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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 ...
June 20 – The first transpolar flight in history successfully arrives at Vancouver, Washington. June 24 – The U.S. Navy's first two fast battleships , North Carolina and Washington , are ordered from the New York and Philadelphia Naval Shipyards , respectively.
1937 – Neutrality Acts; January 20, 1937 – President Roosevelt and Vice President Garner begin second terms. 1937 – Hindenburg disaster, killing 35 people and marking an end to airship travel; 1937 – Panay incident, a Japanese attack on the United States Navy gunboat USS Panay while anchored in the Yangtze River outside of Nanjing
Downtown Huntington, West Virginia, during the Great Flood of 1937. The Ohio River flood of 1937 took place in late January and February 1937. With damage stretching from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Cairo, Illinois, 385 people died, one million people were left homeless and property losses reached $500 million ($10.2 billion when adjusted for inflation as of September 2022).
The Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History, [112] and the town of Hayden, Arizona, are named in his honor. Malcolm C. Rorty , 61, American economist and statistician, co-founder of the Econometric Society and the National Bureau of Economic Research
Ministers of the Crown Act 1937 for the first time formally recognises the offices of Prime Minister, the Cabinet and the Leader of the Opposition and provides them with official salaries (in addition to their stipends as MPs). The 999 emergency telephone number is introduced. [2]
On this day in history, September 17, 1937, Abraham Lincoln ...
The American economy took a sharp downturn in mid-1937, lasting for 13 months through most of 1938. Industrial production declined almost 30 percent, and production of durable goods fell even faster. Unemployment jumped from 14.3% in May 1937 to 19.0% in June 1938. [1] Manufacturing output fell by 37% from the 1937 peak and was back to 1934 ...