In history, year 1937 has its own importance and known for many memorable events like famous birthdays, inventions, natural disaster, treaties, change of rulers, special days etc. Find below a list of important historical events which happened during the year 1937.
| Date/Month | Event / Incidence / Incident |
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| 15 january | Spanish Civil War-Nationalist and Republican forces both withdrew after suffering heavy losses, ending the Second Battle of the Corunna Road. |
| 19 february | An attempt to assassinate Italian Viceroy Rodolfo Graziani in Addis Ababa failed, triggering a brutal crackdown of Ethiopians over the following three days. |
| 02 march | The Steel Workers Organizing Committee, precursor to the UnitedSteel Workers of America, made a dramatic breakthrough when it signed acollective bargaining agreement with U.S. Steel. |
| 14 march | Pope Pius XI issued the encyclical Mit brennender Sorge,condemning antisemitism, criticizing Nazism, listing breaches of anagreement signed with the Roman Catholic Church. |
| 21 march | A police squad, acting under orders from Governor of PuertoRico Blanton Winship, opened fire on demonstrators protesting the arrestof Puerto Rican Nationalist leader Pedro Albizu Campos, killing 17people and injuring over 200 others. |
| 26 april | Spanish Civil War-The Bombing of Guernica by the Condor Legionof the German Luftwaffe resulted in a devastating firestorm that causedwidespread destruction and civilian deaths and inspired one of PabloPicasso's most famous paintings. |
| 06 may | German airship Hindenburg crashed on May 6, 1937 on an attempt to dock with a mooring mast at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey. 36 person were died including crew members when the fire ignited the 16 hydrogen filled cell and destroyed the zeppelin in only 34 seconds. |
| 06 may | The German zeppelin Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyedwhile trying to land at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey,killing over 30 people on board. |
| 21 may | North Pole-1, Soviet and Russian manned stations, became the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean on May 21, 1937. |
| 28 may | Volkswagen (VW), the German automobile manufacturer is founded. Volkswagen is a German automobile manufacturer headquartered. Volkswagen is the top-selling and namesake marque of the Volkswagen Group, the holding company created in 1975 for the growing company, and is now the biggest automaker in both Germany and Europe. |
| 28 may | The rise of Neville Chamberlain culminated when he was summoned to Buckingham Palace to 'kiss hands' and accept the office of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. |
| 03 june | Nearly six months after Edward, Duke of Windsor, abdicated theBritish throne, he married American socialite Wallis Simpson in aprivate ceremony near Tours, France. |
| 22 june | Camille Chautemps became Prime Minister of France for the thirdtime, in the second Popular Front ministry. |
| 24 june | The United States' first two 'fast battleships', the NorthCarolina class, were ordered from the New York and Philadelphia NavalShipyards. |
| 02 july | Aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonandisappeared over the Pacific Ocean during an attempt to make acircumnavigational flight. |
| 05 july | The Hormel Foods Corporation introduced Spam, the cannedprecooked meat product that would eventually enter into pop culture,folklore, and urban legend. |
| 07 july | Japanese forces occupied Beijing. This happened during the battle of Luguo bridge. This battle was part of 2nd Japenese-Chinese war. |
| 08 july | The Treaty of Saadabd was signed by Iran, Iraq, turkey and Afghanistan. It was a non-aggression pact. It lasted for 5 years. The treaty was registered in League of Nations. The treaty was an initiative to greater the middle eastern-oriental relations. |
| 18 august | Following on from the success of Toyota Industries the son of the original founder Sakichi Toyoda of Toyota Industries Kiichiro Toyoda founds the Toyota Motor Company in Japan. |
| 28 august | Japanese warships and aircrafts are starting a war on the women and children in Shanghai, as the also bomb and strafe railway carriages with schoolchildren. The entire world is objecting earnestly, but the Japanese are taking no notice and are being as ruthless as ever. |
