Events
- The first NCAA Tournament is played. The University of Oregon defeated Ohio State University 46–33 in Evanston, Illinois to become the inaugural national champions of this tournament.
- The third European basketball championship, Eurobasket 1939, is won by Lithuania.
- The seventh South American Basketball Championship in Rio de Janeiro is won by Brazil.
- Israel national basketball team joins the FIBA
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Famous quotes containing the word events:
“All the events which make the annals of the nations are but the shadows of our private experiences.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)
“I have no time to read newspapers. If you chance to live and move and have your being in that thin stratum in which the events which make the news transpire—thinner than the paper on which it is printed—then these things will fill the world for you; but if you soar above or dive below that plane, you cannot remember nor be reminded of them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)