Events
*The third European basketball championship, Eurobasket 1939, is won by Lithuania.
*The seventh South American Basketball Championship in
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Deaths
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1939 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament — Infobox NCAA Basketball Tournament Year=1939 ImageSize= Caption= Teams=8 FinalFourArena=Patten Gymnasium FinalFourCity=Evanston, Illinois Champions=Oregon TitleCount=1st RunnerUp=Ohio State GameCount=1st Semifinal1=Oklahoma FinalFourCount=1st… … Wikipedia
1939 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans — The 1939 College Basketball All American team, as chosen by the Helms Foundation. [ [http://www.apbr.org/ncaa aa.html NCAA All Americans] ] References … Wikipedia
Basketball in England — Basketball, although invented in the United States of America, has a very long history in England, having been introduced there by the YMCA almost immediately after it was created. World War I and II further spurred its popularity. The four… … Wikipedia
Basketball in Deutschland — wird vom Deutschen Basketball Bund (DBB) in Hagen organisiert. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Geschichte 1.1 Anfänge bis 1944 1.2 Neubeginn im Nachkriegsdeutschland … Deutsch Wikipedia
Basketball Australia — is the governing and controlling body of basketball in Australia, responsible for the development and promotion of the sport at all levels.Formed in 1939 (as the Australian Basketball Federation) the organisation was constituted in 1946.… … Wikipedia
1939 New York World's Fair — 1939 World s Fair redirects here. The term can also refer to the Golden Gate International Exposition, which was held in San Francisco/Oakland at the same time as the New York fair. Trylon, Perisphere and Helicline photo by Sam Gottscho The… … Wikipedia
basketball — (n.) 1892, American English, from BASKET (Cf. basket) + BALL (Cf. ball) (n.1). The game was invented 1891 by James A. Naismith (1861 1939), physical education instructor in Springfield, Massachusetts, U.S … Etymology dictionary
basketball — ☆ basketball [bas′kitbôl΄, bäs′kitbôl΄ ] n. [invented & named (1891) by James A. Naismith (1861 1939) at Y.M.C.A. College, Springfield, Mass.] 1. a game played by two opposing teams of usually five players on a rectangular, often wooden, court… … English World dictionary
basketball — /bas kit bawl , bah skit /, n. 1. a game played by two teams of usually five players each on a rectangular court having a raised basket or goal at each end, points being scored by tossing the ball through the opponent s basket. 2. the round,… … Universalium
1939 in Poland — Incumbents= On May 15, 1936, president of Poland Ignacy Mościcki designed the government under prime minister Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski. The government was dissolved on September 30, 1939 and it was the last government of the Second Polish… … Wikipedia
