A look back at the world the last time Texas A&M was a championship contender

Cost of Living 1939
Average Cost of new house $3,800.00
Average wages per year $1,730.00
Cost of a gallon of Gas 10 cents
Average Cost for house rent $28.00 per month
A loaf of Bread 8 cents
A LB of Hamburger Meat 14 cents
Average Price for new car $700.00
Toaster $16.00 Due to increased number of users Electricity prices have been cut by 1/2 in ten years.
Hot Cross Buns 16 Cents per dozen
Campbells Tomato Soup 4 cans for 25 cents
Mixed Nuts 19 Cents per pound
Fresh Peas 4 cents per pound
Cabbage 3 cents per pound
Sharp Wisconsin Cheese 23 cents per pound

Lou Gehrig retires from Major League Baseball after being diagnosed with ALS.

"Gone with the Wind" premieres in Atlanta.

The Wizard of Oz starring Judy Garland premieres.

Superman (comic book) begins publication.

Opening shots of World War II and Invasion of Poland: At 4:45am Central European Time, under cover of darkness, the German WW1-era battleship Schleswig-Holstein quietly slips her moorings at her wharf in Danzig harbor, drifts into the center of the channel, and commences firing on the fortress Westerplatte, a Polish army installation at the northeastern mouth of the port of the internationalized Free City of Danzig. Five minutes previously the bombing of Wielun in the western part of Poland had begun. Shock-troops of the German Wehrmacht begin crossing the border into Poland. Bombing of Wielun (two air-raids) follows.

Albert Einstein writes to President Franklin Roosevelt about developing the atomic bomb using uranium. This leads to the creation of the Manhattan Project.

The New York Municipal Airport (later renamed LaGuardia Airport) is dedicated.

Last public execution in France - murderer Eugene Weidmann is decapitated by the guillotine.

Regular television broadcasts began in the United States

Born This Year
John Cleese October 27th
Tina Turner November 26th
Marvin Gaye April 2nd
Francis Ford Coppola April 7th
Ginger Baker August 19th -- London, England
Francis Ford Coppola April 7th -- Detroit, Michigan, United States
James Fox May 19th -- London, England
George Hamilton August 12th -- Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.
Paul Hogan October 8th -- Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, Australia
Ayatollah Khamenei July 15th -- Mashhad, Iran
Ralph Lauren October 14th -- The Bronx, New York, United States
George Lazenby September 5th -- Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia
Lee Majors April 23rd -- Wyandotte, Michigan, U.S.
Lee Harvey Oswald October 18th -- New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
Neil Sedaka March 13th -- Brooklyn, New York, United States
Old Sarge November 4th -- Vidor, Texas, United States
Jackie Stewart June 11th -- Milton, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland
Terry Waite May 31st -- Styal, Cheshire, England