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Events on the year of 1937 in history

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01 Jan 1937 Anastasio Somoza becomes President of Nicaragua
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01 Jan 1937 Count Claus von Stauffenberg promoted to captain
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01 Jan 1937 US Army Air Corps physiological research laboratory completed, Ohio
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01 Jan 1937 Safety glass in vehicle windscreens becomes mandatory in the United Kingdom.
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05 Jan 1937 Fingleton and Bradman make record stand of 346 for 6th wkt
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05 Jan 1937 Only unicameral state legislature in US opens 1st session (Nebr)
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06 Jan 1937 Bradman scores 270 Aust vs. England at the MCG, incl 110 singles
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09 Jan 1937 Italian regime bans marriages between Italians and Abyssinians
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12 Jan 1937 Plow for laying submarine cable patented
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15 Jan 1937 Spanish Civil War: Nationalists and Republican both withdraw after suffering heavy losses, ending the Second Battle of the Corunna Road.
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19 Jan 1937 Cy Young, Tris Speaker and Nap Lajorie elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
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19 Jan 1937 Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles to New York City in seven hours, 28 minutes, 25 seconds.
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19 Jan 1937 Millionaire Howard Hughes sets transcontinental air record (7h28m25s)
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20 Jan 1937 -45
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20 Jan 1937 1st Inauguration day on Jan 20th, (held every 4th years thereafter)
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23 Jan 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.
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23 Jan 1937 Karl Radek & 16 others go on trial in Stalin's great purge
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25 Jan 1937 1st broadcast of "Guiding Light" on NBC radio
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25 Jan 1937 Soap Opera "Guiding Light" premieres on radio
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25 Jan 1937 Miami-to-Tampa bus overturned in a canal, kills 13
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25 Jan 1937 Soap Opera "Guiding Light" premieres on NBC radio
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30 Jan 1937 2nd of Stalin's purge trials; Pyatakov & 16 others sentenced to death
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01 Feb 1937 Stapleton, Staten Island becomes a customs-free port
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04 Feb 1937 Jim Margie, Philadelphia, bowls 900 in 3 (unsanctioned) games
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05 Feb 1937 1st Charlie Chaplin talkie, "Modern Times, " released
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05 Feb 1937 FDR proposes enlarging Supreme Court, "court packing" plan failed
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05 Feb 1937 United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes a plan to enlarge the Supreme Court of the United States.
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06 Feb 1937 K Elizabeth Ohi becomes 1st Japanese-US female lawyer
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10 Feb 1937 Ragnhild Hveger swims world free style record 400 meter (5:14.2)
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11 Feb 1937 44-day sit-down strike at General Motors in Flint Michigan ends
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11 Feb 1937 A sit-down strike ends when General Motors recognizes the United Auto Workers.
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12 Feb 1937 Cleveland (now Los Angeles) Rams granted an NFL franchise
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13 Feb 1937 "Prince Valiant" comic strip appears; known for historical detail
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13 Feb 1937 Maribel Vinson wins her 9th US figure skating championship
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13 Feb 1937 NFL Boston Redskins move to Washington DC
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13 Feb 1937 Bradman scores 123 South Africa vs Queensland, 165 minutes, 10-4 1-6 in cricket
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13 Feb 1937 US female Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson
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16 Feb 1937 Wallace H. Carothers receives a United States patent for nylon.
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16 Feb 1937 DuPont Corp patents nylon, developed by employee Wallace H Carothers
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16 Feb 1937 Jean Anouilh's "Le Voyageur Sans Baggage" premieres in Paris
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19 Feb 1937 Yekatit 12: During a public ceremony at the Viceregal Palace (the former Imperial residence) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, two Ethiopian nationalists of Eritrean origin attempt to kill viceroy Rodolfo Graziani with a number of grenades.
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20 Feb 1937 1st automobile / airplane combination tested, Santa Monica, California
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21 Feb 1937 The League of Nations bans foreign national "volunteers" in the Spanish Civil War.
