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1937 Calendar

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•  January 1, 1937 – Safety glass in vehicle windscreens becomes mandatory in the United Kingdom.
•  January 19, 1937 – Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles, California to New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes, 25 seconds.
•  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.
•  May 12, 1937 – George VI and Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
•  July 26, 1937 – End of the Battle of Brunete in the Spanish Civil War.
•  September 21, 1937 – J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit is published.
•  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.
•  December 21, 1937 – Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the world’s first full-length animated feature, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theater.
•  December 22, 1937 – The Lincoln Tunnel opens to traffic in New York City.

•  January 1, 1937 – Petros Markaris, Greek writer
•  February 1, 1937 – Ray Sawyer, American singer (Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show)
•  March 2, 1937 – Denny Crum, College basketball coach
•  March 4, 1937 – Barney Wilen, French jazz saxophonist (d. 1996)
•  March 30, 1937 – Warren Beatty, American actor and director
•  May 12, 1937 – George Carlin, American comedian (d. 2008)
•  May 13, 1937 – Roch Carrier, Canadian novelist
•  June 12, 1937 – Klaus Basikow, German football player and manager
•  June 18, 1937 – John D. Rockefeller IV, American politician
•  September 6, 1937 – Brigid Berlin, American actor