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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 29 December 2024. This article is about the year 1937. For the 2005 EP by Soul-Junk, see 1937 (EP). 1937 January February March April May June July August September October November December Calendar year Millennium: 2nd millennium Centuries: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1910s 1920s ...
Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan. Speculation on the disappearance of Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan has continued since their disappearance in 1937. After the largest search and rescue attempt in history up to that time, the U.S. Navy concluded that Earhart and Noonan ditched at sea after their plane ran out of fuel; this "crash and sink theory" is the most widely accepted explanation.
August 11 – Edith Wharton, novelist (born 1862) August 21 – Hannah J. Patterson, suffragist and social activist (born 1879) August 27 – Andrew Mellon, banker and Secretary of the Treasury (born 1855) September 8 – Anna Hempstead Branch, poet (born 1875) September 11 – Loraine Wyman, folk singer and dulcimer player (born 1885)
Japanese Emperor Hirohito ratified a directive removing the constraints of international law on the treatment of Chinese prisoners of war. [5]Frankie Frisch of the St. Louis Cardinals appeared in his final major league game, going 0-for-1 as a pinch hitter during a 4–1 loss to the Boston Bees.
On April 13, 1937, Roosevelt Townes and Robert McDaniels, two black men, were lynched in Duck Hill, Mississippi by a white mob after being labeled as the murderers of a white storekeeper. [1] [2] [3] They had only been legally accused of the crime a few minutes before they were kidnapped from the courthouse, chained to trees, and tortured with ...
1934 – Valery Bykovsky, Russian general and cosmonaut (d. 2019) [17] 1935 – Hank Cochran, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2010) 1936 – Anthony Payne, English composer and author (d. 2021) [18] 1937 – Ron Brierley, New Zealand businessman; 1937 – Billy Cannon, American football player and dentist (d. 2018)
2.8 August. 2.9 September. 2.10 October. 2.11 November. 2.12 December. ... This is a list of earthquakes in 1937. Only magnitude 6.0 or greater earthquakes appear on ...
Disasters and accidents The town of Whaley Bridge in Derbyshire, England, is evacuated after heavy rain and flooding causes structural damage to the nearby dam at the Toddbrook Reservoir amid fears the dam could collapse. A severe flood warning has been issued for communities situated along the River Goyt. (BBC News) International relations 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis U.S. Commerce ...