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24 Feb 1937 1st US group hospital-medical cooperative authorized, Washington DC
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26 Feb 1937 C Isherwood/WH Auden's "Ascent of F6" premieres in London
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27 Feb 1937 Bradman scores 169 in 5th Test Cricket vs England in 223 minutes
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01 Mar 1937 1st permanent automobile license plates issued (Ct)
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01 Mar 1937 Gov Wouters innaugrates the radio station on the Dutch Antilles
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02 Mar 1937 Mexico nationalizes oil
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02 Mar 1937 The Steel Workers Organizing Committee signs a collective bargaining agreement with U.S. Steel, leading to unionization of the United States steel industry.
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03 Mar 1937 Australia snatch series against England 3-2 after being 2-0 down
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07 Mar 1937 Bucharin, Jagoda and Rykov pushed out of CPSU in the USSR
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08 Mar 1937 Spanish Civil War: The Battle of Guadalajara begins.
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14 Mar 1937 Battle of the Century: Fred Allen & Jack Benny meet on radio
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14 Mar 1937 Pope Pius XI publishes anti-Nazi-encyclical Mit brennender Sorge
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15 Mar 1937 1st blood bank forms (Chicago IL)
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15 Mar 1937 1st blood bank is established (Chicago IL)
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15 Mar 1937 1st state contraceptive clinic opens (Raleigh NC)
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16 Mar 1937 All but one senior fouls out of a scrimmage game between seniors & sophomores, but he holds on to win the game 35-32
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18 Mar 1937 Gas explosion in school in New London Texas: 294 die
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18 Mar 1937 A human-powered aircraft, Pedaliante, flies 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) outside Milan, Italy.
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18 Mar 1937 Spanish Civil War: Spanish Republican forces defeat the Italians at the Battle of Guadalajara.
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18 Mar 1937 The New London School explosion in New London, Texas, kills 300 people, mostly children.
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19 Mar 1937 Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Divini redemptoris against communism
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20 Mar 1937 Franco-offensive at Guadalajara Spain
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21 Mar 1937 Ponce massacre: Nineteen people in Ponce, Puerto Rico, are gunned down by a police squad acting under orders of US-appointed Governor, Blanton C. Winship.
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21 Mar 1937 Ponce massacre, police kill 19 at Puerto Rican Nationalist parade
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23 Mar 1937 Los Angeles Railway Co starts using PCC streetcars
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24 Mar 1937 Bus blew a tire, going out of control, killing 18 (Salem Illinois)
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24 Mar 1937 National Gallery of Art established by Congress
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25 Mar 1937 Italy & Yugoslavia sign no-attack treaty (Pact of Belgrade)
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25 Mar 1937 It's revealed Quaker Oats pays Babe Ruth $25,000 per year for ads
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25 Mar 1937 Lionel Conacher misses on 1st Stanley Cup penalty shot
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25 Mar 1937 Washington Daily News is 1st US newspaper with perfumed advertising page
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26 Mar 1937 Joe DiMaggio takes Ty Cobb's advice & replace his 40 with 36 oz bat
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26 Mar 1937 Spinach growers of Crystal City TX, erect statue of Popeye
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26 Mar 1937 William H Hastie becomes 1st black federal judge (Virgin Islands)
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27 Mar 1937 Feyenoord-stadium official opens in Rotterdam
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01 Apr 1937 Spanish Civil War: Jaén, Spain is bombed by Nazi forces.
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04 Apr 1937 4th Golf Masters Championship: Byron Nelson wins, shooting a 283
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09 Apr 1937 The Kamikaze arrives at Croydon Airport in London. It is the first Japanese-built aircraft to fly to Europe.
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12 Apr 1937 Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft, at Rugby, England.
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15 Apr 1937 Stanley Cup: Detroit Red Wings beat the New York Rangers, 3 games to 2
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17 Apr 1937 Daffy Duck's first appearance, in Porky's Duck Hunt.
