : and Poland|Churchill, Winston|Sten gun|Navy, Royal : in World War II|Sinclair, Hugh|Neutrality Acts, U.S.|Baruch, Bernard|Max, Adolphe|Iraq|Glubb, John B.|Jordan : in World War II|Britain : and Palestine|Palestine : British in, (White Paper)|Antioch|Turkey : in World War II|Women's Royal Navy Service (WRNS), Britain|Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS), Britain|Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF), Britain|Women's Land Army, Britain|Women's Voluntary Service for Civil Defence (WVS), Britain|Finland : and USSR|Helsinki|Tanner, Väinö|Soviet Union : and Finland|Siam (see also Thailand)|Phibunsongkhram, Luang|Thailand (see also Siam)|Thailand|Britain : and India|India : and Britain|Bose, Subhas Chandra|Manchuria : and Mongolia|Mongolia : and Manchuria|Soviet Union : and Japan|Japan : and Germany|Japan : and USSR|Nomonhan, Battle of|Zhukov, Georgi K.|Wu Peifu|Machado y Morales, Gerardo|Peru|Prado Ugarteche, Manuel|Pendergast, Thomas J.|Hatch Act|Douglas, Helen Gahagan|Voorhis, Jerry|submarines|Butler, Pierce|Navy, Royal : at River Plate|Navy, Royal : in World War II|Woodhouse, Adm. Charles|B-24 bomber|Consolidated Aircraft : B-24|Liberator (B-24) bomber|Ribbentrop, Joachim von|Germany : anti-Semitism in|anti-Semitism : in Germany|Germany : Nazis in|Nazis|S.S. St. Louis|Goebbels, Joseph|Long, Breckinridge|Brazil : German Jewish refugees and|concentration camps : Stutthof|Stutthof concentration camp|Holocaust|Baeck, Leo|Kindertransport|Schindler, Oskar|Anderson, Marian|Daughters of the American Revolution|Roosevelt, Eleanor|Japan : labor in|Philippines : suffrage in|Goldman, Emma|Garvey, Marcus M.|Blatch, Harriet Stanton|National Woman's Party|Equal Rights Amendment, U.S.|Abbott, Grace|Wald, Lillian|Roosevelt, Franklin D.|Social Security, U.S.|Social Security Act|Britain : wealth in|France : economy of|United States : economy of|Works Progress Administration (WPA)|United States : income tax in|income tax, U.S.|U.S. Steel|General Motors|Schwab, Charles M.|Puvo, Arsène P.|Thanksgiving Day|Lazarus, Fred, Jr.|Roosevelt, Franklin D.|Commonwealth & Southern Corp.|Willkie, Wendell L.|Deterding, Henri|Doherty, Henry L.|Niarchos, Stavros|Erikson, Gustaf|Pan Am|aviation : transatlantic flights|British : Airways|aviation : turbojet|Heinkel, Ernst|aviation : jet aircraft|Whittle, Frank|helicopter|Sikorsky, Igor|United Aircraft|helicopter : Focke and|Focke, Heinrich|Reitsch, Hanna|Hughes, Howard R.|TWA|airports : La Guardia|La Guardia Airport|Fokker, Anthony H.G.|Iran : railroad in|railroads : Iran|railroads : Spain|Spain : railroads in|New York Central|Pennsylvania RR|Los Angeles : Union Station in|Union Pacific Railroad|bridges : Bronx-Whitestone|Bronx-Whitestone Bridge|Ammann, Othmar H.|General Motors : Futurama at World's Fair|world's fairs|Merritt Parkway|Mercury motorcar|automobile : U.S. ownership of|General Motors|automobile : financing|Fiat|Italy : auto making in|automobiles : in Italy|Germany : Strength through Joy program in|Hewlett-Packard|Packard, David|Hewlett, William R.