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1937 Calendar

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•  February 11, 1937 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Ox in Chinese astrology.
•  February 21, 1937 – The League of Nations bans foreign national “volunteers” in the Spanish Civil War.
•  April 1, 1937 – Aden becomes a British crown colony. Bombing of Jaén, Spain by Nazi forces.
•  April 9, 1937 – The Kamikaze arrives at Croydon Airport in London – it is the first Japanese-built aircraft to fly to Europe.
•  May 7, 1937 – Spanish Civil War: The German Condor Legion, equipped with Heinkel He 51 biplanes, arrives in Spain to assist Francisco Franco’s forces.
•  July 8, 1937 – Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan sign the Treaty of Saadabad.
•  July 26, 1937 – End of the Battle of Brunete in the Spanish Civil War.
•  August 13, 1937 – The Battle of Shanghai begins.
•  December 12, 1937 – USS Panay incident: Japanese aircraft bomb and sink US gunboat USS Panay on the Yangtze River in China.
•  December 29, 1937 – The Irish Free State is replaced by a new state called Ireland with the adoption of a new constitution.

•  March 9, 1937 – Bernard Landry, Premier of Quebec from 2001-2003
•  March 18, 1937 – Mark Donohue, American race car driver (d. 1975)
•  April 27, 1937 – Sandy Dennis, American actress (d. 1992)
•  July 9, 1937 – David Hockney, English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer
•  August 27, 1937 – Tommy Sands, American actor and singer
•  August 29, 1937 – James Florio, American politician
•  September 11, 1937 – Robert Crippen, American astronaut
•  November 6, 1937 – Marco Vassi, American writer (d. 1989)
•  November 30, 1937 – Ridley Scott, British film director
•  December 30, 1937 – Noel Paul Stookey, American folk singer (Peter, Paul & Mary)