1937

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Malaysia - New Zealand - Singapore - South Africa - Soviet Union - UK - Wales - Zimbabwe
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Categories: Births - Deaths - Awards - Works
Establishments - Disestablishments v • d • e

Year 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.

Contents (full)

1 Events of 1937

- Jan. ^. Feb. ^. March ^. April

- May ^. June ^. July ^. Aug.

- Sept. ^. Oct. ^. Nov. ^. Dec.

- Undated ^. Ongoing

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Nobel prizes - Ship events

5 See also - Notes - External links

[edit] Events of 1937

[edit] January

January 19: Howard Hughes sets record.

January 1 - Anastasio Somoza becomes President of Nicaragua.
January 3 - First science fiction convention in Leeds, United Kingdom.
January 11 - The first issue of LOOK magazine goes on sale in the United States.
January 19 - Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles to New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes and 25 seconds.
January 20 - Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes swears in US. President Franklin D. Roosevelt for a second term. This is the first time Inauguration Day in the United States occurred on that date. It has occurred on January 20 ever since.
January 23 - In Moscow, 17 leading Communists go on trial accused of participating in a plot led by Leon Trotsky to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime and assassinate its leaders.
January 26 - Michigan celebrates its Centennial Anninversary of statehood.
January 31 - Ohio River floods
January 31 - 31 people executed in the Soviet Union for "Trotskyism"

[edit] February

February 2 - Airliner VH-UHH, Stinson, goes down over Lamington National Park, Bound for Sydney, killing five.
February 5 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes a plan to enlarge the Supreme Court of the United States.
February 8 - Falangist troops take Málaga
February 8-February 27, Battle of Jarama
February 11 - A sit-down strike ends when General Motors recognizes the United Automobile Workers Union
February 16 - Wallace H. Carothers receives a patent for nylon.
February 19 - During a public ceremony at the Viceregal Palace (the former Imperial residence) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, two Eritrean nationalists attempt to kill viceroy Rodolfo Graziani with a number of grenades. The Italian security guard fire into the crowd of Ethiopian onlookers, and over the passing weeks indiscriminately slaughter native Ethiopians in reprisal.
February 21 - Initial flight of the first successful flying car, Waldo Waterman's Arrowbile; the League of Nations Non-Intervention Committee ban on foreign nationals fighting in the Spanish Civil War.

[edit] March

March - The first issue of the comic book Detective Comics is published in the United States. Twenty-seven issues later, Detective Comics would introduce Batman. The comic would go on to become the longest continually-published comic magazine in American history; it is still published as of 2007.
March 10 - The Encyclical Mit Brennender Sorge of pope Pius XI is published in Nazi Germany
March 17 - Atherton Report released. Private investigator Edwin Atherton's report detailing vice and police corruption in San Francisco.
March 18
- In the worst school disaster in American history in terms of lives lost, the New London School in New London, Texas suffers a catastrophic natural gas explosion, killing in excess of three hundred students and teachers.
- Mother Frances Hospital opens one day early in Tyler, Texas in response to the New London School explosion.
March 26
- In Crystal City, Texas spinach growers erect a statue of the cartoon character Popeye.
- William Henry Hastie becomes the first African-American appointed to federal judgeship.

[edit] April

April 1 - Aden becomes a British crown colony.
April 9 - The Kamikaze arrives at Croydon Airport in London - it is the first Japanese-built aircraft to fly to Europe.
April 17 - Release of the animated short Porky's Duck Hunt, directed by Tex Avery for the Merrie Melodies series, featuring the debut of Daffy Duck.
April 26 - Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain is bombed. In his report of the Falangist attack on Guernica, British journalist George Steer reports that he had found German bomb casings, connecting Luftwaffe planes with the attack.

