The Battle of Shanghai between China and Japan begines.
Tag Archives: 1937
30 May 1937
Chicago police shoot and kill ten labor demonstrators on Memorial Day.
3 May 1937
The novel, Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell, wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
17 April 1937
Daffy Duck’s first appears in Porkys Duck Hunt
21 March 1937
Nineteen people in Ponce, Puerto Rico, are shot by a police squad acting under orders of the USA appointed Governor, Blanton Winship.
27 September 1937
The Balinese Tiger declared extinct.
6 May 1937
Thirty six people are killed as the German zeppelin ship Hindenburg catches fire and is destroyed when attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey.
21 September 1937
JRR Tolkien’s book, The Hobbit is published.
6 September 1937
The Battle of El Mazuco during the Spanish Civil War starts.
28 May 1937
The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California, is opened.