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17 Apr 1937 Cartoon characters Daffy Duck, Elmer J Fudd & Petunia Pig, debut
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19 Apr 1937 41st Boston Marathon won by Walter Young of Canada in 2:33:20
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22 Apr 1937 New York City college students stage 4th annual peace strike
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26 Apr 1937 Spanish Civil War: Guernica (or Gernika in Basque), Spain is bombed by German Luftwaffe.
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26 Apr 1937 German Luftwaffe destroys Basque town of Guernica in Spain
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27 Apr 1937 1st US social security payment made
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27 Apr 1937 US Social Security system makes its 1st benefit payment
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28 Apr 1937 1st animated cartoon electric sign displayed (New York NY)
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28 Apr 1937 1st commercial flight across the Pacific, Pan Am
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30 Apr 1937 The Commonwealth of the Philippines holds a plebiscite for Filipino women on whether they should be extended the right to suffrage; over 90% would vote in the affirmative.
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30 Apr 1937 General Douglas MacArthur marries Jean Faircloth
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01 May 1937 FDR signs act of neutrality
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03 May 1937 Margaret Mitchell wins Pulitzer Prize for "Gone With the Wind"
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03 May 1937 Gone with the Wind, a novel by Margaret Mitchell, wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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06 May 1937 Dirigible Hindenburg explodes in flames at Lakehurst, New Jersey (36 die)
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06 May 1937 Hindenburg disaster: The German zeppelin Hindenburg catches fire and is destroyed within a minute while attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey. Thirty-six people are killed.
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07 May 1937 Spanish Civil War: The German Condor Legion, equipped with Heinkel He 51 biplanes, arrives in Spain to assist Francisco Franco's forces.
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08 May 1937 63rd Kentucky Derby: Charley Kurtsinger on War Admiral wins 2:03.2
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09 May 1937 Reds beat Phillies 21-10 (Ernie Lombardi goes 6 for 6)
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10 May 1937 Busmen strike in London
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12 May 1937 George VI crowned King of England
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12 May 1937 The Duke and Duchess of York are crowned as King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Westminster Abbey.
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12 May 1937 King George VI's coronation in Great Britain
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12 May 1937 St Louis Cardinalss beat Philadelphia Phillies, 15-3
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15 May 1937 63rd Preakness: Charley Kurtsinger aboard War Admiral wins in 1:58.4
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17 May 1937 Juan Negrin succeeds Largo Caballero as Spain's premier
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19 May 1937 John Murray/Allen Boretz' "Room Service" premieres in NYC
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21 May 1937 A Soviet station, North Pole-1, becomes the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean.
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25 May 1937 1st airmail letter to circle the globe returns to New York
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26 May 1937 Dutch Rail NV at law forms
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26 May 1937 San Francisco Bay's Golden Gate Bridge opens
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27 May 1937 Golden Gate Bridge, SF, dedicated
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27 May 1937 In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County, California.
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27 May 1937 Carl Hubbell wins his 24th consecutive game (since July 17, 1936)
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27 May 1937 Golden Gate Bridge, San Fransisco, dedicated
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28 May 1937 Neville Chamberlain becomes Prime Minister of England
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28 May 1937 The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California, is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Washington, D.C., who pushes a button signaling the start of vehicle traffic over the span.
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28 May 1937 Volkswagen (VW), the German automobile manufacturer is founded.
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28 May 1937 Golden Gate Bridge in San Fransisco opens to vehicular traffic
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30 May 1937 20th PGA Championship: Denny Shute at Pittsburgh FC Aspinwall, Pennsylvania
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30 May 1937 Memorial Day Massacre - Chicago police shoot on union marchers, 10 die
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30 May 1937 Police kill 10 strikers at Republic Steel Plant in Chicago
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30 May 1937 Memorial Day massacre: Chicago police shoot and kill ten labor demonstrators.