[edit] May

May - Dáil Éireann passes the Executive Authority (Consequential Provisions) Act, 1937, which retrospectively abolishes the office of Governor-General of the Irish Free State. The abolition is retrospectively dated to December 1936.
May 1 - General strike in Paris, France
May 6 - In United States, the German airship Hindenburg bursts into flame when mooring to a mast in Lakehurst, New Jersey.
May 7 - Spanish Civil War: The German Condor Legion Fighter Group, equipped with Heinkel He 51 biplanes, arrives in Spain to assist Francisco Franco's forces.
May 12 - Coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth takes place at Westminster Abbey, London.
May 13 - Canadian writer Roch Carrier is born in Sainte-Justine, Quebec.
May 21 - a Soviet station becomes the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean.
May 21 - As one of the reprisals for the attempted assassination of Italian viceroy Rodolfo Graziani, a detachment of Italian troops massacre the entire community of Debre Libanos. 297 monks and 23 laymen are killed.
May 27 - In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County. The next day, President Franklin D. Roosevelt pushes a button in Washington, DC signaling the start of vehicle traffic over the Golden Gate Bridge.
May 28 - Neville Chamberlain becomes Prime Minister of Great Britain.

[edit] June

June 3 - Wallis Simpson and the former Edward VIII of the United Kingdom marry.
June 8
- First total solar eclipse to exceed 7 minutes of totality in over 800 years; visible in the Pacific and Peru.
- Premiere of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana
June 14 - Pennsylvania becomes the first (and only) of the United States to celebrate Flag Day officially as a state holiday.
June 21 - Coalition government of Léon Blum resigns in France.
June/July - Dáil Éireann debates and passes the draft new constitution of Éire, to be called Bunreacht na hÉireann. The new constitution is then submitted for public approval by plebiscite.

[edit] July

July 1
- Gestapo arrests priest Martin Niemöller.
- In a referendum the people of the Irish Free State accept the new Constitution by 685,105 votes to 527,945.
July 2 - Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappear over New Guinea during Earhart's attempt to become the first woman to fly around the world.
July 5 - Highest recorded temperature in Canada, at Yellow Grass, Saskatchewan: 45°C.
July 7 - Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Lugou Bridge - Japanese forces invade China.Often seen as the beginning of World War II in Asia
July 21 - Eamon de Valera elected president of Eire
July 22 - New Deal: The United States Senate votes down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court of the United States.
July 24 - Alabama drops rape charges against the so-called "Scottsboro Boys."
July 28 - IRA attempts bombing assassination against King George VI in Belfast.

[edit] August

August 5 - Soviet Union commences one of the largest campaigns of Red Terror, to "eliminate anti-Soviet element". Within the following year, at least 724,000 people were killed on order of troikas, many of them chosen for shooting by their ethnicity.
August 6 - Falangist artillery bombards Madrid.
August 7 - The first international PSSI 2 vs 2 Nan Hwa in Semarang
August 26 - Sino-Japanese War - Japanese aircraft attack the car carrying the ambassador of Great Britain during a raid on Shanghai.

[edit] September

September 2 - The Great Hong Kong Typhoon of 1937 kills an estimated 11,000 persons.
September 5 - Spanish Civil War: The fall of Llanes.
September 16 - birth of Keith Bosley, broadcaster (retired), poet and translator.
September 21 - George Allen & Unwin, Ltd. of London published the first edition of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit.
September 25 - Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Pingxingguan.
September 26 - Street and Smith Publications launches a half-hour radio program featuring the announcer for its "Detective Stories" radio show, The Shadow, with Orson Welles in the title role.
September 27 - last Bali tiger died.

[edit] October

October 1
- Marijuana Tax Act in USA.
- U.S. Supreme Court associate justice Hugo Black, in a nationwide radio broadcast, refutes allegations of past involvement in the Ku Klux Klan.
October 3 - Japanese troops advance toward Nanking.
October 5 - Roosevelt gives his famous "Quarantine Speech" in Chicago.
October 21
- The whole Spanish northern seaboard in the Falangists' hands.
- Roberto Ortiz elected president of Argentina.
October 27 - Spanish Civil War - Republican forces in Gijon, Spain, set fire to petrol reserves before they retreat before the advancing Falangists.

[edit] November

November 5
- Spanish Civil War - Massacre of Republican supporters in Piedrafita de Babia, near León. Possibly 35,000 executed.
- World War II: In the Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler holds a secret meeting and states his plans for acquiring "living space" for the German people.
November 9 - Japanese troops take Shanghai.

[edit] December

12 December, sixth day of the six-day week (Soviet revolutionary calendar), day of elections to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.

