1939

Centuries:	19th century 20th century 21st century
Decades:	1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
Years:	1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942
Categories:	Births - Deaths - Declarations Establishments - Publications
Media:	1939 (Events)

1939 was a common year of the Gregorian calendar, the 1939th year of the Common Era (CE), the 39th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1930s decade. 1939 corresponds to the years 95–96 of the Bahá'í Era (BE) according to the Badi calendar.

Establishments

Local Spiritual Assemblies

Americas

• Richmond Heights, Washington, USA.

Europe

• Bradford, England.
• Budapest, Hungary.

Births

• July 4: Juana Conrad, American Bahá’í who served on the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States.
• September 12: Abaineh Merhatsion, Ethiopian Bahá’í who served as a Continental Counselor for Africa.
• November 8: Bahman Samandari, Persian Bahá’í who was martyred in Iran.

Deaths

• May 27: Louise Waite, early American Bahá’í who received many Tablets from ‘Abdu’l-Bahá.
• September 28: Martha Root, posthumously appointed a Hand of the Cause and the foremost travel teacher in the first Bahá’í Century.
• October 1: Ḥáji Mírzá ‘Alí-Akbar-i-Mílaní, prominent Bahá’í of Mílan who served as Secretary of the National Spiritual Assembly of Persia in the 1920's.
• December 22: Amín-i-Amín, Persian Bahá’í who served as the third Trustee of Huqúqu'lláh and on the National Spiritual Assembly of Iran.
• December 31: Lady Blomfield, the first Irish Bahá’í who assisted in the development of the Bahá’í community in England.

Publications

Books

• The Bahá'í House of Worship by Genevieve Coy.
• Equation of Bahai 96 with Gregorian 1939-1940 Calendar by John Esslemont.