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30 May 1937 61,756, 2nd-largest crowd in Polo Grounds history, sees Dodgers end Carl Hubbell's consecutive-game winning streak at 24 over 2 seasons
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30 May 1937 Memorial Day Massacre - Chicago police shoot on union marchers at Republic Steel Plant in Chicago, 10 die
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31 May 1937 1st quadruplets to finish college (Baylor University)
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31 May 1937 Brooklyn Dodgers snap New York Giant Carl Hubbell's 24-game winning streak
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31 May 1937 German battleships bomb Almeria Spain
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01 Jun 1937 Chicago White Sox Bill Dietrich no-hits St. Louis Browns, 8-0
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01 Jun 1937 Prince Konoye becomes Japanese Premier
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03 Jun 1937 Duke of Windsor (Edward 8) weds Mrs Wallis Warfield Simpson in France
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03 Jun 1937 The Duke of Windsor marries Wallis Simpson.
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05 Jun 1937 69th Belmont: Charley Kurtsinger aboard War Admiral wins in 2:28.6
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05 Jun 1937 Henry Ford initiates 32 hour work week
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06 Jun 1937 Phillies trailing 8-2 to St. Louis, forfeit game
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11 Jun 1937 Great Purge: The Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin executes eight army leaders.
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11 Jun 1937 Marx Brothers' "A Day At The Races" released
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12 Jun 1937 41st US Golf Open: Ralph Guldahl shoots a 281 at Oakland Hills, Michigan
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12 Jun 1937 USSR executes 8 army leaders as Stalin's purge continued
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13 Jun 1937 Stalin executes Rus officers Tuchachevski, Jakir, Putna and Uberevitch
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13 Jun 1937 Joe DiMaggio hits 3 consecutive HRs against St Louis Browns
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14 Jun 1937 Pennsylvania becomes the first (and only) state of the United States to celebrate Flag Day officially as a state holiday.
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14 Jun 1937 U.S. House of Representatives passes the Marihuana Tax Act.
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15 Jun 1937 A German expedition led by Karl Wien loses sixteen members in an avalanche on Nanga Parbat. It is the worst single disaster to occur on an 8000m peak.
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16 Jun 1937 Marx Brothers' "A Day At The Races" opens in LA
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17 Jun 1937 Marx Brothers' "A Day At The Races" opens in NY
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19 Jun 1937 Franco-troops conquer Bilbao Basques
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22 Jun 1937 Joe Louis KOs James J Braddock in 18 for heavyweight boxing title
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22 Jun 1937 Joe Louis KOs James Braddock for the heavyweight boxing crown
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25 Jun 1937 Cub Augie Galan becomes 1st player to switch hit HRs in a game
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30 Jun 1937 The world's first emergency telephone number, 999, is introduced in London
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01 Jul 1937 Britian begins using an emergency phone number (999)
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01 Jul 1937 Spanish bishops support Franco and fascists
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02 Jul 1937 57th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Don Budge beats G von Cramm (63 64 62)
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02 Jul 1937 Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan disappear over Pacific Ocean
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02 Jul 1937 Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan are last heard from over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first equatorial round-the-world flight.
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05 Jul 1937 Chicago Cub Frank Demaree gets 6 hits in 1st game and 2 in 2nd game
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05 Jul 1937 Republican offensive by Brunete in Spain
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05 Jul 1937 Spam, the luncheon meat, is introduced into the market by the Hormel Foods Corporation.
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06 Jul 1937 Spanish Civil War: Battle of Brunete: The battle begins with Spanish Republican troops going on the offensive against the Nationalists to relieve pressure on Madrid.
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07 Jul 1937 5th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 8-3 at Griffith Stadium, Washington
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07 Jul 1937 Japanese and Chinese troops clash, (Marco Polo Bridge), becomes WWII
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07 Jul 1937 Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Lugou Bridge – Japanese forces invade Beijing, China.
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08 Jul 1937 Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan sign the Treaty of Saadabad.
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10 Jul 1937 Dutch Django Reinhardts "Quintette, premieres in du Hot Club"
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15 Jul 1937 Buchenwald Concentration Camp opens
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15 Jul 1937 Japanese attack Marco Polo Bridge, invade China
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19 Jul 1937 Entartete Art Fair opens in Munich
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22 Jul 1937 Irish Premier Eamon de Valera wins elections
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22 Jul 1937 New Deal: The United States Senate votes down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court of the United States.