December 4 - The Dandy, the world's longest running comic strip, is first published.
December 12
- Panay incident.
- Mae West makes a risque guest appearance on the NBC Chase and Sanborn Hour that eventually results in her being banned from radio.
December 13 - Battle of Nanjing ends and the Nanjing Massacre begins. Japanese troops would slaughter over 250,000 civilians and prisoners over three months.
December 21 - Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the first feature-length animated cartoon, opens and becomes a smash hit.
December 25 - Arturo Toscanini conducts the NBC Symphony Orchestra on radio for the first time, beginning his successful 17-year tenure with that orchestra. Millions tune in to listen, including U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
December 29 - New Irish Constitution, Bunreacht na hÉireann comes into force. The Irish Free State becomes Éire. Eamon de Valera becomes the first Taoiseach (prime minister) of the new state. A Presidential Commission (made up the Irish Chief Justice, the Speaker of Dáil Éireann and the President of the High Court) assumes the powers of the new presidency of Ireland pending the election of the first president in June 1938.

[edit] Undated

New Irish constitution bans divorce.
Italy joins Anti-Comintern Pact.
The National House Builders Registration Council (now the NHBC) was formed in the United Kingdom.
Jimmie Angel lands his plane on top of Devil's Mountain however the plane gets damaged and he has to trek through the rainforest for help.

[edit] Ongoing

[edit] Births

**1937 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1937 MCMXXXVII
Ab urbe condita	2690
Armenian calendar	1386 ԹՎ ՌՅՁԶ
Bahá'í calendar	93 – 94
Buddhist calendar	2481
Chinese calendar	4573/4633-11-19 (丙子年十一月十九日) — to — 4574/4634-11-29 (丁丑年十一月廿九日)
Coptic calendar	1653 – 1654
Ethiopian calendar	1929 – 1930
Hebrew calendar	5697 – 5698
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1992 – 1993
- Shaka Samvat	1859 – 1860
- Kali Yuga	5038 – 5039
Holocene calendar	11937
Iranian calendar	1315 – 1316
Islamic calendar	1355 – 1356
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 12 (昭和12年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2597 (皇紀2597年)
- Jōmon Era	11937
Julian calendar	1982
Korean calendar	4270
Thai solar calendar	2480
v • d • e

[edit] January-February

January 1 - Anne Aubrey, British actor
January 4 - Dyan Cannon, American actress
January 6 - Underwood Dudley, American mathematician
January 8 - Shirley Bassey, Welsh singer
January 13 - George Reisman, American economist
January 14 - Ken Higgs, English cricketer
January 15 - Margaret O'Brien, American actress
January 18 - John Hume, Northern Irish politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1998
January 21 - Prince Max, Duke in Bavaria, heir to Bavarian Royal House
January 22 - Joseph Wambaugh, American author
January 27 - John Ogdon, English pianist (d. 1989)
January 30
- Vanessa Redgrave, English actress
- Boris Spassky, Russian chess player
January 31
- Suzanne Pleshette, American actress
- Philip Glass, American composer
February 1
- Garrett Morris, American comedian
- Don Everly, American musician
February 2
- Tom Smothers, American musician and comedian
- Magic Sam, American musician (d. 1969)
February 8 - Manfred Krug, German actor and singer
February 9 - Robert "Bilbo" Walker Jr., American blues guitarist
February 10 - Roberta Flack, American soul singer
February 11 - Bill Lawry, Australian cricketer
February 12 - Charles Dumas, American athlete
February 20
- Robert Huber, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- Roger Penske, American race car driver
- Nancy Wilson, American singer and actress
February 21 - King Harald V of Norway
February 25 - Tom Courtenay, English actor

[edit] March-April

March 2 - Abdelaziz Bouteflika, President of Algeria
March 4
- Graham Dowling, New Zealand cricketer
- Leslie Gelb, American President of the Council on Foreign Relations
- Yuri Senkevich, Russian cosmonaut (d. 2003)
- Barney Wilen, French jazz saxophonist (d. 1996)
March 6 - Valentina Tereshkova, cosmonaut
March 8 - Juvénal Habyarimana, President of Rwanda (d. 1994)
March 9 - Mickey Gilly, American musician
March 17 - Rudy Ray Moore, American comedian
March 20 - Jerry Reed, American musician
March 22 - Armin Hary, German athlete
March 23 - Craig Breedlove, American race car driver
March 27 - Thomas Aquinas Daly, American painter
March 30 - Warren Beatty, American actor and director
April 5 - Colin Powell, U.S. Secretary of State
April 6
- Merle Haggard, American musician
- Billy Dee Williams, American actor
April 10 - Bella Akhmadulina, Russian poet
April 16 - Joseph Whipp, American actor
April 18 - Jan Kaplický, British architect of Czech origin
April 22 - Jack Nicholson, American actor
April 27 - Robin Eames, Northern Irish clergyman
April 28 - Saddam Hussein, President of Iraq (d. 2006)
April 29 - Jill Paton Walsh, English novelist

