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1937 Calendar

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•  February 11, 1937 – A sit-down strike ends when General Motors recognizes the United Auto Workers Union.
•  June 3, 1937 – The Duke of Windsor marries Wallis Simpson.
•  July 7, 1937 – Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Lugou Bridge – Japanese forces invade Beijing, China.
•  July 24, 1937 – Alabama drops rape charges against the so-called “Scottsboro Boys”.
•  September 6, 1937 – Spanish Civil War: The start of the Battle of El Mazuco.
•  September 21, 1937 – J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit is published.
•  September 27, 1937 – Balinese Tiger declared extinct.
•  November 8, 1937 – The Nazi exhibition Der ewige Jude (“The Eternal Jew”) opens in Munich.
•  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 4, 1937 – Dyan Cannon, American actress
•  January 14, 1937 – Erland Kops, Danish badminton player
•  January 26, 1937 – Joseph Saidu Momoh, Sierra Leone political leader (d. 2003)
•  February 2, 1937 – Don Buford, American baseball player
•  June 23, 1937 – Niki Sullivan, American guitarist (The Crickets) (d. 2004)
•  June 28, 1937 – Richard Bright, American actor (d. 2006)
•  August 8, 1937 – Dustin Hoffman, American actor
•  September 13, 1937 – Don Bluth, American animator
•  October 30, 1937 – Claude Lelouch, French film director
•  November 4, 1937 – Loretta Swit, American actress