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1937 Calendar

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•  January 23, 1937 – 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.
•  February 11, 1937 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Ox in Chinese astrology.
•  March 2, 1937 – The Steel Workers Organizing Committee signs a collective bargaining agreement with U.S. Steel, leading to unionization of the United States steel industry.
•  March 18, 1937 – Spanish Civil War: Spanish Republican forces defeat the Italians at the Battle of Guadalajara.
•  April 26, 1937 – Spanish Civil War: Guernica (or Gernika in Basque), Spain is bombed by German Luftwaffe.
•  May 12, 1937 – George VI and Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
•  August 2, 1937 – The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, the effect of which is to render marijuana and all its by-products illegal.
•  August 13, 1937 – The Battle of Shanghai begins.
•  September 5, 1937 – Spanish Civil War: Llanes falls.
•  December 9, 1937 – Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanjing – Japanese troops under the command of Lt. Gen. Asaka Yasuhiko launch an assault on the Chinese city of Nanjing.

•  January 27, 1937 – John Ogdon, English pianist (d. 1989)
•  February 12, 1937 – Charles Dumas, American athlete (d. 2004)
•  March 22, 1937 – Armin Hary, German athlete
•  April 22, 1937 – Jack Nicholson, American actor
•  May 4, 1937 – Mr. Fuji, Former professional wrestler
•  May 8, 1937 – Mike Cuellar, American baseball player (d. 2010)
•  July 3, 1937 – Tom Stoppard, Czech-born, British playwright
•  July 28, 1937 – Francis Veber, French film director and screenwriter
•  December 1, 1937 – Muriel Costa-Greenspon, American mezzo-soprano (d. 2005)
•  December 17, 1937 – Art Neville, American musician (The Neville Brothers)