1937 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1937?
- 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.
- February 11, 1937 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Ox in Chinese astrology.
- March 8, 1937 – Spanish Civil War: The Battle of Guadalajara begins.
- April 30, 1937 – 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.
- May 3, 1937 – Gone with the Wind, a novel by Margaret Mitchell, wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
- May 27, 1937 – In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County, California.
- June 11, 1937 – Great Purge: The Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin executes eight army leaders.
- July 7, 1937 – Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Lugou Bridge – Japanese forces invade Beijing, China.
- August 14, 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 6 Imperial Japanese Mitsubishi G3M bombers are shot down by the Nationalist Chinese Air Force while raiding Chinese air bases.
- August 24, 1937 – In the Spanish Civil War, the Basque Army surrenders to the Italian Corpo Truppe Volontarie following the Santoña Agreement.
- September 6, 1937 – Spanish Civil War: The start of the Battle of El Mazuco.
- September 10, 1937 – Nine nations attend the Nyon Conference to address international piracy in the Mediterranean Sea.
- September 22, 1937 – Spanish Civil War: Peña Blanca is taken; the end of the Battle of El Mazuco.
- September 27, 1937 – Balinese Tiger declared extinct.
- October 1, 1937 – The Japanese city Handa is founded in Aichi Prefecture.
- October 2, 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.
- November 5, 1937 – Adolf Hitler holds a secret meeting and states his plans for acquiring “living space” for the German people.
- December 12, 1937 – USS Panay incident: Japanese aircraft bomb and sink US gunboat USS Panay on the Yangtze River in China.
- December 13, 1937 – Nanjing Massacre. Japanese troops begin carrying out several weeks of raping and killing of civilians and suspected Chinese resistance after the fall of Nanjing.
- December 22, 1937 – The Lincoln Tunnel opens to traffic in New York City.
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