|computers : Bell Labs and|Bell Laboratories : and computers|Stibitz, George R.|computers : Stibitz and|comouter : Atanasoff and|Atanasoff, John|computer : Berry and|Berry, Clifford|Dewey, Bradley|rubber : synthetic|Union Carbide, (synthetic rubber)|du Pont, E.I. : nylon and|nylon|spectrophotometer|Beckman, A.O.|Hahn, Otto|Strassmann|Meitner, Lise|barium|cerium|lanthanum|uranium|cyclotron|Dunning, John|atomic energy|Meitner, Lise|Fermi, Enrico|Szilard, Leo|Zinn, Walter H.|Bohr, Niels|Einstein, Albert|Wigner, Eugene|uranium : and atomic energy|Alvarez, Luis W.|physics : Alvarez|Bloch, Felix|Pauling, Linus C.|chemistry|Traube, Isidore|mathematics : von Neumann and|von Neumann, John|Weil, André|mathematics : Weil and|Alfvén, Hannes|Lindemann, Ferdinand von|Carter, Howard|Ostwald, Wilhelm|Peano, Giuseppe|Leshniewkski, Stanislaw|Dyson, Sir Frank|cigarettes : health hazards of|cancer|rabies|Poland : rabies in|Demerol (meperidine)|Florey, Howard W.|Chain, Ernst B.|actinomycin|antibiotics : Waksman and|Dubos, René|Waksman, Selman|Vaughan, Janet|blood : transfusion|Bethune, Henry Norman|Colebrook, Leonard|sulfa drugs|Public Health Service, U.S.|Mayo Clinic|Ellis, Havelock|Bleuler, Eugen|Freud, Sigmund|Wells, H.G.|Freud, Anna|Cushing, Harvey W.|Eiselsberg, Anton|Walgreen. Charles R.|popes : Pius XI|popes : Pius XII|Oxford Group|United Jewish Appeal (UJA)|Mundelein, George Cardinal|Glamour magazine|Mademoiselle magazine|Annenberg, Moses|Annenberg, Walter H.|television|world's fairs : New York|radio (wireless) : FM|Graham, David|Miner, Worthington|Murrow, Edward R.|radio : in France|France : radio in|radio (wireless) : U.S. set ownership of|AT&T|comic strips : "Batman|Gibbons, Floyd P.|Broun, Heywood|Pocket Books, Inc.|paperback books|Kenyon Review|Ransom, John Crowe|Streit, Clarence K.|Sturzo, Luigi|Hayakawa, S.I.|Orwell, George|Miller, Perry|Davies, Robertson|Finnegans Wake (n)|Joyce, James|The Grapes of Wrath (n)|Johnny Got His Gun (n)|Trumbo, Dalton|The Day of the Locust (n)|West, Nathanael|The Web and the Rock (n)|Wolfe, Thomas|Night Rider (n)|Warren, Robert Penn|Wind, Sand and Stars (n)|Mauriac, François|Yourcenar, Marguerite|Goodbye to Berlin (n)|Isherwood, Christopher|How Green Was My Valley (n)|Llewellyn, Richard|Mrs. Miniver (n)|Struther, Jan|Hangover Square (n)|Hamilton, Patrick|Powys, Llewelyn|On the Marble Cliffs (n)|Jünger, Ernst|Mister Johnson (n)|Cary, Joyce|After Many a Summer Dies the Swan (n)|Huxley, Aldous|White, T.H.|Alberte (n)|Sandel, Cora|The Girls (n)|Montherlant, Henri de|Tropic of Capricorn (n)|Miller, Henry : novelist|Pale Horse, Pale Rider (s)|Porter, Katherine Ann|Prokosch, Frederic|The Nazarene (n)|Asch, Sholem|"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" (s)|Thurber, James|The New Yorker|Wickford Point (n)|Marquand, John P.|Black Narcissus (n)|Godden, Rumer|Ota, Yoko|Okamoto, Kanoko|Yosano, Akiko|The Outsider and Others (s)|Lovecraft, H.P.