| 28 august | Toyota Motors, now the world's largest automobile manufacturer,was spun off from Toyota Industries as an independent company. |
| 29 august | Toyota Motors, now Japan's largest automobile manufacturer, wasspun off from Toyota Industries as an independent company. |
| 02 september | A typhoon has hit Hong Kong with devastating results including upwards of 500 fatalities and the city remains inundated. The body count is expected to increase as the floods show signs of ebbing. |
| 03 september | Australia is resorting to using more and more camels for patrolling some of the longest fences in the world as part of the conflict against wild dogs in arid areas, as the humped beasts are known for their capacity to travel long expanses of the desert stretch without water. |
| 10 september | Led by the United Kingdom and France, nine nations met in the Nyon Conference to address international piracy in the Mediterranean Sea. |
| 21 september | J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy children's novel The Hobbit, whichlater served as a predecessor to The Lord of the Rings, was firstpublished. |
| 01 october | The Marihuana Tax Act, Pub 238, 75th Congress, 50 Stat was passed by the US House of Representatives passed. The bill was essential bill to the criminalization of cannabis. It instructed that pot could not be retailed without a license and licenses were never issued. |
| 02 october | Under the orders of President Rafael Trujillo, Dominican troops began mass killings of approximately 20,000 Haitians living in the Dominican Republic. |
| 12 october | Federal agents execute Al Brady and members of his gang in a shootout at Bangor, Maine on Columbus Day in 1937. |
| 12 december | Japan apologizes for the sinking of the U.S. Gunboat Panay in Chinese waters which was caused by a Japanese aircraft during Japan’s war of invasion against China. |
| Date/Month | Name / Profession / Country |
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| 01 June | Colleen McCullough / Scientist / Australia |
| 04 September | Gene Ludwig / Composer / United States of America |
| 06 August | Charlie Haden / Composer / United States of America |
| 07 November | Mary Daheim / Author / United States of America |
| 09 January | Michael Nicholson / Author / United Kingdom |
| 10 January | Daniel Walker Howe / Academic / United States of America |
| 12 July | Mickey Edwards / Politician / United States of America |
| 13 December | Ulf G. Lindén / Business Man / Sweden |
| 15 November | Yaphet Kotto / Actor / United States of America |
| 15 May | Madeleine Albright / Politician / United States of America |
| 16 August | David Behrman / Composer / United States of America |
| 18 December | Nancy Ryles / Politician / United States of America |
| 20 September | Birgitta Dahl / Politician / Sweden |
| 20 October | Wanda Jackson / Writer / United States of America |
| 22 June | Chris Blackwell / Producer / United Kingdom |
| 24 October | John Goetz / Baseball Player / United States of America |
| 25 March | Tom Monaghan / Business Man / United States of America |
| 28 April | Jean Redpath / Singer / Scotland |
| 31 December | Tess Jaray / Painter / United Kingdom |
| 31 January | Suzanne Pleshette / Actress / United States of America |
| Year | Name / Profession / Country |
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| 04 January | Mohammad Hamid Ansari / Politician / India |
| 24 July | Manoj Kumar / Actor / India |
| 28 December | Ratan Tata / Business Man / India |
| 06 September | M. O. H. Farook / Politician / India |
| 14 January | Rao Gopal Rao / Actor / India |
| 21 October | Farooq Abdullah / Politician / India |
| NA NA | Sulabha Deshpande / Actress / India |
| 23 October | Deven Verma / Actor / India |
| 15 July | Prabhash Joshi / Journalist / India |
| 17 September | Sitakant Mahapatra / Poet / India |
| 05 May | Hoshiyar Singh / Soldier / India |
| 03 December | Binod Bihari Verma / Author / India |
| 10 January | Murli Deora / Politician / India |
| 24 July | Manoj Kumar / Actor / India |
| 11 December | Kadar Khan / Actor / India |
| 08 April | R. Gundu Rao / Politician / India |
| 02 December | Manohar Joshi / Politician / India |
| 06 September | Shankar Roychowdhury / Soldier / India |
| 23 October | Deven Verma / Actor / India |
| 22 July | Vasant Ranjane / Cricketer / India |