1937 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1937?
- January 25, 1937 – The Guiding Light debuts on NBC radio from Chicago. In 1952 it moves to CBS television, where it remains until Sept. 18, 2009.
- February 11, 1937 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Ox in Chinese astrology.
- February 21, 1937 – Initial flight of the first successful flying car, Waldo Waterman’s Arrowbile.
- March 18, 1937 – The New London School explosion kills three hundred, mostly children.
- 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 7, 1937 – Spanish Civil War: The German Condor Legion, equipped with Heinkel He 51 biplanes, arrives in Spain to assist Francisco Franco’s forces.
- May 12, 1937 – George VI and Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
- June 11, 1937 – Great Purge: The Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin executes eight army leaders.
- June 15, 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.
- July 22, 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.
- July 26, 1937 – End of the Battle of Brunete in the Spanish Civil War.
- August 13, 1937 – The Battle of Shanghai begins.
- 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 24, 1937 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Eighth Route Army gains a minor, but morale-boosting victory in the Battle of Pingxingguan.
- September 27, 1937 – Balinese Tiger declared extinct.
- December 13, 1937 – Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanjing – Nanjing, defended by the National Revolutionary Army under the command of General Tang Shengzhi, falls to the Japanese.
- December 21, 1937 – Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the world’s first full-length animated feature, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theater.
- December 29, 1937 – The Irish Free State is replaced by a new state called Ireland with the adoption of a new constitution.
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