|Asimov, Isaac|Moses, Man of the Mountain (n)|Hurston, Zora Neale|Dobie, J. Frank|Fisher, Dorothea Canfield|Marsh, Ngaio|Mask of Dimitrios (n)|Ambler, Eric|A Coffin for Dimitrios (n)|The Big Sleep (n)|Chandler, Raymond|Van Dine, S.S.|Roth, Joseph|Ford, Ford Madox|Grey, Zane|Powys, Llewelyn|Eliot, T.S.|MacNeice, Louis|Parker, Dorothy|Auden, W.H.|Yeats, William Butler|Thorpe, Rose Hartwick|Madeline (j)|Bemelmans, Ludwig|Hotel Splendide (n)|Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel (j)|Lawson, Robert|Halliburton, Richard|Museum of Modern Art|museums : MoMA|Stone, Edward Durrell|Rockefeller, John D. : Jr.|Moses, Grandma|de Kooning, Willem|Klee, Paul|Picasso, Pablo|Magritte, René|Delaunay, Sonia|Benton, Thomas Hart : painter|Shahn, Ben|Stella, Joseph|Avery, Milton|Rivera, Diego|Rockwell, Norman|Duveen, Joseph|Vollard, Ambroise|John, Gwen|Dix, Otto|Marini, Marino|Shaw, Irwin|Cobb, Lee J.|Bohnen, Roman|Jaffe, Sam|Kazan, Elia|Malden, Karl|Ritt, Martin|Sidney, Sylvia|Tone, Franchot|Aronson, Boris|The White Steed (p)|Carroll, Paul Vincent|Fitzgerald, Barry|Tandy, Jessica|Coulouris, George|The American Way (p)|Kaufman, George S.|Hart, Moss|March, Frederic|Eldridge, Florence|The Little Foxes (p)|Hellman, Lillian|Bankhead, Tallulah|Rawls, Eugenia|Reid, Carl Benton|Collinge, Patricia|Bernstein, Aline|Family Portrait (p)|Anderson, Judith|Coolidge, Philip|Ewell, Tom|Webster, Margaret|Family Reunion (p)|Eliot, T.S.|Redgrave, Michael|The Philadelphia Story (p)|Barry, Philip|Hepburn, Katharine|Booth, Shirley|Heflin, Van|Cotten, Joseph|My Heart's in the Highlands (p)|Saroyan, William|Lumet, Sidney|No Time for Comedy (p)|Behrman, S.N.|Cornell, Katharine|Olivier, Laurence|Gilmore, Margalo|After the Dance (p)|Rattigan, Terence|Ondine (p)|Genet, Jean|Berle, Milton|Mitchell, Millard|Merrill, Gary|Skylark (p)|Raphaelson, Samson|Lawrence, Gertrude|Anders, Glenn|Cook, Donald|Vance, Vivian|The Man Who Came to Dinner (p)|Woolley, Monty|Porter, Cole|"What Am I to Do|The Time of Your Life (p)|Dowling, Eddie|Haydon, Julie|Kelly, Gene|Holm, Celeste|Bendix, William|Margin for Error (p)|Boothe Luce, Clare|Preminger, Otto|Fletcher, Bramwell|Marlowe, Hugh|Life with Father (p)|Lindsay, Howard|Crouse, Russel|Stickney, Dorothy|Key Largo (p)|Anderson, Maxwell|Ferrer, José|Muni, Paul|Hagen, Uta|Mornings at Seven (p)|Osborn, Paul|Gish, Dorothy|Adair, Jean|Markey, Enid|Shannon, Effie|Federal Theater Project|Flanagan, Hallie|Howard, Sidney|Hatton, Fanny|Canada : National Film Board of|Fleming, Victor|Gone with the Wind (f)|Leigh, Vivien|Gable, Clark|Howard, Leslie|de Havilland, Olivia|Menzies, William Cameron|Selznick, David O.|Howard, Sidney|Marshall, George|Destry Rides Again (f)|Stewart, James|Dietrich, Marlene|Korda, Zoltan|Four Feathers (f)|Richardson, Ralph|Smith, C. Aubrey|Duprez, June|Stevens, George|Gunga Din (f)|Grant, Cary|McLaglen, Victor|Fairbanks, Douglas : Jr.