[edit] May-June

May 1 - Una Stubbs, British actor
May 3
- Frankie Valli, American musician
- Hans Cieslarczyk, German football player
May 4 - Ron Carter, jazz musician
May 6 - Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter, American boxer
May 8
- Thomas Pynchon, American writer
- Carlos Gaviria Díaz, Colombian justice and politician.
May 12 - George Carlin, American comedian
May 13
- Roch Carrier, Canadian writer
  - Roger Zelazny, American writer (d. 1995)
- Trevor Baylis, English inventor
May 15
- Madeleine Albright, U.S. Secretary of State
- Trini Lopez, American musician
May 17 - Hazel R. O'Leary, U.S. Secretary of Energy
May 18
- Jacques Santer, Luxembourg politician, President of the European Council
June 1 - Morgan Freeman, American actor
June 3 - Solomon P. Ortiz, U.S. Congressman from Texas
June 4 - Gorilla Monsoon, American professional wrestler and announcer
June 7 - Neemi Järvi, Estonian conductor
June 9 - Harald Rosenthal, German biologist
June 10 - Luciana Paluzzi, Italian actress
June 11 - Robin Warren, Australian pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
June 15 - Alan Thornett, British Trotskyist activist
June 18
- Wray Carlton, American football player
- Vitali Zholobov, cosmonaut
June 23 - Martti Ahtisaari, President of Finland
June 25 - Keizo Obuchi, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2000)
June 26 - Robert Coleman Richardson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
June 28 - Ron Luciano, baseball umpire and writer (d. 1995)

[edit] July-August

July 4 - Sonja Haraldsen, Queen of Norway and wife to King Harald V of Norway.
July 6
- Vladimir Ashkenazy, Russian pianist
- Ned Beatty, American actor
July 7 - Tung Chee-Hwa, Hong Kong administrator
July 9 - David Hockney, English-born artist
July 12
- Lionel Jospin, Prime Minister of France
- Bill Cosby, American actor and comedian
July 14 - Yoshiro Mori, Japanese politician
July 18 - Roald Hoffmann, Polish-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
July 18 - Hunter S. Thompson, American author and journalist (d. 2005)
July 20 - Ken Ogata, Japanese actor
July 27 - Don Galloway, American actor
July 29 - Daniel McFadden, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
August 4 - David Bedford, American musician
August 5 - Herb Brooks, American hockey coach (d. 2003)
August 6 - Barbara Windsor, English actress
August 8 - Dustin Hoffman, American actor
August 16 - David Anderson, Canadian politician
August 18
- Willie Rushton, English comedian and cartoonist (d. 1996)
- Jean Alingué Bawoyeu, Chadian politician and former Prime Minister.
August 20 - Jim Bowen, English stand-up comedian and TV personality
August 21
- Donald Dewar, First Minister of Scotland (d. 2000)
- Robert Stone, American novelist
August 29 - James Florio, Governor of New Jersey
August 31 - Bobby Parker, American blues musician/guitarist

[edit] September-October

September 4
- Dawn Fraser, Australian swimmer
- Mikk Mikiver, Estonian actor and director (d. 2006)
September 7 - Cüneyt Arkın, Turkish film actor
September 15 - Robert Lucas, Jr., American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
September 15 - Fernando de la Rúa, President of Argentina
September 19 - Abner Haynes, American football player
September 28 - Rod Roddy, American television announcer (d. 2003)
October 2 - Johnnie Cochran, American attorney (d. 2005)
October 5 - Barry Switzer, American football coach
October 10 - Bobby Charlton, English footballer

