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MCMXXXVII
Ab urbe condita2690
Armenian calendar1386
ԹՎ ՌՅՁԶ
Assyrian calendar6687
Baháʼí calendar93–94
Balinese saka calendar1858–1859
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British Regnal yearGeo. 6 – 2 Geo. 6
Buddhist calendar2481
Burmese calendar1299
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4634 or 4427
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4635 or 4428
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民國26年
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(male Fire-Rat)
2063 or 1682 or 910
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阴火牛年
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2064 or 1683 or 911

1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1937th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 937th year of the 2nd millennium, the 37th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1930s decade.

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1937: Events

1937: January

January 19: Howard Hughes sets record.
The Second Moscow Trial

1937: February

1937: March

1937: April

1937: May

May 6: The Hindenburg disaster occurs.
May 27: The Golden Gate Bridge opens.

1937: June

1937: July

July 2: Amelia Earhart disappears from New Guinea.
July 9: The silent film archives of Fox Film Corporation are destroyed by the 1937 Fox vault fire.

1937: August

1937: September

September 17: Lincoln's head is dedicated at Mount Rushmore.

1937: October

1937: November

1937: December

1937
1937
December 21: Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is released, the world's first full-length animated feature film, the first Disney film, and the first film to feature a Disney Princess. The top image shows the Seven Dwarfs singing "Heigh-Ho" while walking on a log. The second top image shows Walt Disney introducing the Seven Dwarfs in the trailer and the bottom images are the trailers.

1937: Date unknown

  • Switzerland begins construction of its Border Line defences.
  • The Vibora Luviminda sugar plantation trade unions strike on Maui island, Hawaii.
  • Italian psychiatrist Amarro Fiamberti is the first to document a transorbital approach to the brain, which becomes the basis for the controversial medical procedure of transorbital lobotomy.
  • Soviet industry produces about four times as much as it had in 1928.
  • The Allen Organ Company, builder of church, home and theatre organs, is founded in Macungie, Pennsylvania.
  • Slavery in Bahrain is abolished.

1937: Births

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1937: January

Shirley Bassey
Nadia Lutfi
John Hume
Vanessa Redgrave

1937: February

Rupiah Banda
Harald V of Norway

1937: March

Olusegun Obasanjo
Benny Paret
Warren Beatty
Valentina Tereshkova

1937: April

Billy Dee Williams
Joseph Estrada
Jack Nicholson
Saddam Hussein

1937: May

George Carlin
Yvonne Craig
Mengistu Haile Mariam

1937: June

Morgan Freeman
Simeon II
Martti Ahtisaari

1937: July

Queen Sonja of Norway
Lionel Jospin
Ryutaro Hashimoto

1937: August

Manuel Pinto da Costa
Dustin Hoffman

1937: September

Francisco Pinto Balsemão
Fernando de la Rúa

1937: October

Jackie Collins
Bobby Charlton

1937: November

Sir Ridley Scott

1937: December

Jane Fonda
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom
Sir Anthony Hopkins

1937: Deaths

1937: January

Saint André Bessette

1937: February

George Hassell

1937: March

Blessed Concepcion Cabrera de Armida
H. P. Lovecraft
Sultan Abd al-Hafid of Morocco
Lucy Beaumont

1937: April

Noel Rosa
Afonso Costa

1937: May

John D. Rockefeller
Lizardo García
Jean Harlow

1937: June

Robert Laird Borden
Gaston Doumergue
J. M. Barrie

1937: July

George Gershwin
Guglielmo Marconi
Reverend Nazzareno Formosa
Varnava, Serbian Patriarch

