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Events on Saturday 1 April 1939 2
1888 – 1939Anton Makarenko (1888-1939)Died 1 April 1939, aged 51Makarenko was a Soviet educator who ran colonies for homeless and delinquent children. He described this work in The Pedagogical Poem. His collective methods were very influential in Soviet education.
1931 – 1939The Second Spanish RepublicDemocratic ExperimentThe democratic regime that existed until its defeat in the Spanish Civil War.