1937

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Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1937 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1937
MCMXXXVII
Ab urbe condita2690
Armenian calendar1386
ԹՎ ՌՅՁԶ
Assyrian calendar6687
Baháʼí calendar93–94
Balinese saka calendar1858–1859
Bengali calendar1344
Berber calendar2887
British Regnal yearGeo. 6 – 2 Geo. 6
Buddhist calendar2481
Burmese calendar1299
Byzantine calendar7445–7446
Chinese calendar丙子年 (Fire Rat)
4634 or 4427
    — to —
丁丑年 (Fire Ox)
4635 or 4428
Coptic calendar1653–1654
Discordian calendar3103
Ethiopian calendar1929–1930
Hebrew calendar5697–5698
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1993–1994
 - Shaka Samvat1858–1859
 - Kali Yuga5037–5038
Holocene calendar11937
Igbo calendar937–938
Iranian calendar1315–1316
Islamic calendar1355–1356
Japanese calendarShōwa 12
(昭和12年)
Javanese calendar1867–1868
Juche calendar26
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4270
Minguo calendarROC 26
民國26年
Nanakshahi calendar469
Thai solar calendar2479–2480
Tibetan calendar阳火鼠年
(male Fire-Rat)
2063 or 1682 or 910
    — to —
阴火牛年
(female Fire-Ox)
2064 or 1683 or 911

1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1937th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 937th year of the 2nd millennium, the 37th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1930s decade.

Events[edit]

January[edit]

January 19: Howard Hughes sets record.

February[edit]

March[edit]

April[edit]

May[edit]

May 6: The Hindenburg disaster occurs.
May 27: The Golden Gate Bridge opens.

June[edit]

July[edit]

July 2: Amelia Earhart disappears from New Guinea.
July 9: The silent film archives of Fox Film Corporation are destroyed by the 1937 Fox vault fire.

August[edit]

September[edit]

September 17: Lincoln's head is dedicated at Mount Rushmore.

October[edit]

November[edit]

December[edit]

December 21: Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is released, the world's first full-length animated feature film, the first Disney film, and the first film to feature a Disney Princess. The top image shows the Seven Dwarfs singing "Heigh-Ho" while walking on a log. The second top image shows Walt Disney introducing the Seven Dwarfs in the trailer and the bottom images are the trailers.

Date unknown[edit]

  • Switzerland begins construction of its Border Line defences.
  • The Vibora Luviminda sugar plantation trade unions strike on Maui island, Hawaii.
  • Italian psychiatrist Amarro Fiamberti is the first to document a transorbital approach to the brain, which becomes the basis for the controversial medical procedure of transorbital lobotomy.
  • Soviet industry produces about four times as much as it had in 1928.
  • The Allen Organ Company, builder of church, home and theatre organs, is founded in Macungie, Pennsylvania.
  • Slavery in Bahrain is abolished.

Births[edit]

Births
January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December

January[edit]

Shirley Bassey
Nadia Lutfi
John Hume
Vanessa Redgrave

February[edit]

Rupiah Banda
Harald V of Norway

March[edit]

Olusegun Obasanjo
Benny Paret
Warren Beatty

April[edit]

Billy Dee Williams
Joseph Estrada
Jack Nicholson
Saddam Hussein

May[edit]

George Carlin
Yvonne Craig
Mengistu Haile Mariam

June[edit]

Morgan Freeman
Simeon II
Martti Ahtisaari

July[edit]

Queen Sonja of Norway
Lionel Jospin
Ryutaro Hashimoto

August[edit]

Manuel Pinto da Costa
Dustin Hoffman

September[edit]

Francisco Pinto Balsemão
Fernando de la Rúa

October[edit]

Jackie Collins
Bobby Charlton

November[edit]

Sir Ridley Scott

December[edit]

Jane Fonda
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom
Sir Anthony Hopkins

Deaths[edit]

January[edit]

Saint André Bessette
Saint Peter of Jesus Maldonado

February[edit]

George Hassell

March[edit]

Blessed Concepcion Cabrera de Armida
H. P. Lovecraft
Sultan Abd al-Hafid of Morocco
Lucy Beaumont

April[edit]

Noel Rosa
Afonso Costa

May[edit]

John D. Rockefeller
Lizardo García
Jean Harlow

June[edit]

Robert Laird Borden
Gaston Doumergue
J. M. Barrie

July[edit]

George Gershwin
Guglielmo Marconi
Reverend Nazzareno Formosa
Varnava, Serbian Patriarch

August[edit]

Saint Alexander Hotovitzky
Pierre de Coubertin

September[edit]

Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk
Bessie Smith
Ray Ewry

October[edit]

Prince Kuni Taka
Metropolitan Peter of Krutitsy
Ernest Rutherford

November[edit]

Ramsay MacDonald
Princess Cecilie
Saint Aleksandr Glagolev
Peljidiin Genden

December[edit]

Prosper Poullet
Dimitrie Călugăreanu
Maurice Ravel

Nobel Prizes[edit]

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