Editing 1939 (section)

=== November ===
{{main|November 1939}}
[[File:Hedda-Hopper-1929.jpg|thumb|140px|right|[[November 6]]: [[Hedda Hopper]]]]
* [[November 1]]&ndash;[[November 2|2]] &ndash; WWII: Physicist [[Hans Ferdinand Mayer]] writes the [[Oslo Report]] on German weapons systems, and passes it to the British [[Secret Intelligence Service]].
* [[November 4]] &ndash; WWII: U.S. President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] orders the [[United States Customs Service]] to implement the [[Neutrality Acts of 1930s|Neutrality Act of 1939]], allowing cash-and-carry purchases of weapons to non-belligerent nations.
*[[November 4]] &ndash; [[Stewart Menzies]] is appointed head of the British [[Secret Intelligence Service]].
* [[November 6]]
** ''Hedda Hopper's Hollywood'' debuts on radio in the United States with gossip columnist [[Hedda Hopper]] as host (the show runs until 1951, making Hopper a powerful figure among the [[Cinema of the United States|Hollywood]] elite).
** WWII: [[Sonderaktion Krakau]] &ndash; Germans take action against scientists from the [[University of Kraków]], and other [[Kraków]] universities.
* [[November 8]]
** WWII: In [[Munich]], an attempt to kill [[Adolf Hitler]] is made by [[Georg Elser]] while Hitler is celebrating the 16th anniversary of the [[Beer Hall Putsch]].
** [[CBS]] television station [[W2XAB]] resumes test transmission, with an all-electronic system broadcast from the top of the [[Chrysler Building]] in [[New York City]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Early Television Stations - W2XAB/W2XAX/WCBW - CBS, New York|url=http://www.earlytelevision.org/w2xab.html|work=Early Television Museum|location=Hilliard, OH|access-date=2014-11-26|archive-date=March 19, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190319093419/http://www.earlytelevision.org/w2xab.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[November 9]] &ndash; WWII: [[Venlo Incident]]: Two British agents of [[Secret Intelligence Service|SIS]] are captured by the Germans.
* [[November 14]] &ndash; In Washington, D.C., U.S. President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] lays the cornerstone of the [[Jefferson Memorial]].
* [[November 16]] &ndash; [[Al Capone]] is released from [[Federal Correctional Institution, Terminal Island|Terminal Island]], due to deteriorating health caused by [[syphilis]].
* [[November 17]] &ndash; WWII: To punish protests against the Nazi occupation of the Czech homeland, the Nazis storm the University of Prague and murder 9 Czech graduate students, send over 1,200 to concentration camps, and close all Czech universities, an event which will be commemorated as [[International Students' Day]].
* [[November 23]] &ndash; WWII: British [[armed merchantman]] {{HMS|Rawalpindi}} is sunk in the [[GIUK gap]], in an action against the German [[battleship]]s {{ship|German battleship|Scharnhorst||2}} and {{ship|German battleship|Gneisenau||2}}.
* [[November 26]] &ndash; [[Shelling of Mainila]]: The [[Soviet Union]]'s [[Red Army]] shells the Russian village of Mainila, then claims that the fire originated from [[Finland]], giving a ''[[casus belli]]'' for the [[Winter War]].
* [[November 30]] &ndash; WWII:  [[Winter War]] &ndash; Soviet forces attack Finland and reach the [[Mannerheim Line]], starting the war. Sweden declares itself a [[non-belligerent]] in the Winter War.