1937 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1937?
- January 1, 1937 – Safety glass in vehicle windscreens becomes mandatory in the United Kingdom.
- February 11, 1937 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Ox in Chinese astrology.
- February 16, 1937 – Wallace H. Carothers receives a United States patent for nylon.
- February 21, 1937 – The League of Nations bans foreign national “volunteers” in the Spanish Civil War.
- March 18, 1937 – The New London School explosion kills three hundred, mostly children.
- April 1, 1937 – Aden becomes a British crown colony. Bombing of Jaén, Spain by Nazi forces.
- April 9, 1937 – The Kamikaze arrives at Croydon Airport in London – it is the first Japanese-built aircraft to fly to Europe.
- April 26, 1937 – Spanish Civil War: Guernica (or Gernika in Basque), Spain is bombed by German Luftwaffe.
- May 6, 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.
- May 12, 1937 – George VI and Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
- May 27, 1937 – In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County, California.
- July 7, 1937 – Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Lugou Bridge – Japanese forces invade Beijing, China.
- July 8, 1937 – Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan sign the Treaty of Saadabad.
- July 26, 1937 – End of the Battle of Brunete in the Spanish Civil War.
- September 5, 1937 – Spanish Civil War: Llanes falls.
- September 22, 1937 – Spanish Civil War: Peña Blanca is taken; the end of the Battle of El Mazuco.
- September 24, 1937 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Eighth Route Army gains a minor, but morale-boosting victory in the Battle of Pingxingguan.
- November 5, 1937 – Adolf Hitler holds a secret meeting and states his plans for acquiring “living space” for the German people.
- December 9, 1937 – Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanjing – Japanese troops under the command of Lt. Gen. Asaka Yasuhiko launch an assault on the Chinese city of Nanjing.
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