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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.
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
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May 6: Hindenburg disaster 10 March — The Encyclical Mit brennender Sorge of Pope Pius XI is published in Nazi Germany.; 6 May — Hindenburg disaster: In the United States, the German airship Hindenburg bursts into flame when mooring to a mast in Lakehurst, New Jersey.
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).
In the wake of the massacre, newsreel footage of the event was suppressed for fear of creating, in the words of an official at Paramount News agency, "mass hysteria." ." Initial news coverage of the event instead framed the crowd as a violent threat to social order, arguing that police merely acted in self
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