1937: August

Saint Alexander Hotovitzky
Pierre de Coubertin

1937: September

Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk
Bessie Smith
Ray Ewry

1937: October

Prince Kuni Taka
Metropolitan Peter of Krutitsy
Ernest Rutherford

1937: November

Ramsay MacDonald
Princess Cecilie
Saint Aleksandr Glagolev
Peljidiin Genden

1937: December

Prosper Poullet
Dimitrie Călugăreanu
Maurice Ravel

1937: Nobel Prizes

1937: References

  1. "Fact Sheet: Ohio River Floods". Western Kentucky University 2015.
  2. Thomas, Hugh (2001). The Spanish Civil War. Penguin Books. p. 480.
  3. Andrey Vyshinsky The Treason Case Summed Up Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine April 1938 (in English)
  4. U.S. patent 2,071,250 "Linear Condensation Polymers", filed July 1931, issued February 1937
  5. Wilhelmina en De Minister van Staat, Minister van Koloniën, Voorzitter van den Raad van Ministers (19 februari 1937): Koninklijk Besluit nr. 93, Zell am See.
  6. *Golley, John (1997). Genesis of the Jet: Frank Whittle and the Invention of the Jet Engine. Crowood Press. pp. 86–91. ISBN 1-85310-860-X - Buy this book.
  7. Journalist George Steer's report to The Times (London) connects Germany with the attack.
  8. The Irish Jurist, Together with the Irish Jurist Reports. Jurist Publishing Company. 1937. p. 64.
  9. "Amelia Earhart | Biography, Disappearance, & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica 2020.
  10. League of Nations Mandates – Palestine: Report of the Palestine Royal Commission. July 1937 2012.
  11. Pub. 238, 75th Congress, 50 Stat. 551 (subsequently, commonly referred to using the modern spelling as the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937)
  12. Loadstar. "The Balinese Tiger".
  13. Shearer, Stephen Michael (2010). Beautiful: The Life of Hedy Lamarr. Thomas Dunne Books. pp. 52–56. ISBN 978-1-250-04183-8 - Buy this book.
  14. "Fear of torture". Amnesty International. February 25, 1992 2012.
  15. Marco, Guy (1993). Encyclopedia of recorded sound in the United States. New York: Garland Pub. p. 253. ISBN 9780824047825 - Buy this book.
  16. Quercetani, Roberto (2009). World History of Hurdle and Steeplechase Racing Men and Women. City: Gardners Books. p. 49. ISBN 9788895684291 - Buy this book.
  17. Who's Who in India. West Bengal Legislative Assembly. 2006. p. 229.
  18. Allison, Ronald (1991). The Royal encyclopedia. London: Macmillan Press. p. 240. ISBN 9780333538104 - Buy this book.
  19. "Madeleine Albright obituary". the Guardian. March 23, 2022 2022.
  20. ""Getrennt schreiben, gemeinsam besprechen"". St. Galler Tagblatt (in German). April 13, 2018 2025.
  21. Ricardo Alarcón, powerful Cuban foreign minister, dies at 84
  22. Simon-McWilliams, Ethel (1987). Green, Karen Reed (ed.). Glimpses into Pacific Lives: Some Outstanding Women (Revised) (PDF) (2nd ed.). Portland: Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory. pp. 80–81.
  23. Vigdor, Neil (June 14, 2021). "Ned Beatty, Actor Known for 'Network' and 'Deliverance,' Dies at 83". The New York Times 2021.
  24. "Roald Hoffmann - Biographical". nobelprize.org 2020.
  25. MacAskill, Ewen (October 11, 2000). "Donald Dewar". The Guardian 2023.
  26. Afifa, Laila (June 23, 2022). "Indonesia's Veteran Actress Rima Melati Passes Away at 84". Tempo.
  27. "Bruce McLaren". Automobile Quarterly. 40 (4): 72. 2000.
  28. LaBlanc, Michael (1994). Professional sports team histories. Detroit: Gale Research. p. 129. ISBN 9780810388604 - Buy this book.
  29. "Vaira Vike-Freiberga". Britannica Presents 100 Women Trailblazers. February 25, 2020 2021.
  30. "Jane Fonda". Britannica Presents 100 Women Trailblazers. March 25, 2020 2021.
  31. "Velika tuga: Preminuo legendarni Milutin Šoškić". NOVA portal. August 27, 2022.
  32. "Melartin, Erkki (1875-1937): Fennica Gehrman - Finnish sheet music". www.fennicagehrman.fi.
  33. "Horacio Quiroga | Biography, Books, & Facts | Britannica". www.britannica.com. April 3, 2024.
  34. Moody, Sid (May 6, 1962). "The Day the Angels Lost Their Grip". Tuscaloosa News. p. 6 2014.
  35. Jean-Joseph Rabéarivelo Madagascan author
  36. "Pierre, baron de Coubertin | Biography, Olympics, & Facts | Britannica". www.britannica.com 2022.
  37. Serle, Percival (1949). "Ryrie, Granville". Dictionary of Australian Biography. Sydney: Angus & Robertson 2008.
  38. Mane, Abhay (July 1, 2016). "From a brewer to the faraday of statistics: William Sealy Gosset". Muller Journal of Medical Sciences and Research. 7 (2): 147. doi:10.4103/0975-9727.185019. S2CID 77720857 – via go.gale.com.
  39. "Don Marquis | American writer | Britannica". www.britannica.com 2022.
  • 1937 WWII Timeline
  • The 1930s Timeline: 1937 – from American Studies Programs at The University of Virginia

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