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The Manchester Astronautical Association meets at their HQ in Denton near Manchester. Trevor Cusack discussed the work of the BIS Technical Committee and Eric Burgess talked about photography and rockets.

An informal meeting of the BIS takes place at Arthur C. Clarke and Maurice K. Hanson 's Grays Inn apartment in London. Total membership of the organization at this time was less than 200 people.

The New York World's Fair opens. Included is an exhibit in the "Time and Space" building which purports to show the view from a spacecraft. Ports of call include Venus, the Sun, the Moon, Mars, Saturn, the Milky Way, Horse Head nebula, and the Andromeda galaxy. Travellers voyage nine trillion trillion miles at 33 trillion trillion miles per hour for a fare of 25 cents. Aviation chronometers and ...

Stephen H. Smith of Calcutta India launches a six foot wide rocket aeroplane at Garia in India. The vehicle was reported to fly well before the engine burned through the control surfaces and it crashed.

The Evening Telegraph newspaper in the UK runs headline, "Does He Want the Moon? Hitler's Scientists Plan Super Rocket". It goes on to say that "an inventor who recently thought he had found the secret of a rocket apparatus was given special accommodation at Berchtesgarden and told to get on with the job."

Arthur C. Clarke writing to his friend Sam Youd in which he refers to the BIS moon ship as a "publicity drive". He also mentions that the newly revamped Novae Terrae now known as New Worlds is being printed at Clarke and Temple's flat in Grays Inn Road. New Worlds would go on to become one of the longest enduring science fiction magazines in Britain.

Arthur C. Clarke writing to Sam Youd tells him he has been up until 1 and 2 in the morning working on the Bulletin of the British Interplanetary Society . Youd had just published his first science fiction fanzine, The Fantast, which had Clarke's name on the cover, the first time C;arke has his own cover.

"To the Moon in a Space Ship" cover story about the British Interplanetary Society 's design for a lunar mission appears in ''Newnes Practical Mechanics '' in England. The same day Arthur C. Clarke gets paid and lends a tenth of his pay to the British Interplanetary Society. Image:mar1939practicalmechanics.jpg 220px

British Interplanetary Society council meeting takes place. Arthur C. Clarke is in attendance after having had lunch with editor from Reynolds News regarding the lunar spacecraft plans.

British Interplanetary Society meets at John Happian Edwards home 13 Park Ave in Wood Green a suburb of London. Arthur C. Clarke is in attendance.

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