[edit] November-December

November 1 - "Whisperin" Bill Anderson American Country Music singer/songwriter born James William Anderson III
November 2 - Earl Carroll, lead vocalist for The Cadillacs
November 4 - Michael Wilson, Canadian politician and diplomat
November 6 - Joe Warfield, American actor
November 8 - Paul Mackintosh Foot, British journalist
November 11 - Stephen Lewis, Canadian politician and diplomat
November 15 - Yaphet Kotto, American actor
November 17 - Peter Cook, English comedian and writer (d. 1995)
November 26 - Boris Yegorov, cosmonaut
December 1 - Chuck Low, American actor
December 3 - Bobby Allison, American race car driver
December 8 - Arne Næss Jr., Norwegian mountaineer and businessman (d. 2004)
December 9 - Darwin Joston, American actor (d. 1998)
December 11 - Jim Harrison, American writer
December 15 - Donald Goines, original African American novelist (d. 1973)
December 17 - Kerry Packer, Australian businessman (d. 2005)
December 21 - Jane Fonda, American actress and social activist
December 26 - Gnassingbe Eyadema, President of Togo (d. 2005)
December 28 - Ratan Tata, Indian industrialist
December 29 - Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, President of the Maldives
December 30
- Gordon Banks, English footballer
- John Hartford, American musician and composer (d. 2001)
- Jim Marshall, American football player
- Noel Paul Stookey, American singer
December 31
- Avram Hershko, Israeli biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Anthony Hopkins, Welsh actor

[edit] Deaths

[edit] January - June

January 2 - Ross Alexander, American actor (b. 1907)
January 6 - André Besette, Canadian religious leader (b. 1845)
January 23 - Marie Prevost, Canadian actress (b. 1898)
February 5 - Lou Andreas-Salome, Russian-born writer (b. 1861)
February 7 - Elihu Root, American statesman and diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1845)
February 11 - Walter Burley Griffin, American architect and town planner (b. 1876)
February 27 - Charles Donnelly, Irish poet (b.1915)
March 9 - Paul Elmer More, American critic and essayist (b. 1864)
March 11 - Joseph S. Cullinan, American oil industrialist, founder of Texaco (b. 1860)
March 12 - Charles-Marie Widor, French organist and composer (b. 1840)
March 15 - H. P. Lovecraft, American writer (b. 1890)
March 17 - Austen Chamberlain, English statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1863)
March 20 - Harry Vardon, English Golf Professional (b. 1870)
March 22 - Alfred Dyke Acland, British military officer (b. 1858)
March 29 - Karol Szymanowski, Polish composer (b. 1882)
April 19 - William Martin Conway, British art critic and mountaineer (b. 1856)
April 21 - Saima Harmaja, Finnish poet (b. 1913)
April 25 - Michał Drzymała, Polish rebel (b. 1857)
May 4 - Noel Rosa, Brazilian songwriter (b. 1910)
May 23 - John D. Rockefeller, American industrialist and philanthropist (b. 1839)
May 28 - Alfred Adler, Austrian psychologist (b. 1870)
June 7 - Jean Harlow, American film actress (b. 1911)
June 10 - Robert Laird Borden, eighth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1854)
June 19 - J. M. Barrie, Scottish novelist and dramatist (b. 1860)

[edit] July - December

July 9 - Oliver Law, American labor organizer and Army officer (killed in battle) (b. 1899)
July 11 - George Gershwin, American composer (b. 1898)
July 20 - Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor (b. 1874)
July 21 - Louis Vierne, French composer (b. 1870)
August 11 - Edith Wharton, American writer (b. 1862)
September 2 - Pierre de Coubertin, French founder of the modern Olympic Games (b. 1863)
September 26 - Bessie Smith, American singer (b. 1894)
September 29 - Ray Ewry, American athlete (b. 1873)
October 16 - Jean de Brunhoff, French writer (b. 1899)
October 19 - Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, New Zealand physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1871)
October 26 - Józef Dowbor-Muśnicki, Polish general (b. 1867)
November 9 - Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1866)
November 17 - Jack Worrall, Australian cricketer and coach (b. 1860)
November 23 - Jagdish Chandra Bose, Indian physicist (b. 1858)
November 23 - George Albert Boulenger, Belgian naturalist (b. 1858)
December 9 - Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
December 20 - Erich Ludendorff, German general (b. 1865)
December 21 - Frank B. Kellogg, United States Secretary of State, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1856)
December 28 - Maurice Ravel, French composer (b. 1875)

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[edit] Ship events

[edit] See also

20th century

[edit] Notes

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