1937 Calendar
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1937 Historical Event(s)
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 8, 1937
– Spanish Civil War: The Battle of Guadalajara begins.
May 3, 1937
– Gone with the Wind, a novel by Margaret Mitchell, wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
June 11, 1937
– Great Purge: The Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin executes eight army leaders.
July 24, 1937
– Alabama drops rape charges against the so-called “Scottsboro Boys”.
September 27, 1937
– Balinese Tiger declared extinct.
November 8, 1937
– The Nazi exhibition Der ewige Jude (“The Eternal Jew”) opens in Munich.
December 4, 1937
– The first issue of the children’s comic, The Dandy Comic, is published, one of the first to use speech balloons.
December 16, 1937
– Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe attempt to escape from the American federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay; neither is ever seen again.
Who Were Born On 1937?
January 14, 1937
– Sonny Siebert, American baseball player
February 3, 1937
– Billy Meier, Swiss ufologist
March 5, 1937
– Olusẹgun Ọbasanjọ, 5th & 12th President of Nigeria
June 11, 1937
– Robin Warren, Australian pathologist, Nobel laureate
August 17, 1937
– Ronnie Butler, singer
September 1, 1937
– Al Geiberger, American golfer
September 4, 1937
– Gene Ludwig, American jazz organist (d. 2010)
September 14, 1937
– Renzo Piano, Italian architect
September 23, 1937
– Jacques Poulin, Canadian novelist
November 30, 1937
– Frank Ifield, Australian/British singer