|Fontaine, Joan|Jaffe, Sam|Capra, Frank|Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (f) : |Stewart, James|filibuster, U.S. Senate and|Arthur, Jean|Milestone, Lewis|Of Mice and Men (f)|Meredith, Burgess|Chaney, Lon : Jr.|Renoir, Jean|The Rules of the Game (f)|Banks, Monte|Shipyard Sally (f)|Fields, Gracie|Ford, John|Stagecoach, John|Wayne, John|Trevor, Claire|Reed, Carol|The Stars Look Down (f)|Redgrave, Michael|Lockwood, Margaret|Wyler, William|Wuthering Heights (f)|Olivier, Laurence|Oberon, Merle|Goulding, Edmund|Dark Victory (f)|The Old Maid (f)|Davis, Bette|Drums Along the Mohawk (f)|Fonda, Henry|Colbert, Claudette|Wood, Sam|Goodbye, Mr. Chips (f)|Donat, Robert|Garson, Greer|Kanin, Garson|The Great Man Votes (f)|Barrymore, John|The Hound of the Baskervilles (f)|Rathbone, Basil|Bruce, Nigel|Dieterle, William|The Hunchback of Notre Dame (f)|Laughton, Charles|Le Jour Se Lève (f)|Gabin, Jean|Arletty|McCarey, Leo|Love Affair (f)|Dunne, Irene|Boyer, Charles|Leisen, Mitchell|Midnight (f)|Ameche, Don|Lubitsch, Ernst|Ninotchka (f)|Garbo, Greta|Douglas, Melvyn|Hawks, Howard|Only Angels Have Wings (f)|Barthelmess, Richard|Curtiz, Michael|The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (f)|Flynn, Errol|Cukor, George|The Women (f)|Goddard, Paulette|Watson, Lucile|Main, Marjorie|Weidler, Virginia|Hussey, Ruth|Hughes, Mary Beth|Grey, Virginia|McQueen, Butterfly|Hopper, Hedda|You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (f)|Fields, W.C.|Bergen, Edgar|Laemmle, Carl|Weber, Lois|Fairbanks, Douglas|Fleming, Victor|The Wizard of Oz (h)|Garland, Judy|Bolger, Ray|Lahr, Bert|Haley, Jack|Morgan, Frank|Hamilton, Margaret|Arlen, Harold|Harburg, E.Y.|"Somewhere Over the Rainbow|"Follow the Yellow Brick Road|"We're Off to See the Wizard|"If I Only Had a Brain|Disney, Walt|Saludos Amigos (h)|"Brazil|Russell, Bob|The Dinah Shore Show (r)|Shore, Dinah|Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI)|ASCAP|Novello, Ivor|Ellis, Mary|Hassall, Christopher|The Hot Mikado (m)|Robinson, Bill "Bojangles|Todd, Mike|Sing for Your Supper (m)|Federal Theatre Project|The Streets of Paris (m)|Miranda, Carmen|McHugh, Jimmy|Dubin, Al|George White's Scandals (m)|Howard, Willie|Howard, Eugene|Miller, Ann : Miller|Middleton, Ray|Logan, Ella|Three Stooges|Fain, Sammy|Yellen, Jack|"Are You Having Any Fun|Too Many Girls (m)|Arnaz, Desi|Bracken, Eddie|Johnson, Van|Rodgers, Richard|Hart, Lorenz|"I Didn't Know What Time It Was : |Very Warm for May (m)|Whiting, Jack|Arden, Eve|Allyson, June|Vera-Ellen|Kern, Jerome|Hammerstein, Oscar : II|"All the Things You Are|Du Barry Was a Lady (m)|Lahr, Bert|Merman, Ethel|Grable, Betty|Porter, Cole|"Friendship|"Do I Love You?