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22 Jul 1937 Senate rejects FDR proposal to enlarge Supreme Court
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23 Jul 1937 Isolation of pituitary hormone announced (Yale University)
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24 Jul 1937 Alabama drops rape charges against the so-called "Scottsboro Boys".
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24 Jul 1937 Alabama drops charges against 5 blacks accused of rape in Scottsboro
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26 Jul 1937 End of the Battle of Brunete in the Spanish Civil War.
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27 Jul 1937 32nd Davis Cup: USA beats Great Britain in Wimbledon (4-1)
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28 Jul 1937 Eddie Paynter scores 322 for Lancashire against Sussex
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28 Jul 1937 Richard Moore scores 316 for Hampshire against Warwickshire
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29 Jul 1937 Japanese troops occupies Peking and Tientsin
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29 Jul 1937 Tōngzhōu Incident: In Tōngzhōu, China, the East Hopei Army attacks Japanese troops and civilians.
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29 Jul 1937 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1431 Luanda
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30 Jul 1937 Phillies Dolph Camilli, plays 1st base & registers no put outs
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31 Jul 1937 Politburo enables Operative Order 00447: execute 193,000 Russians
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01 Aug 1937 Josip Broz Tito reads the resolution "Manifesto of constitutional congress of KPH" to the constitutive congress of KPH (Croatian Communist Party) in woods near Samobor.
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02 Aug 1937 The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, the effect of which is to render marijuana and all its by-products illegal.
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06 Aug 1937 Franco-artillery fire on Madrid
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06 Aug 1937 US and the USSR sign trade treaty
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08 Aug 1937 Bonneville Dam on Columbia River begins producing power
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13 Aug 1937 Japanese attack Shanghai
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13 Aug 1937 The Battle of Shanghai begins.
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14 Aug 1937 China declares war on Japan
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14 Aug 1937 Chinese Air Force Day: The beginning of air-to-air combat of the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II in general, when six Imperial Japanese Mitsubishi G3M bombers are shot down by the Nationalist Chinese Air Force while raiding Chinese air bases.
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14 Aug 1937 Detroit Tigers score 36 runs in double header vs St Louis Browns
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18 Aug 1937 1st FM radio construction permit issued (W1X0J (WGTR) in Boston, Massachusetts)
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24 Aug 1937 Republican offensive near Belchite Spain
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25 Aug 1937 Japanese fleet blockades Chinese coast
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26 Aug 1937 Pumping to build Treasure Island in SF Bay is finished
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27 Aug 1937 Brooklyn Dodger Fred Frankhouse no-hits Cin, 5-0 in 7 2 / 3 inn game
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27 Aug 1937 George E.T. Eyston sets world auto speed record at 345.49 MPH
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28 Aug 1937 Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.
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29 Aug 1937 Philadelphia Athletics Bob Johnson is 2nd to get 6 RBIs in an inning (1st)
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30 Aug 1937 Joe Louis beats Tommy Farr in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
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01 Sep 1937 4th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 6, Green Bay 0 (84,560)
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01 Sep 1937 Battle of Gijon in Spain begins
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02 Sep 1937 US Housing Authority created by National Housing Act
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04 Sep 1937 Doris Kopsky, becomes 1st NABA woman cycling champion (4:22.4)
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05 Sep 1937 Spanish Civil War: Llanes falls to the Nationalists following a one-day siege.
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06 Sep 1937 Spanish Civil War: The Battle of El Mazuco commences.
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08 Sep 1937 Pan Arab conference about Palestine opens
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08 Sep 1937 Yankees trailing 6-1 in 9th, score 8 to beat Boston 9-6
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10 Sep 1937 2nd American Football League plays 1st game (LA 21, Pittsburgh 0)
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10 Sep 1937 Cleveland (Los Angeles) Rams plays their 1st NFL game, lose 28-0
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10 Sep 1937 Nine nations attend the Nyon Conference to address international piracy in the Mediterranean Sea.
