1937 Calendar
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1937 Historical Event(s)
- February 11, 1937 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Ox in Chinese astrology.
- March 18, 1937 – The New London School explosion kills three hundred, mostly children.
- April 12, 1937 – Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft, at Rugby, England.
- April 26, 1937 – Spanish Civil War: Guernica (or Gernika in Basque), Spain is bombed by German Luftwaffe.
- June 14, 1937 – Pennsylvania becomes the first (and only) state of the United States to celebrate Flag Day officially as a state holiday.
- July 7, 1937 – Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Lugou Bridge – Japanese forces invade Beijing, China.
- September 10, 1937 – Nine nations attend the Nyon Conference to address international piracy in the Mediterranean Sea.
- September 21, 1937 – J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit is published.
- October 1, 1937 – The Japanese city Handa is founded in Aichi Prefecture.
- November 9, 1937 – Japanese troops take control of Shanghai, China.
Who Were Born On 1937?
- January 17, 1937 – Alain Badiou, French philosopher
- April 22, 1937 – Jack Nitzsche, American composer (d. 2000)
- May 16, 1937 – Yvonne Craig, American actress
- August 21, 1937 – Donald Dewar, First Minister of Scotland (d. 2000)
- September 8, 1937 – Barbara Frum, Canadian news anchor (d. 1992)
- September 11, 1937 – Iosif Kobzon, Soviet-Russian singer and businessman
- October 11, 1937 – R. H. W. Dillard, American poet
- October 20, 1937 – Juan Marichal, Dominican baseball player
- November 9, 1937 – Clyde Wells, Canadian politician
- November 30, 1937 – Ridley Scott, British film director