Timeline Thursday 2 March 1939

Events on Thursday 2 March 1939 3

• 1874 – 1939 Howard Carter (1874-1939) Died 2 March 1939, aged 64 Carter was a British archaeologist and Egyptologist. In 1922 he discovered the almost intact tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings. He spent a decade recording its contents.
• 1939 Election of Pope Pius XII Eugenio Pacelli becomes pope The conclave elected Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli, the Vatican Secretary of State, on his 63rd birthday. He took the name Pius XII. His record during the Holocaust remains a matter of debate.
• 1939 Stagecoach released John Ford's Western makes John Wayne a star John Ford's Stagecoach was the first of his Westerns filmed in Monument Valley. It turned John Wayne into a leading man. Critics credit it with making the Western a serious film genre.