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10 Sep 1937 2nd American Football League plays 1st game (LA 21, Pittsburgh 0) Cleveland (Los Angeles) Rams plays their 1st NFL game, lose 28-0
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11 Sep 1937 51st US Womens Tennis: Anita Lizana beats Jadwiga Jedrzejowska (64 62)
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11 Sep 1937 57th US Mens Tennis: J D Budge beats G v Cramm (61 79 61 36 61)
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15 Sep 1937 WPA extends the L-Taraval streetcar to the SF Zoo (at Sloat Blvd)
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17 Sep 1937 1st NFL game in Washington, DC; Redskins beat the New York Giants 13-3
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21 Sep 1937 J R R Tolkien, publishes "Hobbit"
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21 Sep 1937 J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is published.
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21 Sep 1937 J.R.R. Tolkien, publishes "The Hobbit"
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22 Sep 1937 Forest fire kills 14 and injures 50 in Cody, Wyoming
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22 Sep 1937 Spanish Civil War: Peña Blanca is taken; the end of the Battle of El Mazuco.
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23 Sep 1937 Yankees lose 9-5 but clinch pennant when Red Sox beat Detroit
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25 Sep 1937 Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Eighth Route Army gains a minor, but morale-boosting victory in the Battle of Pingxingguan.
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27 Sep 1937 1st Santa Claus Training School opens (Albion NY)
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27 Sep 1937 Balinese Tiger declared extinct.
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28 Sep 1937 Martha Raye divorces Bud Westmore
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28 Sep 1937 FDR dedicates Bonneville Dam on Columbia River (Oregon)
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29 Sep 1937 Frans Slaats bicycles world record time (45,563 km)
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30 Sep 1937 6th Ryder Cup: US, 8-4 at Southport and Ainsdale, England
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01 Oct 1937 Pullman Co formally recognizes Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
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01 Oct 1937 The Japanese city Handa is founded in Aichi Prefecture.
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02 Oct 1937 FDR visits Grand Coulee Dam construction site in Washington State
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02 Oct 1937 Dominican Republic strongman Rafael Trujillo orders the execution of the Haitian population living within the borderlands; approximately 20,000 are killed over the next five days.
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05 Oct 1937 Minister Romme says unemployment is 25% "quarter of Romme"
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10 Oct 1937 New York Yankees beat Giants 4 games to 1 in 34th World Series
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13 Oct 1937 A recorded trace of snow in Central Park, New York City
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15 Oct 1937 Ernest Hemingway novel "To Have & Have Not" published
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15 Oct 1937 Rather than accept any trade offers, the Yanks release Tony Lazzeri
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21 Oct 1937 Franco-troops occupies Gijon
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25 Oct 1937 Belgian government of Zealand falls due to black money
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25 Oct 1937 Casey Stengel signs to manage Boston Bees
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31 Oct 1937 Spanish government moves from Valencia to Barcelona
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01 Nov 1937 Stalinists execute Pastor Paul Hamberg and seven members of Azerbaijan's Lutheran community.
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02 Nov 1937 AL batting champ Charlie Gehringer wins MVP
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03 Nov 1937 Archambaud bicycles world record time (45,796 km)
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03 Nov 1937 NHL Howie Morenz Memorial Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 6-5 in Montreal
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05 Nov 1937 Hitler informs his military leader of his intentions of going to war
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05 Nov 1937 Adolf Hitler holds a secret meeting and states his plans for acquiring "living space" for the German people.