|Templeton, Fay|Warren, Leonard|Stevens, Risë|Ives, Charles|Harris, Roy|Bartók, Bela|Lutyens, Elisabeth|Shostakovich, Dmitri|Kubelik, Jan|Honegger, Arthur|Claudel, Paul|Sinatra, Frank|James, Harry|Dorsey, Tommy|"There'll Always Be an England|"We'll Meet Again|"I'll Never Smile Again|Lowe, Ruth|Sinatra, Frank|"Heaven Can Wait|Van Heusen, James|De Lange, Eddie|"And the Angels Sing|Mercer, Johnny|"Ciribiribin|Lawrence, Jack|"Undecided|"Moonlight Serenade|Parish, Mitchell|"In the Mood|Razaf, Andy|"All or Nothing at All|"The Lady's in Love with You|Lane, Burton|Loesser, Frank|"Scatterbrain|Burke, Johnny|"South of the Border|Kennedy, Jimmy|"Three Little Fishes|Montana, Patsy|McRae, Carmen|Holiday, Billie|"Strange Fruit|Webb, Chick|Fitzgerald, Ella|Nelson, Byron|Riggs, Bobby|Marble, Alice|Williams, Ted|Gehrig, Lou|baseball : Little League|Stotz, Carl E.|baseball : Hall of Fame|Cobb, Ty|Johnson, Walter|Mathewson, Christy|Ruth, Babe|Wagner, Honus|football, U.S. : helmets|basketball|Naismith, James|brassiere|Vionnet, Madeleine|Daisy air rifle|American Tobacco : Pall Mall|cigarettes : Pall Mall|Capone, Al|Sutherland, Edwin H.|white-collar crime|Wright, Frank Lloyd|Johnson, S.C., Co.|motels|Colorado : River|Arizona : dams in|Los Angeles : water and|Missouri River|Montana : Fort Peck Dam in|Chile : earthquakes in|Turkey : earthquakes in|earthquakes : Turkey|potato beetle|DDT|Müller, Paul Hermann|Japanese beetle|wheat : U.S. production of|Mangelsdorf, Paul C.|maize (corn) : wild|maize (corn) : Mangelsdorf and|Mexico : maize (corn) ancestors in,|Mexico : maize (corn) production in|tortillas|cornmeal|spoon bread|Britain : agriculture in|Russia : and Germany|Germany : and Russia|Agriculture, U.S. Dept. of : food stamps and|Britain : Ministry of Food in, World War II|Drummond, J. C. "Jack|Britain : food supplies of, World War II|Hoover, Herbert C.|Finland : in World War II|Keilin, David|zinc : nutritional value of|nutrition : Britain|bread : fortification of, Britain|flour : fortification of, Britain|margarine : fortification of, Britain|nutrition : American Institute of|American Institute of Nutrition : fortification of foods and|nutrition : fluorides and|fluoridation : Cox and|General Foods : Birds Eye Frosted Foods|frozen foods : chicken fricasee|frozen foods : criss-cross steak|frozen foods : creamed chicken|frozen foods : beef stew|frozen foods : roast turkey|Cream of Wheat|Elsie the Cow|New York : world's fair at|Borden : Elsie the Cow and|pressure cooker|National Presto Industries|potato chips : Lay's|Lay's Potato Chips|Pepsi-Cola|soft drinks : Pepsi-Cola|soft drinks : Coca-Cola|Coca-Cola|Heublein, G.F., & Bro. : Smirnoff Vodka|vodka : Smirnoff|Smirnoff Vodka|Martin, John G.|tea : Chinese consumption of|tea : British consumption of|Britain : tea consumption in|tea : Indian consumption of|India : tea consumption in|tea : U.S. consumption of|United States : tea consumption in,|tea : Japanese consumption of|Japan : tea consumption in|tea : Russian consumption of|Russia : tea consumption in|tea : Australian consumption of|Australia : tea consumption in|tea : Canadian consumption of|Canada : tea consumption in|Netherlands : tea consumption in|tea : Dutch consumption of|Ireland : tea consumption in|tea : Irish consumption of|tea : Indonesian consumption of|Dutch East Indies : tea consumption in|China : tea consumption in|Palestine : population of