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09 Nov 1937 Japans army conquers Shanghai
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09 Nov 1937 St. Louis Cardinals Triple Crown winner Joe Medwick is named NL MVP
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11 Nov 1937 Messerschmidt ME-109V13 flies world record 610.4 km/h
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11 Nov 1937 Nobel prize for physics awarded to C J Davisson and GP Thomson
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13 Nov 1937 NBC forms 1st full-sized symphony orchestra exclusively for radio
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15 Nov 1937 1st congressional session in air-conditioned chambers
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17 Nov 1937 Britain's Lord Halifax visits Germany, beginning of appeasement
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23 Nov 1937 Emile Janson becomes Belgian Premier
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27 Nov 1937 Pro-labor musical revue "Pins & Needles" opens, produced by ILGWU
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29 Nov 1937 Prince Bernhard injured in auto accident in the Netherlands
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30 Nov 1937 3rd Heisman Trophy Award: Clint Frank, Yale (HB)
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01 Dec 1937 Japan recognizes Franco government
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04 Dec 1937 The first issue of the children's comic The Dandy is published.
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07 Dec 1937 Dutch Minister Romme proclaims married women are forbidden to work
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07 Dec 1937 Red Sox acquire the contract of 19-year-old Ted Williams
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07 Dec 1937 Russian chess player Aljechin recaptures world title from Max Euwe
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09 Dec 1937 Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanking – Japanese troops under the command of Lt. Gen. Asaka Yasuhiko launch an assault on the Chinese city of Nanjing (Nanking).
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11 Dec 1937 Second Italo-Ethiopian War: Italy leaves the League of Nations.
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11 Dec 1937 Italy withdraws from League of Nations
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11 Dec 1937 25th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Winnipeg Blue Bombers, 30-7
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12 Dec 1937 Second Sino-Japanese War: USS Panay incident – Japanese aircraft bomb and sink U.S. gunboat USS Panay on the Yangtze river in China.
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12 Dec 1937 Japanese aircraft shell & sink US gunboat Panay on Yangtze River in China. (Japan apologized & eventually paid US $2.2 million in reparations)
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12 Dec 1937 NBC & RCA sends 1st mobile-TV vans onto the streets of New York
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12 Dec 1937 Washington Redskins win NFL championship
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13 Dec 1937 Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanking – The city of Nanjing, defended by the National Revolutionary Army under the command of General Tang Shengzhi, falls to the Japanese. This is followed by the Nanking Massacre, in which Japanese troops rape and murder hundreds of thousands of civilians.
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14 Dec 1937 Japanese troops conquer/plunder Nanjing
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16 Dec 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.
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20 Dec 1937 Bill O'Reilly takes 9-41 for New South Wales against South Australia
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21 Dec 1937 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the world's first full-length animated feature, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theatre.
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21 Dec 1937 1st feature-length color & sound cartoon premieres (Disney's Snow White)
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21 Dec 1937 O'Reilly completes 14-98 for cricket match, New South Wales vs South Australia
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22 Dec 1937 The Lincoln Tunnel opens to traffic in New York City.
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22 Dec 1937 Lincoln Tunnel (New York NY) opens to traffic
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24 Dec 1937 Dutch government recognizes Italian king Emanuel III as emperor of Abyssinia
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25 Dec 1937 Arturo Toscanini conducts 1st Symphony of the Air over NBC Radio
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25 Dec 1937 Queensland all out for 93 vs South Africa in front of 10,436
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27 Dec 1937 German immigration officials with no explanation bar Juan Carlos Zabala (Argentina), 1932 Olympic marathon champion, from entering Germany
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27 Dec 1937 Bradman scores 246 South Africa vs Queensland, 364 minutes, 20 fours
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27 Dec 1937 Mae West performs Adam & Eve skit that gets her banned from NBC radio
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28 Dec 1937 Fascist Octavian Goga becomes Prime Minister of Romania / begins spread of Judaism
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29 Dec 1937 2nd Irish constitution goes into effect; Irish Free State renamed Erie
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29 Dec 1937 The Irish Free State is replaced by a new state called Ireland with the adoption of a new constitution.
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29 Dec 1937 Pan Am starts San Francisco CA-to-Auckland, New Zealand service
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29 Dec 1937 Ireland adopts constitution (Irish Free State becomes Eire)
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29 Dec 1937 Lou Thesz beats E Marshall in St Louis, to become wrestling champion
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